Comment on FR Doc # E8-04317

They're fruit flies, for crying out loud! They're agricultural pests. They're an excuse for government to encroach yet further into lands, funds, "projects," and private property. If you want "picture wings," the Mediterranean fruit fly has far more beautiful wing patterns. And it's regularly battled with poisons, even in residential areas, without residents' permission, for the billions of dollars of damage they do to fruit crops in the U.S. Hawaii has problems with growing our own fruit for reasonable prices here in the islands, our agricultural lands are diminishing, and is stuggling to grow enough for profitable export. Hawaii does not need to cultivate a further future threat to that enterprise. It's outrageous that one department will "protect" an agricultural threat, and then the agricultural department will condemn any fruits for export it finds infested with or damaged by such pests. This is insanity! In the name of "threatened species"! Fruit flies! That can dance differently from other fruit flies?! Oh, yeah, that's a clincher! And all those "species" this legislation is designed to protect: which one is it that dances so prettily? Or do they all do it alike? Then, they're merely subspecies, and none of them combined is worth government or international protection, even if they can be separately designated. Oh -- private property owners within designated "protected habitat" will be prohibited from doing anything on their property that could "threaten" the FRUIT FLIES. And who's going to spy on private property owners to make sure they don't "threaten" these fruit flies with their gardening, building, destroying unwanted vegetation, spraying with insecticides to get rid of dangerous pests like mosquitoes and centipedes? All this is costing us taxpayers. We resent it. We're held hostage to self- styled "environmentalists" and their alarmist cronies whose only aim is to ultimately restrict human beings from any natural habitat, and it seems our government is only too eager to grant them their requests at our expense. I don't want my taxes going to strip my fellow citizens of their private property rights. Especially for FRUIT FLIES! Exactly how are human beings responsible for "endangering" this potential agricultural pest, anyway? Have human beings actually endangered them in the almost two centuries of heavy agriculture here? Do humans actually endanger them by hiking in fruit fly "habitat"? Are there places we can go outside of laboratories to see them do their little dances and be charmed and awed by them? Exactly WHAT is this ruling going to accomplish besides firm up and further "environmentalists' " goals and government reach into citizens' lives? It's time the people stand up against this overgrown and unconstitutional government and tell it "NO! We've given enough!" Especially for a fruit fly. I will kill any fruit fly I find. Promise. Please, if you respect human citizens, if you value human citizens, DO NOT carry through this legislation!