Russ Steele
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has the details in his Forbidden Speech column on the HJTA web site.
Philosophers have pondered and debated the question of “what is true?” for eons. Now, thanks to the bureaucrats at the California Air Resources Board (CARB), we have our answer: The truth is whatever CARB says it is, and those who utter forbidden opinions to the contrary will be punished. Sounding like something from George Orwell, CARB is poised to adopt a regulation that literally “forbids” and “penalizes” opposing views.
The resolution, which CARB dubs, “prohibition on false statements,” is frightening in that it would actually sanction communications to the agency during hearings or in the presentation of studies that CARB disagrees with. Apparently, CARB’s legal staff missed that whole bit on the First Amendment. In America, we don’t jail people for making “counter-revolutionary statements.”
You can read the rest of the full column here. There was one final note:
The first hearing on CARB’s proposed regulation was scheduled for December 1st. According to CARB’s website, the hearing has now been postponed until next year. Moreover, the proposed regulation providing for “penalties” for false information has been removed from CARB’s website. I guess CARB’s lawyers may have were finally awaken from a CO2 induced stupor.
Exit Question: Why does CARB want to prevent the truth -- there is no significant global warming and none that can be attributed to humans -- from being uttered at their Board Meetings?
H/T to a regular reader for alerting me to this article.
