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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Brian Sussman
Larry Keller had no idea the Environmental Protection Agency employed agents
fortified with deadly force until two such men showed up at his home,
unannounced, to "question" him.
Keller runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville, North
Carolina home. On April 27 he sent an email to the EPA in an attempt to
reach Al Armendariz, the EPA regional administrator who, two days earlier,
had been caught in a gone-viral YouTube video boasting about his desire to "
crucify" Big Oil executives. After watching the video, Keller told the
Carolina Journal, he was troubled by the comments and wanted to express his
concerns to Armendariz, a public official whose salary is paid by taxpayers.
"I wanted to know why someone in his position would say what he did. I
wanted to question his reasoning and principles. It's all about freedom of
speech," said Keller.
In an effort to locate Armendariz's email address, Larry Kelly contacted
David Gray, an EPA director of external affairs and sent the following brief
email:
"Hello Mr. Gray. Do you have Mr. Armendariz's contact information so we can
say hello? Regards, Larry Keller."
Following the uproar generated by the video, Armendariz resigned April 30.
On the afternoon of May 2, two EPA agents, accompanied by a six-foot-six
armed police officer, knocked on Kelly's door. According to Kelly, the
agents "presented very official looking badges and asked if we could sit and
chat awhile. We moved to the back porch and took our seats with the
exception of the armed officer who stood by the door to the house the entire
time."
Keller was asked by EPA agent Michael Woods if he had sent an email to an
EPA employee. Initially Keller answered "No," but soon recalled the email to
Gray. Woods then produced a copy of the email and asked if it was the email
Keller sent. Keller answered, "Yes."
According to Keller, the second agent said Keller's email was very "
suspicious" and could be interpreted in "many different ways."
Keller asked the agent to be specific, saying he didn't have anything to
hide. He also pointed out that the email clearly revealed all of his
contact information. Irritated, Keller told the agents "they have bigger
fish to fry" than drive across the entire state to follow up on an
unthreatening email. He also reminded them he is a taxpayer who helps
provide their salaries.
Keller heard his wife arriving and asked the agents to remain so she could
meet them and "see what all the fuss was about." Immediately the agents
announced they had to depart. Keller asked for their business cards, but
they claimed they had none. Keller insisted they give him the name of their
supervisor in Atlanta, and Woods wrote the name and number on a piece of
paper. The agents promptly left without acknowledging his wife.
After the meeting with the agents, Keller made several attempts to reach the
supervisor, Michael Hill. Finally, Hill returned Keller's phone call and
explained that orders had come from the Obama administration to check out
every communication with Armendariz. Hill gave Keller the impression that
everyone who had tried to reach Armendariz had received a visit from special
agents.
Larry Keller is a patriot, who responded to a pompous EPA eco-thug. For that
he was threatened with intimidating representatives sent at the behest of
Lisa Jackson, administrator of Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA
under Jackson has become Stalinist.
Recall, the EPA was originally established in 1970 via an executive order
produced by President Richard Nixon entitled, "Reorganization Plan Number
Three." The action was meant to be an olive branch to the hippy movement as
a sign that Nixon's administration was going to be serious about fighting
air pollution. The move was one of Nixon's worst.
During the past four decades the EPA has morphed into bureaucracy that
directly employs 12,000 people, and sucks up a budget of nearly $10 billion
annually. Its goals have nothing to do with clean air or clean water--
instead the EPA is on a regulatory conquest to vanquish personal property
rights, diminish capitalism, alter consumption patterns, and recast the
American lifestyle.
Keller calls the incident a "life changing experience."
I call it, Eco-Tyranny.
Brian Sussman is the author of Eco-Tyranny and Climategate. He also hosts
the morning program on KSFO radio in San Francisco. | l******a
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this odumba-government should be disbanded altogether, along with Mooshell (
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【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: By Brian Sussman
: Larry Keller had no idea the Environmental Protection Agency employed agents
: fortified with deadly force until two such men showed up at his home,
: unannounced, to "question" him.
: Keller runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville, North
: Carolina home. On April 27 he sent an email to the EPA in an attempt to
: reach Al Armendariz, the EPA regional administrator who, two days earlier,
: had been caught in a gone-viral YouTube video boasting about his desire to "
: crucify" Big Oil executives. After watching the video, Keller told the
: Carolina Journal, he was troubled by the comments and wanted to express his
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