But AmeriKa doesn't care, because we are a culture of death.
Just look around you, reader!
"Navy Advances in Sonar Fight" by JESSE McKINLEY/New York Times September 1, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 — A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court here ruled Friday that the Navy could use high-intensity sonar during military exercises in the Pacific, despite worries about its potentially lethal effect on whales and other marine mammals.
The 2-to-1 decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, stays a temporary injunction on the sonar’s use that was handed down in early August by a federal district judge in Los Angeles. It is the latest turn in a lengthy seesaw battle between the military and environmental groups over this so-called midfrequency sonar, intense underwater blasts of sound that the Navy uses to track quiet-running submarines.
Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld, writing for himself and Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, said that while the sonar might be “quite harmful” to marine mammals, the current state of the world necessitated military readiness.
[So let's destroy life so we can save it, 'eh?
The state of the world, unfortunately, is a contrived war by a bunch of power-mad megalomaniacs that is based on LIES!!!]
Judge Kleinfeld wrote: “The public does indeed have a very considerable interest in preserving our natural environment and especially relatively scarce whales, but it also has an interest in national defense.”
Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. dissented, largely on the ground that the Navy had not demonstrated that it was likely to prevail at trial of the underlying suit, brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council and other plaintiffs.
The Navy hailed the latest decision, saying that no “injury of a marine mammal has been associated with the Navy’s use of sonar” in more than 40 years of exercises.
Environmental groups contest that, saying midfrequency sonar can travel thousands of miles underwater, confusing and injuring marine mammals, leading to stranding and death."
[I get tired of my government killing things and promoting a militaristic culture of death.
How 'bout you, reader?]
