[extropy-chat] EU constitution collapses/taxifornian glo-fish

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote
> 
> Consider the following case of rights being taken away
> by means which I would have thought unconstitutional: 
> Taxifornia state fish and game commissioner Sam Schuchat 
> (not an elected post as far as I know) recently decided 
> they would not allow genetically modified glow-in-the-dark 
> aquarium fish to be sold here.  The yahoo flatly stated 
> that he had consulted *with his rabbi* before making the decision.  
> 
> That raised three big red flags: 1) he was acting outside the
> capacity of interpreting the state constitution: essentially
> making law, and 2) he was making it based on religious
> reasoning, and 3) the commission appears to be dictating
> in an area in which they have no apparent jurisdiction.
> When I hear of stuff like this, I am tempted to go buy
> a school of glo-fish in Nevada, bring them here and
> release them into the wild.
> 
> Schuchat commented:
> 
> "For me it's a question of values, it's not a question of 
> science," said commissioner Sam Schuchat. "I think selling 
> genetically modified fish as pets is wrong."

AHAHAAAAAAA! This means that selling them to *stock* wilderness areas
must be okay!!! Go for it , Spike!!! You just can't keep them as
pets.... ;) Thing is that they will wind up in the wild pretty soon
anyways when people flush them down the toilet.



=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
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