Use and Abuse of Children
I wrote an introduction to the “Held v. Montana” lawsuit earlier today in the article entitled, “A Beginning to the End Perhaps”. This is an update and furtherance on that article. In the case of this suit, 16 children are suing the State of Montana, and are the supposed victims of the woke issue of climate justice. These children range from the age of 2 through 18.
This lawsuit has been heralded as the first-ever constitutional climate trial in the United States. Many groups and assemblies of people, with the same, or similar, characteristics, features, or distinctions often wish to play the victim card – it apparently has advantages that require little work – other than perhaps a lawyer or two and a nice paycheck in the end. Lawyers often take cases with percentages as payment or pro bono if the case has sufficient exposure to help firms or advance individual careers.
The lawyers handling the Held v. Montana case are a Eugene, Oregon firm called, “Our Children’s Trust” who claim “We are the world’s only non-profit law firm to exclusively represent young people securing their legal right to a safe climate” and further state, “We work to protect the Earth’s climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science.”
Naturally, the best available science to them would be the fictional facts they find in the advocacy papers and documents while ignoring rational evidence and true climate and historical statistics. The piggybacking for funding from the climate change stratum seems absolutely limitless. It requires no proof, but simple reliance on political promotion, media advancement, and public apathy. Like all advocacy websites, the lawyers’ site has a nice large, visible “donation” button.
It is obvious from the linked YouTube video that “Our Children’s Trust”, the law firm, instigated the lawsuit, and as the video states, “approached several young Montanans about getting involved in this case. If you check back on my previous article, I am uncertain how they managed to get the consent of a two-year-old to participate in the case. The use of children is somewhat akin to the disgusting and disdainful shielding and protective action used by loathsome adversaries during wartime.
Relative to pretrial motions, as stated in the linked article from E&E Climate Wire, “A Montana judge has rejected one plank of a youth-led lawsuit that challenges the state’s climate record but denied the state’s effort to torpedo what next month will become the first climate lawsuit in the U.S. to go to trial.” In other words, while the lawsuit has no merit based on Montana’s climate record, which is the consummate essence and nature of the grievance, the case will proceed. The judge’s failure to dismiss the case in its entirety may be caused by the “Lance Ito” effect.
This also touches on my article, the Tyranny of the Masses, where populations from denser progressive locales purposefully bring hardship to a minority location – especially a conservative and traditional minority. Montana, for the most part, has a natural resource and agricultural economy – bringing lawsuits on fossil fuels means a significant degradation of Montana’s industry and commerce and the dire destitution of agriculture and ranching, both relying heavily on various fertilizers. These external law firms have no regard or concern for Montanans making a living while liking where they live.
This again, shows the indifference of climate mongers that are unrehearsed in true climate science, but use guile and cunning to advance their political agendas and fatten their personal wallets. And, in this case, even worse they use young children who can be indoctrinated into just about any woke issue unless responsible parents are willing to intercede.