Lawsuits and the Fires

The Society for the Prevention of Reasonable Forest Management is heading to Federal Court in Sacramento today to file suit against the Bush administration for causing the wild fires in Southern California which are hindering the SPORFM's lawsuits against the Bush administration over the Healthy Forests Initiative passed in 2003.

The SPORFM is suing the government in SoCal to prevent the thinning of trees and removal of brush from overly dense growth areas which the administration contends can fuel wildfires. That lawsuit is being delayed because the current wild fires in the San Diego area have caused the closure of the federal court building.

This unreasonable delay is what has caused the SPORFM to file their new lawsuits today. These new lawsuits blame the administration for unreasonably delaying the implementation of the Healthy Forests Initiative passed in 2003 which was to thin trees and remove brush from overly dense growth areas where the current wild fires are burning. If they are successful the government will have to pay damages to the SPORFM and the suit also seeks the court to direct that the delayed suits in SoCal be summarily ruled in favor of the SPORFM and that the groups be awarded damages for the government's having removed trees and brush from the overly dense growth areas where the current wild fires are burning.

The SPORFM is seeking a total of $2 billion dollars - $1 billion for the delay caused by the fires and $1 billion for the few trees actually removed in trying to prevent the fires that delayed the suit that caused the fires that delayed the suit that caused the fires that delayed the suit...

(In case any Moonbats read this this is called satire! - And for those in Rio Linda - it is a sad, funny story) H/T Michelle Crossposted at RobBoyce