Posted on 09/05/2013 5:20:58 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Some miners in Alaska want the feds to start digging for answers.
A task force including members of 10 state and federal law enforcement agencies descended on a gold mine in the tiny town of Chicken (pop. 17) last month, in what locals described as a raid.
“Imagine coming up to your diggings, only to see agents swarming over it like ants, wearing full body armor, with jackets that say "POLICE" emblazoned on them, and all packing side arms,” gold miner C.R. Hammond told the Alaska Dispatch. “How would you have felt? You would be wondering, ‘My God, what have I done now?”
A spokesman for the federal Environmental Protection Agency did not deny that agents wore body armor and carried guns, but said it was not a "raid."
"The ongoing investigation conducted by the AK Environmental Crimes Task Force -- consisting of EPA, ADEC, USFWS, ADFG, BLM, Coast Guard, FBI, Alaska State Troopers, NOAA, & US Park Service -- did not result in a raid," the statement read. "The Task Force members involved in the investigation during the week of August 19, 2013, were EPA's Criminal Investigation Division & Bureau of Land Management's Office of Law Enforcement & Security, in cooperation with ADEC's Environmental Crimes Unit."
The investigation was into possible violations of the Clean Water Act, according to the EPA.
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They were afraid of the roosters in Chicken!!
Well hey, the bears gotta eat too.
We even had scientists testify that the dredging operations bring food to the surface that fish use, and any sediments stirred up are soon re-deposited on the stream floor. No facts disturb a democrat’s strongly-held convictions.
They drive brand new wheels either rented or owned by the apparatus they work for, paid for by money extorted from Americans that work and PAY federal taxes.
This stunt proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the apparatchiks are off the reservation.
Once the mining stops...it’s finished.
The bar required for mining to resume after 5 years will be set to the impossible standard of having to prove that it’s 100% safe.
To me this is a clear cut violation of the takings clause.
They were given all this crap, and now they have to justify having it. So since there are not a lot of actual terrorists, they will use SWAT teams for parking tickets.
It will then become a self fulfilling prophecy, because people will only put up with this kind of thing for so long before they start pushing back. And they will be branded terrorists just for disagreeing. 
Yeah it sounds like the Gaia/sacrosanct model is carrying the day. A sad story because God gave the earth to be taken wise care of, not to be knelt to.
Good grief.
Ping.
They’re sure as *hell* going to sort that out the second the outsiders leave. Yeah.
Hmm, a town of 17. I’m not much concerned because I live in Texas. I think the strategy now after Waco, the feds are kept out. Plus if a small town was taken over and another move to the nearest town, word spreads fast here. I think the 3rd town may be a problem regardless of their mechanized divisions. We will prevail.
Well if Congress regained sense and we did not have an impossible president, all this bureaucracy could be overruled overnight. It’s not that hard. However, we will have to deal with Satan’s redoubts before we can deal effectively with the political questions. God has put this situation well beyond political rescue for a good reason. He’s there going Yoo Hoo! from heaven. Maybe some day America will actually listen!
You miss my point entirely.
/johnny
I don’t mine or grow air, or for that matter water.
Its Alaska, it might just be better if they don’t end up anywhere, ever again.
/johnny
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