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"They define wetlands so broadly that even dry desert areas of Arizona are being called wetlands," said Paul Kamenar
This is the best line on this subject. Can't make it any better. The enviro whackos must be put in their place. Roberts' credentials and leadership will be known soon.
Let's get a few facts in here -
1) Rapanos was convicted of interferring with water evaporation, the new “migratory molecule” rule. Under this new rule, any water on private property may be regulated under the Clean Water Act because it might evaporate and migrate to a navigable waterway.
2) Rapanos never interferred with any wetland on his property.
3) He refused to pay a $270,000 tribute to the leech attorneys and junk scientists hanging around the fascist EPA to "study" the wetlands on his property. That's why he was charged.
4) The US attorney in this case engaged in illegal harassment and violated his civil rights. Government witnesses lied under oath, illegally trespassed on his property and attempted to force bribes from Rapanos.
5)The US Supreme Court overturned Rapanos’ conviction and told the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the case in light of its Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States (SWANCC) decision. This decision states that the Clean Water Act cannot extend to such non-navigable waterways like puddles and ponds and standing water. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals told the USSC to go take a flying leap and convicted Rapanos again.
This case tells of a fascist federal bureaucracy gone crazy and a rogue appeals court hoisting the black flag of anarchy in the courtroom.
“If this bureaucratic juggernaut is not firmly reigned in by the Supreme Court - and soon - the founding principle of the people's right to own, and reasonably use private property, will be irreparably damaged,” wrote M. David Stirling, vice president of the Pacific Legal Foundation, a public-interest legal organization that represented Rapanos in several stages of this case.
Rational observers looking at the Rapanos decision come to the indelible conclusion that parts of the federal government are certifiably insane: Puddles are navigable waterways. Supreme court decisions are ignored by an appeals court. Original intent of Congressional law is keelhauled. The law is whatever an unelected bureaucrat says it is. And American citizens are expected to sit and eat this totalitarian garbage.
Bureaucrats must be stripped of their illegal law making power, judges that ignore supreme court decisions must be impeached and politicians that allow unelected tyrants to write law must be thrown from office.
The Rapanos harassment makes clear that environmental law has nothing to do with the environment. It’s about control. It’s about expanding federal power over every blade of grass and tree in America.
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