Thanks, environmentalists.  Because alligators are a federally “protected species” they must be treated in Florida and elsewhere with kid gloves.  When someone complains to the authorities about a “nuisance gator” (Yeah, eating someone’s child is a bit of a nuisance), the protocol is that the environmental bureaucrats hire alligator wranglers to catch the beast and “relocate” it.  Of course, the gators being gators, they then go wherever the hell they want to go.

After the two-year-old boy was killed by a gator at Disney last week a San Diego father who had vacationed there was interviewed by the media and said that he snatched his own young son up after seeing TWO gators racing toward the child at the resort.  The environmentalist-in-chief at the resort told him that those gators were “pets” and would not bother anyone.  The father was a tad skeptical.  One wonders if SHE would have left HER two-year-old son standing there to play with her pet alligators.

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