Writing for WorldNetDaily, Henry Lamb explains how a last-hour “unanimous consent” maneuver by Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev) sought to enact legislation that otherwise “can’t stand the scrutiny of public debate and public opposition.” The bill — S. 990, The American Wildlife Enhancement Act of 2001 — passed, and Lamb is none too pleased:

This particular bill should have been entitled ‘Screw-The-Landowner Act of 2001.’ It is one of several proposals to provide tax dollars and authorization to convert even more of the rapidly diminishing private property in America to government inventories.

This bill provides $600 million per year for five years for the ‘acquisition of an area of land or water that is suitable or capable of being made suitable for feeding, resting or breeding by wildlife.’ With this broad purpose, no land anywhere is safe from condemnation and acquisition by an agency of government. The money can also be given to environmental organizations for land acquisition. Moreover, this bill explicitly exempts land deals from scrutiny or oversight required by the federal Advisory Committee Act.

Apparently, the U.S. Senate will use our taxes to buy pigswill if it is sold in a green bucket.

More advocacy legislation, huh? Well, no worries. Modern identity politics provides us all with loopholes to get around such garbage. Here’s my ploy: I’m planning on claiming I’m “ethnically amoeban” by virtue of an evolutionary “heritage” I can trace back billions of years. Once I prove my case, I plan to apply for a good-sized chunk o’ that beachfront “wilderness area” land (in Oregon, maybe?) the feds have been hoarding (to allow frogs to copulate in peace, from what I understand…).

Once I get things set up, I’ll have you all over for a barbecue…

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