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Aaron
at Mon Jul 19 20:27:10 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]
Great points but remember this is about much more than unjust searches. If the searches stop you still have the Lacey Act and/or stings to worry about. For me this is a social hobby, I want to able to associate freely with other law abiding hobbists, not have everything driven into secrecy to where you can't even tell your friends you caught an alterna.
They can TRY to come and take your whole alterna collection later on down the road just because you collected one alterna. A misdemeanor hardly any different than catching an undersized fish, could becomes technically a felony Lacey Act violation once you take it home to another state. Or maybe you didn't even collect one but unknowingly bought the captive born offspring of one. Then they take all your alterna and maybe more as "evidence" before you have even been convicted. Maybe unlikely to actually happen but the possibility is very much real. If it does happen, once they take your animals you may as well write them of for dead before you ever get them back even if you are not guilty of anything.
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RE: A few points... - Aaron, Mon Jul 19 20:27:10 2010