US citizens: [ call for protection of monarch butterflies ]( http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-the-us-fish-wildlife?mailing_id=24809&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=623500 ) , whose numbers have fallen by 90%. Please don't distort the formerly useful word "decimate". It means killing ten percent of something. (The Romans used this as a punishment for military units that mutinied and then surrendered.) What we have done to the monarch butterflies is far worse than decimation.
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