“Today we can’t ride a manatee, tomorrow we won’t be able to open a business.... The purpose of the endangered species act isn’t to protect endangered species, it’s to deny people private property.”

But the right to ride a manatee is simply the first threatened liberty on a slippery slope towards a full government takeover of our right to abuse and manipulate other living creatures.
“We have to understand that the federal government could eventually interfere with the ability to have monkeys trained to ride dogs,” he explained.

Stupid, stupid republicans.