Posted on 10/23/2013 10:10:23 AM PDT by WilliamIII
Forget Obamacare, its online health-care records, death panels making decisions on your treatment and other privacy-invading provisions.
Forget the Internal Revenue Service agenda. As well as the National Security Agency spy programs.
It seems the most egregious infringement on Americans’ rights could come from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA, according to critics in Congress, “intends to expand federal regulatory authority under the Clean Water Act to include even the most isolated wetlands, seasonal drainages, and prairie depressions.”
The proposed rushed change in regulations would assert “unprecedented control” over private property across the United States, opponents assert.
Several members of Congress and a legal team that won related battles in the U.S. Supreme Court against previous claims staked out by the EPA now are positioning themselves to oppose Washington bureaucrats pressing for the change.
According to Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, and Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, the chairman of the Environment Subcommittee, the proposal is a “sweeping reinterpretation of EPA jurisdiction would give the agency unprecedented control over private property across the nation.”
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what private property? you mean the dirt we pay taxes on yearly?
they already own that.
“The larger the government the smaller the citizen.”
They can try.
However, they’d better be polite when they show up or I’ll use ‘em for fertilizer.
There is no authority in my copy of the US Constitution for the EPA to exist. Anyone trying to exert their stolen authority over my property under the EPA’s auspices will be dealt with accordingly.
EPA Judge: “How do you plead?”
Peasant (formerly called a citizen): “Guilty of having a small puddle.”
EPA Judge: “You are hereby sentenced to hang by the neck until non-functioning on July 4th 2014 CE in the year of our Obama. May Gaia and the false deity that the environMENTALists prayed to in Mexico have mercy upon your life energy.”
The EPA needs to be reined in and limit there control to the constitutionally described navigable waters (imo - waters of 24 inches in depth or more)
“Anyone trying to exert their stolen authority over my property under the EPA’s auspices will be dealt with accordingly.”
Shame about that boating mishap or I would treat it the same way.
A number of years ago, I had a home in Maryland with an in-ground pool. I would winterize the pool and one year a “Duck” laid an egg on the pool cover.
Under the law/regulations, my backyard was now a “protected” environment and I would be in violation if I disturbed it.
Thankfully, my Golden Retriever had not read the EPA regulations before he picked up the egg and proudly played “keep-away” with me.
All my attempts to get him to drop the egg back where he found it were in vain.
This is new, but not unprecedented. I knew a gal who had a house on the bank of the Cuyahoga River. Small town. She had a nice, dry side yard with a sandbox, swingset, and monkey bars for her two boys. Township re-graded the swales and ditches on the road, and the water ended up flooding her side yard. Township wouldn’t do anything, so she hired a contractor, and added fill to raise the grade in her yard. Planted new grass, and put in a new sandbox, etc.. The epa came in and crushed her! She had to remove all the fill, and suffer with a 3” deep pool for a side yard. This was about 20 years ago.
They've been using this ruse for years to gain power.
Yes, but we’re not living in high rise government housing, yet.
This crap was already litigated before the SCOTUS in the late ‘80s and they were slapped pretty hard.
Funny thing: they tore out several dams along a local creek in a beautiful natural area to pacify the nature lovers. The result was the drying of all the swampy areas and wetlands, the place is a desert with a ditch now. “What could possibly go wrong?” Also, all the roads and bridges along the creek are getting undermined.
Alternative uses for yard maintenance tools.
Yes, but we’re not living in high rise government housing, yet
I wonder if the EPA will exclude the “Balcony Rats” (pigeons) then.
“If the government were in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there would be a shortage of sand.” Milton Friedman
If Greg Abbott becomes governor of Texas and the EPA comes into our state to try to take over a cattleman’s pond that gives his cattle water, it wouldn’t be a pleasant day for that EPA guy. First of all, the cattleman would have “defensive” weapons and defend his pond, and second, Abbott would likely send in the Texas Rangers to help out the cattleman.
Usually, the rule is, one dangerous situation requires only one Texas Ranger to handle the situation, but since it’s the feds, Abbott might send two Texas Rangers.
Back when Clinton was president, we had a Republican State Convention in Houston and my husband was the Republican County Chair for our county and we were at the convention. He couldn’t walk those distances due to two artificial hips, so we always had a motorized chair for him to get around. After lunch one day, we went through a park to get back to the convention center and were coming up to the street in front of the convention center.
I went on ahead and he was still on the path approaching the street to cross to go inside the building, when a group of The New Black Panthers with black hoods on and each had a shotgun, surrounded him so he couldn’t cross the street. My husband’s cap read, “JAIL TO THE CHIEF” (as I said, Clinton was president). Well, my husband started chewing them out for being there. This went on for awhile and the convention center had been locked down due to this so I couldn’t get outside to help him. I would have torn those sorry Panthers apart with my bare hands.
The Houston Police were in front of the convention center and did not make a move to do anything. Suddenly, there appears a Texas Ranger and he walked into the group of Panthers and told them to get out of the way of this man trying to cross the street and for them to leave. They left. ONE PROBLEM, ONE TEXAS RANGER.
That night, local news had film of the panthers and my husband chewing them out. This story is still told by Republicans who were there when this happened.
I am sick of Hussein and Holder trying to mess with Texas.
Ping to my 18, don’t know if you know this story.
It’s way past time to start shooting...
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