Barred Owls murdered by the State and Federal "Experts"

Who would have thought thew State and Federal agencies would stoop so low as to murder one species of owl to "save" another?  I mean if the Barred Owl likes to eat the Northern Spotted Owl, why is that a concern to humans?  When I read the article in today's Union Newspaper, Page A7, I almost fell out of my LazyBoy!

Barred Owl

Northern Spotted Owl

I have a few gripes against George H.W. Bush when he was President.  The ADA is one and fact he knuckled under to the eco nuts on the Northern Spotted Owl was the other.  A once vibrant industry in the Northwest was wrecked by the instituting of the bad science on these little owls.  Even in today's article the government still says the owl only lives in the "old growth" forests.  The big lie.  Those little critters have been found in all kinds of habitats.  But the myth was created to stop logging and weak kneed politicians fell into line and killed logging.

I remember all those little communities that were wiped out when the logging was curtailed.  Many people committed suicide because their lives were so upset.  But along came the Federal "saviors" and said to some of the devastated areas, "come, sign up for our "retraining" programs and welfare"  We turned towns into welfare destinations and the most important agencies were now Social Services.  They made slaves out of thousands of people.  But golly, those experts from the state and feds saved that little owl.  But even though the owl is a cousin, genetically speaking, of other owls numerous in the west, the sacrifice of the humans to "save it" was "worth it"!  Well maybe not.

The lies told about this little owl are too numerous to list here but they are many.  For me, I was doing my best at the time in the early 90's to brings some common sense to the issue.  But as usual, the government would have none of it and all the "legal" was weighted to the eco extremists.  Over the course of the years the timber used in California and most of the USA was from Canada.  So our construction industries used foreign wood to build our homes while we have a great renewable resource right here.  Many hundreds of billions of dollars were sent north to Canada where their "rules" were much different.  I bet they laughed their asses off on the way to the bank!

Delhi Sand Fly

Fairy shrimp in a puddle

But common sense has no place on these listings of "endangered species".  I recall the Delhi Sand Fly in Riverside County a few years back that forced the County to move a proposed hospital (costing millions) to accommodate a fly!  I mean, are those people still in charge of listings?  Then we have the Sage Hen in the mid section of America and there was the little fairy shrimp in puddles in "vernal pools" in our central valley.  There is so much insanity on these listings but one thing is clear to me.  These are all about the hate of capitalism and freedom and not much about the critters.  The critters are simply the convenient tool we have created in America to feel good about ourselves.  The ESA abuse is so widespread that soon America will be under the thumb of the "green storm troopers" of the environmental movement.  The "Commerce Clause" of our Constitution has been so abused to enable every little puddle of water, every little critter and plant to receive billions of our tax dollars that we must be really good people?

The pendulum hopefully will swing back towards common sense in the not to distant future.  If not, then we will see a new form of government called "environmentalism" and enforced by green storm troopers.  Your land is really not yours it appears and if you fight them for your rights they have the full force and checkbook of our "people's government" to destroy you.  The Northern Spotted Owl fiasco must be defeated or as the eco nuts say, "it is a canary" in the mine to alert us against the fascists.