Posted on 01/09/2014 5:25:52 PM PST by lowbridge
Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law passed by Congress and angering state officials.
The surprise decision was made by officials of the EPA, the Department of Interior, and Department of Justice early last month, and has invoked the ire of Gov. Matt Mead, who has vowed not to honor the agency’s decision and is preparing to fight in court.
“My deep concern is about an administrative agency of the federal government altering a state’s boundary and going against over 100 years of history and law,” Mead said in a statement. “This should be a concern to all citizens because, if the EPA can unilaterally take land away from a state, where will it stop?”
The EPA declared that Riverton was part of the Wind River Indian Reservation after granting a “Treatment as a State” application from the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes. The tribes submit such applications to get funding for air quality monitoring under the Clean Air Act. However, this seemingly innocuous application ended up undoing the tribal boundaries set by a 1905 congressional act.
The EPA granted the tribes’ claim that the Wind River reservation extended over one million acres of land beyond what the 1905 Congressional Act established. By doing this, the agency effectively overruled an act of Congress, state officials charge.
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You’re looking in the wrong dimension for the perfect good.
You won’t find that as any earthly man.
The perfect good is God. With God actively and energetically engaged, even men of quite checkered background — and that may be all you can get — can do wondrous things. We call that “grace.”
Purity is a wondrous thing. But don’t seek it in the wrong place.
That’s the Governor of the state.
The response to watch is that of the House.
More of Obastard’s minions ruling by fiat.
Try mining coal on your own land.
I reckon you haven’t heard of the Riverton Dome. There is extensive oil and gas development in the area, and the Tribes have a royalty interest in many of the wells. I worked a couple of wells in the area for ARCO in the early ‘90s.
Coming to a town near you.
The Tyranny is here.
That sure sounds an awful lot like an excuse. I hear that a lot lately. In fact, I hear excuses every time the GOP allows crap like this to happen.
First, God isn’t going to appear and fix this. I wish he would, but he isn’t. Accept it.
Second, WE made the mess by empowering the liberalization of the GOP. Accept it.
Third, if you want to make this a religious issue every time the GOP does either nothing or the wrong thing, I’d ask if you prefer working towards purity or CONTINUING to empower corruption.
Of course....the Indians were stupid to trust them. Just as we are stupid to trust them.
FWIW-My direct ancestors walked many trails of tears...............
now hold on...
does that mean the residents no longer have to pay federal or state taxes? do they now get the ability to open casinos, if they are ‘natives’ of the reservation by being born there?
I’d say there’s prolly more up side then down side to this blunder
It will not stop until the citizens stop them. In any case the EPA cannot be allowed to disregard congress.
Won’t be long before the EPA hands California over to Mexico.
You fundamentally misunderstand, and the only excuse here seems to be yours.
I think of last time around in the presidential primaries. Newt Gingrich. He had gotten serious enough in his faith life to switch churches because of a tie he believed it had to God. Now to me — and I will robustly stand up for Baptist practice in the main, with a few quibbles — that says more important than what church it was (he went from Baptist to Catholic).
But oh, the pissing and moaning over Gingrich’s past miscues and flirtations that went on. He ended up getting passed over for the even spiritually weaker Mitt Romney, and a last minute rally failed to overcome the foxy Democrat ballot stuffing.
Man, wouldn’t you give almost anything to have a President Gingrich right now? Whatever you can fault him for, shyness wasn’t it. He would likely not have faded after one obligatory stellar debate, trying to please everybody like Mitt did.
God is teaching us lessons. Will we listen? And yeah, “religion” if you must. Religion that doesn’t DO anything is a farce!
Hell, that’s nothing. Obama, Boehner and Reid are getting ready to cede America to Mexico.
Ah yes, the four branches of government;
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
Regulatory
Stephen Rebecca Simpson
“The 1905 legislation set aside land for non-Indian settlers. The tribes sold 9 percent of the land to settlers. That 9 percent comprises Riverton. The remaining 91 percent was returned to the reservation.”
2 hours ago
reposted from the Wind River IR news site...
http://county10.com/2014/01/09/quick-facts-epa-riverton-wind-river-indian-reservation-boundary-issue/
Looks like this ain’t the end. What will happen to private property owners in that city? Just wondering...
Very mixed bag. Still what conquerors would even have half cared about conquerees that complained? Indians getting anything other than the grand lawn mower of history says a whole lot about the white man.
Bingo. The lowlife, bottomfeeding Mexican Nationals are already making demands on the Kenyan’s worthless government. The bags of crap won’t stand up to their own government but freely come here and tell the gringos how the cow ate the cabbage. America has become a nation of cowards. IMHO.
That might be crazy like a fox. Then China will have to fight Mexico to get it.
Okay, I’m being facetious. But sometimes history is funny like that.
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