Courageous wrote:

If you try to move one of these protected species you can be
prosecuted for it, whether you want it in your pond or not. Draining
the pond would also be illegal, fencing it in, cleaning or most other
things if it disturbs the protected species.



Green politics run amuck! Property rights trump all this environazi
invasion into your property. Send the snake packing, I say, just don't
tell anyone... even if it's "protected". Meanwhile, send the environuts
packing out of your local congress, if they're passing laws that make
it so that you can't maintain your own pond and land!!!


Indeed. In the U.S. these days, you can't even move a pile of dirt or
drain a mosquito-infested puddle on your own property without possibly
risking heavy fines and a jail sentence. Well, I say we humans didn't
evolve to the top of the food chain and prosper by sacrificing our needs
for the good of some damn species of vermin! It's not like they give a
damn about OUR survival, do they? I always thought conservation of
natural resources and wildlife was a noble goal, but ever since the fall
of the Iron Curtain the environmentalist movement became a haven for all
the old socialists/communists seeking to abolish private property and
collectivize everything under authoritarian government control, and the
most radical groups are a bunch of misanthropic liberal-guilt-ridden
earth-worshiping eco-terrorists who actually believe that humans are
some kind of an unnatural infestation of the planet. Eco-nazis have also
infiltrated and become nearly indistinguishable from the animal rights
movement, which once upon a time simply fought for the welfare and
humane treatment of animals, but now seeks to put the needs of animals
on the same (or higher) moral level as humans. These are sick, sick
people on the left wing who are equal to the worst religious extremists
on the right wing.

- Logic316

"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
-- E. E. Cummings

"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."
-- Calvin Coolidge

"No other rights are safe where property is not safe."
-- Daniel Webster

"[t]he moment that idea is admitted into society that property is not as
sacred as the Laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and
public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. Property
must be sacred or liberty cannot exist.
-- John Adams

“Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's interpretation of
the Constitution. Though citizens are safe from the government in their
homes, the homes themselves are not."
-- Justice Clarence Thomas