Just letting every agency try on their jackboots.
being anti lead is as emotional a religion as being anti co2. The lead police congregate at the EPA
OSHA is not sufficiently radical and pure of heart
Also, I believe that both workers in the work place and the environment need to be legislatively protected. But until the Constitution is appropriately amended, such protection must come from the states and not from the federal government.
As a consequence the parents of the owners of USA Brass not making sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, the owners of USA Brass were evidently not able to argue the following concerning the EPA raid. (Note that this same argument also applies to OSHA where intrastate private property is concerned.)
With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the States have never amended the Constitution to grant Congress the specific powers to legislatively protect either the environment or workers in the workplace where intrastate property is concerned.
In fact, the Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution's silence about such issues means that they are automatically and uniquely state power issues.
Again, the only reason, imo, that owners of USA Brass have reluctantly replied "How high?" when the constitutionally undefined EPA shouted "JUMP!" is because the owners are evidently clueless about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
Also, as I've mentioned in related threads, even if the states had delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate workplace conditions and the environment, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from citizens, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
So by unconstitutionally delegating legislative powers to the non-elected bureaucrats running the EPA and OSHA, powers in this case that the States have never constitutionally delegated to Congress, Congress is wrongly protecting nonexistent federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the Sections 1-3 indicated above.
Finally, remember that your constitutionally powerful state lawmakers aren't lifting a finger to protect citizens from a corrupt federal government that likes to ignore its constitutionally limited powers because your state lawmakers are undoubtedly as constitutionally clueless as the voters who elected them are.
Are we having fun yet? =^O
Finally, with all due respect to the family and friends of the late President Nixon, he was constitutionally negligent, imo, to sign the bill which established the EPA, and also the bill which established OSHA.
What a mess! :^(
“Lead exposure in the workplace is an OSHA issue. Not sure why the EPA and FBI decided to get involved. “
It is a common practice to enter a business for one reason to search the premises for the real reason.
If there is no immediate threat, then there is no need for a raid. Unless, that is to say, one seeks to implement a gestapo-like totalitarian police state, which seeks to diminish the right to keep and bear arms “by other means” as someone once said.