The EPA admits to what amounts to randomly bullying a few to assure the compliance of the many. Video here. Can someone explain for me how this fits with the idea of equal protection of the laws?
Is it November yet?
UPDATE–The title of this post is a line from Candide describing a practice of occasionally shooting an admiral in order to keep other officers on their toes. I wonder … admirals … agency administrators …
Hmmmm.
UPDATE 2–The EPA has apologized for those remarks and assures us that they only engage in “ethical” enforcement. By that, I suppose they mean the sort of high-handed behavior that the Supreme Court slapped down 9 to 0 in the Sackett case earlier this term. To paraphrase a Supreme Court Justice: Your apology isn’t selling very well.
UPDATE 3–Commenter rehajm at Althouse takes note of the crucifixion part of the original EPA remarks to remind us of the following bureaucratic instructions:
Crucifixion? Good. Out of the door, line on the left, one cross each …
And they wonder why we detest big government. These goons are like sadistic little kids who think it’s fun to torture small animals just to watch them squirm and writhe in agony.