My favorite author, C J Box, wrote Breaking Point. Part of the novel is based on a real life incident in Idaho where land is taken from a family by the EPA using wetlands pretense violations. What follows is an email from the real life attorney Thanking C J Box for calling attention to our government allowing well healed contributors to use government to harass their neighbors. It is truly revealing. Just finished listening to the audio version of Breaking Point and Im still in shock. This book was not fiction -- I was one of the very few lawyers back in the mid-1980s who began defending -- trying to defend -- rural landowners who were targeted by federal agents from both Interior and Agriculture and subjected to the same treatment as the Butch Roberson family. (Did you know that there are SEVEN federal agencies who claim independent jurisdiction over wetlands, and that each has their own standard for what constitutes a wetland? And that satisfying one is no immunity against prosecution by the others?) I cant imagine where you did your research, but its so accurate it made my hair stand on end. I knew exactly what was going to happen next -- like when they found their land wasnt listed as a wetland, I had to laugh -- of course it wasnt! Neither are all their rules published -- and neither do they follow the ones those that are, any more than they follow the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act or the Endangered Species Act, in their many forms. We dont need no stinkin rules, is the standard policy these days. The only part of this that IS fiction is that Joe Pickett would have been shocked by what was happening to the Robersons -- even State agents are well aware of whats happening. That, plus that the rogue bureaucrats who engaged in this conduct would be punished. Actually, what they do is now fully approved by the Washington offices, and the bureaucrats are protected. Oh -- and I never had a client who killed, or even tried to kill, the federal agents who were depriving them of their land and livelihood, although I did have two who killed themselves. These hostile actions against good, hardworking, honest American citizens clearly constitutes the American Tragedy of our times. This is a book I will listen to again and again -- at last, someone understands! Someone has noticed -- now and then the WSJ will run a piece about regulatory takings as these land grabs have now come to be called, but for the most part, the msm stays silent. Just rednecks, right? And besides, who doesnt want to protect a wetland Theyre so scenic -- ducks soaring high over a watery bog filled with cattails, right?? HA. Thanks so much for this book -- and oh, by the way, I second Nates comment, We need a revolution. Indeed we do, but it may be too late.
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:14:07 +0000
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