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House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon
MarkWhittington writes "Two House Democrats, Reps. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), have proposed a bill called Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act, H.R. 2617 (PDF), that would establish the Apollo Lunar Landing Sites National Historical Park at all the Apollo lunar landing sites, according to a story in The Hill. 'The park would be comprised of all artifacts left on the surface of the moon from the Apollo 11 through 17 missions. The bill says these sites need to be protected because of the anticipated increase in commercial moon landings in the future.'"
Sorry, I am not a
pervert,
alcohol or drug abuser,
high officer in the KKK,
tax cheat,
so I don't qualify
The real reason they want to make a park on the moon is so they can setup a gun free zone that actually has zero crime.
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed H
In the 1960's the Democrats fell all over themselves to sign an international treaty that says, essentially "nobody can own anything in space" at a time when the US is the only nation with the demonstrated ability to go to any place in space that has the potential to be owned (because they insist that the whole world will like us better if we do this). They're like terrible Sally Fields impersonators... "you like me... you really like me..." always insisting the US must do things to make everybody like us no matter whether the actions will have long term negative effects (like in this case making most commercial activity that might otherwise happen in space either illegal or legally dubious)
Then, years later, they propose doing things in direct contradiction to their earlier political/P.R. stunt.... as a new stunt
News flash: Since nobody can own anything on the moon (thanks to that stupid Democrat treaty) we do not own the lunar landing sites on the moon and cannot make them "national parks"... and since nobody owns the moon, nobody can give the UN control over it either (you can only give somebody something if you own it in the first place...), so it cannot become a "world heritage site", which is a stupid idea anyway given that it is decidedly off-world. Furthermore, since Obama has declared that we will not return to the moon and doing so would be dumb, we are in no position to [a] place anything there to mark a "park", [b] detect anybody violating the "park", or [3] enforce anything.
Nice play, dimwits... how about doing something to get the government boot off the necks of small businesses so we can get some job growth...