If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.
I get it. It’s something like not being able to afford Obamacare, or not wanting your personal information spread across the interweb, so you pay them a penalty for not having health insurance.
“If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.”
Sounds to me like the makings of a nice lawsuit against the Feds. First Amendment rights and all that and freedom of the press.
“If any reporter wants to document/evidence Forest Service neglect, he must first pay the FS for permission to do so or face a fine.”
Sounds to me like the makings of a nice lawsuit against the Feds. First Amendment rights and all that and freedom of the press.
Bottom line: If you want to criticize the kingdom, you must first get written permission from the king's men.
Oh, and that First Amendment? It means only what the king's men say it means.
So, the way I read this is that it is ok for the govt. to degrade the environment and, if they do that, it is not to be reported. However, the govt. can and will come down hard on the individual for degrading the environment as the sole righteous arbiter of environmental purity.