Posted on 06/12/2009 6:03:45 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Not long ago I wrote a piece on how the law often becomes a slippery slope when in the hands of judicial activists and radicals that look to the law in order to warp it to their agenda. Today I have a different example of that warping of law except this is one from the legislative side in Congress. This time Congress is attempting to take under its control all water in the United States, even that which sits on or under privately owned lands.
Senator Russ Feingold (D, Wis.) has introduced S. 787, legislation that is meant to help alleviate the confusion that has occurred for litigants since the 1972 passage of the Clean Water Act. Since '72 a series of confounding decisions have put agencies and users in a quandary as to the implications of the act and its authority.
Unfortunately, Feingold's revision of the bill makes matters worse. Oh, sure it solves the question of authority, alright. But it solves it by seeming to claim that the federal government controls all of America's waters. From the puddle in your back yard, to the aquifer under your property, to the stream on your land, to every last rivulet, farm pond (even man-made ones), and navigable waterway, it's all Uncle Sam's if the over broad language in this bill is to be believed...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
and people still don’t want to believe that the NWO is real and that its pervasive and has infiltrated most of government.
Well, how else are they going to tax the water I get from my own well on my own property?
I never thought the Civil War 2 would be over water but...
Trump up some sort of waterway or water quality inspection to in essence serve a warrantless search of the property.
Big brother....once again.
Senator Russ Feingold can go “F” himself! Will Rodgers said it best. “Whiskey is for drinkin’, water is for fightn’ over!”
To FiEngold...MOLON LABE!
It’s not as bad as you think. I’ve dealt with CWA 404 issues in the past and there are a number of problems regarding definitions and guidance. The different Corps districts treat guidance differently, so adjacent areas may have determinations that contradict each other, creating a big mess. This legislation puts the district engineers on the same page.
Wrong - this has nothing to do with ground water.
Sec 3(9)‘ground waters’ are treated separately from ‘waters of the United States’ for purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and are not considered ‘waters of the United States’ under this Act.
It’s already happened here in Florida. The water management districts have control on when and how everyone waters their lawns, including those on private well.
Ah, ok, thanks for pointing that out.
I've said this before just as a FYI concerning our rights being usurped by a fascist government growing by leaps and bounds.
Over a year ago they started taxing our private water wells in Texas, I can attest that at least in OUR county it's happening. Oh yes, it's just a "tiny FEE", yeah right, for now that is. I said that soon they would put meters on our wells, so guess what? That's going to happen.
Oh but you see, it's to "conserve" our water, and all they need is some sort of "crisis" and what have they been militating about for years? Water crisis and who can dispute it?
I had said that they only thing they'll really accomplish is creating another bureaucracy and of course they will need offices, vehicles and the minions to service such a bureaucracy, "enforcers" as it were. Well, that's happening now.
With today's propaganda mill and government schools churning out little PSA parrots (children spouting what we should do to conserve, etc., as if they have all the answers) is it no wonder?
Is all this water in the US House or on/under State Land??
Wasn’t this passed??
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