By Ted Glick
I wish I could be in San Francisco next Tuesday on October 10th.
That’s the day that one of two outrageous lawsuits, Trump-like in its
over-the-top dishonesty, filed against Greenpeace, Stand.earth and five
individuals, will be heard in US District Court. It may be thrown out by
the judge. Or it could be allowed to proceed.
This $300 million lawsuit against the enviro groups was filed by
Canada’s largest logging corporation, Resolute, in May of 2016. The law
firm for this company: Donald Trump’s personal law firm. Resolute said
the enviros, which for years had campaigned against Resolute’s logging
practices, were conspiring illegally to extort the company’s customers
and defraud their own donors.
An article just published by Inside Climate News
explains more: “Invoking the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act, or RICO, a federal conspiracy law devised to ensnare
mobsters, the suit accuses the organizations, as well as several green
campaigners individually and numerous unidentified ‘co-conspirators,’ of
running what amounts to a giant racket. ‘Maximizing donations, not
saving the environment, is Greenpeace’s true objective,’ the complaint says.
‘Its campaigns are consistently based on sensational misinformation
untethered to facts or science, but crafted instead to induce strong
emotions and, thereby, donations.’ Dozens of the group’s campaign emails
and tweets, it said, constituted wire fraud.”
As if this weren’t outrageous enough, on August 22 of this year,
Energy Transfer Partners, the company which built the Dakota Access
Pipeline, filed a lawsuit in North Dakota on similar grounds alleging
that Greenpeace, Earth First! and BankTrack are “a network of putative
not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups who employ patterns of
criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target legitimate
companies and industries with fabricated environmental claims and other
purported misconduct, inflicting billions of dollars in damage.”
Click here for the full article.
Source: https://tedglick.com
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