Eating Wolf Scat And Howling At The Moon
February 5, 2010
It was Thomas Jefferson who once said, “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” How true! Evidently in Jefferson’s wisdom, he understood people of good conscience. It was perhaps a bit of a rallying cry to the people that remaining silent on issues was good recipe for tyranny, spelled out as loss of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
People of good conscience had an agenda foisted upon them when wolves were released into the Yellowstone National Park and Central Idaho. Foisted because I believe that the entire notion was fraudulent, keeping valuable information from the people and misrepresenting the ultimate goals of those behind the debacle.
I read some place recently that it is part of the character of good conscience people to politely sit by, having no desire to take up opposition or make public spectacles of themselves through protests and verbal combativeness. And as such, one has only to ask, how far can these people of good conscience be pushed before they begin to push back?
When the grass roots Tea Party movement began, most on the left couldn’t rationally deal with it. It must have come as a big shock to many when the Tea Party activists took to the streets in copius numbers, rallying fellow Americans to their cause. After all, street protests are the fingerprint of the liberal left. Still, the left cannot and will not come to grips with the concept that those good conscience people will push back when pushed too far.
After 8 years of George W. Bush, Americans wanted something different. They swallowed the campaign rhetoric of Senator Barack Hussein Obama and yet refused to listen to the facts of the man’s past. One year later, eyes have begun to open to the realization this isn’t the change they wanted. They are pushing back. We became witnesses to this thrust in New Jersey, Virginia and most recently Massachusetts. The people, good conscience people, revolted against what is being crammed down their throats. Remaining silent appears to no longer be an option.
It is acutely insulting when the good conscience people’s president appears before the nation and essentially tells them they are too stupid to understand what the health care reform bill is about. His excuse was he failed to explain it to you and me.
The good conscience people also see with their own two eyes when there is hypocrisy and double standards. When George W. Bush was president and the opposition party dissented, it was declared one of the grandest exhibitions of American patriotism. With that same opposition party now in control of the White House and both Houses of Congress, dissent is wicked and evil, very much unpatriotic.
The good conscience people may be passive and difficult to motivate but they are not so stupid that they cannot see what is before them. Today, Charles Krauthammer writes about a great peasant revolt, pointing a finger at those on the left for ignoring what the people want, citing the push back by voters in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts.
Today, dissent from the governing orthodoxy is nihilistic malice. “They made a decision,” explained David Axelrod, “they were going to sit it out and hope that we failed, that the country failed” — a perfect expression of liberals’ conviction that their aspirations are necessarily the country’s, that their idea of the public good is the public’s, that their failure is therefore the nation’s……………………….
For liberals, the observation that “the peasants are revolting” is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the ideological pendulum swings in the short term, in the end the bedrock common sense of the American people will prevail.
Good conscience people don’t care if it’s a liberal or conservative issue. When something strikes them beside the head, if it’s large enough to cause a big enough impact, they will push back.
Fifteen years of water under the bridge, the wolf debate in the West is no closer to a resolve. There is however, a pushing back, a peasant revolt, if you will, far from reaching a “great” peasant revolt. It was nearly one year ago that I warned of “wolf wars“. The wars would be the result of the wolf advocates refusing to back down from their unreasonable demands about protecting the gray wolf, cramming down the throats of people the impacts from too many wolves they didn’t want nor thought they were getting.
Much of the political and social atmosphere that exists in wolf reintroduction country can be attributed to the actions of an unrelenting group that cares nothing at all about what the good conscience people of the area want. These wolf advocates have destroyed their support in the battle for public opinion by representing themselves as the authorities that know better what the people need than the people.
Where once they had their way, the good conscience people are pushing back. The quiet and hard working people have had enough. More and more people are seeing before their eyes the results of too many wolves, far more than the good conscience people were promised.
Groups are organizing to fight back. The good conscience people were willing to have a few wolves in their woods but not at the expense they are now realizing. It didn’t have to be this way but this was the decision the wolf advocates chose. It’s the path they now must walk.
We are also now seeing actions being taken by the border states around the wolf reintroduction area. Utah wants a law forbidding wolves anywhere in the state. Why is that? Has that state’s attitude been influenced by what they can see going on in their neighbor states? They are pushing back. Had the wolf lovers backed off and listened to what the people wanted, it might not have come to this. For wolf advocates, this is a serious blow to their efforts and a somber loss of what little respect they had.
With the refusal of the wolf advocate groups and wildlife officials to listen to others, to hear what the people want, the good conscience people, they face a rude awakening. To scoff at the good conscience people telling them the only way to contract diseases from wolves is to eat the wolves feces, is a direct insult of their intelligence. The good conscience people will not tolerate this kind of tyrannical rule. They are pushing back. They will tell them to “eat wolf scat and go howl at the moon”!
Tom Remington
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The Wolf Worshipers better wake up, we Idahoans have had it with their damn lies and their damn myths. With their damned University “studies” and “models” engineered by walking talking organic books, with nice resumes, and advanced degrees, and professional trivial pursuit capabilities. The defense against their offensive attack on our lives, and lands is building. We have people from as far off as Ohio, looking to our back yards and telling us how we need to manage it, and telling what we see here happening is either lies we invent, or just our uneducated imaginations. THIS IS SICKENING. It is 100% anti American. One of these clowns is Jeremy T. Bruskotter, he goes by the alias of JB at Priest Maughans web site. Here he is Mister I am a god mentality Jeremy T. Bruskotter Wolves can do no wrong Mr. Extraordinaire and
Assistant Professor 408B Kottman, 2021 Coffey Rd. Columbus, OH 43210
PHONE: 614.247.2118 FAX: 614.292.7432 EMAIL: bruskotter.9@osu.edu
People on the ground living the life in idaho are not represented by this mans opinions, PERIOD..
School of Environment & Natural Resources
http://senr.osu.edu/facview.asp?id=3416
And these wolf freaks want a war, well they have found it, they have posted my trucks license plate on the web, my truck then was keyed while parked at a wilderness trail head.. Thank you Lynne Stone.
And these cretins are getting wolf hunters info from game departments and posting that info on line… This information is getting around, and people are getting real pissed off, these fools are destroying themselves along with our game herds and the wolves. And this bitch is getting ready to post Idahoans Names who hunted wolves or harvested wolves, onto the internet, with addresses and phone info..
The Wall of Shame at Howling for Justice…
http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/wall-of-shame-wolf-killers-montana-2009/
I have hired a private investigator and he has been gathering intell on all of these people, I will soon post it all over the web, and see how they like it.. These people are STUPID…
I think if the top people on both sides of this dispute do not get the attention of their ilk, we will see some one hurt or worse eventually..
Get out of our yards and our lives NOW.
Why is it that it’s always people from back east that think they know so much about what is going on here in the west. Most of them probably have never been in wolf country or if they have they seen it from a car windshield or tour bus window.
Until you’ve lived it you don’t really know what your talking about. Second hand info is just what it is. I don’t put any stock in what they have to say or there opinions on the western way of life. That would be like me giving my opinion of the problems in Central Park which I’ve never seen.
Quote from Victor Davis Hanson on the current state of affairs:
One of the sad characteristics of contemporary Western society is the tendency to embrace noble lies. These are assertions and acts that don’t square with reality, with what we see and hear—and are voiced for apparently noble social purposes.
I once worked with a woman who was very liberal. Liberal indeed. She told me that the ‘leftist’ programs did not have to be scientific or even workable as long as ‘the effort was noble’.
She also told me when the Brady Bill was being debated in congress that all handgun sales should stop. I asked her what she would do if the bill was passed and her response was she would immediatly go out and buy a handgun. You see, the laws must be on the books for common folks not liberals high in the pecking order.
As long as there are liberals there will be those that want to unnecessarily tinker with things and for the most part make things worse.
Liberals don’t know what they do not know and for the most part don’t give a damn.
I read the article in the Salt Lake Tribune regarding the legislation introduced in Utah to prevent wolves from moving south into the state. The comments are perhaps more interesting than the article; mostly they are against the proposed legislation. So it doesn’t seem that Utah”s citizens are as anti wolf as they are anti legislators.
The article
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14249701?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com
comments
http://www.tribtowns.com/comments/read_comments.asp?ref=14249701&PageIndex=2
Greg, most commenters on Ralph Maughan’s blog were opposed to the posting of successfull wolf hunters names. I certainly do not endorse the idea and feel it probably does harm and certainly no good.
I would advise the top people at Ralph’s site try harder to convince those people doing these things they best cool it.. Or he should ban them to, like he done me..
I know folks are blowing away coyotes in anger over what is being done and said by Lynne Stone, Gline, Nabeki , Jerry B, etc. etc.
If this is how they wish to go, then I will start posting info about everyone on the opposing side in return.. i have 17 names, addresses, etc. etc.. I have photos of houses, cars..
This can get ugly, real ugly.. I would prefer not taking this to the next level.. But I will… I only know one thing,They hit me or mine in the mouth, my reaction will be to walk in and hit em in the mouth right back…
They post Idaho hunters on the net…. I’ll bust every one hard.. Like Jeff E.. I know him… and where he works..
Priest Maughan has spoken.. Irresponsibly in my opinion, once again..
Ralph Maughan Says:
February 7, 2010 at 11:32 AM
” I don’t think wolves reduce deer and elk populations in any reliable way. I don’t think they have reduced them in Idaho except maybe in a few pockets. Even there we have no proof.
Therefore, using wolves to reduce excessive ungulate populations seems like a very crude tool, and as Salle writes above “It promotes manipulation in unacceptable levels. . .”
Priest Maughan lives 300 miles from the five units which I.D.F.G. has confirmed wolf predation is the cause of elk decimation which is the Sawtooth Zone, He lives 400 miles from the Lolo Zone, another two hunt units, I.D.F.G. has confirmed wolf predation has caused the elk decimation there also.. And countless eye witness reports of individuals living in those area’s confirm this evidence..
Oh but that is not any proof at all.. And if all of those people wished to share those experiences with Ralph, at his web site, their deleted, moderated into the cyber trash bin…