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The EPA Is Not Above the Law
Townhall.com ^ | January 9, 2015 | Todd Gaziano

Posted on 01/09/2015 8:49:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/09/2015 8:49:13 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Yeah it is. They write the law. They execute the law. They adjudicate the law.

And you don’t vote for any of it. Sucks to be you.


2 posted on 01/09/2015 8:51:22 AM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: Crazieman

LOL! I was gonna say, Shhhh. Don’t tell them that cause they have other ideas. Unless you got a berkshire-hathaway sized back account, good luck fighting them.


3 posted on 01/09/2015 8:54:00 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: Kaslin

Had a liberal the other day complaining about breathing all the terrible CO2 pollution from all the cars.

I had a fleeting moment of thought about trying to explain that CO2 isn’t a “pollutant” but when looking into those empty eyes of hers, I thought better of it.

I was witnessing the face of total indoctrination and stupidity.


4 posted on 01/09/2015 8:54:53 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Crazieman

Sucks to be us.


5 posted on 01/09/2015 9:01:05 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: headstamp 2
Had a liberal the other day complaining about breathing all the terrible CO2 pollution from all the cars.

Should have strangled him to death, shrieking "CO2 KILLS THE WORLD! STOP BREATHING!!!!"

6 posted on 01/09/2015 9:01:24 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Crazieman
Also do not forget that environmental activist groups file false flag litigation against the EPA, before friendly judges, in order to get “judicially approved” regulations through court settlements that bypass the normal rule making process.
7 posted on 01/09/2015 9:04:39 AM PST by buckalfa (Too many evenings spent at the North Heidelberg or VC back in 1968.)
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To: Kaslin

One of the most unconstitutional things Congress has ever done was to create agencies and give them the power to make rules withe the weight of law.


8 posted on 01/09/2015 9:06:51 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Crazieman

The EPA was called a “rogue regulatory agency” by a federal judge. They routinely ignore the law. the Constitution, and the courts.


9 posted on 01/09/2015 9:10:04 AM PST by Daveinyork ( Marbury vs.Madison was the biggest power grab in American history.)
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To: Crazieman
And you don’t vote for any of it. Sucks to be you.

And the Gelded Old Party jellyfish we send to DC every 4 years in midterm elections do nothing about it, because they're scared to death of the commie media accusing them of wanting to 'shut down the government'.

10 posted on 01/09/2015 9:10:48 AM PST by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Lazamataz

” Should have strangled him to death,”

read my mind


11 posted on 01/09/2015 9:12:13 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Batting average 1,000 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Kaslin

Kneel! Kneel before your government employee masters! Bring them offerings of bribes lest they strike you down!


12 posted on 01/09/2015 9:14:39 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: headstamp 2

You could have suggested that, if he were truly that concerned about CO2 emissions, he should do his part by no longer exhaling when he breathes. You could assure him that inhaling is fine so long as he refrains from exhaling. (Side benefit: He’d have to stop talking. )


13 posted on 01/09/2015 9:20:21 AM PST by Bob (Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
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To: Kaslin

In the 70’s they began making mfr’s put catalytic converters on cars.

These converters transform car exhaust hydrocarbons into water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2)

Now they tell us CO2 is bad.

They can’t have it both ways.


14 posted on 01/09/2015 9:20:33 AM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Yep.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

15 posted on 01/09/2015 9:28:42 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Kaslin
The EPA Is Not Above the Law

No, the EPA is outside the law. It has no right to exist. It is therefore against the law, and has been since its inception in 1970.

The EPA is a criminal "protection racket" that should simply be disbanded immediately, and all the moneys taxed to maintain it over the decades refunded to the individual taxpayers who paid the bill (or their estates). That refund should not come from the Treasury, which belongs to the People. It should be drawn from the private holdings of the government officials (or their estates) who approved its operations over the years, in proportion to their responsibility for those decisions or operations.

I'm not prejudiced in any way, and would insist on collecting from everyone responsible, regardless of position, in proportion to his actions in support of this criminal organization: Presidents, legislators, Supreme Court justices, agency administrators, and 501c-3 foundations. (Where 501c-3s are concerned, as private citizens, individual Board members and donors would be exempt from penalty.) All who officially supported or abetted the EPA took an oath to uphold the Constitution, and all violated it. An outfit like the CATO Institute or the Club for Growth would do an excellent job apportioning responsibility appropriately. When explaining it to liberals, we could informally term this a "redistribution of wealth." But in reality it is just returning people's property—inflation-adjusted and with interest, of course.

Since all operations of the EPA have constituted a taking under cover of law and a deprivation of Americans' Constitutional rights (with literally world-changing consequences), any immunities ordinarily granted to office-holders doing their jobs are void. It will be very merciful of us if we do not pursue criminal prosecution as well.

16 posted on 01/09/2015 9:30:36 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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On behalf of a construction contractor, a trucking firm, and their respective trade associations in California, my colleague, Ted Hadzi-Antich, will argue that the EPA’s failure to submit the vehicle emissions standards to the Science Advisory Board for comment requires the standards to be vacated.

The Clean Air Act is unconstitutionally vague and should be repealed. And the process of "peer review" of proposed regulations cannot work when the reviewers are all clones of Jonathan Gruber.

17 posted on 01/09/2015 9:33:34 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: Daveinyork
They routinely ignore the law

A common misconception.

They enforce the laws as written. It's the fault of Congress, which could stop all of it today.

18 posted on 01/09/2015 9:35:08 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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The only serious issue is what the courts should do about EPA’s violation of law. EPA’s statutory violation cannot be dismissed as a harmless error. Congress enacted the requirement for Science Advisory Board review because it believed it would make a difference in the standards and regulations EPA issued, and that has proven true time and time again. EPA’s violation relating to these rules is especially consequential, as the two affidavits of the former chairman of the Science Advisory Board explain: these are precisely the type of rules that Congress intended the Board to evaluate, and EPA’s failure to obtain the required peer review is inexcusable.

PATRICK HENRY, Virginia Ratifying Convention: This, sir, is my great objection to the Constitution, that there is no true responsibility — and that the preservation of our liberty depends on the single chance of men being virtuous enough to make laws to punish themselves.

19 posted on 01/09/2015 9:47:22 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by government regulation.)
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I can sympathize with Henry here.

On the other hand, a Constitution that had some kind of Ombudsman built into it, would it end up being any better than our current situation?


20 posted on 01/09/2015 9:48:54 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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