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Is Your Governor For Sale to the EPA?

By Cassandra Anderson
June 8, 2011

Congress failed 3 times to pass laws (HR 2421, S. 1879 and S. 787)
for federal control over almost all water, so the EPA and Army Corps of
Engineers are declaring jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.

Currently,  waters with a 'significant nexus' to 'navigable waters'
are covered under the Clean Water Act (CWA).  The EPA is now trying to
assert that the CWA "protects" (controls) traditional navigable waters,
interstate waters, adjacent wetlands, tributaries, and 'other waters' which
account for just about all water except swimming pools (see page 5).

Lisa Jackson, EPA Administrator

In this video from 2009, Lisa Jackson admits that she doesn't know what the
EPA jurisdiction is for navigable waters or wetlands, and then she says that she
does need legislation to clarify the matter!  That legislation has already
failed 3 times because it is an affront to individualism and property rights.
Additionally, several Supreme Court rulings limit EPA power.

When Jackson is asked whether she wants more enforcement ability or to
expand the powers of the EPA, she responds that she wants both!  She
further states that the power should be broad, meaning that it will give the EPA
unbounded control.

She also recommends that runoff should pass through vegetative barriers
before flowing into bodies of water.  Jackson is completely wrong-headed
about filtering runoff, as pollution should be remedied at its source.

Federal Jurisdiction Over Water

The federal government usurped power over navigable water in the early
1800's by distorting the Commerce Clause listed in the Enumerated Powers
(Article1, Section 8) of the Constitution, which says:

"To regulate
Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian
Tribes;"

The Commerce Clause has been stretched
far beyond federal regulations over trade transactions and taxes; it now extends
to federal authority over the means of commerce (trucks, roads, telephones, etc)
and almost anything that crosses state lines (industry, fish, pollution,
etc).  This is an illogical abuse of the Constitution, but it fits the plan
for centralized control.

State Jurisdiction Over Water

Does federal law trump state law? ONLY when it is a Constitutional
law!  The Supremacy Clause says that federal laws supersede state laws "in
pursuance of the Constitution", therefore, if the federal law is not
Constitutional, then action is left to the State and to the
People.

Because water affects human health directly, government regulations over
water are appropriate  to PROTECT human health and property (but no more
and no less than that).  The states are the obvious choice for regulating
water because they answer more directly to the People who live there, instead of
a central federal one-size-fits-all policy.

A new bill introduced in the House, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011, is using the
guise of limiting EPA power as a trick to bind states into a federal
partnership.  'Cooperative federalism' means that state and local governments
are used to implement federal policies.  However, under the Tenth Amendment
the States can ignore unconstitutional federal acts.  Therefore, the feds
usually bribe states with funds for implementation or they withhold funding from
the states to usurp state power.

The Governor of each state has the
responsibility of standing up against the EPA.

The Philosophy of Pollution

There are two opposite ideologies concerning pollution and property rights.
Communist Karl Marx advocated "the abolition of private property" as all
collectivists do.  When the Bolsheviks were in power and applied this
concept to pollution, the government was the only monopoly that owned all land
and resources, and their priority was industrialization over human health.
To this day, there are some rivers in Russia that don't freeze because there are so many chemical
pollutants.  In 1989, the Russian Minister of Health said, "To live longer,
you must breathe less".

The opposite model of individualism is
based on property rights.  Your body and your property are sacred and NO
ONE has the right to hurt you or take your property.  If pollution harms
individuals, they have the right to expect the government to stop the
polluter.  This was the system in the US prior to the mid-1800's (the
industrial age).

Here's Ron Paul's explanation (starts at 3:55):

Paul says that governments
are the biggest polluters and they sanction pollution through permits and
licensing.  He says the proper way to resolve pollution problems is through
the private marketplace (contractual voluntary arrangements) and property
rights.  He supports abolishing the EPA.

Agriculture Under
Attack

Agricultural run-off is reportedly the primary water
polluter.  In the first video Lisa Jackson recommended using vegetative
barriers in wetlands to filter pollution.  As you can see from the video
below, this policy is already damaging farms in Washington state and threatens
over 60% of the farmland.  The EPA ignored the State's scientific data and
implemented its regulations (not laws) under a state agency.

Conclusion

The
EPA is collecting comments on its website for this new measure, but they have a
history of ignoring opposition from the public.  If you want to be
effective, you can educate and your state lawmakers, the governor and the state
water regulatory agencies (in California the lead regulatory agency is the California Water Commission)
about the Tenth Amendment.  These are the parties that will be offered
federal bribes or will be financially threatened by the feds to implement the
EPA's regulations.  Public pressure and lobbying have more power on state
and local levels because they have to face you.  Ultimately, the Governor
is the final authority.

Comments

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+4 #1
Bruce Hayden 2011-06-07 23:34

Ron Paul is right. The Congress
screws things up bad enough. We need to get rid of
all agencies like the EPA
that THINK they can create positive law by bureaucratic fiat. The DOE is another
one that needs to go. And the DOJ, which breaks the law as often as it enforces
it is right up there for a major downsizing and overhaul. Think of all the money
we can save! We'll call it "freedom dollars." LMAO! Of course the criminals in
DC would rather cut Social Security and the things that actually benefit our
society rather than abolish unconstitutiona
l bureaucracies that think they write the law.
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+1 #2
ts godon 2011-06-08
07:00

There is an additional component
here. "EPA" has already been sold. The idea is to get a lease on people's
mineral rights, and transferring that to include the water.
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+2 #3
Fools Believe Lies 2011-06-08 07:21

The EPA has no dominion over the
Public. The EPA (Environment Payoff Agency)is useless and to correcting
pollution. Rather, it "sanctions" protection of polluters at a costs, of course!
It only collects money for the Zionists Bankers.
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+3 #4
Joe Six Pack 2011-06-08 07:46

I really liked how the EPA and OSHA
were Johhny on the spot when it came to cleaning up and protecting the workers
at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year. NOT! (I learned that from
Borat)
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+3 #5
Jim Lampe 2011-06-08
08:45

Lisa Jackson is playing the
politician. It is part of the EPAs effort to assist other agencies in taking our
lands. Here in FL, the EPA is trying to get jurisdiction over the water in the
Everglades. (The FWS is using the FL Panther, a common puma bred with the ones
in TX, to justify their land grab.)

The EPA is claiming the opposite of
what she said about wetlands. The EPA is saying that because their tests show a
particular compound from central FL is flowing into the everglades, it gives the
EPA the right to regulate everything involved. (In video she said that the
function of wetlands was to clean water by filtering pollutants! Now she wants
to ignore that and regulate "pretend" pollution.)
-- see next comment
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-4 #6
Jim Lampe 2011-06-08
08:48

Wetlands are officially identified
by USFWS, regulated by the EPA, and permits for construction (ie putting up a
fence, making a road, etc.) are issued by the Army Corp of
Engineers.

They just passed restrictions on fertilizer use here, likely
the first step to setting up buffer zones around "waters" here too.
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+2 #7
hereward 2011-06-08
10:14

Control over water is the origin of
despotism. See _Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power_ by Karl
A. Wittfogel.
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+4 #8
Killuminati 2011-06-08 11:45

More land-grabbing by a government
run by Terrorists. Tread on me, you'll get a katana through your
throat
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0 #9
gray 2011-06-08
12:08

what does E.P.A. mean?... stand for?
... please!
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+4 #10
Keith 2011-06-08
16:50

Don't need some power hungry,
feminist, federal, neo-nazi, Miz Jackson to protect our water supplies from Joe
six-pack while corporate polluters buy polluter credits and dump their mega-tons
of toxins into our streams and oceans! Let the States handle it on a local level
as this power is NOT granted to the federal government and is therefore out of
their jurisdiction!
The federal government is like a throbbing hemorrhoid, it
needs to be reduced in size, and the EPA is in bed with the chemical
corporations!!!

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