Bush Creates World's Largest Marine Reserve

Voice of America ^ | June 15, 2006 | Scott Stearns

[nosofar]

Bush Creates World's Largest Marine Reserve

Aha!! This shows Bush is building a new army of Marines to take over the world. Our suspicions have been justified! (typical DUmmy)

[nosofar]

Isn't this in INTERNATIONAL WATERS? How does the USA have authority over it.

Um. The USA has bigger guns?

[nosofar]

Actually a land grab, this action goes way beyond the 200 mile limit and links up Hawaii and Midway as a single US entity? No?

Finally! A good old fashioned land grab. What's the point of having the best military in the world if you can't indulge in imerpialistic conquest.

[hosepipe]

The Federal Giverment OWNING land is obscene.. ANY LAND..
The federal givernment owns more land than the size of many States..
Call them Parks or whatever the State should control it NOT the federal givernment..

ALL land should be owned and controlled by the State that land resides in..
Unless we are a democracy and not really a Republic after all..

[Paul Ross]

I was hoping the article would be about these Marines...

[Paul Ross]

Bush Creates World's Largest Marine Reserve
Oo-rah!
[puts on his bifocals]
Oh, wait... Never mind.

LOL!

Been there, done that!

[conservativewasp]

And Bush calls himself a fisherman, HA! I've about had it with this RINO, what the hell happened to freedom and liberty? Protecting it from commercial fishing is fine, preventing sport fishing and diving is absurd.

[Blue State Insurgent]

How about 'Sianara'?

[BJungNan]

People will not be allowed to go there. That from Jacque Cousteau who is one of the people to push this through. Only scientist (the environmental elite) will be able to enjoy this scenic wonder.

Just like communism. For the good...but...some of us will get the privelegdges.

[PleaDeal]

Finally! A good old fashioned land grab. What's the point of having the best military in the world if you can't indulge in imerpialistic conquest.

I'll second that!

[speekinout]

Your Constitution doesn't say anything about a lot of things - Dep't of Ed, Social Security, the FAA, etc.
Our system is based on the Constitution *and* a whole bunch of laws passed by Congress. If the laws haven't been ruled Unconstitutional by the SC, they are as much a part of the system as anything mentioned there.

[RightCenter]

I guess that there are more who dislike the works of Theodore Roosevelt than I thought... saddening.

[capt.P]

Thank you!

[John Lenin]

Smokescreen ! The Hawaiian Islands are ready to break away from the US. This will buy them off.

[RFEngineer]

"And, I hope that air service to Midway Island will start up again because of this. "

Don't count on it. Our President has just ensured that any commercial uses of these waters will be impossible, or nearly so through regulation.

When you aren't conservative, the unintended consequences are much more unpredictable.

[rob777]

.. what the President did was excellent, farsighted, and commendable ...




I am having a hard time seeing what is so "commendable" about yet another move to expand the reach of the federal government.

[Rick.Donaldson]

Isn't a Marine Reserve a place where retired Marines can go hunt the ducks and geese? :)

[Wallace T.]

The Constitutional language clearly indicates that Federal authority was to be mainly focused on military and naval defense. There are other areas where Federal land ownership would be needed in order to carry out Constitutionally authorized responsibilities: post offices, mints, post roads, customs offices. However, nowhere does the Constitution discuss the concept of conservation of natural resources as a legitimate area of Federal authority. During the first century of the Republic, the Federal government attempted to divest itself of public lands either by ceding them to the states upon their admission to the Union or selling or giving them to private individuals (e.g. the Homestead Act of 1862).

What President Bush did in establishing yet another wildlife preserve is to entrench the Federal lockup of natural resources and prevent market forces from exploiting them.

[Carry_Okie]

What President Bush did in establishing yet another wildlife preserve is to entrench the Federal lockup of natural resources and prevent market forces from exploiting them.

Wrote the book on that one.