The Black Crows got another one correct this past week when the Navy won a case that directly involved American national security. Largely based upon speculation whale activist’s had sued to stop the Navy from doing their job. That being the defense of the United States.
The United States Navy scored a victory this week in the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle against environmentalists and their accomplices in the Ninth Circuit Court. The question was whether the Navy could test sonar systems off the California coast in spite of alleged harm to whales and dolphins. The sonar is essential in detecting new “quiet” submarines deployed by China and North Korea. A district court in California had ruled that the Navy must cease such exercises in order to save the whales, and the Ninth Circuit Court agreed. The Bush administration had countered by exempting the Navy from the federal laws cited in the case, saying that national security trumped the whales. This week, the Supreme Court agreed. “We do not discount the importance of plaintiffs’ ecological, scientific and recreational interests in marine mammals. Those interests, however, are plainly outweighed by the Navy’s need to conduct realistic training exercises,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. “We see no basis for jeopardizing national security.”
Unfortunately, the decision could be rendered moot by the incoming Obama administration, which would likely stop the exercises.
There has to be a reason that Greenpeace stays the hell out of the way of the U.S. Navy…
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