You are acting like a child. Of course I do not care that anyone posts anything they want relavent to ball pythons here. I am and always have been an outspoken advocate of free speech having worked for many years as both a writer and editor of several magazines and newspapers, managing a public relations office for a state university, etc..

I never attacked you. You are making the classic mistake that most people learn not to make either in debate or public speech in high school or maybe later in life in their career. You are short on facts and stating an emotional argument as though it were fact. You do not seem to know much about the subject you have chosen to champion here. And no, your speech here, now, after the ball pythons are all pre-sold in Africa already and due to ship in has not stopped anyone from buying them. The numbers declining are due to the FACTS that I stated in my previous posts and other factors like the downturn in the pet trade here due to poor economic climate.

And then you run and cry that you are being attacked and that I am assaulting your rights to free speech when people disagree with you, EXTREMELY POLITELY by the way, no name calling, no insults, no attacks, just pointing out the facts that you fail to cover. People here are tired of that old play. You ask for discussion you need to be prepared for disagreement.

You can gripe all you want about what you see as a problem. The reality is that you fail to recognize that many people in other parts of the world rely on their entire families income from ball pythons being shipped to the USA. On top of that there are people in this country and a dozen others that make money on the ball pythons so there is not much incentive to stop the importation. You call it greed but you derive your income from something, right? Well to many around the world that is their job.

If you feel that strongly about it instead of complaining here go and write and sponsor some new legislation to ban the importation of ball pythons. Nobody here will likely support you since that is what the government has been trying to do and it will mean the likely end of all reptile importation if not all animal importation, which would make many in government very happy. What it would do here is effectively end the pet trade. Something many of us have been fighting very hard to prevent for a long time.

Complaining helps nobody. Do something about it if you feel so strongly. I may disagree with your position but at least then I would respect you for acting instead of just talking.

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