EPA Apologizes for Threatening to Crucify Oil Companies
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama-appointed Environmental Protection Agency official who explained that the agency uses a “crucify them” enforcement philosophy against oil and gas companies apologized for his comments on Wednesday night.
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“I apologize to those I have offended and regret my poor choice of words,” said Region 6 EPA Administrator Al Armendariz during a press conference. “Although I WAS historically correct about the Romans crucifying people at random to subjugate the conquered – which would make it a perfectly appropriate weapon for the EPA’s regulatory arsenal.”
“However, I’ve since been informed that ‘crucifixion’ is a term frequently associated with Christianity, and because this administration wishes to avoid the appearance of unconstitutionally conflating church and state, I withdraw the remark.”
“Obviously,” continued Armendariz, “I was just trying to say that the EPA intends only to enforce its own brand of bureaucratic justice, brooking not the least whisper of rebellion from the broken and defeated blackguards of the ‘free-marketeer’ persuasion. There will be no ‘exploration’. There will be no ‘profits’. There are only taxes and obedience. We will violate their women, burn their buildings, feed their dogs to our President, and sow salt upon their land, that it may lay scarred and desolate for all of eternity.”
“So,” concluded Armendariz, “I apologize if the ‘crucifixion’ thing offended any Muslims.”
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April 26th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
“I regret stating the truth publicly and apologize to anyone who was offended by the truth. However there will, of course, be no change in EPA policy.”
April 26th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
“I apologize to those I have offended and regret my poor choice of words,” said Armendariz during a press conference. “Obviously we don’t actually crucify people. It’s really more like being drawn and quartered – you know, like the end of Braveheart.”
April 26th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Instead of crucifying, we shall drive them before us into the barren frozen tundra of Alaska and the deepest depths of the Gulf of Mexico. No, that’s not it, is it?
April 26th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Obviously, they should be set adrift on an ice floe. With a hungry polar bear.
April 26th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
Meh. Needed something about the lamentations of their women.
April 26th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Mr. Armendariz hard at work… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lN4TSslz-0
April 26th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
Armendariz promises to ward off future complaints by saying the oil company official looked like Obama’s son wearing a hoodie. We had to shoot him before he ate our dog. Having Debbie Wasserman Schultz
write our speeches will fix everything.
April 26th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
By the way (although this has nothing to do with EPA’s penchant for crucifixion of domestic oil production) here’s a tidbit from Joe the Vice President a man who is on a mission to prove he is a better comedy relief sidekick then Gabby Hayes, Pat Buttram or Fuzzy Knight put together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g2L6MvTfFw
April 26th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Bouncing Beatnik – Lamentations of their women? No, you’re thinking of the TSA:
http://www.imao.us/index.php/2012/04/link-of-the-day-tsa-saves-america-from-threat-of-crying-4-year-old-girl/
April 26th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
EPA Administer Jackson : Hao! Dai ye! We crucified another domestic energy producer again! This is good, but what is best in life?
EPA underling: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and unlimited reams of federal regulations.
EPA Administer Jackson: Wrong! Armendariz! What is best in life?
Armendariz : To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women….and watch the cost of oil climb.
EPA Administer Jackson: That is good! That is good.
April 26th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
It’s probably good this guy isn’t a
terroristmember of “The Religion of Peace”, he might get suspended (with pay) if he suggested beheading them.April 26th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
zzyzx – I will contemplate that on the Tree of Woe…
April 26th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
LIKE!!!
April 26th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
It’s only by “ethical enforcement” of environmental laws that we will win the war on energy.
Give us Barackus!
April 27th, 2012 at 12:07 am
Another one to add to the list of “first against the wall when the revolution comes”.
Hmm… we’re gonna need a longer wall!
April 27th, 2012 at 10:35 am
A quote attributed to Genghis Khan, and modified to fit the present situation: “The greatest happiness is to vanquish
yourthe EPA’s enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”April 28th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Apropos of nothing in particular – anybody read ‘The Hiding Place’ by Corrie Ten Boom? At the end, she gets out of the Nazi concentration camp and goes back to Holland. There are no pets; starvation and privation in occupied Holland had been so grim people ate them. I suppose it’s actually rather kind of Obama to point the way to survival in man-made ‘Utopias’; still I would prefer that he would cease with his transformation of America and collect stamps or something instead.
May 1st, 2012 at 12:02 am
News update: the Roman Imperialist wanna-be got canned today.
Yay!
May 1st, 2012 at 12:11 am
Don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier, but the correct response to a threat of crucifixion from an oppressive government is to stand up and say “I am Spartacus!”.