EPA Official: EPAs "philosophy" is to "crucify" and "make examples" of US energy producers

YouTube ^ | 4/25/12 | JimInhofePressOffice

[Nachum]

In a Senate speech, Senator Inhofe will draw attention to a little known video from 2010, which shows a top EPA official, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, using the vivid metaphor of crucifixion to explain EPA's enforcement tactics for oil and gas producers. In this video Administrator Armendariz says:

"But as I said, oil and gas is an enforcement priority, it's one of seven, so we are going to spend a fair amount of time looking at oil and gas production. And I gave, I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement, and I think it was probably a little crude and maybe not appropriate for the meeting but I'll go ahead and tell you what I said. It was kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years. And so you make examples out of people who are in this case not compliant with the law. Find people who are not compliant with the law, and you hit them as hard as you can and you make examples out of them, and there is a deterrent effect there. And, companies that are smart see that, they don't want to play that game, and they decide at that point that it's time to clean up. And, that won't happen unless you have somebody out there making examples of people. So you go out, you look at an industry, you find people violating the law, you go aggressively after them.

[Nachum]

vid at link-

Crucify them....

Let's start with the EPA

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/

[umgud]

These people ARE the enemy.

[magua]

This is the sickest piece of info. The thrash is rising to the top. I want to vomit.

[JRandomFreeper]

Somewhere a piece of rope and a lamp-post are saying "Choose us!"

/johnny

[hal ogen]

king nobama, the puppy eater, and his minions hate Free America and hate Americans. These miscreants must be brought to justice (legal, of course).

[Smokin' Joe]

Explains the prosecution of seven oil companies in ND over 28 dead birds, found on a very few of over 6000 producing locations. The Federal Prosecutor wanted $15000 per bird and jail time for oil company execs. That in a year with all-time record snowfall, a severe blizzard (power out to 6000 square miles), and without determining cause of death of the birds.

Thankfully, the judge threw it out.

[Tzimisce]

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY

Have a nice day. :)

[mountainlion]

We need to prosecute every politician that has breached the trust of his electorate.

[Chode]

where...

Where will we draw the line?

When will we say enough??

What will finally provoke spontaneous direction action???

[brityank]

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUINING YOUR COUNTRY

Corrected!

[JPG]

The EPA and other anti-American agencies always overstep and that’s what eventually clips their wings.

[Charles Martel]

"...a top EPA official, Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, using the vivid metaphor of crucifixion to explain EPA's enforcement tactics for oil and gas producers."

EPA Region 6 is headquartered in Dallas, if anyone would care to send Al a candygram.

[Clay Moore]

“The EPA and other anti-American agencies always overstep and that’s what eventually clips their wings.”

Please post 2 examples where this has happened in
America.

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, that chicken has come home to roost. Time to cook it.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Beyond disgusting. It would mean something if you crucified evil, negligent, hideous polluters. But EPA makes regulation so difficult to follow and so ambiguous that guilt is too often subjective - so they can go hard at anyone they deem unacceptable.

[Miss Behave]

Obama czars Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom:

"We kinda agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun."

[magellan]

YouTube video stuck at 301 views, standard YouTube practice for videos which show the political left in a bad light.

[JPG]

SCOTUS has already dealt the EPA a blow ruling for the ID homeowners and they're not through with them yet. Obama and his crew are taking the country into unknown territory and the checks and balances from the other two branches are being/will be applied. The Obama executive branch is overstepping.

Recall FDR attempting to pack the Supreme Court...he also overstepped and was slapped down.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks Nachum, additional:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2876570/posts

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep, and no statistics available.

/johnny

[surely_you_jest]

One wonders where this chinless little poofter thinks he is going to work and live after the Kenyan is only an unpleasant memory.

[gogogodzilla]

Just remember, Mitt’s just as bad.

Whatever you do, don’t vote for Mitt.

---

Political advice from Mr. Robinson.

[Nachum]

Just remember, Mitt’s just as bad. Whatever you do, don’t vote for Mitt. Political advice from Mr. Robinson.

Here in California, I could vote for David, king of Israel and Obama would still win this state.

[mnehring]

..and this is how they act when they are running for re-election. Imagine how they will act when they don’t have to worry about the shackles(sic) of winning over the public’s opinion in another election and it is about really making change.

You haven’t seen anti-business activism until you see it without the shackles(sic) of knowing you have nothing to lose.

[Nachum]

Oil companies are singing “The Ballad of John and Yoko” ... The way things are going... they’re gonna CRUCIFY ME”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVmCbwlRo2Y&feature=fvst

[mnehring]

I predict if Obama wins, you will have wide scale nationalization of industry considered ‘vital’ for the national interest that they’ve been working on demonizing for the past four years. Energy, banking, and healthcare. They already put the cogs in motion on healthcare to test the waters, the rest will move much faster.

It will also be a soft nationalization too, not something where suddenly you will see Obama logos over Exxon. Nope, instead, you will have oversight czars that control all operations (under the guise of protecting the people of course). You will then have rules limiting profit and expansion to a set level.

..and all of this while the people cheer.

The next four years is their fourth quarter hail mary play. They could have nothing to lose.

[HereInTheHeartland]

They are traitorous bastards. We need more energy production for a strong economy. These cretins are trying to force the opposite.
Traitors.

[JRandomFreeper]

Still stuck at 301. But the number of likes is growing. I wonder what happens when the number of likes is greater than the number of views?

/johnny

[Osage Orange]

But EPA makes regulation so difficult to follow and so ambiguous that guilt is too often subjective - so they can go hard at anyone they deem unacceptable.

Sub....IRS..for EPA..and you've hit a homer.

[P-Marlowe]

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING YOUR COUNTRY

Correction:

THESE PEOPLE ARE RUINING YOUR COUNTRY

[Army Air Corps]

EPA Ping.

[Entrepreneur]

YouTube video stuck at 301 views, standard YouTube practice for videos which show the political left in a bad light.

That is amazing! I reloaded it half a dozen times and 301 views never changed.

Now, about the video... This guy should be fired. Now. Today. Gone.

If this is the attitude of the EPA, just shut it down.

[jveritas]

EPA is full of communists who wants to destroy capitalism. Green is the new Red...The good news is like the Red before them we are going to crush them and crush what ever heathen communist god and scientific hoaxes they believe in...

[Entrepreneur]

Whatever you do, don’t vote for Mitt.

Okay, he's just about my last choice from the GOP field (Huntsman was last). However, if you don't vote for Romney, you're de facto supporting Obama.

Can you live in America after four more years of this guy? It won't be America anymore.

[tomkat]

1,499 views in 14hrs since posting.

Do a search with the full title of the vid as the search term.
It'll be the first of the returns, and the actual number of views will be listed beside it.

for example

[Ditto]

It was kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They'd go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them.

When the Romans were taking Anatolia (Asia Minor) from the Greeks, the Turks were still screwing sheep out deep in Central Asia. The Turks came along 1000 years later.

About the intelligence level you would expect from an EPA Commissar.

[Intolerant in NJ]

We want gas prices to rise to the level they are in Europe - we’ll bankrupt the coal companies - people’s energy prices will necessarily skyrocket - now this - Obama’s ideology and policies have nothing to do with $4 a gallon gasoline - right......

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think it’s time for Americans to bring a class action lawsuit against these Nazi bastards at the so called EPA.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’d love to see the “US energy producers” ALL “Go Galt” for a month or two. Maybe then the morons living in this country will decide that the EPA Nazis have got to go.

[MirrorField]

Still stuck at 301. But the number of likes is growing. I wonder what happens when the number of likes is greater than the number of views?

As someone commented on YouTube thread, it's apparently an automatic process to freeze the display when number of views on otherwise unexceptional clip (ie. not Lady Gaga's latest music video, official Avengers trailer or something similar that'll draw instant crowds) exceeds about 300 so that YouTube can investigate whether views are real or if someone is cheating. If they find no cheating, the number then jumps to the 'real' count and continues updating normally.

The Counter was at 31,409 when I last looked at it.

[Post5203]

Simple. Shut off all electricity in Washington.

Stop all fuel deliverys.

These anti american scum would be the ones being crucified.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

The EPA administrator (appointed by Obama of course) who said "crucify" oil and gas companies, Al Armendariz:

During and after college he worked as a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Global Change Science at its Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory in Massachusetts.

Question: How can it be "science" if the title of the program contains the conclusion "Global Change Science?" Ditto for "IPCC."

I would say that Obama has nothing to lose if he gets reelected, but if Romney wins and lurches leftward, the only way to vote him out would be to vote for whatever Dem he would be running against in 2016.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I am for some reason reminded recently, of the Nixon administration. Whitehouse enemies lists, the whole ball of yarn.

And how it was liberals. Hillary Clinton. The MSM.

Every single member, of the bunch now coddling and excusing. No!... actively promoting ... far worse behavior by this corrupt regime.

Where are today’s Woodwards and Bernsteins?

Oh.

There they are. Look. Lower. On the ground.

Carefully spit-polishing Obama’s shoes.

[W. W. SMITH]

That tactic will work in the opposite direction.

[oyez]

I want to vomit.

Me too, but I'm afraid the EPA will crucify me if don't vomit in a way it to meet their requirements...

[Political Junkie Too]

Democrats have gone after logging, energy, food, manufacturing, banking, health care, pharmaceuticals. Yet they are hands off of entertainment, academia, and lawyers.

-PJ

[oyez]

Whatever you do, don’t vote for Mitt.

And we are assured certain destruction. Get control of the Senate, increase control of The House, elect Mit and hold his feet to the fire. This way there is a chance of saving this country.

[Political Junkie Too]

After posting this, let's see how Obama handles the alleged Biden Chinese bribery scandal with the entertainment industry.

-PJ

[catfish1957]

I have dealt with EPA for 30 years. They are the true facist that they are made out to be. Out of my own personal safety and /or persecution, I will not cover my experiences here.