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September 14, 2007
Fighting Back Against Eco-Fascism
The New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association and the Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties for Stable Economic Growth are backing a lawsuit against the US Fish and Wildlife Service, which trampled on landowners' property rights by declaring 500 miles of riverbed to be critical habitat for the spikedance and loach minnow.
Damien Schiff of the Pacific Legal Foundation explains that the bureauweenies "ignored their legal duty to consider the economic impact of the designation" and that their regulations "pose flood dangers for ranchers and other rural landowners who can't shore up riverbanks or dredge streams and rivers to stop the buildup of silt."
Here's wishing them good luck with the suit. They'll need it if they expect our courts to side with human beings against spikedance and loach minnow.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 14, 2007 11:19 AM
Comments
It's great that they're fighting this but I think the premise of their lawsuit is all wrong. "The economic impact" and "flood dangers" may very well be factors - but this is their private property and unless the state wants to invoke the takings claus for actual constitutional reasons they shouldn't have any say about it at all. If we keep on letting property rights get trampled under the boot things are going to get worse and worse.
Posted by: Kevin at September 14, 2007 12:40 PM
Watermelons - GREEN on the outside, RED on the inside!
Posted by: Sam Houston at September 14, 2007 1:10 PM
Were the spikedance and loach minnow in the river before the Pacific Legal Foundation decided to file their claim?
Posted by: James F McEnanly at September 14, 2007 7:51 PM
