Here’s a little tableau of your tax dollars at work. An intrepid agent of the United States Department of Fish and Wildlife, no doubt bearing the departmental device — mallard in flight and breaching bass set against mountain and sun — upon his shoulder, arrives (along with armed police escort) at the doorstep of 11-year-old Virginia girl Schylar Capo to deliver a $535 fine, for the federal crime of transporting a protected species of woodpecker. The vile youth had apparently “rescued” the bird from the clutches of a cat, intent on nursing it back to health for a few days before releasing it.

UPDATE: I see Iain Murray noted this at the time.