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Enviro-freaks are trying to sue the U.S. Navy for using sonar:

Environmentalists sued the Navy on Wednesday, claiming that a widely used form of sonar for detecting enemy submarines disturbs and sometimes kills whales and dolphins.

The Navy settled a similar lawsuit two years ago by agreeing to limit the peacetime use of experimental low-frequency sonar.

The new lawsuit...seeks a court order to curb mid-frequency sonar, the most common method of detecting enemy submarines.

Yeah, yeah; we get it. Next on the chopping block is high-frequency sonar. Then passive sonar. Then submarines. Then ships. Then people in the water.

Stop trying to placate these sanctimonious, self-loathing neo-hippies. Just tell them to get stuffed and move on. That's why the government has to give its permission to be sued: to avoid pointless wastes of time and resources like this so-called lawsuit.

The lawsuit blames the Navy for the January stranding and deaths of at least 37 whales on North Carolina's Outer Banks after a mid-frequency sonar exercise.

How do they know? What evidence is there? Did they ask the whales' relatives? Maybe a freak current or a salinity spike killed them. There are a hundred other possible explanations; the burden of proof lies with those making extraordinary claims.

Of course, salinity spikes and rogue temperature gradients don't have money. Lots of money. Taxpayer money.

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