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Sublimeballs
12-06-13, 05:03 PM
Mods please forgive this multi posting, given the circumstances.

As some of you are aware the government is trying to add retics, and the other 3 species of anaconda to the Lacey act. There is a petition to stop this(I will add the link to at the bottom). We've got less than a month to get another 99,000 signatures. So we need everyone and their entire families to sign(hopefully multiple times). We need to stop this NOW, they arnt stopping here, the boa constrictor complex is next; and who knows where this will end. Those of you without any giants, please don't feel indifferent about this. You are going to need the same support when your animals end up on the chopping block. The reptile community hasn't had the best history of coming togather, and we need to change this before the only reptile industry is an underground one. Thanks for your time, and please help your fellow herpers.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...-rule/XlnH0X6x

SSSSnakes
12-06-13, 05:21 PM
I understand the importance of this topic, but you need to follow the rules and post appropriately. And yes I do keep large snakes.

Sublimeballs
12-06-13, 06:49 PM
If the mods feel it to be the appropriate action by all means please delete this post, and any others seen as inappropriate. And I do apologize if I've caused any problems. I just felt under these circumstances that the word needed to get out to everyone, as it does pertain to all spectrums of the reptile community. If they get this to pass what's next.

Once again I do apologize.

infernalis
12-06-13, 09:21 PM
since it is the government attacking our hobby, this thread can slide.

however, I am a firm believer that online petitions do zero, nada, nothing to help the cause.

kwhitlock
12-07-13, 09:20 AM
since it is the government attacking our hobby, this thread can slide.

however, I am a firm believer that online petitions do zero, nada, nothing to help the cause.

I agree in some cases. However when their was a huge internet act, that would have basically shut down any and all downloading, of free and paid for media. The only reason it was shut down, was because of online petitions and other forms based off the internet side of things. Just my .02, they do work just not as effectivly as other forms of protest.

Will0W783
12-10-13, 10:06 AM
The link doesn't work. I get a 404 error on the White House page.