Posts Tagged ‘eco-stormtroopers’
Remember when Obama kept repeating the mantra, “We Can’t Wait” on jobs while he punted until after the election a decision on a Keystone XL pipeline that would have created 20,000 jobs?
And remember then how with gas prices under Obama on their way to rising more in his administraion than they did even through Jimmy Carter and the Arab Oil Embargo, how Obama did some shameless Kabuki theater, trying to take credit for the southern leg of Keystone XL (the part over which he had no control) after he had just pulled the plug on that northern leg?
Environmentalist thought of the day: how much fuel does it take to fly Air Force One out to Oklahoma for a few minutes of speech and photo-op?
Well, I’m sure you’ve probably heard, but now we get this quote from Obama’s EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz on dealing with the oil and gas industry:
“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, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years. It’s a deterrent factor,’” Armendariz said, explaining that the EPA is following the Romans’ philosophy for subjugating conquered villages.
source: Craig Bannister at CNS News.
video: EPAs “philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of US energy producers
Don’t imagine for a second that it’s just coincidence that a man who is so hostile to American oil and gas producers was appointed as the administrator overseesing Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and New Mexico, five of the most important energy producing states in America. He was a political appointee and they knew how much he hated the American oil and gas industry.
It’s all according to plan for the Obama administration.
When your own government leaders speak of a “philosophy” of “crucifixition” for America’s energy producers, I say the leaders of those industries should do what they have to do for the survival of their businesses and the well-being of the nation as a whole.
If Al Armendariz is talking about nailing the oil and gas industry to a cross, maybe the oil and gas industry should start nailing up some even higher prices. I’d be okay with that. If it were to help make this long reign of ruin come to an end four years sooner, yes we can endure a few more months of pain at the pump.
Green is the hot new color for today's modern stormtrooper.
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company . . . It isn’t the first time that agents of the Fish and Wildlife Service have come knocking at the storied maker of such iconic instruments as the Les Paul electric guitar, the J-160E acoustic-electric John Lennon played, and essential jazz-boxes such as Charlie Christian’s ES-150. In 2009 the Feds seized several guitars and pallets of wood from a Gibson factory, and both sides have been wrangling over the goods in a case with the delightful name “United States of America v. Ebony Wood in Various Forms.”
It isn’t just Gibson that is sweating. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried the authorities may be coming for them next . . . It’s not enough to know that the body of your old guitar is made of spruce and maple: What’s the bridge made of? If it’s ebony, do you have the paperwork to show when and where that wood was harvested and when and where it was made into a bridge? Is the nut holding the strings at the guitar’s headstock bone, or could it be ivory? “Even if you have no knowledge—despite Herculean efforts to obtain it—that some piece of your guitar, no matter how small, was obtained illegally, you lose your guitar forever,” Prof. Thomas has written. “Oh, and you’ll be fined $250 for that false (or missing) information in your Lacey Act Import Declaration.”
source: WSJ
You better know where every single bit of wood and ivory on that classic guitar of yours is from and you better have the papers to prove it, because the E-P-A is G-O-D and environmentalist stormtroopers are in full force under this administration.
From a comment by R. Fine over at Lonely Conservative blog, some insight into what might be inspiring the forces behind this jackbooted thuggery:
Using federal agents [as] political thugs is an impeachable offense. The Gibson CEO is a major GOP donor; the Martin Guitar CEO is a major democrat donor. Both use the same woods – in fact, Martin uses more “endangered” woods than Gibson, and brags about it in their advertising. Yet only Gibson alone was targeted by the federal government. Did you ever think such political thuggery on the part of the federal government this would ever happen in our country? No surprise Obama is a fan of Hugo Chavez.
source: Lonely Conservative