I agree with you. I remember my mother telling me that kids were starving in Africa in order to shame me into finishing my broccoli. I might have been seven years old but already smart enough to realize that whether I ate the broccoli in front of me or not, it would have no impact on kids starving in Africa.
Same with this situation. Arguing that blatantly cheating fishermen should not be prosecuted so long as there is still corruption in Washington is just a silly argument to make.
For those who haven't clicked through to see the video of the cheaters being exposed, I highly recommend it. Click here for video. The shame and humiliation of being exposed in front of your peers like that is priceless to watch. The video shows one of the cheaters standing helplessly by as the official pulls weight after weight out of the bellies of the fish, all the time the other fisherman are shouting epithets at him.
This would have made a perfect Southwest Airlines "Wanna get away?" commercial.
Besides the other fishermen going HAM on them, the cheaters DESERVE prosecution, too.
After they get punishment for whatever crimes they did, they should let the other, honest fishermen have a go at them.
I'll bet they wished they never cheated.
Some of those other anglers looked like they wanted to kill these guys.