National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’ - Polidicks

[quote]On July 20, Jeffrey Glassberg discovered that the Trump administration planned to build a wall through the [URL="https://www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/"]National Butterfly Center[/URL] in South Texas — a 100-acre sanctuary for the monarch butterfly and other threatened species. The founder of the center wasn’t notified in writing by the U.S. Department of Justice, as required by law. Instead, he found out when a group of workers with chainsaws began tearing through specially planted habitat on the privately owned land.[/quote] [url]https://www.texasobserver.org/national-butterfly-center-staff-surprised-by-workers-with-chainsaws-prepping-trumps-border-wall/[/url] Why am I not surprised. (Not sure whether this goes in polidicks or here, feel free to move it.)

thats pretty fucked up, and i dont care how much of an issue he thinks illegals are, if they ever are that much of a problem you really shouldnt EVER fuck with land thats for threatened species

[quote]Wright said 70 percent of their property will be between the river and wall and that it will cut off the visitor center from the rest of the sanctuary — similar to what would happen in the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge[/quote] This part is especially fucked.

Wait, they're actually going forward with this? When did they get funding?

Wasting money, fucking with private property, screwing up natural habitat, [I]and[/I] failing to solve the problem it's supposed to solve by focusing on the wrong issue because "FEELS BEFORE REALS I WANT A WALL RAMPING UP ENFORCEMENT OR DOING SOMETHING ELSE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS DOESN'T MAKE MY DICK FEEL BIG ENOUGH" Fucking morons, if you support this stupid ass wall you're completely detached from reality. I say this not along political lines, but from the point of view of someone who cares about people taking fucking [I]reality[/I] into account. Please, by all means deport illegals or whatever, I don't give a flying [I]fuck[/I], but the fact that you have to destroy other people's shit to build this thing and waste taxpayer money on a vanity project that's not going to do shit is pissing me right the fuck off. Fuck Trump.

[QUOTE=Ericson666;52551904]Wait, they're actually going forward with this? When did they get funding?[/QUOTE] the Washington Post has a more detailed article about the origins of this [QUOTE]President Trump’s promise to build a massive wall faces multiple challenges, including funding, a lack of political support and unforgiving terrain. [B]But he is making use of a 10-year-old congressional act giving then-President George W. Bush authorization to construct a border wall without meeting environmental standards.[/B] [B]The Trump administration has reportedly allocated $40 million to construct 35 giant gates to close gaps in a current border wall along the Rio Grande Valley on the western end of Texas. [/B]The Army Corps of Engineers is also studying a plan to raise the wall of a levee that runs through the area by 10 feet, effectively creating another physical barrier. Wright hoped the contractor could expand the center’s monarch butterfly habitat as part of $400,000 project, but now much of the land it owns could end up behind the wall — which in many places does not follow the international border.[B] “For us, it’s 70 acres,” she said. “Two-thirds of our property and a significant portion of America will wind up behind the border wall. About four percent of our native wildlife will be trapped behind the border wall.”[/B][/QUOTE] [QUOTE]A wall would make desert rains that cause the Rio Grande to flood all the worse, Nicol said. “Animals are trapped, and they drown,” he said.[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/07/trumps-border-wall-would-slice-through-wildlife-refuges-and-cut-off-u-s-territory-in-texas/?utm_term=.3a3ebbf12a21[/url] Literally Dr. Eggman levels of evil.

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52552011]the Washington Post has a more detailed article about the origins of this [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/07/trumps-border-wall-would-slice-through-wildlife-refuges-and-cut-off-u-s-territory-in-texas/?utm_term=.3a3ebbf12a21[/url] Literally Dr. Eggman levels of evil.[/QUOTE] Boy, it's almost as if large-scale constructions have an impact on the land surrounding them. Who could've guessed that this was the case??? Literally the right wing mao. Fuck what people who actually know what they're talking about say on the issue, you're going to do what [i]I[/i] want and start digging, serfs! Useless constructions, useless labor, destructive results.

Remember when Republicans bitched about how the Government was taking private property? Fucking Tribalism...

Don't tread on me Unless its in order to fuck over mexicans, then the government can tread on me as much as they want.

[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;52552378]Don't tread on me Unless its in order to fuck over mexicans, then the government can tread on me as much as they want.[/QUOTE] Don't tread on me, personally.

[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;52552378]Don't tread on me Unless its in order to fuck over mexicans, then the government can tread on me as much as they want.[/QUOTE] Not In My Back Yard. its sad how theres been so many conservatives along the east coast that are pro fracking, pro oil but raise hell everytime someone suggests drilling along their coastline or in their part of the state. if you personally cannot stand something, don't fucking push it onto others, thats what the spirit of the constitution is about. (in practice...)

[QUOTE=Raidyr;52552011]the Washington Post has a more detailed article about the origins of this [url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/07/trumps-border-wall-would-slice-through-wildlife-refuges-and-cut-off-u-s-territory-in-texas/?utm_term=.3a3ebbf12a21[/url] Literally Dr. Eggman levels of evil.[/QUOTE] [quote]But he is making use of a 10-year-old congressional act giving then-President George W. Bush authorization to construct a border wall without meeting environmental standards.[/quote] Why the fuck is this even a thing?

It's texas, just shoot the fuckers.

The Centre is attempting to raise money for a legal battle but they're way short of their goal. [url]https://www.generosity.com/community-fundraising/stop-trump-s-border-wall[/url]