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Feds Prosecuting Tree-Trimmer for Unintentionally Bruising Herons
PJ Tattler ^ | 5-29-14 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 05/29/2014 7:25:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

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To: afraidfortherepublic
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.

21 posted on 05/29/2014 8:24:33 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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.


22 posted on 05/29/2014 8:25:34 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Birds have more legal protection than unborn human babies.


23 posted on 05/29/2014 9:02:44 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: MeshugeMikey
perhaps the birds were “members” of OCCUPY Oakland

They may be, crapping on Post Office trucks.

24 posted on 05/29/2014 9:14:49 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

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


25 posted on 05/29/2014 10:07:18 AM PDT by PTBAA
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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.

26 posted on 05/29/2014 10:48:40 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Global Warming is caused by illegal immigrants!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Kill a veteran - nothing.

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

27 posted on 05/29/2014 12:09:12 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Liberals see what they believe; Conservatives believe what they see.)
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Or HHS or the IRS!


28 posted on 05/29/2014 6:01:39 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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