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by kbutler 3210 days ago
>>but I am not your research assistant >Correct.

Glad we cleared that up.

>Also correct: you need to cite specific examples to back up the claim, which you have not done.

Hmm. See above.

I chose to contribute to the conversation by pointing to examples of behavior that poison the discussion, in the spirit of thrill's comment.

I personally thought "death penalty" and "war crimes" were stronger examples than just "prison".

I did not attempt nor do I need to prove the ancestor literally correct, but just for fun, here are a couple of links that do - you'll have to decide if Bill Nye and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. meet your criteria as "prominent" (which was not in thrill's post - just that they are in the news).

Rfk, jr. http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/23/robert-kennedy... Koch brothers should be in prison in the Hague

Bill Nye http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/14/bill-nye-open-... compares it to jailing guys from Enron

Examples, plural, specific, people in the news claiming their opponents should be imprisoned.

Good enough for me.
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SippinLean 3210 days ago
I agree, you did not prove them correct, indeed that was my only point.

Now you have presented new evidence. Simply linking to a Google search was not sufficient after all?

The RFK quote gets thrown around a lot, in context it's much more clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yJTxrPFhM

He says the Koch brothers are treasonous, and for that reason should be arrested. He goes so far as to clarify that there is no law politicians can be punished under (the opposite of the ancestor's claim).

Bill Nye compares them to the guys at Enron. He does not suggest jailing them.

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kbutler 3209 days ago
SippinLean> The RFK quote gets thrown around a lot

Thrill> one "side" of the "conversation" is frequently in the news as wanting to put nonbelievers of their view of the issue in prison

Yeah, what you both said.

(And Rfk said the Koch's "treason" was co2 "pollution", and he wished there were a law, which pretty much matches thrill's statement)

So we can agree that the idea is "thrown around a lot", even apparently by someone prominent enough to be recognized as a spokesman, but (thankfully or regrettably) there isn't yet a law to enforce it.

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