Lynn Moses, a Driggs, Idaho man, will enter the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon today at 2 p.m. in an unfolding story of government tyranny. Posted on 08/06/2008 2:29:29 PM PDT by average american student
Lynn Moses, a Driggs, Idaho man, will enter the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon today at 2 p.m. in an unfolding story of government tyranny.
Mr. Moses lost his wife to an unexpected heart attack 1 ½ years ago, and suspects that the stress created by this abuse of federal power is responsible. And yesterday he was forced to leave his 17-year-old daughter Whitney at home in tears, who will now have to experience her senior in high school without the companionship of either of her parents, both of them taken from her by the repressive power of the central government.
No mom or dad to host her and her friends on her 18th birthday, no mom or dad to take pictures of her and her date on the night of her senior prom, and no mom or dad to proudly watch her graduate from high school.
As I wrote last Friday, in a story also featured yesterday on WorldNetDaily, Moses is being locked up for maintaining an intermittent stream bed as a flood control channel, as he has been required to do by Teton County officials since 1980.
(Since the EPA stepped in, no maintenance has been done on the channel for the last three years. A 35-foot section of the bank recently washed away, threatening another subdivision in the area, erosion that Moses tells me could have been prevented if he'd been allowed to continue his work. The mitigating work that the developer did to stop that erosion is now causing erosion on the opposite bank.)
The EPA prosecuted him for violating the Clean Water Act, even though the EPA has no jurisdiction over intermittent streams and Teton Creek only has water less than two months ...
(Excerpt) Read more at stiffrightjab.com ...
You must be shi88ing me
In my opinion, the EPA violates the Constitution just by its existence, and this railroading of an innocent man is a total travesty. This is what happens when a bureaucracy spinning out of control works in cahoots with liberal judges and justices.
Federal bureaucratic enviro-wackos gone wild. God help Mr. Moses.
“And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”
Defund epa now! they are nothing but an extension of the demenvirowkackos
Big government has the power to abuse. That is why the framers wanted small government. Less power, less avenues for abuse.
I am remind more and more of God characterizing governments as beasts. Big, devouring, destructive beasts. I think God is right.
Here are the “Brief for the United States in Opposition” (http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2007/0responses/2007-1195.resp.html) and the opinion of Judge Fernandez (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/9th/0630379p.pdf)
SCOTUS denies writ of certiorari for C. Lynne Moses v. United States
http://www.plol.org/Pages/Login.aspx?d=4EiBNBV7B2z2YLcRRbVwhg==&l=Cases
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