Puddle Jumpers in the Great Lakes State The EPA's twenty-year war to make everything a wetland

http://www.reason.com/hod/sd102405.shtml ^

[metmom]

This should not be a felony! This is not on par with murder, rape, etc. God help us.

[flashbunny]

This is one area where I get in trouble with some conservatives by saying not all felons should have their gun rights taken away once they're released.

Viloent murderers and rapists? Fine, keep them disarmed. A guy who moves sand around on his own property? Let him have his guns, and lock of the idiots who put him in jail.

[SouthTexas]

A nod from the court will put virtually every puddle and pond on anyone's property within the reach of wetland bureaucrats.

It pretty much already is. Wonder why they won't go after New Orleans, it really IS a wetland?

[quantim]

and bury it in a landfill

And meanwhile tons and tons of Canuck wastes come over the USA border every day and buried in MI landfills. 

Why? Fed trade laws and not to mention taxes the leftist confiscate for this disposal.

Canada along with our own gubmint ought to get together and build a super-landfill.  In Canada, I can't imagine why it wouldn't be cheaper.

[Gabz]

this is one conservative you will not get in trouble with because of your position.

[metmom]

You're right. They're treating this guy worse that murders and rapists. Look at the fines and fees he's facing plus the potential loss of his property. Violent offenders aren't treated so bad.

[Itzlzha]

The government's prejudicial conduct and violation of Rapanos' civil rights is not directly at issue in the current case before the Supreme Court. Rather, the court will consider a novel theory that the federal government—backed by the Bush Justice Department—is putting forward to defend its decision to prosecute Rapanos, given that the nearest federally protected navigable water is 20 miles away from his property. The government is arguing that it has the authority to regulate any property whose runoffs could reach navigable waters.

OMFG!

*PING* anyone and EVERYONE you can...is this what Conservatives voted for and supported...or is the more "Compassionate Big Gulp-ism" from the actual "EEEE-Litists" in Washington?!

This decision by the Bush administration to expand Gub'Mint rights over property rights is EXACTLY what should be the beginning of a real Revolution to retake our rights and liberties from the REAL eeee-litists!

Lock and Load...and wear a copy of the Constitution pinned to your shirt! It's gonna get UGLY for the next few years....

I am now 100% convinced that Bush is now doing all he can to ensure Hillary is elected in 2008...hmm...Bush, Clinton...Bush, Clinton....could another Bush be far behind?!

NO! Never again!

Time to clean house of ALL these anti-Constitutionalists!

[taxesareforever]

This is one area where I get in trouble with some conservatives by saying not all felons should have their gun rights taken away once they're released.

Which conservatives are you referring to? I am a conservative and have never espoused that view.

[kublia khan]

Show me a man who will see I will abolish the EPA and I'll vote for him

[vrwc0915]

Land reform by a different name ping

[Seadog Bytes]

Thought you folks might like to see this article, if you haven't already...   "Hello-I'm-from-the-government-and-I'm-here-to-'help'-you..." PING!!!
...How do YOU spell big-government A-B-U-S-E...?

Well, I guess I'd better get back to the mowing.   The stupid grass just doesn't ever seem to want to just cut itself.   ...Fortunately though, I recently picked up some new equipment, which DOES make the job a little easier...

 

 

   
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[calcowgirl]

Thanks for the ping, Seadog... adding a few more.

[editor-surveyor]

Better check your rain gutter downspouts; if they should leak and make a puddle...

[traviskicks]

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[traviskicks]

Another example of this, except the good guy wins!:
'Ranchers Revenge'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412160/posts

[Lady Jag]

You need the new Skycutter mower!!!

[Tench_Coxe]

"This decision by the Bush administration to expand Gub'Mint rights over property rights is EXACTLY what should be the beginning of a real Revolution to retake our rights and liberties from the REAL eeee-litists!"

I am slowly coming to a belief that those in government are pushing to make this an inevitability.

[Zon]

The prosecutors also questioned why Rapanos would insist on a warrant if he was not destroying wetlands. "What were you trying to hide?"

The founding fathers wrote the Fourth Amendment because they knew that government officials cannot be trusted to do the right thing. They did not write it with the intent of criminals hiding crimes. It is meant to protect the people from government officials like the prosecutors.

The prosecutors have demonstrated their incompetence. Or worse, their intent to invert the purpose of the fourth amendment..