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Posted on 12/16/2011 7:24:45 PM PST by bamahead
The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” ... It’s one of the cornerstones of our entire legal system, with roots dating back at least as far as the Magna Carta, which declared, “No free man...shall be stripped of his rights or possessions...except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.”
Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prefers a less venerable form of justice, as the Supreme Court will hear next month during oral arguments in the case of Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. At issue is the EPA’s enforcement of the Clean Water Act through so-called administrative compliance orders, which are government commands that allow the agency to control the use of private property without the annoyance of having to subject its actions to judicial review.
The case started four years ago when a married couple named Mike and Chantell Sackett received an EPA compliance order instructing them to stop construction on what was supposed to be their dream home near Priest Lake, Idaho. The government claimed their .63-acre lot was a federally-protected wetland, but that was news to the Sacketts, who had procured all the necessary local permits. Their lot ... was in fact zoned for residential use ...
--SNIP--
According to the terms of the Clean Water Act, they may not challenge the order until the EPA first seeks judicial enforcement of it, a process that could take years. In the meantime, the Sacketts risk $32,500 in fines per day if they fail to comply. And complying doesn’t just mean they have to stop building; they must also return the lot to its original condition at their own expense.
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Tyranny.
Screw the EPA and its affirmative action dictatoress.
Demolish the EPA - Rick Perry.
At issue is the EPA's enforcement of the Clean Water Act through so-called administrative compliance orders, which are government commands that allow the agency to control the use of private property without the annoyance of having to subject its actions to judicial review.
“Screw the EPA and its affirmative action dictatoress.”
Screw the EPA and its affirmative action dictatortrix.
Think of a perverted Feminazi in spike heels and net stockings, dressed in the hyde of a nauga, and cracking a whip.
She was like that when she was putting the DUH in FloriDUH.
PS We don’t want her back. Ever.
The EPA, led by marxists and their disciples (Lisa Jackson), since Carol Browner’s regime under the Clintons, has been running roughshod over many American rights, including “takings”, “wetlands” definitions, “navigable waters” redefinitions, etc.
This is not to say that everything that the EPA does is leftist or wrong or illegal. It is not, but the Left today is waging “economic warfare” thru the EPA and environmental legislation “gone wild.”
There are reasonable laws and ways of cleaning up the environment as well as protecting existing areas, without using authoritarian tactics (the trademark of the Marxist Left).
If the Sacketts win, it will put a big lasso around the rogue wild horse that the EPA has become under Obama, Browner (his recent environmental advisor besides “green” czar Comrade Van Jones), and Browner’s protege’, Lisa Jackson, an out of control zealot.
They are doing a lot of harm to those who use reason in dealing with environmental issues in the government, as well as harming the Constitution.
However, they don’t give a damn about either.
I cannot quite understand how we ever got ourselves in the position where the lawmaking authority of Congress has been handed over to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats.
It is because Congress -- knowingly or unknowingly -- granted them the authority.
By the same token, Congress can rescind that authority. But they haven't...
Perry has my vote!
Abolish the EPA, YES
Administrative law has gotten way out of hand. It has been eroding the Constitution continually and automatically without consent of the people. Damn those bureaucrats that seek to destroy liberty.
Congressmen have a quandary: in their own perception, they individually and especially collectively know what is good for each individual American vastly better than any such American (outside Congress) knows for himself or herself. But to continue their incredibly gracious benevolence, Congressmen require regularly the votes of those ungrateful individual Americans, who mostly despise Congress already.
In a brilliant maneuver, Congress writes legislation that gives the American people what the Congress perceives is good and even essential for them—such as this diktat—while at the same time misdirecting the rage of the people against a third party—in this case, Environmental Protection Agency.
You see, when they wrote the Clean Water Act, every single distinguished member of Congress knew what would be good for this couple, even though the couple themselves even now fail to acknowledge it and rebelliously try to evade submitting to it. Every day that the Congress fails to modify or repeal the legislation enabling this diktat, the Congress effectively affirms their foreknowledge of good for this couple. Even so, the Congress now can feign concern for them and so entice them hereafter to vote for the very members who brought them this good against which they now rebel.
Congress often uses another trick to foist unpopular regulation upon the American people: pass legislation that doesn’t take effect for many years. The American people thus do not connect the passage of legislation with its obvious, predictable effects and continue to reelect the distinguished members of Congress who passed it.
The Mandarins of China, had the long nails because they had little to do, but run the bureaucracy. The nails signified that they were better than the rest of society, and they had to do nothing physical. What we have in DC, is a Mandarin class of people.
I realize that judicial culture fetishizes the concept of precedent but eventually the Supreme Court is going to have to rein in the EPA if the Constitution is to have any meaning.
that is why I support Perry over Newt or anyone else running.
There are evil humans within the EPA that, if they had the power, would not hesitate to implement policies that would kill tens of millions of citizens. They are that evil. They are sadistic and yet steal our tax money to survive. They must sit at their desks frustrated because they can't protect Earth by ridding the planet of the human infection.
In an ideal world the EPA would be abolished, the buildings across the land that housed the EPA would be razed and the ground salted. The employees would be imprisoned for 100 years breaking rocks in Death Valley. Their families would stripped of all assets down to one set of clothing.
The singular agency that can destroy our Republic is the EPA.
| I am all for abolishing the EPA... But why do people say PERRY will abolish the EPA? Perry: And I will tell yah, It's three agencies of government when I get there, that will be GONEI don't mind if people LIKE Perry, or VOTE for him, as long as they don't misquote him and say he WILL abolish this monstrosity Nazi agency. |
We have been using “authorities” for years in MA. Port Authorities, Convention Center Authorities, Turnpike Authorities, Healthcare Authorities, etc..
They make great places to hide dumb relatives or retired legislators. They generate their own cash flow and make unpopular decisions with no constituent blow-back.
See the Big Dig for details.
They need to overturn Wickard v Filburn. It was an atrocity, and the EPA it's spawn.
Only if he can remember to...
“Think of a perverted Feminazi in spike heels and net stockings, dressed in the hyde of a nauga, and cracking a whip.”
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Uh, uh, don’t wanta, not now, not ever, ‘speshly that there hyde ov a Nauga. Folks ortn’t tuh go ‘roun skinnin’ them Naugas.
The government oppresses the American people and legally steals from them. The states need to stop this evil federal government agency from recklessly stealing money from citizens and destoying their lives. I pray the Lord Jesus Christ protect these souls from the evil federal government should the states fail to take their Constitutional powers to themselves and protect thier citizens from the dictators of DC who are renegade devils at this present time.
Hmm, back in the days of a sane America, the idea that a government agency could even think of doing such a thing would’ve been preposterous. Shows how low we’ve gone when a person’s right to their property doesn’t just have to be defended, by actually recognized first.
exactly what it is
After Kelo, you would be foolish to think that the Black Robed Tyrants will protect anyone, except of course the Statists and those that empower them.
Executive legislation is prevented by the Constitution. That it is tolerated is absurd. It violates, clearly, the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution.
There were/are two arguments in favor of agency made law:
1. Emergencies - this is how they were instituted, but once the crisis is passed the tyranny remains.
2. Convenience - this argument has two parts, each of which attempts to stand on its own.
A. It’s part of the Necessary and Proper Clause
“The Congress shall have Power - To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer there of.”
Why have a Congress if they just delegate lawmaking authority to the Executive? This one is absurd on its face.
B. The second one avoids any Constitutional veneer and simply says, “In a modern nation you simply cannot have government managed by the votes of Congress. There must be a professional class monitoring, administrating and managing the ‘business’ of government.” This argument appeals to the weaker minds on both the Left and Right.
For this you must understand the only and fundamental purpose of the American experiment in governance - the preservation of individual liberty. The Founders weren’t fools and clearly absolute individual liberty is a formula for anarchy first and despotism second. We must be united and strong enough to dissuade would be tyrants, both internal and external.
That said, the purpose of government isn’t to manage the economy, American lives, or to even work to keep us safe. Fraud is always against the law. It breaks the 9th Commandment and Natural Law. The current size and scope of the Federal Government is outside its Constitutional bounds. National problems can be managed through temporary state created institutions focusing on a limited problem.
Listen up all you EPA goons. Word is, these oil companies will begin placing armed guards at the gates of these rigs to protect it's employees AND their possesions.
Just keep it up fellas, it's all fun and games until someone loses their life.
At last count the EPA had 4,200 new regulations ready to impose on the public: 845 will affect small businesses, and 100 will cost $100 million each or more. Obummer’s agenda for 2011 includes 219 regulations that cost $100 million each, seven costing $1 billion each, and the tempoary delayed ozone regulation cost is more than $90 billion.
The environmental extremists’ actions to create more onerous regulations are a greater threat to our economy and way of life than higher taxes, Wall Street Banks, illegal aliens and/or home grown or foreign terroists combined!
>In the meantime, the Sacketts risk $32,500 in fines per day if they fail to comply.
What about the Eighth?
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