The article paints a bad picture of the EPA but I wonder what else is involved. The story gets to a sensational highpoint of heavy handed government action but NEVER says why the EPA took action, what the problem is, etc. Very incomplete. I wonder if this is much like the idiot freeloader Bundy here in Nevada that thinks he should have rights to graze on public lands without paying the taxpayers for his commercial use of our lands.
One man’s “idiot freeloader” is another’s patriot. Go back to DU! Besides, Reno is light years from Clark County. The Feds own 87% of Nevada, I guess you think that’s a good thing. Go back to DU and to reading your copy of Salon.!
He tried to pay the fees-to the county. They wouldnt accept them.
All they had to do is set up a trust to do so.
The BLM, violated the contract. OVER A GD TURTLE! Which was the excuse.
That is what the EPA would like you to do, wonder WHAT this man did wrong. He is the criminal by default.
That is the way a lot of good people look at this, because they cannot bring themselves to face the fact that the EPA (and the IRS) are the twin faces of government tyranny, a form of taxation without representation or trial without a jury of their peers.
This is the way the EPA does business, much like the IRS.
This is the same entity that can dump millions of toxins into a body of water which I DO believe was intentional (if you read a letter to the editor of a local paper who predicted what the EPA was going to do a week before their visit where they made their “little” mistake that will probably require a super fund designation had half a billion dollars to address.) and then they cover their mouths and say “Tee Hee...we made an oopsie...so sorry about that!”
Nobody is accountable at the EPA. Nobody is fired at the EPA. Nobody is even reprimanded or punished at the EPA, that I have heard.
And these are the same people that put their foot on the neck of a rancher who probably DID follow every rule.
It says he didn’t ask for a permit from EPA and he could possibly be messing with the flow of the green river, which is over a hundred miles away.
Not only do you not have a grip on the facts in the Bundy case, I don’t think you have a grip on the meaning of tyranny.