EPA Official Compares Agency Enforcement to Roman Crucifictions

A video surfaced on Wednesday 4/25/12 showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency's philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and gas companies to brutal tactics employed by the ancient Roman army to intimidate its foes into submission.

EPA's "philosophy of enforcement," said EPA's Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is "kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they'd go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they'd run into, and they'd crucify them."

"That town was really easy to manage for the next few years," Armendariz added.

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[Searching4Truth1]

Just because this guy is now gone it does not follow that this philosophy of enforcement has gone the way of coocoo birds

Look at what BHO just did to Arizona re the illegal aliens as a warning to other border states not to go against HIS mandates ~_~

[PanzerBlitz43]

who gives a crap about your great gandfather morons. For instance Shell's so criminal it's destroyed livelihoods & huge areas of Nigeria by polluting all water and Shell paid to murder them with death squads. Shell also sues every environmental organization as it prepares to wipe out the arctic. If oil companies see a dollar they have no problem destroying the world. Mass murderers also make a good living from killing everything around them. I'd like to see all your oil rigs destroyed or sunk.

[John Smith]

I work in drilling. I'm a blue collar roughneck. My father was a driller and so was my grandfather and great-grandfather. American Oil companies provide hundreds of thousands of good jobs ($50,000-$200,000.00 yr) to blue collar Americans. People like you want to make it harder for us why? Because you are ignorant assholes who dont understand that your politics are killing American production jobs. What you dont understand is that oil is increasing in price because YOU are killing the dollar.

[John Smith]

Crucify American production companies like the one I work for, Anadarko (137 blue-collar American roughnecks, riggers and drillers) and you'll have to buy all of your oil from OPEC. Thanks for making our jobs harder you fucking assholes.

[Christopher Zimmon]

And this guy was a government official??? He should be jailed for his stupidity alone

[PanzerBlitz43]

Auschwitz guards and SS made a living from death. Only a few prisoners got to "work" Which is exactly what criminal corps like Big Oil, Monsanto, Dow Chemical, etc are doing., except that they go one step further, they're making a living not only from mass death, suffering and economic slavery, they profit from the death of all life on earth, that will include 7 billion human apes..a few of those apes, like Auschwitz get to to work for those corporations and government that licks their jackboots

[roguescot1]

Auschwitz was an abhorrent nightmare created by a totalitarian regime. It was built by forced labor based on religious belief, or social standing. To compare Auschwitz with Capitalist minded business is absolutely insane. Obama seeks to destroy this Nation, and people like you it seems are willing to stand by and let him. Bigger Government is never an answer, and the success of business should not be demonized, it should be emulated.

[PanzerBlitz43]

The Nazi's Auschwitz also "created" thousands of jobs. You want to trade the extinction of all life on earth for your crap 50k a year job. How does a "job" help you when you and your overpopulated family are dying or dead, answer that one.. hmm. The human race is evil and disgusting.

[Carlee612]

Here we have a prime example of the rabid and dangerous environmental movement.

No proof of their charges required! Just outlandish accusations.