Posted on 06/30/2016 11:32:19 AM PDT by george76
You might remember that Andy Johnson, the rancher from Wyoming, just won his case this week against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
That battle concerned their environmentally friendly stock pond on their private property. The EPA demanded that he remove the pond and threatened him with fines of $37,500 per day if he did not comply. The case was settled this week and the Johnson Family are happy.
However…
He is not the only citizen that the EPA has targeted. More cases are coming to light on the extreme overreach of this organization.
Disabled Navy veteran Joseph Robertson, 77, of Basin, Montana, and his wife, Carri, own about 200 acres of beautiful Montana mountain land. They homestead the White Pine Lode patented mining claim that he owns, and live “green”
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Judge Donald W. Molloy retired in 2011. Molloy was the subject of a complaint letter by Robertson some years ago, so it is surprising that, knowing there is bad blood between them, he came out of retirement specifically to hear this case. However, seeing the way this case was handled, maybe it is not so surprising after all.
A week after the first trial ended in a hung jury, Donahoe asked the Robertsons to travel to his office in Helena. Upon the return to their home, they caught two EPA agents attempting to drain their pond, trying to make a stream flow a mile down the canyon to Cataract Creek. It was a blatant attempt to manufacture evidence to support the government case. The timing does seem suspect, as they do not travel off of their property often.
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When this information was brought to the attention of Judge Molloy, the Judge did not see a problem with this manufactured evidence.
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Need to get rid of the whole agency; but, at a minimum it needs to renames the Environmental Shakedown Racket.
EPA along with most of the other ABC central socialist government agencies should be disbanded and their ‘employees’ scattered to the four winds.
The government is waging war against its own citizens.
This is all very, very weird.
Sounds like misconduct by defense council during the trial. Robertson should never have gone to trial with a state appointed attorney in this case.
Trump will wipe this away with one executive order. The EPA will be relegated to the dust bin of history. I assure you.
These government people are tyrants and traitors to their own citizens.
Some of these “officials” should not be surprised at the reaction of victims of this ridiculous government overreach. I am thinking some of these ranchers and their neighbors are about to pop.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
Whenever I read something like this, it always occurs to me that one can call it the EPA, and that the organization is corrupt, but point of fact, there is always s PERSON somewhere making a deliberate choice to persecute someone.
THAT sort of person would make a perfect target for street justice. (the kind of burlap sack over the head, followed by a massive anonymous beat-down with brass knuckles and steel batons) If the officials feared the people, instead of the other way around, I doubt they would act that way.
Wrong doing is usually committed by people who don’t fear the consequences of their actions. The problem is that officials are acting in a consequence-free environment. Until that consequence-free environment changes, their behavior won’t change.
Michael Donahoe, refused to call any expert witnesses .. Robertson’s public defender is representing Molloy or the EPA ?
Valerie from Iran ?
I’d have shot them on the spot and let the buzzards and coyotes clean up the mess.
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No wonder the armed IRS, BLM ... is larger than the US Marines. Remember his Nation Security force speech?
THAT sort of person would make a perfect target for street justice. (the kind of burlap sack over the head, followed by a massive anonymous beat-down with brass knuckles and steel batons) If the officials feared the people, instead of the other way around, I doubt they would act that way.
Those (the ones WHO GIVE THE ORDERS) are the ones who should have "accidents". A beatdown invites investigation; an accident, not so much.
Sounds like he had inadequate counsel.
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