While illegal immigrants are over-running and the Obama Administration is going out of its way to avoid any enforcement of immigration laws; they managed to muster hundreds of heavily armed (with real guns, not the beanbag guns border patrol agents are mandated to use), armored vehicles, and helicopters to punish one rancher in Nevada for grazing his cows. (In the process, tasering his son, killing his cows and breaking up his stuff.)
It’s pretty simple really, Democrats don’t agree with immigration laws, so they don’t enforce them. On the other hand, they do believe in environmental laws, and their mentality toward those laws is exemplified by EPA Adminsitrator Al Armendariz; who compared the EPA’s enforcement tactics to those of the Roman Empire: “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.” Basically, the idea was to crucify Cliven Bundy as an example to terrorize the remaining ranchers to bend to the will of the State.
It’s alarming, or at least it should be, that Federal bureaucrats see themselves as Roman occupiers, and the citizenry as subjects who need to be terrorized in order to maintain control.
I can’t speak for the remainder of the honorable Administrator’s comments, but for the sake of accuracy, there were no Turkish towns in Rome’s time. Rome banned crucifixion in 337AD, the Turks didn’t start showing up until the 500’s, with the bulk of their invasions beginning about five centuries later.
Maybe he was just trying to be ironic, in homage to the way that early Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperors ret-conned the old Sodom and Gomorrah yarn.
(Sorry for having to use Wikipedia for a primary reference, simply expedient)
What’s really alarming is that only one person was interested enough in this post to comment on it, and then only to correct the EPA Administrator’s historical faux pas. Like I said, alarming. (Well, actually TWO people commented, counting yours truly.)