Feds Prosecuting Tree-Trimmer for Unintentionally Bruising Herons

PJ Tattler ^ | 5-29-14 | Bridget Johnson

[Carry_Okie]

Ernest Pulido is expected to face charges from the U.S. Attorney’s Office within a week for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. He could face a maximum fine of $15,000 and six months in jail.

Treaties do not specify criminal penalties.

One branch that Pulido cut contained nesting black-crowned night herons, one of more than 1,000 species of birds protected under the act.

It is a very common bird.

“The Committee is concerned that Mr. [Ernesto] Pulido is being subjected to an unfair and unnecessary prosecution because FWS is responding to public pressure to act but does not want to seek redress from a fellow federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service,” Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wrote to Fish and Wildlife Director Daniel Ashe.

My guess is that the postal workers had already been advised by other contractors that dealing with the birds would cost a bundle. Given that Pulido was directed to do the job without informing him, my take is that they were using him as a patsy.

[I want the USA back]

Create multiple laws that the public doesn’t know about or understand. Enforce them arbitrarily, with excessive force so as to keep the public in doubt and fear.
One more step towards totalitarianism.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Birds have more legal protection than unborn human babies.

[BerryDingle]

perhaps the birds were “members” of OCCUPY Oakland

They may be, crapping on Post Office trucks.

[PTBAA]

If he had been trimming branches using a windmill, it would have been OK.

[VRW Conspirator]

I remember half seriously discussing placing some deceased endangered species into the crawl space of a house I once rented...

But with a little imagination, you could place several carcasses of these "protected" birds in and around the buildings of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service' office buildings. Just kidding.

[uncommonsense]

Kill a veteran - nothing.

"Bruise" a Heron, off with their head!!!

[MeshugeMikey]

Or HHS or the IRS!