law news and legalese

[Mark Walker]

James Kruse wrote:

> Please don't mistake my above questions for condoning any of the
> activities this man apparently is guilty of.  I do not myself, nor support
> the act of, collecting within National Parks or other areas protected by
> law.  So hold the flames, they would be misdirected.

The only crime Mr. Teobaldelli committed was assuming he was vacationing in a
forward society.  200 specimen from across the nation?  That seems pretty
reasonable to me.  The report made it sound like a huge crime.  Someone should
give Mr. Teobaldelli an award.  Give him some of the Federal money reserved for
expanding scientific and environmental awareness.  My bet is that Mr.
Teobaldelli loves nature, and is within the top 2% of the world population in
terms of nature-friendliness.  Thumbs down on our treatment of Mr. Teobaldelli.
 We should reimburse him ten-fold, and hope that our treatment won't create any
long term negative side effects (like firing up a bunch of ignorant
environmentalist-wanna-be's bent on further discouraging this very appropriate
and admirable behavior).

Geez.  What a crime!  To think that he actually saved his hard earned hospital
paychecks to take a nature excursion of the United States National Park System
instead of flying to Las Vegas and spending it at the roulette wheel!  Maybe we
should've shot him.

Are the Mr. Teobaldelli's of the world really the problem?  I say they killed
more than 51 Leps during their highway pursuit of our Italian friend.  Multiply
that by the average number of automobiles visiting Yosemite Valley during the
flying season.  Talk about a crime!

Sorry, James.  This is not meant to appear as a _rebuttal_, since I know where
you stand.  I just can't believe this 'development'.  It scares me, really.

Mark Walker.