Couple hit with wetlands fine for trimming bushes

The Virginian-Pilot ^ | April 11, 2002 | CINDY CLAYTON

[chiefqc]

Another moronic law established by someone who sit behind a desk and never get any fresh air to breath.

[Arkie2]

A law designed to harass law abiding citizens. If you pass enough laws you make everyone a criminal.

[AppyPappy]

< beavis > heheh..heheheh....heheheheh... < /beavis >

[monkeywrench]

"``If people don't start fighting stuff,'' Tammy Nicoll said, ``we're going to lose every right that we have."

They need to start fighting for lower and lower taxes. Defund them outta existance."Wetland Board", my as#! They're paying for it.

[mercy]

Another fed pack of snakes run no better than the INS. Those who work for the fed should be ahamed of themselve. Get a job!

[white trash redneck]

Of course, if somebody tripped, they'd be liable. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

[moyden]

Every environmentalist is a socialist thug.

There are liars, damn liars, and environmentalists.

The environmentalist loves a polished jack-boot.

[laotzu]

"If you pass enough laws you make everyone a criminal"

That is precisely the point. After all; who is a criminal to question the moral authority of the government (to do whatever the hell they want)?

[NittanyLion]

They said they have no dispute with the board members. "My whole problem with the system," Nicoll said, "is how it was handled."

Sounds as though they'd be the type to say "serves 'em right" if this happened to their neighbors. Maybe next time this couple will think twice before blindly agreeing to government interference.

[Noumenon]

There are ways to resist and to deny on the economic front. And I should point out that sooner or later, everyone will be held at gunpoint for this, not just corporations.

[sandydipper]

Bureacrats = Fat butted jerks who regulate your life.

[untenured]

Preach it, brother. The resale value of the property is the only thing that keeps me paying any attention at all.

[savedbygrace]

An Environmental Services employee who looked at the lot in February and again on Tuesday said cutting the bushes could kill them.

I don't know much about bushes, but this sounds bogus.

[Dead Dog]

Notice a board voted to fine them, and if they did not pay the board would probably attempt to seize their property..without due processes. I'd like to find justification for this in the constitution.

[editor-surveyor]

Just what we need:

More Felony Environmentalism

At the risk of repeating myself,
we need capital punishment for felony environmentalism.