government destroys conchs & the Conch Republic

As an attorney in Florida, I deal with environmental laws including
criminal charges. Laws ban the harvesting of conchs in the U.S.   The
laws are a gross injustice piled upon the "tragedy of the commons"
that flows from government ownership of waterways.

        The solution is property rights in conch habitats.  A proposal for
specialty license plates touts the libertarian solution to save
Florida's waterways:  http://members.ij.net/rex/tageverglades6b.jpg 
Also see  http://members.ij.net/rex/comindex.html

        My ancestors helped settle Key West and the Curry Mansion is still on
the local tour.  As a "conch" and as a sixth generation Floridian and
a lifelong resident, I treasure Florida's environment.          The
environmental disaster of socialism has destroyed conchs in the Conch
Republic. The harvest ban is a reminder of the hardship that
bureaucracy imposes upon conchs and those who love them (to eat).  The
lack of freedom fritters away conchs.  All freedom is founded on
private property.  Property rights will put conchs close to people's
hearts (deep inside their stomachs).

        The keys to conch recovery are to keep government out.  Much Florida
water is socialized and Florida land is 30 percent socialized
(government-owned).

        Dwindling conch populations are a creation of bureaucrats who subvert
private property rights under water in favor of trademark socialism:
government ownership with unavailability and bans. Thank goodness the
government isn't involved in most farmlands, foods and goods, or the
results would be similar.

        Private property and aquaculture farming will produce bigger and
better conchs and more of them.  The abundance and prosperity that
inures to land farming, will inure to all seafood, not just conchs.

        Conch hasn't been commercially harvested in Florida since the Ford
administration. The Conch Baby Farm is farming conchs in tanks
adjoining a restaurant, the Conch Republic Seafood Company.  It is
unfortunate that it still seems unprofitable to grow conchs to
maturity in tanks.  And as long as conch habitats are socialized,
there will be little incentive to release young conchs into the wild,
and great incentive to take as many socialized conchs as possible
whenever possible.      The former U.S.S.R., East Europe, and China prove
that socialism is environmentally disastrous.  Conchs prove that
socialism is environmentally disastrous for Florida.

        Instead of socialist restrictions, Florida waters need capitalist
expansions.  Let's fight the government's
antidisestablishmentarianism.

        The best environment is a capitalist environment.  Conchs prove that
the color of a healthy environment and the color of money are the
same.  Mother Nature is a capitalist. Capitalists are the true greens.

(For more libertarian ideas on freedom see http://members.ij.net/rex
and http://rexcurry.net from Rex Curry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]).