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10/21/2004

Under the sea, under the sea....

Under the sea, under the sea, they'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans, under the sea........

I wouldn't have believed this had I not found the story via several different sources.

9th Circuit Court in San Francisco determines that marine mammals may not sue President Bush for the Navy's use of sonar equipment.

Okay, let's put aside the absurity that the case even made it to a local chancery court - much less up to the 9th Circus. It took these socialist judges 18 pages to explain why these aquatic creatures could not sue the President.

LOS ANGELES -- The world's whales, porpoises and dolphins have no standing to sue President Bush over the U.S. Navy's use of sonar equipment that harms marine mammals, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, widely considered one of the most liberal and activist in the country, said it saw no reason animals should not be allowed to sue but said they had not yet been granted that right.

"If Congress and the President intended to take the extraordinary step of authorizing animals as well as people and legal entities to sue they could and should have said so plainly," Judge William A. Fletcher wrote in an 18-page opinion for the panel.

The lawsuit was brought against Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on behalf of "the cetacean community" -- defined as the world's whales, porpoises and dolphins -- by their self-appointed lawyer, marine mammal activist Lanny Sinkin.

The reason? They can't sue because they had not yet been given the right to sue.

I would have thought the reason might be that they can't talk, write, make phone calls to lawyers - not to mention that they live in freaking ocean. Well, I know the 9th circus has a long history of judicial idiocy, but this is over the top, even for those asshats. Is it any wonder I've lost any faith in our judicial system?