Fascist government agency claims sovereign immunity.
DENVER, Colorado (PNN) - August 12, 2015 - The country is becoming increasingly outraged over the contamination of the Animas River. The outrage grows as the waste now spreads to Utah and New Mexico via the drainages of the Colorado River basin.
To add insult to environmental injury, the Amerikan Gestapo Environmental Protection Agency division is saying that it will not be paying fines or other penalties. The problem is that the EPA is admittedly responsible for the contamination in the first place.
The EPA accidentally released containments into the Animas River last Wednesday as they were, ironically, investigating an “acid discharge” from four surrounding mines.
After a malfunction with a heavy piece of excavating machinery, a large amount of contaminated discharge from the mine, which had been building up behind an embankment, coursed its way through the intended dirt barrier and made its way into the river. This is according to the EPA’s site coordinator, Hays Griswold.
EPA regional chief Shaun McGrath said that the containments include cadmium, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, all of which are toxic.
But now, the EPA refuses to face penalties for its negligence. The EPA will not be required to pay any fines or otherwise make restitution for the damages it has helped engender along the Animas River, San Juan and drainages.
How is this possible? One can only imagine how many millions, perhaps billions, of dollars would be demanded of a private company or corporation whose actions resulted in environmental catastrophe.
According to Thomas Sansonetti, a former assistant attorney general for the division of environment and natural resources under the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division, the answer is simple: “Sovereign immunity,” he said, “the government doesn’t fine itself.”
Local representative Scott Tipton, from the region initially afflicted in the Animas disaster, said what probably any regular person was thinking at the time the spill occurred.
“If a mining operator or other private business caused the spill to occur, the EPA would be all over them. The EPA admits fault and, as such, must be accountable and held to the same standard.”
The event heavily underscores the difference between agents of the State apparatus and those who are purely private individuals; between private and public legal code; between “strict liability” and “sovereign immunity”.
Unfortunately, the Animas River does not recognize the difference.