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another reason to vote libertarian

Bluerosy Feb 03, 2008 03:01 PM

cause they will slowly be chopping away at your rights. Regulation is always easy. Deregualtion is almost always impossible.

This is why upholding the constitution is so important. Something Billary and Obama won't do. It really does not matter what part they attack. It has an effect on us all:

Feds Move To Ban Pythons & Boas
Saturday, February 2. 2008

Ball Python - photo © ronald durst
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has made a significant move towards banning the importation and interstate transport of Boa Constrictors and Pythons in the United States. Quietly published in the Federal Register, the agency is accepting public comments until April 30th. If enacted this will devastate an already hard hit industry, dealing a fatal death blow to a large number of businesses dependent on this segment of the industry and drying up the supply of these pets to pet owners across the United States. Noted herpetologist, author, former zookeeper, and one of the leading private researchers and breeders of pythons in the United States, David Barker, had this to say...

This is the formal notification and request for public comments regarding the intention of USF&W Service to place ALL snakes in the genera Boa, Python, and Eunectes on the Injurious Wildlife List of the Lacey Act.

If enacted as regulation, this will ban the importation of said snakes into the USA , and ban all interstate transportation of said snakes.

There is a request made for public input and we feel it will be very important that all keepers with an interest in boas and pythons make written response before 30 April.

This is VERY important. Don’t take this lightly.

Once the importation and inter-state transport has been banned, there will be a rapid exodus of breeders of these species, and eventually they will disappear from the marketplace along with a significant number of businesses and jobs. Pet owners will feel the pinch as dry goods suppliers and caging manufacturers stop producing products for that segment of the hobby, and eventually it will be impossible to obtain a new pet boa or python.

To review the USF & W Service proposal, please look at the following document. http://kingsnake.com/FWSReview.pdf

Please note that this is a .pdf file and requires Adobe Acrobat to open and read it.

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Replies (6)

EddieF Feb 03, 2008 03:06 PM

Inexplicable that this is what they're focusing their energy on. Unbelievable.
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Patton Feb 03, 2008 03:28 PM

Yeah, but that way they can justify more jobs, and more taxes for people to enforce their laws. See it all makes perfectly good sence, if you look at it through their rose colored glasses.
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rtdunham Feb 10, 2008 10:43 AM

>>Yeah, but that way they can justify more jobs, and more taxes for people to enforce their laws. See it all makes perfectly good sence, if you look at it through their rose colored glasses.

yes! damn ALL regulations. I'm really pissed about the state of florida and the feds protecting indigo snakes, and gopher tortoises, and the like. I say total freedom! We should be allowed to kill anything we want, built anywhere we want. Damn democrats. Damn republicans. Give us our liberties! No rules! And whose idea were those stop signs, anyway? Government just won't give us a break.

(so now can we agree some rules are good, some bad, and consider just the merits or the potentially harmful consequences of this particular proposal?)

How should we evaluation the proposal? Based on its effect on commercial breeders? Based on its effect on the environment? How do we weigh one against the other? (in this particular instance, i believe the proposal would AGGRAVATE the effect of pythons and boas in the wild in Florida, but I've already shared my reasons for that thinking in another thread on this forum)

Patton Feb 03, 2008 03:24 PM

Hitlery and Osama wouldn't do that!....would they?
-Phil

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tgcorley Feb 03, 2008 04:01 PM

Just a fellow citizen's thoughts . . .

I can't agree more that the proposed ban on pythons and boas is wrong-headed, but I don't follow why Billary and Obama are the villains here -- isn't this proposed ban coming out after nearly eight years of Republican rule? To rag on the Democratic candidates around this issue seems rather misguided. What rings truer to me is that stupidity is a 100% bipartisan enterprise.

Let's ALL work together to write in and hopefully block the idiotic proposal!

Tom

TwoSnakes Feb 06, 2008 02:37 AM

I live in Miami infact all of Miami is a Rep stronghold and pythons are now banned and few more snakes are being looked into.

However with the right permit wich is not hard to get you can keep a lion just dont keep a 5 foor python lol

BOTH parties leave a lot to be desired however he is right as a whole infact as a general rule the Dems ban way more than the Reps. Thats has become their platform ban this and ban that

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