Everyone was so willing to throw Florida under the bus and in the end, now you know why politicos from other states were visiting Tallahassee and gathering info over the last couple years. The lack of unity as Floridians fought with Tallahassee first on ROC and then on the outright ban of ROC herps gave politicians looking for an easy "WIN" or "SCORE" insight into how easy it is to divide and alienate herpers.

Now that they are coming after your precious innocuous BP's and not the so called "monster" retics, burms, scrubbies, etc... your fear is reaching a fever pitch. TOO LATE!!!

Truth is, the herp world is getting what it deserves after a decade and a half of scams, fraud, and morph driven pyramid bubble "markets"! Some of the best and brightests minds in herpetoculture sold out for a gimmick and people with limited herp knowledge but more than enough levered capital became instant experts working with species that only required basic understanding of herp husbandry.....LOL!!!!

Good luck getting the FED GOV to pay attention. These are the same people that voted for TARP despite an average 300 to 1 ratio of people opposed to bailing out the banks. That was a 700 billion dollar snub to the American voters, heck the 1 billion number USARK touts is an accounting rounding error on the FED GOV annual budget as well as an insignificant drop of water in the ocean that makes up the U.S. Gross Domestic Product(GDP). That arguement alone reveals the amateurish attempt of USARK to be effective at the federal level.

Like it or not Florida was the center of the herp world and when the politicians had their victory here eveyone else lost the battle as well, they just didn't know it yet!

EVIL PYRAMID DEVIL

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