But Mr. Obama, the answer to "Will my Government retaliate against me for complaining" is still "Yes we can!" - Granite Grok

But Mr. Obama, the answer to “Will my Government retaliate against me for complaining” is still “Yes we can!”

“No”is the answer here.  But we have seen that the Federal Government will retaliate against its Citizens when bureaucrats believe that “citizens have lost sight of their proper place” (IRS targeting TEA Party, Constitutionalists, Pro-Life groups; Dept of Labor and the IRS going after high net worth donors to Romney, and the EPA targeting energy provides that do not bow down to its Environmental alter for just a few examples).  Here in NH, the “Dept of Environmental Services” expand their own reach and set of regulations – go ahead, ask water front owners who really controls their land (for ownership means naught when someone else owns the actual control) and the trouble they can get themselves into if even a wildflower is removed “counter to regulations”.

Seems like its counterpart in Tennessee has the same attitude – “You might be a terrorist if you complain about us!” (emphasis mine):

A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation deputy director warned a group of Maury County residents that unfounded complaints about water quality could be considered an “act of terrorism.”

“We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously,” said Sherwin Smith, deputy director of TDEC’s Division of Water Resources, according to audio recorded by attendees. “But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism.”

“Can you say that again, please?” an audience member can be heard asking on the audio.

Smith went on in the recording to repeat the claim almost verbatim.

Hmm, and you thought I was kidding when I said:

…and a Government bureaucracy that, more and more, is thumbing its nose at the American Public that pays its salaries to the point where the notion that “Government is the problem” (as said by Reagan) is passe; “Let us wage war on the American Public”

So, the State of TN’s deputy director of TDEC’s Division of Water Resources has decided that he can call in the militarized Federal Department of Homeland Security over a complaint?  You know, I was never schooled on the idea that complaining about something that Government provides “an act of terrorism“.   You got cloudy water?  Go ahead – you’ll get masked men with scary battle rifles, all dressed in black, roping down from the black helicopters whose backwash will prep your roof for the roofing guys to do the new roof you didn’t know you had, with tanks chewing up your precious lawn and flower beds – and never-you-mind that the front doorbell is working – I doubt that would slow them down much (and give you a reason to visit Lowe’s door and window section).

My, and all over a cloudy glass of water!  What happens if you complain about the sewer backing up?

The Proper Role of Government?  Not in this case – just another further demonstration that Government has decided that it no longer believes that the “consent by the Governed” is a necessary attribute to possess.  And I keep seeing this over and over again, the examples where Government has decided that it should be pre-emininent over Civil Society and not the other way around (which used to be “the American Way”).

And you who pooh-pooh the whole idea that our Government could EVAH be Tyrannical?  Dude – here it is in plain sight; move yer blinders.

And I bet they’d look sternly on you offering them a plastic bottled water….

 

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