(Chicken, Alaska) Presumably, the armed eight-man EPA force in body armor was looking for dirty water in a remote community of 17 people.
When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think.Politicians are getting involved and area miners are demanding a meeting on September 14th with the EPA to discuss its overbearing thug tactics.
Did it really take eight armed men and a squad-size display of paramilitary force to check for dirty water? Some of the miners, who run small businesses, say they felt intimidated.
Others wonder if the actions of the agents put everyone at risk. When your family business involves collecting gold far from nowhere, unusual behavior can be taken as a sign someone might be trying to stage a robbery. How is a remote placer miner to know the people in the jackets saying POLICE really are police?
Miners suggest it might have been better all around if officials had just shown up at the door -- as they used to do -- and said they wanted to check the water.
1 comment:
The whole USA is turning into a 'police state'!
As for the EPA, they have done both good and bad work, like this one.
EPA employee stole $886K from the agency
Daily Caller-Aug 23, 2013
An Environmental Protection Agency employee knowingly stole more than $886,000 from the agency, according to a criminal filing from the
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/23/epa-employee-stole-886k-from-the-agency/
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