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Posted on 01/09/2012 10:26:29 AM PST by WilliamIII
WASHINGTON — Several Supreme Court justices are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners.
The justices were considering whether to let a North Idaho couple challenge an EPA order identifying their land as “protected wetlands.” Mike and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake wanted to build their house on the land. But the EPA says the Sacketts can’t challenge the order to restore the land to wetlands or face thousands of dollars in fines.
Justice Samuel Alito called EPA’s actions “outrageous.” Justice Antonin Scalia noted the “high-handedness of the agency” in dealing with private property. Chief Justice John Roberts said that the EPA’s contention that the Sacketts’ land is wetlands, something the couple disagrees with, would never be put to a test under current procedure.
The Sacketts were filling in a lot near Priest Lake in 2007 to construct a house when EPA officials shut down the project, saying the couple had filled in wetlands without getting a permit.
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If I’m not mistaken the EPA sued the couple for $40 million dollars!!! Incredible. I salute that couple for not backing down and yes, whoever is responsible should go down!
Thx. :-/
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All the more reason to help Newt defeat The Messiah in November.
I still can’t believe the EPA cares about a freaking half-acre lot. Even in their twisted world.
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We're not there yet, but we will eventually come to what I call a 'set to' with these evil people who have infested our country. Powder Dry....
I fear that one day, somebody is going to retaliate for the EPA’s crap and take matters into their own hand. I also think that the EPA should be very afraid that it will happen.
Rats will gnaw their leg off to escape a trap; wounded deer will attack you; what makes anyone think that the animal in all of us will react any differently?
Speaking of ‘taking matters into one’s own hands” ...
We read almost every week about a ‘crazed gunman’ that killsa handful of family/relatives. What we don’t hear unless we dig deeper is the root cause. Feminist ‘family’ courts that screw grown hard working men out of their children, their monies and jail them as in debtor countries. MSM hides the causes and we wake up to another day of MSM lies.
Understandable, but we have to regulate what we feel is eventually going to happen - at least in the severity of the words we chose to voice those feelings.
We have a DHS, TSA, FBI, (and now supposedly, a US Military with the new Appropriations bill - NDAA?), etc. that is just aching to find a regular non-Muslim American to put on a show-trial.
Well, a lot of the Bronx was wetlands back when some of my Dutch ancestors lived in the area back in the 1600s so I’m sure that she would agree that the larger portion of NYC should be leveled and returned to its natural state. While we’re at it, most of D.C. including the area where her home is was once a swamp (wetlands) so let’s start by condemning her property and forcing her to return it to its natural state.
Are you kidding? Obama and the other lefties have been hoping earnestly something like that would happen.
They’ve been pushing Americans, provoking us, aggressively in order to self-fulfill their prophecy that some conservative somewhere will go postal. They’re not afraid of that, it’s one of their wildest wet dreams. The Hussein Administration has been predicting, counting on, and provoking some kind of “right wing” violence from the word go. Frankly, given the wide diversity of tolerance among our ranks and the regime’s hell bent campaign to make that happen, it’s a wonder it hasn’t.
She will do what her Marxist boss wishes. She will ALWAYS rule in cases in a way to increase the power of the State against Liberty.
This is the same Supreme Court which came within one vote of ruling that the 2nd Amendment may say “the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”, but since there is no such right anyway, there is nothing to infringe. The 2nd Amendment simply does not exist as to ordinary citizens.
They may get a second bite at that apple sooner or later.
The EPA people did it because the homeowners refused to roll over. Bureaucrats just can’t abide citizens refusing their imperious demands.
This is the same mentality exhibited by the ATF when the gentleman at Ruby Ridge refused to go spy for them, and so they entrapped him into sawing off the barrel of a shotgun, then threatened him with a felony conviction.
Does anyone know how long it takes for a transcript of oral arguments to be posted?
Most of the US would not be farmed or built upon if these ignorant Nazis had been around back then.
Of course the residents then would just have laughed at them, right before the tar and feathers were applied.
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