Exposing The Radical Left-Wing Animal Rights Groups For What They Are

I received this press release this morning. You are welcome to go and read the entire article. I wish to highlight some of the more revealing facts and comments made that will help us all to better understand the deranged mentality of extreme members of these groups and exposing them as to what they really are – terrorists!

This is a statement made by the FBI.

In May 2005, John Lewis, FBI deputy assistant director and top official in charge of domestic terrorism, stated, “The number one domestic terrorism threat is the eco-terrorism, animal-rights movement. These groups have a history of disregarding personal and civil rights of citizens in attempts to further their agenda.”

We then are told that the animal rights groups themselves reveal that there is a conspiracy.

Reliable sources within the animal rights (AR) community report that some extremist elements within their organizations are involved in a conspiracy to report false sightings of large cats such as lions, tigers, and leopards.

The press release then goes on to tell of several instances of false reports filed in order for these groups to draw attention to their cause. Evidence also shows that members of these animal rights groups are actually acquiring animals, sometimes exotic ones, for the purpose of releasing them or even killing the animals themselves and dropping them at key locations to appear as though other people are abusing animals.

Cook said the evidence points to the cats having been acquired by animal rights fanatics and set free to be “discovered”.

Participants in the animal rights “false sightings scheme” are encouraged to enlist friends and relatives in filing false reports to lend credibility with numerous eyewitnesses. Additionally, the groups are counseled to call reports when law enforcement staffing is at lower levels, such as Sundays and on holidays.

Marcus Cook, director of the Feline Conservation Federation, says we mustn’t allow these terrorists to get the upper hand.

Cook advises not to let fanatics succeed in enveloping America in a cloud of fear. “We have to continue to live our lives and use our power of reason and our superior intellect to outwit the extreme left-wing AR agenda.”

Speaking for the Feline Conservation Federation, Cook stated, “If American citizens use terror tactics against their own people, it is imperative that we make certain that no matter what their objective, they do not achieve it through these means.”

Tom Remington

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Delaware Paying Through The Nose for Sharpshooters

The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife has hired teams of sharpshooters to cull the deer herd for purposes of scientific study says director Patrick Emory. The culling began on Tuesday night. The teams of sharpshooters are operating at night and DFW hopes to collect 450 does, most of which will be carrying fawns, to help biologists better understand how to manage the deer herd, according to Emory.

The corpses will be analyzed for such things as age-specific reproduction rates, sex ratio of fawns, length of breeding season, and the age structure of the doe population.

Deer hunters are objectionable about the idea of spending tax dollars to cull the herd. They wanted an opportunity to do it. Last fall, DFW asked hunters to donate doe corpses to the study and officials only collected 144.

I seldom criticize wildlife biologists for the simple reason that I know they are a lot more educated than I when it comes to understanding the scientific make-up of animals. What I know comes from experience in the field but I may a better business person than a wildlife expert. There is an aspect of this deer culling event that leaves me wondering if it’s a wise expenditure of taxpayer’s money. If it is, I’m changing professions.

Emory, the director of DFW, in an interview with Newszap.com, said that on the first night out, Tuesday, two teams of sharpshooters bagged 6 deer – yeah, 6. What I don’t know is how many sharpshooters were positioned for the harvest but 6 deer is what they took and they want to cull 450 over a 4 or 5 night hunt. Wow!

Oh, but there’s more. It costs taxpayers about $2,000 per night per sharpshooter team employed. In case you are math illiterate, that’s $4,000 for Tuesday night’s hunt in which sharpshooters bagged 6 deer – in the dark. That places a value of $666.66 on each doe killed. Emory didn’t know how many deer had been taken on Wednesday night. Hopefully it was about 200, to get them caught up with goal quotas.

Emory did say that because of the small number of deer taken, they were beginning to rethink their goals. He said he wasn’t sure if they would just use what deer they had and come up with the best data possible or can the entire operation until a better plan is put in place.

One thing is for sure, spending $4,000 a night to kill 6 deer is ridiculous, considering the fact that the sharpshooting company, or whatever they are, doesn’t have to completely process the deer. In other words, I would assume that they would have to dress the deer and take care of entrails and turn the carcass over to the state.

Often times, sharpshooters hired by cities to cull local deer populations have to take care of everything, including the cost of processing the meat. As I said earlier, I might need to consider changing jobs.

Tom Remington

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What’s Love Got to Do, Got to Do, Got to Do With It?

I don’t think Tina Turner was singing about wild turkeys when she sang that song a few years ago but love is in the air in Maine and the tom turkeys are doing dumb things – like the males of every species seem to do when they get a bit twitterpated.

Maine’s wild turkey population is estimated at around 20,000 birds. That’s double the population from just 6 years ago and to go along with it, turkey permits issued to hunters last year jumped up to 23,951 compared to 4,000 issued five years prior.

With the growing population of the wild turkeys and the fact that now we are headed into the mating season, watch out for them gobblers on the highways and byways of Maine and other states. In Maine there has already been 3 turkey-vehicle collisions this week and I don’t mean the turkeys from Massachussets either.

It’s not always easy to get a turkey to fly but they will and when they have hens on the brain, no telling when, where, and how they’ll fly. One report on the Maine Turnpike said that a driver ran into an in-flight turkey that went through his windshield, landed on the front seat and got up and waddled out the back door of the car – no doubt still looking for that hen.

There’s always good in everything and this is a sign that when the turkey season opens in May, them tomfoolery masters will being trying to convince one big tom it’s time to tango – if the mating season doesn’t come and go by then.

So keep your eyes out for turkeys in love and get practiced up on those turkey calls. You may need them in a few weeks.

Tom Remington

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Maine Warden Promoted

Eleven-year veteran of the Maine Warden Service was promoted to Captain recently. Joel Wilkinson of Greenville had just recently been promoted to Sergeant. Congratulations to Mr. Wilkinson.

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Alaska Man Shoots Moose in the Nose

A Chugiak, Alaska man has been charges with cruelty to animals and the illegal discharge of a weapon, when he shot at a moose that was lounging around in the man’s backyard. He shot the moose in the nose with a .44 caliber handgun. The man told officials he was trying to put the moose out of its misery because it looked like the moose was sick.

Authorities arrived at the scene after neighbors called to report that they had heard several gunshots. They followed a blood trail until they located the moose which seemed to be fine. Officials said that other than a bloody nose, the moose looked healthy. They left the moose alone believing it would be just fine.

It’s a good thing they don’t shoot people who might need to be put out of our misery.

Tom Remington

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Illinois May Drop Goose Hunting Quotas

In a move that is being applauded by goose hunters statewide, Illinois is considering ending its multi-year long quota system for goose hunting. It is hopeful that a plan can be put in place and approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the next season.

The present quota system is set up so that officials predetermine how many geese they will allow to be harvested. When those numbers have been reached, the season is shut down immediately. This of course causes many problems with hunters, some being those who may not have a chance to get out and hunt until later in the season may miss out if quotas are filled. Another difficulty is guides and outfitters trying to schedule hunts not knowing if and when the season may end.

With a new plan, a goose hunting season would be established like the duck season – an opening day and a closing day. Hunters like that idea.

Tom Remington

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South Dakota Officials Testing Animal to Determine If It’s a Wolf

A motorist traveling along Interstate 90, near the Black Hills National Cementery, found a large canine animal lying dead in the median. He turned it over to state Game, Fish and Parks personnel. They have since turned it over to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for DNA testing for two reasons. One is to first determine if it’s a wolf and secondly, if so, try to determine where it came from.

Wolves are native to South Dakota but are not readily seen or reported there. Occasionaly officials get reports of sightings but the last official confirmed sighting was in Harding County in 2001. The animals may stray into the area from surrounding states like Montana, Wyoming and Minnesota.

The dead animal carcass found on the Interstate was male, weighing 113 pounds and had many of the classic signs of being a wolf. Tests should confirm or disprove.

Tom Remington

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Canine Lice Infesting Alaska’s Wolves

In the early 1980s, lice were found on wolves in the Kenai region of Alaska. Today nearly every wolf in that area is infested with the lice. The lice, believed to have been contracted from sled dogs, gets into the fur and skin of the animal and causes irritation. The wolves dig, itch, scratch and rub, sometimes causing the fur to be rubbed off to the bare skin, making the pelts useless to trappers.

Officials didn’t believe the lice would be present on wolves living further inland beyond the Alaska range because of the severe cold – not true. The problem now facing wildlife management personnel is can they manage this problem? Many feel it is a waste of time as what efforts they have expended since its discovery in the 80s has proven to be negligible.

Tom Remington

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Wyoming Spring Bear Hunt Nearing – Are You Ready?

April begins the archery spring bear hunting season in Wyoming and officials are reminding hunters that they need to register their baiting sites. To register a site, you must have a valid bear hunting license. For the period now through the end of this month, any previous baiting site can be registered at the Game and Fish office nearest your hunting area. After April 3, any new baiting sites can be registered.

Officials remind hunters also that they should stop by their nearest Game and Fish office and pick up a copy of the 2006 bear hunting rules and regulations.

Tom Remington

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Indiana Hunting Preserve Owner Wins One Battle

Rodney Bruce, owner of Whitetail Bluff, won a small battle in court with Judge H. Lloyd Whitis, ruling that Bruce’s business can continue to operate at least until the lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Natural Resources plays out.

The ruling comes after a lawsuit was filed by Bruce against the DNR. Last year the DNR announced, after giving some hunting preserves permits to open, that it was making high-fenced hunting preserves illegal and that they would force existing businesses to shut down.

Attempts by the legislature to amend a bill to phase out the closings or to offer compensation to the business owers, all failed.

The ruling is a temporary order that allows Bruce and others, about a dozen, to stay in business while the lawsuit runs its course. It could take better than a year to do this. Some believe the case will never see the courtroom, that a settlement will come first.

Previous Posts

Indiana Bill to Offer Help to Hunting Preserve Owners Dies

What’s Going On In Indiana?

More Indiana Woes Pertaining to High Fence Preserves

Hunting Preserves in Indiana Now Banned

Indiana House Passes Fenced Hunting Bill

More Information Coming In About Indiana Fenced Hunting

Tom Remington

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While fishing and going out to do bow and arrow hunting might not be as important as the hunting that some peoples did in the past, you can still make hunting and fishing a big part of your life and your culture with your family and friends.

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Colorado Will Cease Culling Herds of Deer and Elk

In a reversal to what had been an aggressive approach to thwart the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, the Colorado Department of Wildlife announced it is going to stop killing deer and elk.

The DOW, with the guidance of Mike Miller, the agency’s leading scientist on CWD, had targeted areas where the disease seemed more prevelant and killed off many of the deer and elk in those herds believing this would slow or stop the spread of the disease. Now that a few years have passed and data has been collected, there is no significant information that says it did any good.

There were 16 areas where efforts focused on culling the herd and 16 areas where it was left alone. The result showed no real difference between the two areas.

When Colorado instituted its policy of killing animals, an act that was well intentioned to save the multi-million dollar hunting industry, other states followed in Colorado’s footsteps. Three of those states, Nebraska, S. Dakota and Wisconsin, after hearing of Colorado’s plans to stop culling, announced they would continue their programs of killing animals. As a matter of fact, Wisconsin’s approach has been even more radical than Colorado’s, doing as much as they can to reduce the deer population with aggressive hunting practices.

Chronic wasting disease, similar to mad cow disease, is deadly in these animals. No evidence has yet to be found that humans can contract the disease by eating the meat of an infected animal. You can with mad cow. Scientist don’t completely understand the disease and how it is contracted and spreads. Many believe the spreading is caused when animals congregate in large numbers. The disease is spread through saliva from one animal to another and through animal feces coming in contact with plants and vegetation the animals eat.

One scientist, Charles Southwick, a retired biology professor from the University of Colorado, has said for some time that reducing the herds may actually work in the opposite way. He thinks doing so doesn’t allow for the natural progression for the healthy animals to fight the disease. He is happy to hear of the DOW’s plan to stop the herd culling.

Tom Remington

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Should Iowa Sell More Licenses to Out-of-State Hunters?

Evidently not, as the Iowa Legislature failed to pass a bill that would have given the Department of Natural Resources the ability to sell about another 6,000 non-resident hunting licenses that would have brought the department an additional $2.4 million.

But money isn’t the only issue here. Residents of Iowa want to protect their deer herd, which has grown from around 300,000 to 400,000 in the last ten years, for themselves. Another problem is the lack of hunting lands to share with more hunters. With very little public lands and most of the private land leased out, officials think adding more hunters to the mix would not be good.

Proponents of the idea say that with the added revenue, more public lands could be purchased along with leases bought up from private land owners to allow for more hunters. This in turn will help to reduce the deer population to better managable levels.

Outdoor Life magazine recently listed Iowa as number three on a list of deer hunting hot spots.

Tom Remington

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Deer Baiting Bill Dies in Mississippi

One more time, the lawmakers in Mississippi could not reach a consensus and come up with a bill to legalize or define baiting. Lawmakers have debated, hashed, re-hashed, debated some more and still can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel in deciding on this baiting issue.

With that said, it will continue to remain against the law to hunt deer over bait.

The state wildlife officials continue to say they have not asked for this legislation. They have said that baiting deer for the purpose of hunting them will not help in the management of the deer. They provide statistic that show that it actually is detrimental to other wildlife, deer and their habitat.

On average each year, hunters harvest between 300,000 and 350,000 deer. Some regions of the state there are too many deer and others the numbers are low.

Tom Remington

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Anti-Gun Editorials Hitting The News Stands

Kyle Huff went on a shooting rampage in Seattle over the weekend killing six people and the anti-gun editorials are filling up newspapers all across America. Robert L. Jamieson Jr. a columnist for the Seattle PI, rants on in the same old fashion about why guns have to be banned. The thinking is typically irrational and contradictory.

He first blames everything and everybody who has nothing at all to do with Huff killing 6 people.

Don’t blame the rave scene for the Seattle’s worst mass murder in more than two decades.

Blame the guns — and a culture that celebrates firepower.

Blame the murdering madness on a country that has seen Columbine, Kip Kinkel and bullets at the Tacoma Mall, but lacks the common sense to clamp down on weapons of mass carnage.

Blame the gun lobby on the other Capitol Hill — not the rave crowd on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

He then spends way too much time dumping on supporters of the 2nd Amendment including the NRA and then makes this statement.

Huff is the latest example of what happens when high-powered weapons end up in the wrong gun user’s hands.

He is exactly right but banning guns isn’t the solution. The oldest trick in the book by anti-gun ranters is to instill fear, to convince the masses that they are going to be the next target and to describe every act of a mad gunman in the most gruesome way.

Jamieson goes on to tell all of Seattle why Huff had all the guns in the first place and describes how this act could have been prevented in the first place but that isn’t his focus. His focus is to take away 2nd Amendment rights.

In Montana, he faced a felony criminal mischief charge in 2000 for blasting a statue of a moose with gunfire. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.

Had Huff shot up a statue in, say, downtown Seattle — as opposed to in gun-friendly Montana — he would have been dealt with more seriously, law enforcement and public-policy officials tell me. Had the felony charge stuck and led to conviction, it would have been illegal for Huff to own firearms.

Bingo! This is what gun rights advocates have been saying for years. If the liberal courts, which is comprised of those who think like Jamieson, would clamp down of violent criminals like Huff, maybe he would have still been a prison somewhere cuddling up with a fellow inmate.

This is all old hat coming from Jamieson. If you used the same reasoning that he uses in his arguments, then other changes should be in store. Huff drove a Dodge truck to the scene of the crime. Therefore, we need a vehicle ban. Had Huff had no means of getting to the scene to commit the murder, it never would have happened.

Most of the guns that authorities found in Huffs home after, were assumed to have all been bought legally. Would he have been able to do that if that conviction back in Montana had been made to stick, instead of reducing it to a misdemeanor by a liberal court system? Seriously, who shoots up a statue of a moose for kicks?

The ranting and raving will subside as it always does but knee-jerk legislation is what always gets us into trouble. Let’s hope this doesn’t result in the wrong legislation when the root of the problem goes back to the Montana courts.

Tom Remington

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Tom Delay Wants His Concealed Weapons Permit Re-Instated

Texas has an odd law that was passed back in 1995 the says that anyone charged with, not convicted of, a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or indicted on felony charges, cannot carry a concealed weapon.

Tom Delay has been indicted on charges of money laundering, which is a felony, and a Texas judge has revoked Delay’s permit to carry. Whether you think Delay is guilty or innocent, you have to ask yourself why would Texas have a law like this? – or any other state for that matter. Isn’t a person innocent until proven guilty?

Here’s an explanation of the founding of the bill.

The author of the original bill, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who was a state senator, said the section of law calling for suspension of licenses of people under indictment should probably be removed from the statute.

“It is clearly not rational, not called for, but it was one of those things we did to make somebody say, ‘OK, I’ll vote for it,’ ” Patterson said Monday.

Another day in the life of sleezy politicians. This kind of behavior that goes on daily in the halls of Congress is one reason why people don’t trust, don’t like, and don’t want anything to do with these people. What kind of lawmakers, yield away a person’s Constitutional rights in order to get some other bill through Congress? All kinds, that’s who. This is one very big reason that we all need to pay attention to what our lawmakers are doing so this doesn’t happen.

During a question and answer period when representatives of Delay were announcing the plan to appeal the decision, a reporter asked why Delay wanted to carry a concealed weapon. Of course the representative replied that that was a personal issue, angering some in attendance who felt that they had a right to know.

Why is taking away one right of a presumed innocent individual considered acceptible? Why didn’t they pass a law the makes free speech illegal to someone accused of a felony? Or they could tell someone under indictment they cannot practice freedom of religion. The key here is where is the presumption of innocence?

Tom Remington

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