The prosecutor should be facing charges...

Here we have a story of a man on trial for killing a cat. He did not slowly torture the thing to death, nor was he out luring neighbors' cats into traps. No, he shot a cat that was stalking endangered birds. OK, it is probably overkill, but the fellow is an ornithological sort.

Now he is facing criminal charges. The prosecutors are using all of the rhetoric of a real crime: cold-blooded. lingered. suffered.

Shooting a feral cat with a rifle to protect endangered species is a crime now? For the same reason we can hold up the building of schools, cost public and private sectors millions in one fell swoop, but we cannot shoot a cat? We can murder humans in their own wombs, but the life of a feral cat is protected by the might of law?

I am curious...are we exporting these great values to Iraq and the other places that we are bringing democracy, capitalism and the American Way?