When we ignore that maxim entire societies can die ~ not just bee colonies and the fields of plants they fertilize ~ but let's say THE HOMOSEXUALS. The judges and lawgivers provided AIDS, a dangerous virus, with CIVIL RIGHTS.
The article referenced pretty much provides only one side of the situation ~ but he is getting a hearing.
A totalitarian regime would have probably burned everything around there to the ground, not just the bee hive boxes ~ this is a fairly disastrous disease.
The owner of the bees (a respected expert) is saying that his bees were not diseased, indeed he had been doing long term research into developing a Round Up resistant bee. The government nitwit is probably not an expert in bees and in any event we each have a right to due process...they deprived him of that by stealing his bees prior to the hearing.
This affects each and every one of us when we give that kind of power to government workers who are not elected by the people, do not truly answer to congress on these day to day actions and they ignore due process and property rights.
A tyrannical government acts exactly as they did in this case. That is the point of the story.