The editorial I wish to pass on today touches on a subject that has been discussed here on numerous occasions.
Nonetheless, this topic needs to be covered again—and again—and again.
The fact of the matter is that the United States is headed down a very dangerous path to our own destruction as a free Republic. Worst of all is the glaring reality that many among us are clamoring for this end.
The unfortunate truth is that sportsmen are taking shape as the spearhead.
ANWR’s Spotted Owl is the title of this piece and it starts like this:
In February 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton decreed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) could designate 8.6 million acres in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico as critical habitat for the “endangered” Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis (no relation to Occidental Petroleum Co.), thus “protecting” this land from cattle grazing, logging and any other human enterprise that might give the little owl indigestion.
This is the same critter that shut down logging operations in the Pacific Northwest and is one of many wild species now being favored over the much-maligned domestic species, Homo sapiens.
The efficacy of using the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as a blunt instrument to pursue radical environmental ends began in 1973, the same year the act became law. No coincidence there.
Lest you think I am sensationalizing the topic by correlating this with our destruction, consider this excerpt:
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) rejoined that this would set a precedent, and that the USFWS would henceforth have to establish that every human enterprise would not potentially disturb a threatened species: “Virtually every human activity that involved the release of carbon into the atmosphere would have to be regulated by the federal government.”
If that sounds familiar, it is because I have argued for years that the Gorons’ environmental agenda was really a short cut to centralized government control of the economy—what in common parlance is known as, “Socialism.”
We have been traveling at warp speed down this path since the “New Deal” yet, in today’s fast-paced world, that seems not to be nearly fast enough.
We have apparently forgotten our past and refuse to look to our future…
