[Jeff Higgins]

The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Earth First!, Fund for Animals, PETA, The Humane Society of the United States, and other enviro-nazis have long put the welfare of animals and the environment above that of people. People are, in their view, no more than evil exploiters. There is a balance they do not understand; they are on the radical, rabid end of the spectrum. Unfortunately, government regulators listen to them. Regulators that are not directly accountable to us through the election process that determine (illegally) our use of private property.

With an already established track record of this kind of abuse directed towards citizens in other locales, with other protected species, plants, wetlands, forests, whatever, I cannot blame the landowners for their reaction. It's to be expected. If these environmental zealots had instead established a track record of working with landowners and such, these things would not backfire on them.

Years ago there was some little bird that caught their eye somewhere in California. The details are very fuzzy for me, as I didn't pay that much attention then, but maybe some one can help me out. It was apparently nesting in some particular kind of farm habitat. The enviro-nazis managed to get untold acres of farmland declared off-limits to its owners. In the end, rather than risk losing the use of affected fields or pastures, farmers adopted the "three S plan" - "shoot, shovel, and shut up". The birds all but dissapeared from the area; an area in which they once thrived in spite of (maybe because of) the farming.