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Bureaucrats run-amok

Joe Robertson’s case inspires President Trump to end era of bureaucratic abuses

October 14, 2019 0

Joe Robertson's case is one of many cited by President Trump as examples of the abuse of Americans by overzealous federal bureaucrats in various agencies...Bureaucratic power is stripped away by President Trump's EO's, which classify agency rules and guidelines, whether…

Government run amok

Supreme Court vacates 9th Circuit ruling against EPA victim, Joe Robertson

April 23, 2019 1

EPA said Joe needed permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to dig the ponds. The federal government criminally prosecuted him, and at age 77 he was sent to prison for 18 months and fined $130,000, a conviction upheld by…

Government run amok

After being imprisoned by the feds for digging ponds, Joe Robertson has died

April 1, 2019 0

  The Navy veteran argued that he didn’t violate the Clean Water Act because digging the ponds did not discharge any soil to navigable waters, since the trickle in the channel didn’t constitute navigable waters. The largest navigable body of…

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Vietnam vet Joe Robertson hangs in legal limbo while ‘clean water’ appeal drags on

February 18, 2018 1

Now the 9th Circuit has ordered that Joe Robertson’s pending motion for rehearing should be postponed until the Supreme Court releases its decision in Hughes.  (Joe has already served his full prison sentence and is currently back home in Montana where his legal problems…

Human Rights

Joe Robertson, elderly Vietnam vet convicted for ‘EPA crimes’ released from prison

September 7, 2017 0

Robertson was released into his own custody to enter into a halfway house in Butte, Montana, with plans to later be admitted to the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Fort Harrison, Montana. Robertson hopes to enter a PTSD inpatient program…

Human Rights

78 year old Navy veteran, Joe Robertson, imprisoned for ‘EPA crimes’

May 28, 2017 7

The EPA alleged Robertson allowed dirt from the ponds to enter a tributary of nearby Cataract Creek.  The federal agency subsequently charged and convicted Robertson of three counts of destruction and degradation of publicly owned property.  He was sentenced to…

Human Rights

Duarte, Robertson, the Hammonds: Trump must stop federal prosecution of property owners

May 25, 2017 2

"The Corps and EPA are not trying to micromanage farmers, they are trying to stop farmers from farming their fields.  They're trying to turn our farmland into habitat preservation. They're simply trying to chase us off of our land." ~John…

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