Proof positive that this Administration is using the EPA to create law and [then] prosecute those who violate those law.

Update: the Administration has scrubbed the video remarks of its EPA director but we have most of the text.  You should know that this Administration has "scrubbed" more content from the web than any presidential Administration in history.  Who in this world does this bunch of clowns think they are fooling ??

Administrator Armendariz of the EPA was caught on video describing an Obama Administration's war against oil and gas, something we conservatives have been charging since Obama came into power.  The Dems have denied, denied, denied until the beginning of this week.  Turns out the video included in this post,  was recorded in  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010. "Crucify" is the word making the headlines, taken from this video,  but,  the following statement is much more the problem:  " . . . . . . we do have some pretty effective enforcement tools. Compliance can get very high, [he is talking about monetary costs]  very, very quickly."  Understand that gas/oil is only one of seven targets the EPA has in mind.  Because of this video,  we now know in no uncertain terms,  that this Administration is acting outside Congressional review and the will of the people, to established its solitary will against whichever company it sees as needing "to be taught a lesson." 

Thanks to Senator Jim Inhofe (R - OK) and because of his efforts, the Administration's anti-American agenda and enforcement practices are being exposed to some degree.  

 Understand that the "laws" that are being broken, are, in fact, rules created by the Obama run EPA (not Congress) .  The EPA makes the rules and then rushes in to prosecute the "violators."  This Administration has never been concerned with the "will of the people" or Constitutional governance."  "Sue me" is the battle cry of Obama and he believes he can make his battle cry work.  In fact,  it has worked quite well for our First Rogue President.  

This 'scandal" is just getting its legs and will be in the news for some time to come . . . . . . . . . . .  I give you my word. 

Text taken from the video in no particular order are these words: 

" . . . . gas is an enforcement priority, it’s one of seven, so we are going to spend a fair amount of time looking at oil and gas production . . .

 I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff…the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw and they would crucify them. And then you know that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.

And so you make examples out of people who are in this case not compliant with the law. Find people who are not compliant with the law, and you hit them as hard as you can and you make examples out of them, and there is a deterrent effect there.

And, companies that are smart see that, they don’t want to play that game, and they decide at that point that it’s time to clean up.

And, that won’t happen unless you have somebody out there making examples of people. So you go out, you look at an industry, you find people violating the law, you go aggressively after them. And we do have some pretty effective enforcement tools. Compliance can get very high, very, very quickly.

That’s what these companies respond to is both their public image but also financial pressure. So you put some financial pressure on a company, you get other people in that industry to clean up very quickly. . . . So, that’s our general philosophy