One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive
Orders Went Entirely Unnoticed
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Posted By: RockyTCB,
5/15/2025 8:45:28 AM
Not long after Michelino Sunseri, a professional mountain runner, finished a race across Grand Teton last fall, he found himself on the receiving end of a Justice Department criminal charge. His offense? Running on a closed trail, for which he could end up serving six months in jail.
We are not making this up.
Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to prevent such gross abuses. It is one of the most important – and underappreciated – actions he’s taken.
The “crime” Sunseri committed wasn’t a federal law passed by Congress. It was a crime invented by the National Park Service – one of some 300,000
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Strike3 5/15/2025 9:15:42 AM (No. 1950179)
All I can determine is that running causes climate change. Many fish and game commissions have rules that are equally ridiculous and they seem to hire the most ill-tempered soldier wannabes in the country. An error like shooting a squirrel one day after the season closes can affect your second amendment rights and earn you a hefty fine. Heaven forbid that the fish you just caught is a half-inch too short.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/15/2025 9:30:16 AM (No. 1950204)
I was once told that if I were to “relocate” a red squirrel (or whatever I could nab in my Have-a-Heart trap), I would be “breaking a law,” whether State or Federal I don’t recall.
Ted’s are smart and clever little rascals…
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/15/2025 9:31:50 AM (No. 1950207)
Not “Ted’s”, REDS. Ted’s might be smart and clever, too😉
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 5/15/2025 9:32:53 AM (No. 1950210)
Arrrgh No apostrophes on Teds
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/15/2025 9:53:38 AM (No. 1950228)
#s 2,3 &4, we empathize. It’s doubtful that any one of us has escaped the “help” of an unhelpful Autocorrect, and failed to proofread its “helpfulness”. Aggravating!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 5/15/2025 9:58:20 AM (No. 1950230)
This shows what kind of morons we have running our government. We must do better.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/15/2025 10:17:27 AM (No. 1950246)
FTA: Critics dismiss the Trump order as just window dressing.
“The reality,” says the National Law Journal’s Dan Novak, “is that the U.S. Department of Justice rarely brings such cases.”
But it does bring such cases, and the mere fact that it can is the problem, as Sunseri can attest.
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The mere fact that it CAN bring such cases is the problem. Hello to common sense!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 5/15/2025 10:17:52 AM (No. 1950248)
Almost everything we suffer with can be laid at the feet of an unelected 'government agency'. Shower heads, stop/start on cars, poor dishwashers, 'sacred' land because of a mouse... ...we could go on. None of which were approved by Congress, as it likely wouldn't have been approved.
Apostrophes be damned.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/15/2025 11:25:09 AM (No. 1950288)
"Did you know?"
It is a crime to pick up any feather from the ground and stick it in your hat, collect it for a kindergarten art project, or for any other reason.
While eagle feathers were first to be outlawed, hawks, owls, and buzzards soon followed. Now every non game species is forbidden.
You CAN however "Buy them online" from licensed feather collectors, raisers, wildlife rehabbers that have a "Permit" to sell them, but you need to keep the receipt handy to PROVE the legality of possession.(I was informed of this by a DNR ranger who noticed a bluejay feather in my hat band)
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/15/2025 11:30:52 AM (No. 1950295)
On the other hand...lost or injured runners/skiers/birdwatchers/mountain climbers needing to be "Rescued" on state/federal land can due so FREE of any resulting charges or financial liability, IF they posses a valid hunting license, because those rescue force funds are derived from Hunters fees.(though in practice, such mostly anti-hunter folks, rarely if ever get cited or charged)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 5/15/2025 11:52:58 AM (No. 1950313)
What can't be passed as a law can be done with 'regulations'.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/15/2025 12:06:01 PM (No. 1950325)
The Soviet Approach. Make it literally impossible to live a normal life without running afoul of some law or regulation which can send you to prison, or get a massive fine. THEN you ignore any infractions by favored people, and punish only those who "get out of line" politically.
Taking away many of these bogus regulatory "crimes" is a good thing.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyVet 5/15/2025 3:44:31 PM (No. 1950411)
A lot of this started as soon as Clinton got into office and the greenies got into the US Forest Service, National Parks, EPA, etc. My grandfather's property bordered national forest and I was accustomed to driving on Forest Service roads and enjoying the smells and sounds of the forest. Soon after Clinton took office, the FS put large logs across the roads and signs warning the locals to stay out. I have despised him ever since.
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The power of bureaucracy is how tyrants rules a nation.
We must insist on law and order and the three branches of government, or we will have tyranny.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/16/2025 8:24:07 AM (No. 1950702)
Reply 2:
I relocate trapped ground squirrels if my wife knows about it. If she doesn’t know, in the hole they go. Those dirt rats with bigger tails are pests and not protected. I don’t need to worry about Teds where I am.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/16/2025 10:00:30 AM (No. 1950746)
So it comes back to this...for the past 35 years the national park service dudes have been given unchecked rule over the environment...and I'm assuming the funds to pass legislation and keep someone's uncle happy with the job and the extra money each month.....it's governmental corruption from DC...and WE're including republican and democrat presidents supposedly running the government...all along it's been the globalist oligarchs in Davos.....
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