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Hurry before they bring out the Cheerleaders!
Posted on 06/09/2002 4:51:12 AM PDT by Boonie Rat
Lying is nothing to them if it will advance their agenda--which, basically, is to empower them. They will do much worse.
I am a vegetarian and an animal lover. I love the wilderness, and I loathe cruelty and the cruel.
HOWEVER--Radical Environmentalists must be stopped!
And "Liberalism" must be crushed and annihilated. "Liberals" must be removed from power if the United States is to survive. That's what's at stake.
"You may lie in court, under oath, when the person testifying is a federal employee, and the person believes by lying, they are in compliance with their responsibilities as per their job description, and/or their department's job plan."This is the quintessence of "Liberalism".
I agree that what is described here is the result of liberal philosophy. There is also a feeling amoung many, including conservatives, that it's OK for law enforcement officers to "stretch the truth" (lie) in order to put the bad guys away.
Is that what Ollie North did?
Aren't the American people capable of grasping the absurdity of all this!?!! Uh...nevermind. Don't answer that.
The federal government, alas, gets the first 40 cents of every dollar I make. No matter what.
Hurry before they bring out the Cheerleaders!
Environmental Crime BustersBy Martha Mendoza [of the Associated Press]
The Press Democrat
Sunday, January 13, 2002
San Francisco --- After years of ignoring people caught damaging the environment in Northern California, federal prosecutors are cracking down on tree poachers, salmon snatchers, illegal trail cutters, oil dumpers and other polluters.
The U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco, responsible for enforcing federal law from the once-pristine redwood forests at the Oregon border to the protected waters of Monterey Bay, has gone from being the worst in the country for prosecuting environmental crimes to one of the best.
"There were some people who assumed that paying fines was part of the cost of doing business," said Mike Gonzales, special agent in charge of the National Marine Fisheries Service law enforcement office in Long Beach. "But those same people don't want to go to jail." The region is renowned for its ancient redwoods, glacier-carved lakes, fern- lined trails, granite mountains and rugged coastline. Those resources coexist with logging, fishing, recreation and shipping industries.
At times the two clash, but for more than a decade, there was minimal federal action taken against violators. That changed three years ago.
Since 1998, the office has steadily increased its environmental criminal caseload, filling more than three dozen last year, according to records obtained by Syracuse University's
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
From 1986 through 1997, only four cases were filed.
"The prosecution of environmental criminal cases has been a priority for this office since 1998 and will continue as long as I am the U.S. attorney, said U.S. Attorney David Shapiro in San Francisco.
New Commitment
The result, say federal pollution police, is a cleaner, safer environment.
Cases brought by the Coast Guard against shipping companies last year are a case in point. One company was caught illegally transporting hazardous materials, another convicted of operating its ship with oil leaking into the ballast tanks, causing a serious risk of explosion, and a third firm pleaded guilty to six felonies and paid $3 million in fines after it was caught leaking oil and lying about it.
The new commitment also has resulted in tough punishments for some Northern California residents.
Fishermen and hunters have been sent to federal prison for trying to fool authorities about their catch. Manufacturers have been forced to restore wetlands after trying to build over them.
And in September, Robert Bonner of Livermore was sentenced to three years' probation and a $100,000 fine for allowing his metal- finishing company to violate the Clean Water
Act by discharging contaminated wastewater into the sewer. By November, the company had filed for bankruptcy.
Bikers Busted
In August, three mountain bikers&emdash;Michael More, 47, of San Rafael, William McBride, 50, of Ross, and Neal Daskal, 46, of Oakland&emdash;were sentenced to three years' probation, a $34,000 fine and hundreds of hours of community service for cutting an illegal trail through the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County. "I thought the charges were extremely trumped- up," said Marty Beckins, board member of the Marin Bicycle Trails Council. "Nobody has ever been tried for this before, and they were facing federal felony charges. I think the prosecutors must have been pressured by zealots."
Mueller Priority
The impetus to change in Northern California came in 1998, when Robert Mueller, who now heads the FBI, replaced the then-U.S. Attorney Michael Yamaguchi. At the time, the Associated Press published a story describing the lack of environmental prosecutions in Northern California. Mueller didn't dispute the data, but promised to improve.
Mueller told the AP then that one of his top priorities was to begin enforcing federal environmental crime laws. He brought in an environmental prosecutor and hired several other prosecutors with EPA and environmental law experience for his white collar crime team. He also told law enforcement agencies that his office would be more receptive.
Two years later, Mueller had doubled the number of criminal cases filed. The civil division, went from collecting just under $7 million in damages in 1998 to $208 million in 2000, a spokeswoman said.
Shapiro, Mueller's criminal chief before taking his place in September, said he's committed to continuing to take on environmental cases, despite pressures from all directions.
"While I am the U.S. attorney, environmental criminal cases will remain an important priority," he said. "Obviously, the office now has a very significant responsibility to devote resources to terrorism investigations and to continue our active prosecution of violent criminals and firearms violators.
"The white collar part of our portfolio&emdash;including environmental cases&emdash;will also continue unabated."
So much for Bush's integrity.
Any nation whose leaders will pay its hired help to lie in order to destroy a person's right to earn a living, as in the case of Dick Manning; and now, actually give cash bonuses to those who lie, need to be fired before they have passed the point of no return in their headlong rush to destroy our Constitution and rights of all Americans.
Mr. Broaddus III makes a hard observation, which unfortunately about our "most high," there is not much we can do about except to publicly observe the failures by the Bush part of the Bush [still running the Clinton] Administration.
We ought not be arresting people who pick up eagle feathers and applying the mass of government power against private lives when our President will not apply the law against his own.
It's the kind of injustice upon which conflict becomes unresolved except by test of Arms.
We are in a cultural civil war, and the preservation of our justice system must prevail in order to keep things from heating up.
Compromise as a cause, will not.
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