Posted on 10/14/2015 9:10:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Obama administration is spending $75 million a year arming EPA special agents with drones, night vision goggles, guns and assault ships.
The EPA special force was formed to take out US polluters. The Spectator reported:
"According to a report released last week by a watchdog group called Open the Books, the EPA has spent millions of dollars recently on guns, ammo, body armor, camouflage equipment, and even night-vision goggles to arm its agents in the war on polluters.
The Illinois-based investigative group examined thousands of checks totaling more than $93 billion from 2000 to 2014 by the EPA, and its auditors indicate that about $75 million is authorized each year for “criminal enforcement” of America’s clean air and water laws. This includes cash for a cadre of 200 “special agents” that engage in SWAT-style ops.
“We were shocked ourselves to find these kinds of pervasive expenditures at an agency that is supposed to be involved in clean air and clean water,” said Open the Books’ founder, Adam Andrzejewski, a former candidate for governor of Illinois. “Some of these weapons are for full-scale military operations.”
Some of these military operations have been reported in the media. Two years ago, the EPA was involved in an armed raid at a small town in Alaska where miners were accused of polluting local waters, as Fox News reported that EPA “armed agents in full body armor participated.”
The EPA’s own website describes the activities and mission of the criminal enforcement division as “investigating cases, collecting evidence, conducting forensic analyses and providing legal guidance to assist in the prosecution of criminal conduct that threatens people’s health and the environment.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I am speechless.
I predict the GOP-e majority will not do anything to rein in the out of control EPA until there is another “Ruby Ridge” like incident.
Write this date on the wall.
Maybe the Waco bikers were smoking too close to the restaurant entrance.
That would justify, using “War on Pollution” justification, shooting them.
It is what you get with an administration led by an America-hating Marxist. Oppressive, big government that just keeps growing.
Ping.
“Death to Americans!” - Zer0
Hey, releasing toxic spills from mines is a 24/7 business. Got to keep it going at night.
Mission creep for the sake of mission creep (hey it hires more people and wastes more taxes).
Yeah it’s not as if we could notice by day that it happened.
I hope those are solar powered night vision goggles.
Are they going to use this equipment to bust themselves for the Colorado incident?
I’m not surprised. The federal government has become a collection of feudal duchies, each agency or department nominally owing allegiance to the king/president, but in reality answerable to no one. And just like every other feudal duchy, it has it’s own army.
The question should not be is there some tenuous excuse for this, but is it something that needs to be high on our list. Austerity doesn’t even have to look austere, if it can be expressed by cutting things that make no sense.
Yet republicans and democrats just cannot find any programs at all where they could possibly cut federal spending.
Not even a smidgen.
The EPA special force was formed to take out US polluters.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
If your $hitting dog is destroyed by drone, you know it was done by the anti-poo EPA squad via executive order. The fact that you are a vocal conservative Republican would have absolutely nothing to do with it.
EPA Soldier: I'm afraid we lost them, sir.
Cargill: Damn it! Well, then you find 'em, and you get 'em back in the dome! And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the perimeter 24-7! I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here's how I want them arranged: tough, soft, tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft, tough, soft!
[pause]
Soldier: Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power.
Cargill: Of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you.
EPA battle troops in a tough fight people who drop candy wrappers in the forest.
No common agreed vision that rises above narrow self glorification, and voila it’s duchy city.
There was a time when American government affairs were envisioned to consist chiefly of little entities. Those little entities were called states.
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