Quote:
Originally Posted by southern151
While I agree with you on very few of the things we often debate here, this really does point out the hypocritical ways of some of our governing bodies.
Now, back to more of "Do you support the CCA?"  |
I don't think I can.
I applaud their efforts to improve habitat by reef development and deployment.
But manipulation of political process by pseudoscience to criminalize honest and reasonable sporting and commercial harvests of abundant and available resources earns my disdain.
This is not 1970 or 1980 any more. Conservation groups should be able to foresee how the misuse of governmental power toward ends which seem quite measured and reasonable at the time can set dangerous precedents for more exhaustive and totalitarian power grabs later on.
I recommend Mark Levin's book "Liberty and Tyranny" for documentation and descriptions on how past conservation efforts lead to current and future power grabs.