EPA Spying On Farms And Ranches From The Air, Snapping Photos To Issue Fines

J. D. Heyes
naturalnews.com

The expanding Leviathan state appears to be on auto-drive these days; the latest example of Big Brother’s overreach coming from the always-intrusive Environmental Protection Agency.

Farmers around the country are complaining about the EPA flying over their property to “check” for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, a practice the agency began in 2010, according to reports.

Ranchers objecting to the flyovers say they don’t have anything to hide, which they add, is more to the point: Why is the agency spying on them? What is the impetus? Are there so many violations of the Clean Water Act that a broke government has to spend money it doesn’t have to keep an eye on farmers? The EPA says it is looking for illegal disposal of animal waste, but with no history of violations, the program becomes even more ominous.
What’s worse, ranchers say, the entire program was set up in secret. Most knew nothing about it until EPA officials let the cat out of the bag a few months ago.

Big Brother just keeps getting bigger

“For me, it just creeps into the ‘Big Brother is watching you’ area, to where the government just feels like it’s getting more and more intrusive,” Buck Wehrbein, who manages a cattle feeding operation in Mead, Neb., about 30 miles west of Omaha, told The Associated Press.