Posted on 09/17/2015 12:06:55 PM PDT by kitchen
Sweet Gods of Karma, we cried nerd tears of joy today watching the EPA getting nailed for violating the sacred Endangered Species Act for their negligence in the Animas River spill.
Turns out that it is very illegal, as in, criminal and civil charges illegal, when someone does not consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service prior to undertaking a project that poses a threat to endangered critters. In this case, downstream fish.
But, but, but, we didn’t mean to spill all of that acid and lead and whatnot into the river, stammered EPA Chief Gina McCarthy.
That didn’t satisfy GOP Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, and reminded her repeatedly that the EPA had been warned for more than a year that a blowout was imminent, and therefore consultation on endangered species was required by law before work began at the mine.
So, when exactly did the EPA begin this consultation required of every business and government agency in these United States?
Last night.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradopeakpolitics.com ...
So--Who from the EPA will be going to jail?
“...we didn’t mean to spill all of that acid and lead and whatnot into the river, ...”
The real damage was done by the whatnot. That is more dangerous than acid and lead put together.
Didn’t Shakespeare say, “cry havoc and let slip the dogs of what not?”
Hoisted on their own petard.
The cluster -blank- administration.
There are major constitutional problems with both the EPA and the Endangered Species Act.
More specifically, 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 Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected bureaucrats like those running the EPA. So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
But by delegating federal legislative / regulatory powers to non-elected bureaucrats, powers that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution where intrastate environemntal protections are concerned, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
And speaking of powers not delegated, neither have the states constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power protect endangered animal species. So what we have in this example is an unconstitutional federal agency breaking an unconstitutional federal law.
So how did the states get themselves into this mess concerning unconstitutional federal agencies and likewise unconstitutional federal laws?
Note that the Founding States had established the federal Senate to protect the interests of the states in Congress. So the Senate’s job is to kill unconstitutional bills, bills which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
The problem is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate has not been doing its job to kill bills which steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers.
The bottom line is that the ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, along with corrupt senators, unconstitutional federal agencies and unconstitutional federal laws.
If any one quality characterizes the FedMob in all its actions it is arrogance.
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Maybe the Navajo Nation can issue warrants and demand extradition.
Good thinking.
It’s going to be fun watching this if it gains the traction that it deserves.
CSPAN2
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy Testimony on Gold King Mine Wastewater Spill
2 hr, 40 min.
Thanks. I’ll scan through it.
I saw a clip of Utah Rep. Chaffetz really laying into her.
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