In its 30 plus year miserable existence and billions of wasted dollars, the ESA has recovered 12 of 1,300 listed species, for a cumulative failure rate of 99.99%. Nine species have gone extinct. More than a dozen were listed due to data errors and subsequently removed.
If the ESA lived in the business world, creditors would have forced it into bankruptcy and stockholders would’ve long ago picked over its worthless bleached bones.
That the ESA is now a magnet for disaffected, private property-hating Marxists - homeless since the fall of the Berlin Wall - is well known.
We can identify three facts about the ESA:
1) It destroys private property.
2) It attracts homeless communists.
3) It doesn’t save endangered species.
In these ESA listings, Congress directed the agencies to give equal weight to cultural and economic impacts of a listing. Naturally these politicized agencies ignore congressional instructions and go on their merry way. Congress doesn’t say a peep.
This simply reinforces the fact that unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats are running land policy in the United States as a dictatorship. They are able to write law, execute the law and judge the law if challenged. The only way to challenge a corrupt bureaucracy is to engage in very expensive lawsuits running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. For the majority of landowners, this closes the judicial system to them.
What congress has created is an unelected, unaccountable branch of government consisting of a dictatorship of politically motivated bureaucrats who are above the law.
The ESA, with bureaucrats illegally writing the rules and interpreting the rules, gives property owners but one choice. If citizens don’t want to see their land come under the fascist rule of unelected bureaucrats, all habitat on private property that may appeal to endangered species must be destroyed.
Things come and things go. That's nature's way, especially when a more dominant species comes in. But these Watermelons just don't get it.