Group Calls for End to the Endangered Species Act's "Reign of Terror"

Canada Free Press ^ | Thursday, June 23, 2005 | Peyton Knight

[Alexander Rubin]

Washington, D.C.–In a letter to House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA), the American Policy Center (APC) and over 50 public policy groups called for an end to the federal government’s unconstitutional practice of taking land and property rights under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Chairman Pombo plans to make reauthorizing the ESA a priority of the current Congress.

"There are some who claim that the Act needs to be ‘strengthened,’ ‘updated,’ or ‘modernized,’" said APC president Tom DeWeese. "How absurd. For three decades this law has done nothing but steal property, destroy economies, shatter livelihoods, cost billions of dollars, and even take lives. The ESA needs to be repealed, not ‘modernized.’"

[Alexander Rubin]

Good points.

[editor-surveyor]

Thanks for the ping GR.

[Jeff Head]

Got it...see my post number 7.

[goldstategop]

In view of today's Supreme Court decision, I'm skeptical the ESSA will ever be repealed. Republicans are as much afraid of being labeled an enemy of the environment as they're afraid of being labeled an enemy of Big Bird and Jim Lehrer.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[SandRat]

Oh please cancel that piece of trash, PULLEEEEZEE! That's the only thing that the Center for Bio Diversity has to constantly beat us over the head with like homegrown Taliban.

[bert]

The problem is sub species. If the law is limited to species and allows elimination of small populaations of subspecies that exist mainly in the mind of a splitter biologist then all will probably be ok.

There is a current flap over cave beatles in Texas. There are lots of species and they are all isolated to perhaps only one cave . They are protected even though all are closely related only an entomologist needing academic credit for naming a species would declare a difference.

[SiliconValleyGuy]

Yep, just like the Americans with Disabilities Act has been used by lawyers and wheelchair "victims" to enrich themselves and hurt others.

If the average American knew how many of his freedoms have been stolen by lawyer leeches, and how many of his dollars have been unnecessarily funneled into their pockets, they would be horrified.

[hattend]

BTTT

[blackie]

Abolish the ESA ~ NOW!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[Alexander Rubin]

What's BTTT mean? Sorry, unfamiliar with the acronym.

[editor-surveyor]

Bump To The Top

[Alexander Rubin]

Cool, thanks.