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December 6, 2009
EPA May Be Ready for Totalitarian Power Grab
Posted by Van Helsing at December 6, 2009 1:32 PM
In 2007, the Supreme Court handed the EPA a basis for imposing totalitarian power at a level undreamt of by Stalin or Hitler with the farcical ruling that CO2 is a pollutant subject to this government agency's regulation. Obviously CO2 is not a pollutant, as it is an essential element of our atmosphere without which there could be no plant life and therefore no animal life. Authorities want to regulate it because it is created by literally every human activity, from manufacturing to transport to agriculture to breathing.
With the global warming hoax crumbling in light of ClimateGate, ever more people are aware that despite the orchestrated campaign of lies by the media, the government, and a scientific community corrupted by government grants, C02 does not make it be too hot out. The biggest lie in the history of science, and possibly the most ambitious totalitarian power grab of all time, is coming apart at the seams, right before the Copenhagen Summit, at which leftists planned to sacrifice America's liberty, sovereignty, and standard of living to a global socialist regime that would redistribute what remains of our wealth to the Third World via corrupt bureaucrats wielding unprecedented global power. Desperate not to let this opportunity slip away, the EPA is picking up the gun the unhinged Supremes handed it and putting the muzzle to our heads:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will early next week, possibly as soon as Monday, officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy, according to several people close to the matter.
Such an "endangerment" decision is necessary for the EPA to move ahead early next year with new emission standards for cars. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said it could also mean large emitters such as power stations, cement kilns, crude-oil refineries and chemical plants would have to curb their greenhouse gas output.
That's more than enough to drive unemployment even further through the stratosphere. But it's only the beginning…
The announcement would also give President Barack Obama and his climate envoy negotiating leverage at a global climate summit starting next week in Copenhagen, Denmark and increase pressure on Congress to pass a climate bill that would modify the price of polluting.
By "polluting," they mean, "engaging in any activity whatsoever."
Joe Mendelson, Global Warming Policy Director for National Wildlife Federation, said the endangerment decision, would happen at "absolutely the right time."
"With House legislation passed, a bipartisan Senate bill in the works, and strong EPA action a virtual certainty, the president goes to Copenhagen with a very strong hand to play," Mr. Mendelson said.
By "bipartisan," he means Democrats + Olympia Snowe.
The EPA's Ms. Jackson and President Obama's energy and climate czar Carol Browner [a Marxist who has been profiteering off the global warming hoax] have said they would prefer Congress to take action but are prepared to move ahead in the absence of lawmakers crafting their own law.
Industry experts say the Clean Air Act — under which the EPA is making its endangerment finding — was designed to regulate more regional and localized air pollution, and would be a much more blunt tool than Congress could craft. Critics, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, say the endangerment declaration could spark a cascade of litigation and regulation that could harm [that is, deliberately cripple] the economy.
It doesn't matter whether Tax & Charade makes it through the Senate for Comrade Obama's eager signature. Thanks to the absurd CO2 ruling, the authoritarian leftists staffing the EPA are already theoretically more powerful than the legislative branch — and they can't be voted out of office. We are witnessing an envirofascist coup d'état.
On tips from AnonymoUS and John L.
