On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, GB:'X0B$4fAB92GB5 wrote:
Forwarded from: Shirley Mc Greal, International Primate Protection League,
According to the 18 December 1984 issue of the "New York Times"
IN MY OPINION THESE "EGREGIOUS AND WILFUL VIOLATORS OF FEDERAL WILDLIFE LAWS
GOT LITTLE MORE THAN A "SLAP ON THE WRIST." THE US CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
DOES NOT TAKE WILDLIFE CRIME SERIOUSLY ENOUGH! PROBATION IN THE US USUALLY
MEANS A PERIODIC CHAT WITH AN OVER-WORKED PROBATION OFFCER, IT'S A JOKE.
This is likely to get infinitely worse in the next few years given the
current political climate in the US. Here in Arizona the state
legislature was seriously considering a bill under which any state
employee could be fired for enforcing the Federal Endangered Species Act.
I do not know whether they actually passed this or not. I do know that
they did pass a law designed to make Arizona the freeon-production center
of the world. Never mind that a world-wide treaty bans selling the stuff
anywhere on the planet. [Maybe they are planning to sell it to people
from the planet Vulcan, where I hear it is hotter than here].
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