Aaron,



I agree man...This is another "brick" in the wall that they are constructing to regulate "trade" which in this case happend to be reptiles (animals that we love working with). As with ALL of these regualtions, they start small and then expand...An example of this is the Lacey Act that has been revised many over decades to the point where a US citizen can be prosecuted in the US based on FOREIGN LAW! What a travesty! CITES came about as a result of a few legal cases to close the loop holes to make prosecutions easier for the FWS and continues to "evolve" as well.



If anyone thinks that this is the end, you are mistaken! Once this (S.373) becomes law, all they have to do in a few years (if that long) is simply amend the EXISTING law and viola, more animal criminals! HSUS, PETA, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Defenders of Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy, etc, contribute millions of dollars to elect "animal rights activists" to congress...IT IS A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY for all of them via tax payer funded grants, grants from private foundations, tax deductible donations from private business, etc, etc, etc.



The senior "staff" of these organizations make six figure incomes from this BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY! These organizations also serve as jobs for some of the retired federal bureaucrats who go to work for some of these organizations so that in addition to their tax payer funded retirement pensions, they are also paid for doing this...KEEP THIS IN MIND, THIS IS ALL THEY DO!!!!!!



This agenda is about two things...MONEY and POWER so everybody had better pay attention to this stuff. The agenda is even spreading to the state levels now outside of Florida. One of the reasons for this is because ALL of the states (your state too) have adopted the federal conservation plans from the Secretary of the Interior because there are "strings attached" to the federal wildlife grants and programs to the states.



Later,

Jim.
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