Posted on 02/03/2017 12:06:06 PM PST by Jacquerie
By an eyelash, portions of my community avoided a ban on housecats. I am not kidding. Last Saturday, my wife and I attended a meeting of county commissioners, civic groups, and the public. Its purpose was to explain an upcoming US Fish & Wildlife (USFW) approved regulation regarding protection of . . . a mouse. That’s right, the St. Andrews Beach Mouse. Government biologists couldn’t find one in rural Gulf County Florida, but our sand dunes and climate are perfect, they say, for the little critters. Habitat protection for a never-seen rodent will cost the average homebuilder at least several thousands of dollars in permits, professional Environmental Consultant fees and place further limits on lot clearing, filling, home, and driveway placement. For the time being, housecats are safe.
All of this, we were told, began with the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA). In 1978, scotus determined “the plain intent of Congress in enacting the ESA was to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost.”
Background. In recent times, certain words have been turned far and away from their dictionary meaning. For instance, “racist,” is among the terms casually thrown by Leftists at anyone with whom they disagree. So, I want to be careful here with the words “usurpation,” and “tyranny.” Usurpation isn’t a common term, and tyranny typically conjures images of a miserable and enslaved people.
While related, and both are associated with despotic regimes, John Locke defined them thusly: “Usurpation occurs when one is got into possession of what another has a right to. The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands. Lawmaking is but a delegated power from the people; they who have it, cannot pass it over to others.”
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They’re lucky their cats don’t smoke.
You don’t want to let domestic house cats out into the open anyway.
The coyotes just snap them up. Like they would do with these hypothetical rodents.
And nobody is suggesting a way to drive out the coyotes.
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