CarL (and all HISTARCHers!)
Of course, ARPA! No question. But NPS wants to throw the book at these A--H----S! Give them time to think of all the OTHER things they can charge them with! I bet there are a dozen other NEPA-related crimes.
Do you know what the mandatory first offense for an ARPA violation is? (Oh, hell, where IS that manual I photocopied on my own dime over my lunch hour before I retired? Oh, yeah, still out in the garage, where it never got unpacked...) Anyway, mandatory penalties, although coming up in the world, are still not all that high. Stealing government property gets a slightly stiffer penalty, if you can convince a federal judge that old bullets and rusty junk is worth his time on the bench (hence the NEED for mandatory sentencing in ARPA violations....).
THAT'S why NPS needs to charge the creeps with SEVERAL crimes (all of which they DID commit) and hope that ALL of them stick.
Cathy
Catherine H. Spude, PhD
Montana Dawn, Enterprises
7 Avenida Vista Grande #145
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-1476 home
505-913-1326 cell
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Subject: Re: ‘Arrogance’ ‘Illegal’ Diging Is Charged At Harpers Ferry P ark
Cathy -
What do you think they would they have arrested me for if I was at Harpers
Ferry digging up bullets and buttons, or pots at Mesa Verde?
ARPA, I am sure, and the LE types would have had me on the hood in no time
flat.
And all those guys would have been accomplices, co-conspirators, or
whatever. I don't think the Nuremburg Defense would work here, either.
No, David and I are not related. BUT ! He owes me an NPS job BIG TIME for
the use of the family name! ;o)
Cheerio!
Carl B.
Catherine Spude
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Carl:
I believe NPS spokesman David Barna (any relation?) said solicitors from
Interior were working with Justice to figure out whether to bring criminal
charges as well as civil charges gains the developers.
Sounds to me like folks are putting their heads together to figure out how
to throw the books at these creeps.
If a ranger had arrested the guy driving the bulldozer, what would he have
arrested him for? ARPA violation? Destroying government property? We all
know it wasn't the equipment operator who was the criminal here. Or the
construction supervisor. Give NPS a break. Let them figure out who to
prosecute and what suite of crimes to charge them with.
Cathy
Catherine H. Spude, PhD
Retired NPS
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