Why Idaho Sucks

I've never liked Idaho.

I've been to about ten states in the USA. And 9 out of ten of them are amazing. They are states that make people want to come and live in this country. But if anyone started a trip into the United States in Idaho, they would run strait to Canada. Idaho is the worst state in the union. Need proof? Watch Napoleon Dynamite.

But now, Idaho sent a man to 18 months of federal prison for saving his town from flooding.

Lynn Moses will be locked up in federal prison next Wednesday. His crime? Protecting the city of Driggs, Idaho from flooding.

When Mr. Moses began to develop a subdivision along Teton Creek in 1980, Teton County required him to implement an engineer’s plan to modify the Teton Creek stream bed to prevent the flooding of subdivision property, caused by the buildup of gravel bars and downed trees, during high water flows in the spring...

...the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), emboldened by newly granted bureaucratic authority, jumped in and went right after Mr. Moses, indicting and prosecuting him for violating the Clean Water Act in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 for doing nothing more than the routine maintenance on the channel he had been doing for 20 years, under requirements imposed by local government.

Presiding federal judge Lynn Winmill, who has a well-deserved reputation for judicial activism, refused to allow Teton County commissioners to testify to the original agreement, nor would he allow the aggressive Corps staffer to testify about the refusal of the U.S. Attorney to prosecute in the mid-90s.

Before the jury was dismissed to enter into deliberations at the conclusion of his trial, Judge Lynn Winmill instructed the jury, believe it or not, to disregard every bit of information from 1980 to 2002, including the Corps’ denial of jurisdiction and the mandate from local government for Mr. Moses to maintain the flood channel.

This is absolute bullshit. This man was contracted to stop flooding in the town in which he lives, and the government thanks him with an all expense tax-paid trip to federal prison.

Thank you government. I feel so safe that this man is behind bars. Oh and if you want Idaho, my grandma has been paying her taxes, I think that maybe you should give her a few years in the slammer too.

Bullshit.