Thursday, May 28, 2015

President draws wrong conclusion (again)

King Canute famously ordered the sea to recede, in an effort to demonstrate the limits of royal (and human) power. Obama, on the other hand, sees the assertion of executive authority over all our waterways as just another day at the office.
President Obama’s administration on Wednesday claimed dominion over all of America’s streams, creeks, rills, ditches, brooks, rivulets, burns, tributaries, criks, wetlands — perhaps even puddles — in a sweeping move to assert unilateral federal authority.

4 comments:

bruce said...

Wow. The Royal Forest? Fishing rights?

- Robin Hood, poaching the King's venison/ salmon.

RebeccaH said...

Is this another tax dollar-sucking lawsuit waiting to happen?

Robert of Ottawa said...

I pity subjects of the USSA.

bruce said...

Yeah but Robert, the FBI is increasingly policing the world with American law. I don't even know what half the American crimes are, the names are so obscure. 'Wire fraud'? 'Grand theft'? ...

I was working in a genetic laboratory 20 years ago when some American scientist tried to copyright the bit of the human genome he'd decoded. Imagine the FBI globally policing that.