Posted on 05/20/2018 7:45:26 AM PDT by rktman
Two convicts are in a prison common room, and one asks the other, “Watcha in for?”
“Driving over a frog.”
Such a seemingly innocent activity, along with building a house or hiking up a trail, could result in jail time if a lawsuit by the environmental group WildEarth Guardians succeeds, according to an opposition brief filed with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
WildEarth contends someone doesn’t have to be aware of the Endangered Species Act or intend to violate it to be convicted, fined and jailed under the law.
In the brief, the Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Jonathan Wood warns that WildEarth’s interpretation of the law could lead to extreme outcomes.
“Approximately 1,500 species are listed under the statute, including dozens of birds, rodents, and insects. It is likely that no single person could correctly identify all of them, and a certainty that most people would struggle to identify more than a handful,” the brief points out.
“Many may recognize the polar bear or manatee but would be hard pressed to know what distinguishes the Delhi sands flower-loving fly from any other fly, the bone cave harvestman from any other spider, or the dusky gopher frog from any other frog,” Wood writes.
“Yet WildEarth Guardians’ interpretation would mean that people could be imprisoned for their understandable ignorance of the differences between these obscure species, if they should accidentally take one of them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
NON print:
http://www.wnd.com/2018/05/enviro-activists-prosecute-accidental-harm-to-endangered-species/
The money needed to investigate and prosecute environmental crimes he is instead spending on going to football games, $42,000 telephone booths, and a hundred-man security detail.
If he outfitted the entire EPA with a fleet of coal-rollin' F350s, I would only love Pruitt more.
Enviro activists: Kill people, save animals. The end-times spirit of antichrist (1 Timothy 4:3; 2 Tim 3:1-13).
Sorta why I found the concept of some TV show about Earth After Man to be pretty stupid. No one will be here to see it and if you have any observation skills at all, you would notice that if things are NOT maintained, muvver erf is pretty quick to reclaim stuff.
Will they exempt solar energy plants and wind farms?
Then anyone constructing, selling, or using those giant windmills should be put in jail for killing raptors and other birds ...
These Ecofascists are the same type that deny God and have a religious belief in evolution. So how is it that all these species have to be saved if they’re not fit to survive?
“Driving over a frog.”
Could have been worse, like “Littering”. Subtle reference to an old movie from 1970.
Could have been worse,
I suspect that putting a lit Firecracker in a frogs A** would challenge their sensibilities.
Prosecutions should be about 5000 to 1 in our favor. :)
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