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y Joseph Farah and Rep. Richard Pombo, R-CA
� 1998
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that
property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and
that there is not a force of law and public justice to
protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." --
John Adams
Imagine you have just purchased a two-bedroom
condo in New York City. You had saved money for
10 years to buy it. It is conveniently located, has a
beautiful view, and you plan to turn one of the
bedrooms into a home office for your consulting
business. You paid $300,000 for the condo, but you
are thrilled to have it.
After signing the check for the down payment, you are
all set to move in your furniture, computer, and
personal effects. You hear a knock at the door. Two
armed agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS) want to talk to you about your condo and your
plans to run a consulting business from that second
bedroom. You see, your condo has been designated as
critical habitat for the endangered Manhattan
cockroach.
The Manhattan cockroach once roamed freely all over
the island of Manhattan, but human activities like the
construction of high-rise condominiums, subways, and
roads have reduced the habitat of the cockroach by
over 98.5 percent. Their numbers have fallen
drastically, according to a study done by a New York
University graduate student in his apartment on
Forty-third Street and Ninth Avenue. Last August, he
discovered twenty roaches in a three-hour period. This
year he could only locate ten. From this data, he
requested that the roach be listed as an endangered
species based on a 50 percent reduction in its
population. Since no one submitted contrary claims to
the FWS, it used this "best available data" and made
the listing.
As a result, the FWS agents say that your second
bedroom must be set aside for the cockroach. You are
not allowed to put any furniture, clothes, or computer
equipment in that room. You may not vacuum the floor
in that room, as you may eliminate the roach's food
supply. If you enter the room, you must be careful not
to step on, harass, or intimidate any roaches that you
might see. Turning on the light suddenly, for instance,
frightens the roach and causes it to scurry away. If you
do any of these things, it will be considered an
unauthorized "taking" of the roach and you will be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law -- a year in
prison and a $100,000 fine for each harassed roach.
In addition to setting aside your second bedroom for
the roach, you must also allow for a "migration
corridor" through your kitchen so that the roach may
move from one habitat (your bedroom) to its next
nearest habitat (the bedroom of the family next door).
The agents inform you that the family next door used a
vacuum cleaner in the roach's habitat, accidentally
sucking up five roaches into the vacuum cleaner bag.
The FWS brought charges, and when the family fought
prosecution in court, the government subpoenaed their
tax returns, immigration records, and old car rental
receipts to see if they were good citizens. The family
soon complied with all the provisions of the
Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Being a good citizen yourself, you agree to the
conditions, believing that you can live in harmony with
one of God's creatures. Weeks pass, and you notice
that the roaches are not content to remain in their
habitat or in their migration corridor, but tend to get up
into your grocery shelves. Your children are afraid to
move around in the condo and the smell from the
second bedroom is getting pretty bad. Since you
cannot operate your consulting business from home,
you rent office space. But the prices are so high, you
soon have to give it up.
You decide that your condo is not worth the trouble,
and decide to unload it. You go to a real estate agent
to put it up for sale, but discover that since your condo
was declared a critical habitat for the Manhattan
cockroach, no one wants to live there. The best
available offer is $25,000 from the Save the
Cockroach Association of Manhattan (SCAM).
SCAM is a nonprofit organization that buys up
cockroach habitat. It bought your next door neighbor's
condo for $25,000 and sold it to the federal
government the next day for the original pre-habitat
price of $300,000.
You find this a bit on the unethical side, but just before
you take the $275,000 loss, your upstairs neighbor's
waterbed bursts and floods your condo, completely
annihilating the population of roaches. Believing it to be
a sign from heaven, you begin to mop up in order to
begin your life anew when you hear a knock at the
door. There you find two armed agents of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers. It appears your condo has
just been designated a wetland.
Sound far-fetched? While admittedly a composite of
government abuses and environmental horror stories,
events very similar to those above have actually
occurred to residents of western states. And while no
cockroaches were involved, property owners and their
families have had their lives and livelihoods ruined by
endangered flies, beetles, rats and shellfish.
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