Posted on 09/03/2015 1:14:03 PM PDT by george76
Americans now comprehend fully the disdain the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has for truth-telling, the rights of others, and the environment. Forget the last six spiteful years; the Colorado mine disaster suffices. The EPA’s wanton malfeasance — experts warned of a catastrophic blowout — unleashed three million gallons of orange arsenic-, cadmium-, and lead-laden wastewater into an Animas River tributary trashing public, private, and tribal lands and waters in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and the Navajo Nation. Even so, the EPA has nothing on the U.S. Forest Service.
In documents filed days ago in a federal district court in Arkansas, the agency and its lawyers demand dismissal of a $5 million lawsuit against the United States for decades of tortious use and abuse of a Scot-Irish family’s farmland settled one hundred years before the Ozark National Forest’s creation made the Forest Service the family’s neighbor. Worse yet, Conner Eldridge, the United States Attorney for Arkansas, argues that, because the Forest Service trespassed upon Matthew McIlroy’s farm for years, the government owns the land! The assertion, which has no factual or legal support, is asinine, absurd, and in conflict with an admonition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1808, Mr. McIlroy’s family left Tennessee, crossed the Mississippi River, and homesteaded south of the Ozark Plateau’s Boston Mountains and north of the Arkansas River at Fly Gap, Beech Grove, and Cass. Arkansas Territory was established in 1819; Arkansas won statehood in 1836; and
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In 2013, Mr. McIlroy filed a claim that the United States ignored, so in October of 2014, he sued. As his case makes its way through the courts, he wonders whether his clansmen in William Wallace’s days ever saw greater abuses by “the King’s men.”
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EPA is Nixon’s biggest sin.
If he had not known the wolves at the gate for being stupid, he would not have signed the order that created it.
Leaving the Gold Standard is IMO his biggest sin. We can eliminate the EPA, but it will take the destruction of the world economy to get back to real money again. Make no mistake, fake money will lead to the eventual destruction of the world economy.
Point taken and agreed my FRiend.
This will be a case to watch as it moves through the courts.
Looks like the NPS will take it in the groin if what has been written about their actions is accurate.
They needed a legal “easement” agreement at minimis in order to build roads on private property, or even to use them.
The rest of the claims of damage are looking serious.
Someone follow this case and post its progress here at FR.
Will do.
Ms ping
Agree, EPA is second. Anytime a new gov’t agency is created, a monster is created.
Many will argue that even gold money is not stable, referring to the huge hordes of gold brought into Spain from South america, creating inflation even with gold and silver money but the main thing is that gold and silver money will have value at some level as long as gold and silver have uses. Paper money or digital money with no backing can easily go to zero and for practical purposes HAS gone to zero in my lifetime. When I was a teenager I was quite happy to have an opportunity to work all day in the hot sun for three or four dollars. Today that will at best buy you a Pepsi and a Honey Bun that used to cost twenty cents total. A dollar that you worked hard for and set aside from then until now is worth maybe a nickel unless it is a silver dollar, that is worth twenty dollars or more in today’s money which means it is worth about the same now as then. We have been robbed and lied to. There was a time when a person COULD live with dignity on a social security check if he knew how to manage money at all. Now it is nearly impossible even though the AVERAGE social security check now is equal(in nominal terms) to the pay of a factory manager back in my youth and I am still only seventy one.
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