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Schwarzenegger Accuses Big Oil Of ‘First Degree Murder’

Hank Berrien

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, burnishing his environmentalist credentials before a receptive crowd at the South-by-Southwest festival in Texas, announced he would sue American oil companies for “first degree murder” over their role behind “global warming.”

Interviewed by Politico, Schwarzenegger pontificated, “This is no different from the smoking issue. The tobacco industry knew for years and years and years and decades, that smoking would kill people, would harm people and create cancer, and were hiding that fact from the people and denied it. Then eventually they were taken to court and had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars because of that.”

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