Idiotic Quotes and Comments, suggestions
welcome.
New ones will be added frequently, but probably not every day ....
Comment to items found here should be posted on Homesteaders
Idiotic Quote of the
Day:
Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
said:
"Overall, the biological opinions represent the best science, and are required by the Endangered Species Act,"
found in article: "Irrigators Sue to Reverse Fed Water Ruling"
( reference: http://www.spiritone.com/~orsierra/rogue/0105kb2.htm
)
Biological opinions = Best Science? And this guys
a lawyer?
Wonder if he is a Professional Eco-Activist ? .........
nah couldn't be ...
Idiotic Comment of the Day:
Endangered Species Act: Battle Lines Form
By Charlotte Holzkamper
Environmental Terrorist George W. Bush has thrown down the gauntlet.
He has done this by taking on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and asking Congress to set aside, for at
least a year, a provision of the act that has allowed citizen-based groups for nearly 25 years to use the courts to
force the Fish and Wildlife Service to act on petitions to list a species as endangered.
If Bush were to win this one, environmental groups and citizens would have no legal voice in protecting any plant
or animal species in this nation.
The ESA has been a cornerstone in environmental law since the great wave of environmental statutes enacted
in the early '70s. Bush is asking Congress for a one-year moratorium to clean up the overload of pending cases
involving citizen's or court orders.
The administration would weaken the act in the short run and could peruse broader attacks in future years. It is
said that Congress has a habit of rolling over one-year moratoriums into succeeding years. If that should
happen, the deterrent to citizen lawsuits could become permanent.
This request by Bush is satisfying to some of his core constituencies and campaign
funders, like the logging and mining interests which argue that by protecting species and habitat, the law inhibits "economic
development." Bush's own appointee as interior secretary, Gale Norton, must be very satisfied as well. She
once filed a brief challenging the constitutionality of the act. Now she's in charge of it.
The ESA is the most controversial of all the environmental acts and was used to sharply reduce timber cuts in
the Northwest by protecting the spotted owl and is currently at work protecting salmon. The Klamath Basin water
cutoff to irrigators is based on the act, as it requires protection of the endangered coho salmon in the Klamath
River and two fish in upper Klamath Lake.
The battle lines are being drawn at this very moment, because the budget that must be passed in the next few
weeks has provisions in it that do not permit Fish and Wildlife to consider any new court orders or settlements
involving plants and animals. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) says that a filibuster may be invoked and "any and
all" tactics will be considered to destroy it. Environmental groups throughout the nation are contacting their
members, preparing to stop this attack. That includes the Rogue Group.
By Charlotte Holzkamper
ExCom Member
Editor, Rogue Walker ( ie. the Sierra
Club)
found at: http://www.spiritone.com/~orsierra/rogue/index.html
sierra club
http://www.spiritone.com/~orsierra/rogue/issues/klmthdx.htm
they have lots of professional things to say .. check them all out ....
laugh or cry ....
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