Stupid politicians & the Lacey Act

As you may know, I hate politicians. Most, if not all politicians. Nothing but sneaky, underhanded, lying, jerks. Although I guess since I did find Jill Stein to vote for for president they aren't all bad. Maybe it's like the squeaky wheel thing, the ones that make the most noise get all the attention. So the ones making the most noise that have made me mad today are the idiots trying to limit the Lacey Act. The Lacey Act was first enacted in 1900 and prohibits the trade of illegally harvested plants & animals. Illegally harvest ANYWHERE!! That means if something is illegally harvested in Russia, it's illegal to sell it here. You get the idea? So now we have these idiots, yes, I'm being nice, from Kentucky & Georgia that say the Lacey Act is too harsh and that people are being over-criminalized for minor infractions. IDIOTS, I tell you. This would be Paul & Broun, respectively, and imagine this, they're republicans. So what is behind their idiocy. I'm guessing someone is paying them, because that company or individual wants to fish or harvest animals somewhere where it's illegal and those individuals want to get the law "downgraded" so they can do whatever they want. Damnit, those laws are in place for a reason. A lot of the the laws have to do with harvesting size. The reason behind the harvest size is to ensure the population doesn't crash. If you take something before it's had a chance to reproduce you have a really good chance of having a population go extinct. So harvest size limits are used to ensure animals are allowed to reproduce before they are harvested for food.  Anyway. These idiots (policiticians) are claiming that 2 people back in 2001 were thrown in jail just because they didn't have lobsters they harvested packaged correctly. At least that is the crap they are touting to the public, trying to get support for their moronic quest to loosen regulations. Back in 1999 2 guys were caught for harvesting lobsters that were too small, in violation of a Honduran law. Not only were these lobsters not large enough they were also packaged incorrectly, in black plastic bags. hmmm, maybe so they weren't easily visible, since the fishermen KNEW that they were taking lobsters that were too small. The idiots are claiming that these were just men trying to make a living and they didn't know that they were harvesting lobsters that were too small. I call BULLS**&T!! (if you've ever played the drinking game or card game, you know what I'm talking about) These men knew EXACTLY what they were doing, and the federal agents in charge of the case were able to prove that these men had smuggled in over $$15 MILLION DOLLARS worth of illegal fished lobsters. Seriously? trying to make a living? Not only were the feds able to prove that they smuggled in 15 million worth of lobsters, they also proved that these guys used an obscure port were the inspectors didn't know much about foreign laws on catch size. And then when the men knew that the feds were looking at them, they changed ports, not once, but twice! Even trying to come in through Canada. Does that really sound like men "just trying to make a living"? no, I think not.  The crazy thing about the Lacey Act is it's hard to prove, people are more likely to get prosecuted under the ESA than the Lacy Act. The feds don't go after minor infractions, they go after people that smuggle $15 mill of illegally harvested lobsters into the country. So now the idiot politicians want to limit the Lacey Act. Seriously, go fight for something else, like health care for everyone, or how about food for everyone. There are starving people in the U.S. as we speak. I hate politicians!