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1. as long as Vermont decreases carbon footprint we needn’t worry about China or India flaunting the rules, and we wonder why Vermont’s population is decreasing

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2. As a friend in Europe recently said to me, “Welcome to my life.” He pointed out that S.5 makes no sense in a rural area; hardly anyone lives here, and what little fumes there are just dissipate. But this has nothing to do with carbon; it’s the “Marthasvinyardization” of rural Vermont, removing one group in favor of another group, most particularly in the Northeast Kingdom. This happened in my hometown back in Massachusetts, as the “Swamp Yankees” were forced out by rising home prices. Up here, it’s a liberal’s dream to fill the Northeast Kingdom with rich Democratic voters and donors, which may sound fairly mild, but what’s about to happen actually fits the United Nation’s definition of genocide. Note that genocide may take place “in a peaceful situation.”

   https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

   Article II

   “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
   a. Killing members of the group;
   b. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
   c. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
   d. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
   e. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

   Elements of the crime

   The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. The latter is less common but still possible. The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.

   The popular understanding of what constitutes genocide tends to be broader than the content of the norm under international law. Article II of the Genocide Convention contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:
   1. A mental element: the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”; and
   2. A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
   o Killing members of the group
   o Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
   o Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
   o Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
   o Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
   The intent is the most difficult element to determine. To constitute genocide, there must be a proven intent on the part of perpetrators to physically destroy a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Cultural destruction does not suffice, nor does an intention to simply disperse a group. It is this special intent, or dolus specialis, that makes the crime of genocide so unique. In addition, case law has associated intent with the existence of a State or organizational plan or policy, even if the definition of genocide in international law does not include that element.”

   So, let’s see which Vermont legislators are willing to vote for genocide. Of course, they will never admit to an official “State or organizational plan or policy” when they believe that “saving the world” provides adequate cover for their nefarious plans.

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3. The contempt that the majority holds for the citizens they are supposed to represent is mind boggling. Erasing our surviving middle class in favor of a huge, poor, dependent class led by a thin crust of wealthy “elites” appears to be their goal. Are there no sane Democrats left in the state?

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4. Somebody somewhere, probably has a betting line on S.5.
   The hubris and dollars combined on this bill should make the override vote a
   mere exercise for the elitists.
   The many articles, commentaries and comments on VDC and True North bear out one thing: That Climate continues to be profitable- and actually doing something to change the climate isn’t the point. Money and Power are the only goals on this one.

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5. Sadly, too many useful idiots keep electing these marxists. The fact that these petty tyrants have now wasted TWO legislative sessions on this absolutely useless pipe dream is DISGUSTING! I bumped into Lt Gov Zuckerman last year when he was campaigning, I told him what I wanted from the legislature, was to stop spending money and stop writing new laws. His response was “what do you want to stop spending on schools or roads?” (total diversionary cop-out). I feel like schools would a good place to start, because spending on roads stopped a long time ago. Pennsylvania used to to some of the worst roads I’d seen, VT has them beat now.

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6. The Legislature would not be so obsessed to ram this through if there was not a big payday for them – above and beyond the wage and benefit package they awarded themselves with – the Golden Dome gravy train runneth at top speed. By the end of the session, they will be high-fiving and buying round after round celebrating their great deception and thievery of 2023.

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   • That’s more than likely. It occurred to me as well that the rushed-through pay raise may be intended as cover for lifestyle changes and large purchases. A friend who is no longer in the state legislature — which she characterized as “evil” — told me that the MoneySoros has bitten deep into that body. If this is true, they learned from the best: a man who was Judas to his own people.

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7. One reason for suspected global warming is the
   constant HOT AIR comming from Legislature .

   Cool down these deviant lminds, and the planet takes care of
   Vermont and and the USA

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