June 15, 2012

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
EPA OFFICIAL SAYS “CRUCIFY THEM!” NATION IS SHOCKED; A NON-APOLOGY
AND RESIGNATION FOLLOW, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED; MSLF WILL CONTINUE
TO FIGHT BACK

by William Perry Pendley    [Other
Action Updates]

The video quickly went “viral” and it shocked the Nation. In it a
high-ranking political appointee of the Obama Administration’s
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instructs federal employees on
how to do their jobs.

I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff
about my philosophy of enforcement…. 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 that town was
really easy to manage for the next few years.

Al Armendariz, Administrator for the EPA's South Central Region
(Region 6).

One might have expected Armendariz to use a term from the popular
culture, “to go Medieval,” which, says an on-line “Urban
Dictionary,” means “to become savagely violent without restraint.”
Instead, he named a killing so slow, painful, gruesome, and
humiliating that Cicero called it "a most cruel and disgusting
punishment," which "should be far removed, not only from a Roman
citizen’s body, but [also] from his mind, his eyes, [and] his
ears.”

Not only was this shameful thing in Armendariz’s mind, eyes, and
ears, it was on the tip of his tongue and it was not the first time
that he uttered it. There is little doubt that his boss, EPA
Administrator Lisa Jackson, knew his views; she appointed him. Nor
is there any question that Attorney General Eric Holder and his
legion of U.S. Department of Justice attorneys understood his
enforcement philosophy; after all, when Armendariz decided to
“crucify” a company, its officials, or employees, Holder’s minions
took his case to court!

For example, Armendariz, the EPA, and Holder’s lawyers attempted
to “crucify” Range Resources by issuing an “emergency order”
charging that its “fracking” polluted ground water in Texas, but
that charge was bogus. After fact-filled blow back from Range
Resources, the Texas Railroad Commission, and a federal judge, the
EPA withdrew its order; the case was dismissed!

Armendariz and his anti-fracking zealotry (he showed the
propaganda film Gasland, on which he collaborated, to his
officials) may be gone; but his opposition to carbon-based energy,
his Roman Empire enforcement strategy, and his loathing of the
private sector remain.

Armendariz’s crude analogy, the silence from EPA Headquarters and
the White House, and the speed with which environmental activists
sprang to his defense on-line, on the news, and elsewhere may have
shocked the American people, but none of it surprises MSLF.

In 1941, U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson—later justice of
the Supreme Court—argued that a federal “prosecutor has more control
over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in
America,” therefore the post requires “fair play and decency.”
Because, when “the government technically loses its case, it has
really won if justice has been done.”

For 35 years, MSLF has represented individuals, businesses, and
rural communities that have found themselves in federal crosshairs,
the targets of autocratic, arrogant, and audacious bureaucrats and
the zealous lawyers who represent them. In MSLF’s experience, “fair
play,” “decency,” and a pursuit of “justice,” are lacking. Instead,
MSLF’s clients face endless, relentless, aggressive
“win-at-all-costs” litigation. Victory, not justice is the goal.

• A family that sought to protect its property from trespassers
was sued by the National Park Service, served process by an
aggressive SWAT team, and subjected to official attempts to besmirch
their character;

• A man accused of harming “wetlands” (like the Sackett family),
was threatened with criminal charges when he tried to exercise his
rights;

• A man charged with violating the Endangered Species Act
suffered eight years of federal prosecution with federal lawyers
dreaming up new and ridiculous arguments at each stage of the
proceedings;

• A woman who sought to use her property was subjected to
relentless citations and harassment; then, when she sued, federal
lawyers urged a ruling to win that will open the floodgates to
nationwide litigation;

• A man charged with a felony by the U.S. Forest Service was told
that his was a “strict liability crime” and that the federal lawyers
need not prove criminal intent (like the Gibson [Guitar] USA
situation);

• Two men, in separate cases, who won huge victories over illegal
acts by federal officials and sought big Equal Access to Justice Act
awards received, not payment, but a punitive attack by federal
lawyers; and

• A man who charged federal employees with fraud won, not kudos,
but a federal case against aggressive federal lawyers who defended
the misconduct without a required investigation and disclosure to a
judge!

Thank you for your support of MSLF’s defense of constitutional
liberties and the rule of law and MSLF’s vital efforts to ensure
that, when the federal government exercises its power to prosecute
citizens, the result is justice!

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1791!

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