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From Free Range Report July 20, 2017
Following eight years under Obama, where there were few constraints on the fatuousness of their policies, or the damage caused by regulatory assaults on private property and individual rights, these little dictators are now looking for other thrones from which to elevate their radicalism.
by Marjorie Haun
The conventional wisdom that administrative agencies have been populated with political activists is evidenced by the lemming-like exodus of left-leaning bureaucrats from of the EPA. On July 19, Greenwire published an article titled, “EPA: The staffer escape network.” Its title infers something akin to a bureaucratic Underground Railroad; a conduit of freedom for government-funded activists who’ve gotten the boot by a new pragmatic, pro-energy, pro-states’ rights administration. However, a reading of Greenwire’s report reveals that these former EPA staffers are not seeking freedom, but are attempting to ensconce themselves into a non-governmental branch of the Deep State. The report says:
EPA alumni are banding together to help their former colleagues find new jobs. They’re creating job boards, passing résumés around and spreading the word via social media. They say it’s an unprecedented networking effort among ex-staffers that comes as many EPA employees are feeling marginalized by the Trump administration’s environmental policies.
But, more than an alumni group, these former EPA staffers appear to be seeking ways to continue their various environmentalist crusades outside of the revamped agency they feel has turned against them. The article continues:
Since the site launched last weekend, a few jobs have already been posted, Elkins said. FedEx Corp. posted a job for an environmental specialist. An EPA alumnus posted another opening at the California Air Resources Board.
He said the alumni group wants to serve as “a network for the people who are leaving EPA.”
Meanwhile, new social media accounts set up by current and former EPA staffers are also trying to support current EPA staff.
The Twitter account @RogueEPAstaff, which claims to be run by “staff, non-staff and some dude” — and has nearly 11,000 followers — posted the link to the jobs board early this week.
“Want to support EPA but not sure how? Hire a climate change hero! Post job opportunities here: https://jobs.epaalumni.org.”
The Twitter account recently described staffers’ sentiments about the buyouts: “This is what we are all talking about on campus. 3 categories: 1) Fuck them, not leaving, 2) Scared for my job, 3) I’m leaving this shitshow.”
The Rogue EPA Staff Twitter account reads like a message board for climate hysteria, left-wing environmental radicalism, ‘Russia Collusion’ conspiracy theories, and whiners.
One EPA staffer on buyouts: I think the young staffers are going to be lost and without any voice but that's probably what the admin wants.
— RogueEPA trusts CDC staff (@RogueEPAstaff) July 17, 2017
Want to support EPA but not sure how? Hire a climate change hero!
Post job opportunities here:https://t.co/OosQkwSjnz#saveEPA pic.twitter.com/WKGgdqM1Mk
— RogueEPA trusts CDC staff (@RogueEPAstaff) July 17, 2017
Want to support EPA but not sure how? Hire a climate change hero!
Post job opportunities here:https://t.co/OosQkwSjnz#saveEPA pic.twitter.com/WKGgdqM1Mk
— RogueEPA trusts CDC staff (@RogueEPAstaff) July 17, 2017
This development should come as no surprise to those familiar with the mentality of the environmentalist Left. The formation of so-called ‘resistance’ groups began on Day One following the presidential election. Groups such as AltBLM, AltNPS and others, are composed of both former and current bureaucrats who have come to feel entitled to taxpayer-funded jobs in which they perform political advocacy.
Following eight years under Obama, where there were few constraints on the fatuousness of their policies, or the damage caused by regulatory assaults on private property and individual rights, these little dictators are now looking for other thrones from which to elevate their radicalism. As the bureaucracy escaped accountability for the disastrous EPA-caused Gold King Mine spill, which polluted rivers in four states and resulted in billions of dollars of damage, so individual bureaucrats, like BLM agent, Dan Love, have gotten away with inhumane, unethical and criminal activities that would be harshly punished in the private sector. It’s a little disturbing that disaffected federal employees associated with the ‘Rogue EPA Staff’ and ‘Alt BLM’ are clinging to the bureaucratic evils perpetuated by these agencies for the past eight years.
Not unlike extremist groups such as the Sierra Club and Center for Biological Diversity, these EPA bureaucrats have come to regard themselves as the most-capable, most-moral defenders of the environment. The fact that Obama-era policies were largely based on ideologically-driven globalist agendas, and not actual science, doesn’t matter to these people, because, to the environmentalist Left, all means are justified when the ends mean saving the planet.
HT/Steve Lohr
“feel entitled to taxpayer-funded jobs in which they perform political advocacy”
That sums it up nicely
What’s the problem with people changing jobs, again? Or helping each other? It’s called “networking”.
Personally, I’m THRILLED that people are leaving the EPA and finding other employment. I’d do exactly the same if my company got new management and changed the corporate mission to something I didn’t want to contribute my time and effort to.
The posted link is no bueno. It’s https://jobs.epaalumni.org/ Try searching for a job “Search Job – Coming Soon!”. Sure they may try to band together to help each other and that’s fine but I’ll wager there’ll be far fewer comfortable sinecures to slip into than people departing the EPA.
The left just doesn’t respect democracy unless they’re the winners. They don’t won’t to oppose, they want to overthrow
the duly elected government that beat them. It seems democracy is valid only if the left wins.
Nice “so what” article. It’s a free country folks. Are we going to worry about fired bureaucrats trying to sell themselves?
Who decides what gets published here?
Good luck with that, losers. It’s been tried before and failed miserably. You’ve lost your job so suck it up buttercup.
Worst part is these leeches will ride out a fat unemployment claim before moving on to do more damage to America and the rest of the world. Many of them will be contesting their “release” from government employment, sucking up more of our tax dollars in the process.
I love the chain from the sling point! That is just priceless.
One of the least rewarding functions of my career was the ongoing effort to combat bureaucratic interference, the lead in the saddle problem. Time after time an edict would appear out of nowhere, causing incommensurate hours to fight it back into its box. After I retired, this effort to combat seemed to lapse in Aust and so now we have much more of the bad stuff. It does not matter too much if these scheming ignorant people are in an EPA or outside it doing their subversion. It still has to be fought. I was never able to get close enough to any of these rodents to work out what motivated them, but suggest that you need to get a handle on motivation if you are going to neutralise them. It feels at times that evolution has created a sub-species that does not think the way we do. Geoff
Bad loosers … Why can’t they understand that bad behaviour finaly will be punished, one way or another?
When I was working on the hydraulic hybrid UPS truck for the EPA in Ann Arbor, Michigan I noticed a lot of SUVs in their parking lot, typical leftist hypocrites.
The exodus at the EPA should be included in the case to overthrow the CO2 endangerment finding. Such findings are required to be the products of sound, scientific reasoning, and not driven by political activism. The EPA should do its job no matter who sits in the White House or congress. Elections should have very little impact on the science based function of the EPA. The reaction we are seeing from the staffers is solid evidence that they are political activists and not scientists. Consequently, their ‘science’ during the Obama years is called into question, and needs to be reexamined by capable scientists.
TAXES
If I new where my money was being spent, it would have never left my pocket !!!!!
Q: What’s 1000 EPA staffers at the bottom of Lake Superior?
A: A start.
OK, it’s a bad old lawyer joke, but I couldn’t resist
Let us hope that their files will be flagged as “ineligible for rehire”. But I’m betting most will just weasel into some other government job somewhere. People like these can’t be expected to work for a living (nor to be able to work).
Beyond parody. As this is the impression that people regulated by various Federal agencies have of the employees of some agencies, confirmation that the staff are humorless zealots for their cause is almost making me doubt the reality of the source.
I do believe the source is real, though, and this is why the EPA or certain other agencies in Justice and other parts of the Federal government should be “reorganized”, I.e. eliminating most of the current staff and transferring the useful parts to a different agency.
I am sorry, but having shot an automatic, this photo is awful, and leaves one instead with the impression that it is a nonsensical attempt to simply titilate male viewers who already have less than honorable thoughts and habits related to female gun experience and ownership.
When will they all move to Nova Scotia as they promised?
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2017/07/20/clinton-campaign-never-bought-carb…
Flashback:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/18/clintons-sol…
Stories like this must be publically documented and appropriate legal responses meted out for each department. The whole would form an indictment for an entire radicalist, feloneous previous administration. And if justified, ‘lock her up’, too.
An investigative team looking into the secretaries and administrators of all the departments of the previous administration, would be the best way to dwarf the bogus Russian story. These people were appointed and hired to facilitate the most subversive international governance agenda ever known. The findings would be a bombshell. How could this be done? Are their Fed employees who would come forward?
I agree with others here that the post is a good example of thought not imbued with what is and is not important enough to editorialize. I want my 5 minutes back.
They get to claim victim/martyr status, and any potential employer gets to virtue signal to their heart’s content if they hire them. Win-win.
I think my corollary to Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureacracies applies here. The Iron Law says every buracracy has two groups, one that supports the goals of the organization, and one that supports the organization. Over time, the second group gains control.
My corollary is that the controlling group distorts the organizational goals, replacing them with their own personal goals. This is only one problem with government agencies, but probably the biggest problem.
Reminds me a bit of when the air traffic controllers went out on strike during the Reagan administration and were ordered back to work and many refused…..so they were fired. They sat on useless “picket lines” in some cases for years, thinking they would get their jobs back rather than moving on.
Having lost their comfortable and non strenuous seat on the taxpayer funded Gravey Train….it will be interesting to see how these EPA passengers survive in the harsh REAL world.
I think that EPA employees should do like most skeptics – work on their own – for free.