> The fact is that so many people have dammed, diverted, and
> otherwise screwed up creeks and rivers that effect others
> downstream and the overall health of the ecosystem that severe
> regulation and permitting has been opposed.
TH>The above sentence doesn't make sence.
TH>First, who says 'so many people...screwed up streams.' Sure there has
TH>been abuses, but who says that representitive of 'so many?' I think
TH>you are misrepresenting facts, here.
TH>As for as this 'overall health of the eco-system' crap. You are saying
TH>that we need 'severe regulation' because of a few abuses. You don't
TH>seem to care much about individual property rights. Maybe it's because
TH>you don't own any property. But, I do, and the federal government
TH>apparently thinks that all property is effectivly theirs. After all
TH>you have no right to tell me what I can and can't do with my
TH>property, but the government thinks it does.
 They think the same things about our money, too!
MW> Who's to guarantee that you wouldn't be one of those selfish
  > desecrators of our streams?
 So, just in case...??
TH>It's called dammages. If you do something that adversly affects me, I
TH>can sue you for dammages. I have to wait for you to dammage me,
TH>however, or prove that what you are doing will dammage me.
MW> Maybe you aren't, but I'd rather see the regs in there to make
  > sure you do the job right.
TH>That's not what 'the regs' are for in many cases. They are there to
TH>(1) take money in the form of fees, and (2) limit, or prevent you from
TH>doing certain things. And, since so many eco-wackos have taken control
TH>of the asylem (the government burocracy) they made it a crime to fill
TH>in a misquitto breeding, mud hole by calling them 'vernal pools.' They
TH>made private property worthless because of some stuipd flower the size
TH>of your thumbnail, they..... hell, this ain't the echo for this.
TH>Some regulation, ie. that authorized by the Constitution, is okay by
TH>me. The regulation I see today is neither Constitutional or even
TH>American. Communists don't mind, however.
 Nor Socialists.
TH>That's what bugs me.
 AMEN!
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