It Would Take A Heart of Stone Not To Laugh
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I doesn’t surprise me that a sad rag like the the Washington Post would concern-troll us like this, tutt-tutting that holding organizations accountable for the defamation they commit “could chill free speech”.
Is sad WaPo suggesting that going forward, all organizations should be free to defame their opposition? Or is the freedom to engage in defamation under the guise of ‘free speech’ to extend only to those organizations like Greenpeace which have WaPo’s approval?
As for Greenpeace, if they have in fact managed to get themselves sued out of existence, they’ve earned it.
I wish the order were for another $667 million for what Greenpeace has done to the nuclear power industry.
Cry us a river, green fanatics. Soros will probably pay off their judgment using USAID money, anyway. But if no one bails them out, so to speak, then good riddance.
Last heard Greenpeace was torturing whales with off shore wind farms, so good!
BTW, speaking of Greenpeace, the former President of the Canadian chapter of Greenpeace is now on their target list because he no longer complies with the environmentalist propaganda and is now a spokesman for pro-nuclear energy causes. From Wikipedia (which, as you know, is biased well port of centerline):
Patrick Albert Moore (born June 15, 1947) is a Canadian industry consultant, former activist, an early member and past president of Greenpeace Canada. Since leaving Greenpeace in 1986, Moore has criticized the environmental movement for what he sees as scare tactics and disinformation, saying that the environmental movement “abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism“. Greenpeace has criticized Moore, calling him “a paid spokesman for the nuclear industry, the logging industry, and genetic engineering industry” who “exploits long-gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson”.
Since leaving Greenpeace, Moore has frequently taken sharp public stances against a number of major environmental groups, including Greenpeace itself, on many issues including forestry, nuclear energy, genetically modified organisms, and pesticide use. Moore has also denied the established consensus of the scientific community on climate change, for example by claiming that increased carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is beneficial, that there is no proof that anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are responsible for global warming, and that even if true, increased temperature would be beneficial to life on Earth. These views are contradicted by the scientific consensus on the effects of global warming, which holds that climate change is expected to have a significant and irreversible negative impact on climate and weather events around the world, posing severe risks like ocean acidification and sea level rise to human society and to other organisms.
Since I’m both, red and green colorblind, I suspect my level of comfort with any of the doings of either of those color-associated groups, far surpasses the average person–thank you Lord.
I hate to be the Debbie Downer this, but Dakota Pipeline will never see a dime from Greenpeace. And then Greepeace will just morph into something else advocating the same kind of nonsense. Behind all of these groups is nothing other than terrorist activists with JD degrees.
From the Guardian:
“Concerns over finding an unbiased jury plagued the case even before it began, given the rightward political leanings of Mandan, North Dakota, and the distaste for the protests among local residents.”
If Greenpeace got a resounding defeat in court even after it had used all of its juror rejections for cause and without them the tenor of the community must have been against them. As such, it would seem the will of the people prevailed, which is what is supposed to happen, as opposed to the will of over funded, unscrupulous PACs mostly from outside the community.
The fact that it’s overbearing climate wackos like Greenpeace is the icing on the cake. The cake is that the will of the local people prevailed.
Is that meant to be compensatory damages, legal fees, and costs, or was there a punitive damage award?
Four hundred million is punitive damages. That amount will probably be reduced either by the trial court or on appeal.
Behind all of these groups is nothing other than terrorist activists with JD degrees.
Greenpeace has been around long enough for there to be substantial assets. This huge judgment will bring intensive investigation to uncover all assets that Greenpeace has. I would wager that will legacies to Greenpeace each year probably total 50 to 100 million.
I don’t care for Greenpeace, but I’m dubious about bankrupting people with punitive damage awards. I’d be pleased to see that happen to whomever is financing Antifa, financing the shysters attempting to impose a regime of open borders, financing the hideous lawfare campaign against DJT and his associates, and promoting vote fraud. (And I’m assuming that all roads lead to Soros). I’m not seeing Greenpeace as a criminal organization, just a bunch of pests.
As far as I am concerned, all these pagan environmentalists should be sued into financial destitution, starting with Greenpeace. They preach climate change and concern for the environment, and they are the ones who have so successfully ensured regulatory strangulation that has shutdown a dozen or so safe, clean nuclear power plants in the United States –> 10000 MWe of “carbon-free” electricity gone from the grid forever. Frack them and their whole house. I saw this rainbow clad hippie jerk protesting months on end outside the nuke plant where I worked, preventing my co-workers and me getting into the gate for watch relief, throwing trash at our cars, etc. I hope everyone associated with Greenpeace ends up destitute for the remainder of their worthless lives.