Posted on 08/01/2014 12:58:56 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
When it comes to environmental regulation compliance, the Department of Homeland Security isn’t playing — as evidenced by a recent federal raid of a South Carolinian’s home to confiscate a Land Rover that violated EPA emission rules.
Jennifer Brinkley said she saw a line of law enforcement vehicles approaching her home and wondered what was wrong, the local WBTV reported. Homeland Security agents then went to her 1985 Land Rover Defender and lifted the hood.
“They popped up the hood and looked at the Vehicle Identification Number and compared it with a piece of paper and then took the car with them,” she said, WBTV reported.
She told Fox News that she was told the agents seized the vehicle because they thought it violated the Clean Air Act — though at the time, they weren’t completely sure. She also said her vehicle was just one of 40 that feds seized in various locations that same day for the same reason.
Ms. Brinkley told Fox News that she has no idea where the vehicle is now and that feds won’t tell her.
“I’m sad because I owned the car. It’s just an iconic car. I’m in disbelief … and surprised that somebody can come in and take your property,” she told Fox News. “It’s scary, it’s scary when it happens to you.
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It is time. For the Constitution, for the Republic.
What the freak does the Department of Homeland Security have to do with environmental regulation compliance?
Unelected admin agencies running the show in America? Nuke ‘em.
Meanwhile the feda are making sure ‘children’ from other countries have all they need, even a dentist 24/7
http://kxan.com/2014/07/31/karnes-immigrant-detention-center-softens-its-image/
Clearly.
Couldn’t thy be doing something a little more useful like keeping Muslims and illegal from crossing the borders? Oh sorry I was day dreaming. I forgot Obama wants them to come over.
So, which bureaucrat or local administrator has a new vehicle in the garage?
feda =feds
About 8 months ago it turned out a strip club in the greater Boston area had been using counterfeit NFL Patriots merchandise.
DHS raided them…!
Can you believe they have time for this???
—> AN ARMY OF OCCUPATION <—
There are a lot of Republicans who want them here as well, just ask the US Chamber of Commerce.
Oh sorry I was day dreaming. I forgot Obama wants them to come over.
There’s a lot of misreporting on this story, as has been covered on a couple other threads.
The vehicles are believed to have been imported illegally. Makes it a customs issue. ICE, the DHS component that has jurisdiction over customs enforcement, conducted the raids.
Now, we all know that those agents could have been better used going after illegals. But these raids are within ICE’s scope, and were in the scope of their pre-DHS predecessor (old CBP).
So really just a lot of hype.
Simply put, the states have never delegated to the federal government, expressly via the Constitution, the specifc power to regulate intrastate environmental issues.
In fact, the Supreme Court has appropriately clarified that powers not expressly delegated to the feds via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc
Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
In fact, forget about traditional salesman / sucker cliches like "buying the Brooklyn Bridge." Voters now have to deal with the problem that they have foolishly traded their votes for constitutionally nonexistent rights and federal spending programs based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.
Local police had to be in on it. They should be harangued until they’re screaming for the mountains to fall on them.
Homeland Security?
Good thing our Nation is not being invaded and these agents have time to do this important work..
Spending $60 grand on a mid 80s British vehicle?
Were the rocker panels full of cocaine?
Sounds like the French Connection.....
The “experiment” appears to have run it’s course. As my wife said, these are only things we know about. There’s no telling how many people have been locked up.
FR folks waste a lot of time posting stupid stuff.
I wish FReepers were more interested in finding articles that boosted morale rather than the constant barrage of not just bad news but false and misrepresented bad news. What a waste of time. It doesn’t help morale IMO.
Sounds more and more like the DHS is our modern day SS. They are the group that were to be as heavily armed as our military that obama spoke of during his first run and ruining our country.
Jack booted thugs.
So, it was an "undocumented Land Rover"?
It's okay to bring in 50,000 illegal aliens but not one "undocumented Land Rover".
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