Poop Shute

Ladies and Gentlemen, Logic is Losing the War of Ideas

Last March the AZGFD (Arizona Game & Fish Department) went on a lion hunt in Sabino Canyon and some guys from a group called Earth First! used non-violent means to disrupt the hunt. From what I've read it seems they snuck into an area that was officially closed off by the AZGFD and then they proceded to spread around lion urine in a false trail to mess with the hunters' bloodhounds, and they "disabled" a snare. I can't say if disabled means they just set it off, took it apart, or actually damaged it, but I'm guessing they didn't leave it in working order.

I have to say, it takes a determined s.o.b. to not only acquire containers of lion urine, but to spread it around in an area closed off because it is actually populated by real lions. These guys were trotting around trying to save the lives of a handful of beasts that would just as soon eat them as look at them.

Anyway, at first they were indicted for a number of conspiracy charges, prominent among those charges was entering into an official AZGFD closure. But guess what! It turned out whoever ordered the closure didn't actually have the authority to do so, and therefore it was not official afterall. The indictments, of course, were thrown out.

I just heard on NPR that new indictments have been brought against the gentlemen claiming that the Earth Firsters thought that it was an official closure and acted anyway, and therefore..

WHAT?!?!

So, if I THINK I'm breaking a law, when I am clearly not, and I act anyway...

I should be punished as if I had actually broken a law? What kind of argument is that?

This is like a kissing cousin to the catholic idea that thinking about doing something sinful is equally as bad as doing it. So if I THINK about worshipping a golden calf while humping my neighbor's wife, stealing from him, all the while talking trash about my father and mother and spreading fake lion urine around... I go to hell? You know, if I just think about it? I'm sorry to say, but if that is true then we are all going to hell. Who never has a bad thought? But I digress.

In the unlikely event that marijuana were to be legalized tomorrow should I be arrested for smoking it if I didn't know about the repeal of the ban? I mean, let's say a cop sees me smoking it, and I go to hide it and pretend like I'm not smoking it and he figures out that I thought it was still illegal, should I go to jail for that?

I have thus far been unable to find the new indictment online, but HERE is the original. I'm sure there is more to the new indictment than just the bad thoughts argument, but the fact that this idea is even a consideration at all is what I find so damn infuriating. Also kind of funny.

But still infuriating.