If a scientist spends years pushing deliberate documented lies for financial gain, then they'll be like Exxon. As nothing like that has ever gone on with the rational side, those Republican AGs are engaging in blatant political intimidation tactics.
And all the deniers here openly approve of those thug tactics. I've never encountered a denier who wasn't a Stalinist at heart, wanting to use TheParty to silence any dissenters.
It's not surprising. Denialism is an authoritarian cult that sucks in weak-minded wusses who crave authoritarian leaders, so one expects them to all openly praise authoritarian thug tactics.
Haha....
No peace for Greenpeace
Resolute Forest Products filed a civil RICO suit in a federal district court in Georgia, alleging a pattern of defamatory and fraudulent behavior by Greenpeace and allied organizations. According to the
100-plus-page complaint (and
appendix), Greenpeace and its affiliates are a RICO “enterprise” that have waged a deliberately defamatory campaign against Resolute, misrepresenting the company’s practices and environmental record in order to raise funds and promote Greenpeace’s environmentalist agenda:
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The common purpose of the Greenpeace Enterprise was to target Resolute with a disinformation campaign that could be used to fraudulently induce millions of dollars in donations from individual donors and foundations that could be used to fund the salaries of the enterprise members and its leaders, perpetuate more fraudulent fundraising, and expand the campaign to direct attacks on Resolute customers that would provide even more powerful fundraising opportunities. . . .
In perpetuating thisfraudulent scheme, Greenpeace has developed a playbook that is readily recognizable. It identifiesor manufactures a hot-button environmentalissue;disseminates sensational, alarmist, and false claims about impending calamity related to that issue; targets a high-profile company to vilify for the impending calamity, including by staging fake videos, photographs, and other evidence (such as staging animal slaughters by Greenpeace members impersonating others, and misrepresenting ordinary trees that have fallen as “ancient trees” harvested by its targets or photos and videos of one location or event passed off as another); bombards supporters with urgent requests to “DONATE NOW”; and directs extortive demands, tortious interference, and other illegal conduct at its targets and their customers. When Greenpeace’s extortion succeeds, it insists that its target publicly endorse its campaign and lies,which it then uses to drive more donations and attacks