06-15-2013, 11:04 PM
That's about the kind of sense it makes.Everyone knows this to be false except the judge and Beck apparently.That's saying anything created after Idaho became a state is not open to the public because it was not navigable in its original state. What a ridiculous line of reasoning! Canals are created all the time for irrigation and such and everybody knows you can swim in pretty much any canal you see. Comes back to the fact you cannot own the water itself, you can only divert it for personal use. Its simply not for sale in order to protect the publics right to use it. If that were the case everyone would be buying water on the snake river and before long the public would not be able to fish it at all unless you were one of the fortunate rich guys to own a portion of it.Judges line of reasoning is totally bogus. And what is even more concerning to me is the fact that the judge had 30 days to make a ruling, yet made up his mind in 7 days. Seems like something like this should have had more time spent making sure he got it right.I think he knew which way he was going with it before he even heard the case.
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