[Sasparilla]

The ham fisted arm of big government in action.

[Hojczyk]

Video at site..

Just part of the Federal Government RICO racket

[Old Sarge]

PING to both of y’all...

[Westbrook]

FedZilla in all it’s grotesque ugliness.

[x1stcav]

These tax leeches need to be taught some fear of the ordinary citizen.

[HomerBohn]

Overthrow the tyrannical central communist homosexual government!

[EternalVigilance]

This MUST stop.

[MUDDOG]

Charles Murray has set up a fund to help people do precisely this.

A reverse Cloward-Piven.

[Moltke]

Unintended Consequences /John Ross

[immadashell]

In a sane world an abusive EPA would not exist. It's power and audacity survives ONLY to promulgate Odumbo’s climate change agenda.

[Red Badger]

DON’T EVER FORGET that the EPA is staffed, managed and overrun by environmental zealots whose religion is GAIA worship.................................

[dfwgator]

EPA Soldier: I'm afraid we lost them, sir.

Cargill: Damn it! Well, then you find 'em, and you get 'em back in the dome! And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the perimeter 24-7! I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here's how I want them arranged: tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft, tough, soft!

[pause] Soldier: Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power.

Cargill: Of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you.

[C210N]

another view...

[WKUHilltopper]

Land of the free...LOL!! Well, I guess if the song says so...

[IYAS9YAS]

How is a $16 M fine not cruel and/or unusual?

[Eagles6]

Come and take it!

[Rusty0604]

The owner says the EPA is saying he is messing up the green river, over a hundred miles away.

I hope the corrupt courts don’t take this family’s land away from them.

[crz]

This was a state abuse of power. But the same
https://www.mackinac.org/3963

[ProxyAccount]

He built a dam on a creek without a federal permit, required by the Clean Water Act according to the EPA interpretation.

>Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes a program to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, including wetlands. Activities in waters of the United States regulated under this program include fill for development, water resource projects (such as dams and levees), infrastructure development (such as highways and airports) and mining projects. Section 404 requires a permit before dredged or fill material may be discharged into waters of the United States, unless the activity is exempt from Section 404 regulation (e.g. certain farming and forestry activities)<

From the EPA letter of violation:
>On October 11,2012, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) conducted an inspection of the Site and confirmed that Respondent or persons acting on his behalf had discharged or allowed the discharge of approximately 12 cubic yards of dredged and fill material below the ordinary high water mark of Six Mile Creek during construction of a darn. The work resulted in filling an approximately 40-foot reach of the creek and inundation of an approximately 745-foot reach.<

This goes hand-in-hand with the EPA claiming jurisdiction over non-navigable intermittent streams and ditches. A federal judge just blocked them, but the EPA states that it will continue to enforce it in states that don’t sue to stop it. (WTF?)

Downstream neighbors likely complained about it and it escalated from there.

[Verginius Rufus]

This should be impossible because of the 8th amendment. Unfortunately the federal government no longer considers itself bound by the Constitution.