The thugs of St Lucia are especially thuggish — they made a list of people to murder.

The Rhino Rescue Project to protect rhinos by infusing dye and toxins into their horns. This is intended to make them unsalable, and beyond that, to make people scared to ingest any rhino horn, thus driving down the commercial impetus to kill rhinos.

The South African government opposes the plan, claiming it is untested and won't work at all unless it is done to all rhinos.

Here's the RRP's rebuttal.

It claims the government is trying to keep up the value of its stockpile of rhino horns, which it plans to sell.

I don't know whether the infusion method will be effective at driving down demand. If the toxin is not enough to cause noticeable symptoms to users, they may ignore it. Those who buy rhino horns as trophies may not care about it. Still, the idea is worth trying.

As for the need to do this to all rhinos, that gets easier and easier as the number of rhinos goes down.

The US government wants to develop a remote medical scanner that can measure sensitive personal medical data without touching a person. It proposes to apply this to people en masse without probable cause to suspect them of anything.

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