#8: -  

While I'm no fan of our current administration, AEP & FERC started this circa 1998... well before the current administration. This has little to do with "bread & circus" politics

#13: TurnOffYourTV - Re:  

 You are absolutely correct #13.  In 1998 AEP agreed to incorporate the original Acticle 41"land use article" into their old license, setting the stage for where we are today.  FERC orchestrated this entire process to insert themselves between States and their citizens.  It's pure over-reach and neither Congress nor the executive branch have done anything to restrain FERC, since 1998.  About the only recourse left is our court system and FERC will lose as they have no authority to regulate State or local government or citizens or change property rights. This is NOT about right or left wingers, Republican or Democrat ... it's about our guaranteed right to possess and use our property, and if Government takes it, it has to pay -- at least according to the 5th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution.

Our land rights are guaranteed by our property rights and any AEP authority is limited by these rights!

#13: TurnOffYourTV - Re:  

 Although this was created circa 1998, the implemenation on today's scale is a direct reflection of the lawless and tyranical Obama regime, which is pursuing its goal of "social equity", for everyone except the elite.  This is top down central control of resources and is exactly the model of resource use in the defunct USSR.  The only difference is the abolition of private property in the USSR in 1917 vs the control of private property in the USA (very similar to what was done in the Nazi era of Germany).  The collapse of communism in the USSR did not dim the enthusiam of socialists in the West.  The environmnetal movement in North America and Western Europe was taken over by radical environmentalists.  Read the SMP and you can see in black and white the jargon and work usage of radical environmentalists.  Oddly, the worse stewards of SML property is Apco.  As an example, look at the erosion and siltation of the large tracts Apco own, such as the Penhall section in the Bull Run arm.