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Slim Chance for NCRA-NWP - or was it Fat chance
Author: OldPoleBurner
Date: 06-22-2010 - 20:30
>>. For the time and effort and money it takes to go to court, they should have to pay regardless of who prevails.
Many of these so-called environmental organizations routinely get federal grant dollars to carry out their legal agendas; and also are granted legal standing that wouldn't ordinarily be there. That's how they can sue, even when they are not personally involved.
And they don't need to use their own money either - they're using yours!
>>. Long past are the days of majority rule, now only those who cry get what they want.
That is - if what they want is "Politically Correct"; and they say all the "right stuff", support all the right causes, oppose all the wrong ones. . . . .
ad nauseum!
But that's how environmental law actually works. Since elected officers of government and bureaucrats "just couldn't be trusted" to actually do their jobs, the law was crafted to allow private citizens to directly enforce the law, even when they were not directly involved. Ordinarily, you would need to be a duly sworn public servant, or have some personal involvement in a situation, in order to sue or otherwise administrate the law. Not any more!
Back in the 70s, when all these environmental laws were being debated in congress; while we all thought that they were trying to protect the environment; what they really did, is give unelected and un-appointed vigilantes the POWER to appoint themselves, and even get grants to pay for it all (I wonder who crammed that tidy bit of extremism down our throats! -- and why the media never reported it at the time).
So yes, Majority rule has gone the way of the dinosaur - if indeed we ever really had it in the first place!
It's their way or the highway - don't ya know. . . . Likely its the highway to hell for all of us - or am I getting too cynical in my old age. . . .
OPB
Many of these so-called environmental organizations routinely get federal grant dollars to carry out their legal agendas; and also are granted legal standing that wouldn't ordinarily be there. That's how they can sue, even when they are not personally involved.
And they don't need to use their own money either - they're using yours!
>>. Long past are the days of majority rule, now only those who cry get what they want.
That is - if what they want is "Politically Correct"; and they say all the "right stuff", support all the right causes, oppose all the wrong ones. . . . .
ad nauseum!
But that's how environmental law actually works. Since elected officers of government and bureaucrats "just couldn't be trusted" to actually do their jobs, the law was crafted to allow private citizens to directly enforce the law, even when they were not directly involved. Ordinarily, you would need to be a duly sworn public servant, or have some personal involvement in a situation, in order to sue or otherwise administrate the law. Not any more!
Back in the 70s, when all these environmental laws were being debated in congress; while we all thought that they were trying to protect the environment; what they really did, is give unelected and un-appointed vigilantes the POWER to appoint themselves, and even get grants to pay for it all (I wonder who crammed that tidy bit of extremism down our throats! -- and why the media never reported it at the time).
So yes, Majority rule has gone the way of the dinosaur - if indeed we ever really had it in the first place!
It's their way or the highway - don't ya know. . . . Likely its the highway to hell for all of us - or am I getting too cynical in my old age. . . .
OPB
