Environmental terrorism
By Daniel B. Jeffs, founder DDC
March 7, 2009

Today, I learned that veracious water consuming, non-indigenous Tamarisk trees are threatening billions of gallons of Colorado River water supplies, equivalent to the annual water usage of the populations of Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego combined. Officials want to destroy the trees, which they should certainly do, however replacement trees would be very expensive.

Nevertheless, it was determined that a species of beetle could be set loose on the trees and perform the same function naturally. However, conservationist zealots object to such an action because it would destroy a species of finch that nests in Tamarisk trees.

It wasn't bad enough that, in order to protect the tiny Delta smelt, environmentalist and conservationists caused a federal court reduction of 30 percent of State Water Project water that supplies irrigation water for millions of acres of Central Valley farming, and water to millions of people in Southern California. Now, the eco-activists are poised to have the water supplies cut even further to protect the Long Fin smelt and the Delta eco-system.

Indeed, it's simply mindboggling how so-called environmentalists and judicial activists are able to get away with endangering the health and welfare of the greater population of California, with impunity. Not to mention the outrageous cost of living under extreme, unreasonable environmental laws and regulations. Surely, the state is in dire need of a complete overhaul of inept government, particularly in light of the ongoing economic and budget crisis. Clearly, not to do something about it would be tantamount to surrendering to environmental terrorism.