Cut to the Chase with Marshall Masters
21-April-2004: Mine Owner and Radio Host, Robert Hopper:
Is the EPA is a Shadow Government Enforcer?
President
Bush is asking Congress to re-extend provisions of the Patriot Act, now due
to expire in 2005. While this hastily conceived Congressional act may be today's
necessity, as Bush insists, it will likely become tomorrow's mandate for an
American Gestapo. A case in point is the extraordinary legal power granted
to the EPA in 1971 by then President Richard Nixon. Using an innocuously titled
investigatory power called a Request for Information (RFI), the EPA is now
terrorizing law abiding citizens for the purpose of stealing their properties.
Further, they ruthlessly exercise their Nixon-granted powers with a Gestapo-like
zeal that is neither transparent nor accountable.
