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March 28, 2010

Earth-Last Moonbattery

Posted by The MaryHunter at March 28, 2010 4:50 PM

In a peculiar twist, government moonbattery went the other way this time in Great Britain: try reckless destruction of a natural ecosystem in order to inflict puritanical morality on perverts.

A council has backed the removal of 6,000 trees at a beauty spot, saying that the clearance will deterrent to people meeting for sex in the woods.

Jean Rigby, a local councillor, said: "The area will be replanted with native species that, in 20 years, people will see the benefit of.

"I'm more than happy this is being carried out - and it has a double whammy in terms of the sexual behaviour. I've heard anecdotally that since the trees have been cleared, it's quietened down a lot!"

It is fascinating that -- in Airstrip One of all places -- the cost-benefit analysis actually went the way of Society and against Nature. But all this deforestation, simply to combat dogging in the woods? I don't know... 20 years with no full-grown trees seems quite a price to pay for moving a bunch of filthy public shagging to a golf course or a mall parking lot. And think of all the CO2 offsets Darwen-in-Lancashire will now be obliged to purchase.

I couldn't rant on this any better than tipster Anonymous Countermoonbat:

As far as studies go, only private citizens must conduct expensive studies to prove their treecutting won't affect spotted owls or increase our level of Manbearpig endangerment.

If you're a private landowner who wants to cut trees, forget it. If you're a useless bureaucrat who wants to do it as a non-solution to an unrelated problem, go right ahead.

Who knows, AC. Maybe this is the start of something. If this kind of decisioning spreads to more municipalities and even US, the spotted owl and snail darter best look out. Or, maybe conifers will fly out of Al Gore's butt.