Posted on 08/04/2013 8:20:17 PM PDT by Alex Baker
You can feel safer today knowing that a no-kill animal shelter in Wisconsin was recently raided by a group of 13 heavily armed agents of the government. They were there to get Giggles, an illegally rescued baby deer. A shelter worker said the agents descended on the property “like a swat team” and soon the deer was being carried off in a body bag. Giggles is dead now and the world is somehow a better place thanks to our government helpers. Speaking of killing things, the logging industry in the western states was mostly killed by an environmental movement in the 80′s and 90′s. We were told that spotted owls were in decline and the only solution was to decimate the logging industry. Lumber mills closed. Logging towns died. But spotted owl populations declined anyway. It was later discovered that spotted owls were actually declining for another reason. A competitive species, the barred owl, was winning the competition for territory. This is called natural selection and has been part of the natural world from the beginning of time. But environmentalists like one owl more than the other, so there is a huge government effort to kill or remove approximately 3,600 barred owls. They are going in with guns. SNIP Can you think of any reason not to tackle big jobs like that? Think of what we are doing to correct the earth’s climate. Over the course of time, our planet has been much cooler and much hotter. It has had much higher CO2 concentrations and much lower. It has seen many ice ages with periods of warming in between. The ocean level has been much higher and much lower, many times. SNIP
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>> People are basically unwilling to open their eyes to how much power the State has usurped from its citizens
In the form of immunity.
Too few voters refuse to acknowledge the heroes they elect to Congress are screwing them the day the arrive in DC.
It is Congress that is responsible for virtually every infringement we’re suffering today.
Too many voters refuse to acknowledge...
(I changed the predicate with correcting the subject... really, I did.)
OK, so why couldn’t she stay where she was for 16-18 months? They didn’t have any other deer, she was not contaminating the surrounding area. They could have treated her for ticks and fleas and packed her soiled bedding into burn bags.
Good God... “without”
g’night...
So deer in the wild know not to cross the state line so that they don’t spread a possible disease?
You know if this doesn’t spell out the excessive stupid rules of our government regulations, nothing will!
The problem is that the public continues to accept this kind of action regardless of understanding just how outrageous it is! Your know, Government knows best! What a bunch of clowns!!
I agree with you on this specific incident but it is not a false observation to have seen enough to validate my earlier comment as containing fair truth.
No, you’re not informed, you’ve lost the plot. SEVENTEEN ARMED MEN was an over-kill in more ways than one. But you’ll get used to it.
You can’t even see that it doesn’t take a frikken army to pick up a baby deer, that may or may not have been infected.
G’day!
One may as well say that it's A-OK for any foreign national to enter San Diego, as they could theoretically just walk a few hundred meters north of Tijuana.
oh wait...
Be careful, don’t go picking up any rabid rabbits now, or I’ll send in the...what? SAS maybe?
Seriously...I understand these obsessional animal rescuers, my own mother was one. We had a house full of furry creatures, and birds that couldn’t fly and orphaned sheep...the last thing this woman would have been thinking of was some hideous brain-rotting disease, all she would have wanted was to protect it and feed it. It’s some form of rampant nurturing instinct imo.
You don’t send armed men to a scene like that, you send in some people who can help, and kindly explain. But methinks that moment has passed in the US.
It’s almost like that on FR now, can’t offer an opposing opinion without being howled down and torn to shreds.
These are the times that test men’s souls, I’m thinking.
Effective quarantining is important to avoid a boatload of pain and drastic measures are justified in certain situation. This particular case was definitely an over-reaction. Not the putting down of the fawn per-se, but the method and manner it was done by.
It was 13, it was very heavy handed, the very real risk of introducing the disease to clean areas, and little miss treehugger’s demonstrated contempt for laws made it crucial that action be taken to enforce the quarantine.
Unless you believe that Australia should allow the importation of vaccinated dogs from areas known to have a high prevalence of rabies, we’re not arguing about what was done, but only about how it was done.
Little miss scofflaw was conspiring to illegally transport an animal from a known infected area to an uncontaminated area, an animal possibly infected with a chronic debilitating disease that has no diagnostic test, no vaccine, no cure, poorly understood routes of infection, of which there is strong evidence that it is transmitted from doe to fawn either in utero or via milk. A disease that is a close cousin of Mad Cow and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, and can be transmitted to livestock.
You’re OK with that?
Maybe instead of getting all hot under the collar about women obsessed with animal rescue, you could use some of that spleen on stories like this:
NBC-DFW Channel 5 in Dallas just aired an exclusive bombshell report on Maj. Nidal Hasan that he receives a VIP military helicopter trip every day to and from the jail so he can use facilities to research and study resources on the military base. They also said that a special Sheriff has been hired to stand 12 hours a day watching Hasan at the jail when he is returned to his cell at the county jail.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3051157/posts
They also showed more documents of his continuing pay that he receives and will continue to receive. They showed a heartbreaking story on a soldier who fought in Afghanistan who was shot at Fort Hood and suffered such bad PTSD from it...he took his own life
No? Then she is a better person than little miss treehugger.
says nully who has been known to hand raise the occasional baby squirrel...
You’re changing the subject? Disappointing. Ah well, you haven’t tried going into Godwins law territory...
...importation of UNvaccinated dogs...
That's at least some progress.
Me? I would have send a vet and one uniform.
On the other hand the reportage on this is so slanted, I don't know that they didn't already try this, and it's what motivated little miss treehugger into conspiring to break the quarantine.
Aren't you glad myxomatosis doesn't infect kangaroos?
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