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The Florida Senate and House have passed an anti-python bill that will make it harder to bring dangerous, non-native snakes into the state.

Senate Bill 318, sponsored by Senator Eleanor Sobel of Hollywood, was passed unanimously Wednesday and now goes to the Governor to be signed into law.

The bill prohibits importing or owning seven different species of reptiles, including Burmese pythons and African Rock pythons.

"The bill is about prevention and being proactive," said Sobel, in a released statement. "We must address already existing problems with species like Burmese pythons and Nile Monitors, but we must also be proactive so we can avoid future problems with species like the African Rock python and Green Anaconda."

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Officials have spent the past year trying to capture and kill pythons and other snakes in the wild in South Florida through permit programs. The first one, which concluded last year, helped eradicate 39 of the snakes. The latest one, which ended earlier this month, didn't do much good.

The snakes, many of which have been released by owners or escaped during Hurricane Andrew, have been breeding in substantial numbers, with estimates as high as over 100,000 roaming the Everglades and elsewhere.

The pythons wreak havoc on native animals, killing and consuming just about anything in their path, according to officials.

The new law would go into effect on July 1.
www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Python-Bill-Slithers-Way-Through-Florida-Senate-and-House-92325419.html

"The snakes, many of which have been released by owners or escaped during Hurricane Andrew, have been breeding in substantial numbers, with estimates as high as over 100,000 roaming the Everglades and elsewhere."

"The pythons wreak havoc on native animals, killing and consuming just about anything in their path, according to officials."

What a crock. They're still using that tired old worn out lie(s).

Time to boycott the peddlers of that garbage as well as the advertisers that support those that continue to distribute such garbage as "news".

jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

It has been said that a lie is up, out the door, and twice around the world before the truth has time to put its shoes on.
It is also said that if a lie is repeated often enough, people will come to believe it as fact...

The lie is all I ever hear from people. When I try to explain the truth to those people, their eyes just glaze over with that disinterested look of disbelief.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

But it remained for the Jews, with their unqualified capacity for falsehood, and their fighting comrades, the Marxists, to impute responsibility for the downfall precisely to the man who alone had shown a superhuman will and energy in his effort to prevent the catastrophe which he had foreseen and to save the nation from that hour of complete overthrow and shame. By placing responsibility for the loss of the world war on the shoulders of Ludendorff they took away the weapon of moral right from the only adversary dangerous enough to be likely to succeed in bringing the betrayers of the Fatherland to Justice.
All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.

—Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X

Truth is truth, whether spoken by the best of saints, or by the worst of villains.
By the same token, a lie is a lie, whether spoken by saint or villain.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

I thought the ROC did not include Boas.

That is a matter for discussion. Some differences in opinion exist
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The bottom line is this --- whether they are included as Florida ROC's or not, you can bet they are on and will be included in the Lacy rule changes, as the AR agenda pushes for a Lacy ban on trade through USF&W. Minor details like that mean little to them. Half-truths, rumors, innuendo, jumping to conclusions, and manufactured evidence are their stock in trade...SOP for AR folks.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Just ask them how many of the 100's of thousands that are SPECULATED to be out in the Everglades they have caught during the legalized hunts they have had so far. They will go and say that "the cold weather killed them off" and so we didn't find many.
You are right.....it is a croc! How do they back their guestimates of 100's of thousands out there???