I completely agree that the 100,000 number was purely fabricated propaganda to scare the American people. This and the bogus USGS report just goes to show how much the Florida legislators will lie and exagerrate to get federal funding.

How come they were able to find the micro chipped animals intact but not the 100,000 others? Surely a many of them should pop up. They found lots of dead alligators, fish and manatees but very few pythons, go figure.

This whole situation has been grossly blown out of proportion and IMO those who lied should be held accountable and prosecuted for misleading the American people and government for their bogus testimony so they could rob money from the Feds and push their extremist ideology at the expense of hard working citizens.

If I ran into a movie theater and yelled fire when there was no danger I would be prosecuted and convicted yet when government agencies do it nothing is done.