Beyond Outrageous! Share This With Every Cop and Military Man!

You’re looking into the eyes of Joe Robertson (see video) a Navy veteran from Montana. He ran a business supplying water to fight forest fires and was prosecuted by the federal government and sent to prison for digging ponds on his own property.

He was 78 when he was convicted and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $130,000 in restitution through deductions from his Social Security checks.

His crime?

Robertson, whose business supplied water trucks to Montana firefighters, dug a series of small ponds close to his home in 2013 and 2014. The site was a wooded area near a channel, a foot wide and a foot deep, with two to three garden hoses’ worth of flow, according to court documents.

The U.S. government prosecuted Robertson for digging in proximity to “navigable waters” without a permit, a violation of the Clean Water Act administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Tony Francois, a senior attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest law firm specializing in property rights, described the events leading up to Robertson’s prosecution during a panel discussion Monday at The Heritage Foundation.

Pacific Legal Foundation filed a petition on behalf of Robertson, asking the Supreme Court to review his case, which turns on the definition of “navigable waters.”

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.

And get this…the largest navigable body of water anywhere near the Robertson home is more than 40 miles away.

So, to keep consistent with their MO of insanity and utter evil, an elderly veteran who ran a business supplying water to fight forest fires was prosecuted by the federal government and sent to prison for digging ponds on his own property.

Robertson who was sentenced in 2016, completed his 18 months behind bars in late 2017.

He was still on parole for the next 20 months when he died March 18 at age 80 of natural causes.

Pacific Legal Foundation filed papers this week to substitute Robertson’s widow, Carri Robertson, as the petitioner in the appeal to the Supreme Court.

Here’s my issue with this. The political parasites of our country can write all the laws they want. This travesty of justice falls squarely on the shoulders of the law enforcers who “say” they’re there to protect and serve the community. They are the ones who enact these laws destructive to American freedoms and human life. This 78 year old guy was only able to be thrown in jail because of law enforcers who had blatantly broken their oath put him there. We know that the supreme court in Warren v. District of Columbia held that police do not owe a specific duty to provide police services to the community based on the public duty doctrine. That is…they have no obligation to protect you. But where are all those GOOD badged and costumed employees of the state we always here about? Why didn’t any sheriff or cop say “hell no…this guy ain’t goin’ to jail on my watch.”

This is nothing short of despicable, disgusting and cowardly! Send this video to every cop and military man you know. You people need to grow a pair, stand up….be men and resist the advancing tyranny of the state. If you and other cops and sheriffs started actually PROTECTING people’s freedoms…maybe we can turn this country