"Dave Stirling's book makes a strong case that the federal
government's confiscatory regulation of private property in the name of
protecting so-called endangered plant and wildlife species is another
step in trampling our Fifth Amendment guarantees. Unless abated
by informed people, this below-the-radar heavy-handedness will
ultimately eliminate the concept of private property in America as we
know it."
Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
"For the landowner with an endangered species on his property, a nightmare has begun. Not only can he not use his property if the use might cause harm to the species or its habitat – for which he also risks prosecution, but he receives no compensation for his lost land-use. Nor does the federal agency that enforces the Endangered Species Act have any concern for him. But say "endangered species" to members of the public and most will think of polar bears and bald eagles, not Delhi sands flower-loving flies or kangaroo rats. Dave Stirling's book is a crucial and long-overdue effort to shine a spotlight on this most burdensome of federal environmental statutes, and the extreme green movement that propels it."
Hugh Hewitt, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, and Professor of Constitutional Law, Chapman University Law School
"Mr. Stirling's book is a call for balance between preserving the natural world and protecting the living needs of people. The green movement's extreme agenda for preserving plant and wildlife species has not only cost Americans billion of dollars every year, while saving only a handful of species, but continues to enable the deaths of millions of the world's poor people. That agenda has also cost many Americans their lives, jobs, and homes. Finally, a book that does not cater to political correctness."
Michael Reagan, host of the nationally-syndicated radio program, "The Very Independent Michael Reagan Show"
