Couple hit with wetlands fine for trimming bushes

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

[Free the USA]

Thanks for the ping

[mafree]

Thanks for the flag as always.

[connectthedots]

You got that right. I love nature just like you do. God meant for grass to grow, so why would I destroy God's creation?

[Grampa Dave]

Great picture of the local heads of the enviralists in their private uniforms:

[Colt .45]

Well I guess that I am the aberration then. I work for the government. I am proud of what I do, because I serve on active duty in the military.

But I am not one of those pinhead enviro-nazis who try and get legislation passed to protect the spotty-lipped clown rodents from becoming an endangered species. They and liberal democRATs are the true source of despotism and encroachment of our civil liberties in America.

As Thomas Jefferson once said "The government is our servant ... not our master!"

[Straight Vermonter]

An Environmental Services employee who looked at the lot in February and again on Tuesday said cutting the bushes could kill them. If the bushes die, he said, there also could be erosion and storm water run-off problems.

Well by all means execute them then.

[RightWhale]

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

It generally makes bushes even bushier. Sounds like a local board needs pruning.

[Madame Dufarge]

They've been pulling this "wetlands area" scam for years on Cape Cod.

In every section of the country, the enviro-nazis have their discrete template - wetlands areas for the coasts has been used for years.

Of course, the goal is to depopulate the coastal areas as much as possible; it's working in many cases, because anyone who has experienced the nightmare - (impossible standards for septic systems, setbacks, don't even think about building a dock if you don't have a pocket full of money and a battery of lawyers) - shies away from ever buying coastal or "wetlands" property again.

I spit in their general direction.

[tacticalogic]

I'd like to find justification for this in the constitution.

Article I, Section 8. At least according to FDR, the enviro-wackos, the gun grabbers, and the drug warriors.

[Dead Dog]

Yah, it's porbably right between "Separation of Church and State" and "The Right to an Abortion". Both of which come after "Right to Public Funded obscene 'Art'".

[tacticalogic]

Actually, it's the seven most abused words in the Constitution: "to regulate commerce among the several states".

[MadRobotArtist]

Actually it's about revenue generation. When you have to get a permit, permits cost money. When you pay money for something that should be your God Given Right, on Your Own Property, it makes it totalitarian. For these people to have to put up with this, is insane. It's so wrong for government to tell people what they can and can't do on your own property.

[tacticalogic]

It's so wrong for government to tell people what they can and can't do on your own property.

Since 1937, and the Roosevelt interpretation of the Commerce Clause, anything you own that could conceivably be bought, sold, or traded, and anything that you do that could conceivably result in goods or servicies changing hands, or even causing goods and services to not change hands that might otherwise have, you do as a privilege granted by the federal government, that can be revoked at any time.

[HiJinx]

Well said!
Thanks for your service, Brother.

[Leisler]

Everyone is a criminal. It is just a matter of looking into.

[Leisler]

On Cape Cod a property owner on the water was trimming back his Rosa Regosa. Local Clam warden, now called Environmental Police Officer, drew his automatic, pointed it at the gent and told him to freeze. ID him, ticketed him. Rosa Regosas are sold in every garden store, even K-mart. The pulling of the gun bit and what not caused such a uproar that the complaint was droped( by the clamcop.)

Anyways, on a variation of shoot, shovel and shut up. People do it now on the sly. One lady had her view blocked, paid the landscape guys to hack away. The Enviromental Police, in their 25 foot center consol, noticed the new hacking and went to her house where she, in her 70's, said, "Yea, I know, SOMEONE did it, but I don't know who."

[ChaseR]

Absolutely the most hilarious garbage for a law I've ever heard of...total cr*p.

[blackie]

Bump !!

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Unabated pruning of the Tree of Liberty is likely to remove all legitimate branches. We need to prune the Tree of Liberty free from the grafted-on branches while there's still time. Save a Tree: The Tree of Liberty

[metesky]

I loove paying my tax money for you guys. I wish you could get more.

Our armed forces are about the only Constitutional thing the gub'mint does.

Bless ya, lad.