^^^Breaking^^^Feds come knocking for home inspections..and so it begins!

It is exactly BECAUSE I am not doing anything wrong that I should be left in peace!

My dirty panties are no one else's business, and I do my fucking laundry on Saturday. I'm not doing it on some other day because some asshole wants to come to my house and snoop around against my express wishes.

In other words, not everything that is PRIVATE is ILLEGAL, you jackass.

It's legal for me to wear panties and wash them on Saturday. Just because I'd like to keep them PRIVATE IN MY OWN HOME doesn't make it ILLEGAL to wear panties and wash them on Saturday.

I fucking hate people like you, with your retarded claims that anyone who likes to keep ANYTHING AT ALL private must of course naturally be breaking the law.

Why don't you fucking walk around naked? ARE YOU BREAKING THE LAW??? If you weren't, you would walk around naked, because any desire to keep something private means you're breaking the law!

Fucking idiot.

They obviously care so much perhaps they should check the stores canned food supplies being sold to the people, or perhaps check the skies and air quality??? Then of course they could check the floride and chlorine content in the water,but then that list could keep the too busy??

And when they see the Gadston flag in your basement game room and the latest edition of Guns and Ammo on your coffee table, you will immediately be reported to DHS.

yeah but remember, this is nothing out of the ordinary. No cause for alarm at all.

Of course, way too busy, but then again hey they might actually do somthing good? Na everything they touch seems to crumble.

Not having read teh entire article and going just from what was posted as source text by Op, it isn't even the FEDS, nor the EPA that is coming to do the inspections, but rather representatives of that SanitationDistrict in Pennsylania, in other words, the State of Pennsylvania is behind the inspections and they will be done by agents of teh State of Pennsylvania and not the US Gov, such as the EPA.

Sloppy reading on my part, or OP's?

You dedice, if you want.

"If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us." -Francis Bacon

If you permit the government to check your every move, property, and thought without limitation simply because you have 'nothing to hide'... you are essentially surrendering your freedom and rights granted to you by the Constitution. Recall that the ideals of the Constitution were written "...by the people, for the people" (let's not get into a huge debate regarding whether it really was or was not)

This story exemplifies what other posters have been commenting and outraged about, the fact that the government demands access to your property in order to assure that you are not doing anything illegal. Our justice system is supposed to operate based on the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" and as other posters have briefly discussed, this means a search warrant is required and to obtain a search warrant, a law enforcement agency requires "probable cause" (some means of proof that indicates a crime has likely been committed).

What was just discussed normally applies to criminal matters only. This appears to be a civil law violation (separate from criminal law) for dumping the water from a personal home into the sewage system. The notions of search warrants and the like are not necessary because it is not criminal, therefore the government has more leeway to exercise rights over an individual without checks against power. The outrage here is the fact that the government is circumventing a check against power by not criminalizing the sewage violation and can just make in-person inspections upon the house. Be aware though that whenever the power company does a reading on electric use at home, they too trespass with implied consent on your property. This same idea is what the government applies in the present case.

I personally think that this inspection is within reasonable boundaries of government control as long as the homeowners receive notification of an upcoming inspection rather than a "random" show-up. It's not like people can or really need to hide how they are dumping water into the public sewage system.

I do find it unjust that they consider persons refusing to accept inspection as a property that "will be considered a source of clear water discharges until an inspection can be conducted." I think that if a homeowner refuses inspection, the government must summon them to court to demand either satisfactory proof that the house is within the regulations or to demand access to check the house's property with court authorization. At least that would be the fair and just means of achieving inspection.

The point is that if YOUR infrastructure is tied into any Public Grid, like the storm sewer pipes, the water waste pipes, the public sewer system, the public water system, the more or less public natural gas system, the public service commissioned cable TV, and telephone systems, and the public power systems, you are in fact and have in fact already granted permission for such inspections as a home owner using such public services, it is in your public service contract. You contracted for those services agreeing to abide by the terms of that contract... accept it, or get off the grid. Fucking Idiot. Next time pay close attention to what you agree to.

This is what I've been trying to say. And they are not going into your house to look at your dirty underwear or your gun magazines. They are looking outside.
You pay a water/sewer bill and in some areas taxes every year for your water service.
Checking the properties in the town/city when there is excess infiltration is a PART of the service you are paying for. If you want to look at it as a violation of your rights then you have some paranoid issues, and maybe you should move to the country and get a well and septic system.

Death to the EPA !

Do you even understand what that term, "Clear water discharge" means? Clear as opposed to Foul, or polluted, or contaminated. in other words, innocent until inspected and perhaps found guilty of dumping illegal polluting crap into that particular water discharge system.

Here, go do this, next time you fuel up your gasoline burning engine make sure you use the disel fuel pumps instead.

Opps.. I screwed that one up.. they do not want this 'clear water' aka "to prevent water from sources such as sump pumps or downspouts from being channeled into a water treatment process." being sent to the water treatment plants, but I wonder what is wrong with going ahead and capturing that 'clear water' and treating it too, as sump pump water can have a number of different contaminents in it as well, as can your roof's downspout water, like bird shit in you gutters.

they probably want to squeeze the people complaining about fracking by the oil and gas companies, and given a blessing of the EPA

see the movie: Gasland

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Do you pay property tax?

If you do, then the Land Lord has just given you advance notice they will be entering the property.

Has anyone thought of it this way?


Peace. :o)

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PLUS A MILLION SANDI!!Thank you!

Well, as soon as you get your foot out of your mouth-Read the article, then YOU will be able to make a statement that doesn't make you look like an asshole!..prolly not though,Dumbass.

For one thing it's not the Feds doing this it's the local government and if you are using a utility they do have the right to see if you are using it legally like it or not.

So, you'll be fine with it when your electric company comes to inspect your light bulbs? Can't have you using those dirty incandescent bulbs.

And by the way, the EPA is ordering the local utility to do this. That is the Feds, but what different does it make what level of government is doing this, or requiring it, it's still wrong.

I will use candles and oil lamps before I allow any utility into my house to do "inspections". Fuck them. Power is nice but I don't need it that bad. Will just use solar.