Group takes aim at full state ban on hunting

Breederville.com ^ | December 08, 2004 | Terrence Dopp

[Calpernia]

Buoyed by the defeat of a planned black bear hunt this year, one animal rights group has announced it has a statewide hunting ban in its sights.

The newly formed Animal Protection Political Action Committee hopes to craft a network of more than 50,000 voters to oppose pro-hunting legislation and candidates.

It's creation comes less than one week after the state Supreme Court halted the six-day bruin season, ruling Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bradley Campbell had the authority to stop it.

"The (National Rifle Association) and all these other groups pull together all of these people who are 100 percent for hunting. We are going to have people who are 100 percent against hunting," said Stuart Chaifetz, director of Animal Protection.

"If there wasn't the Supreme Court, there'd be a bear hunt. We recognized that we needed a political force."

He called the fledgling committee "the command base for the coming struggle against hunting" and said he hopes to recruit up to 50,000 members in the first year. The group is a reincarnation of an inactive PAC and a Web site has already been established and about four-dozen donors recruited.

Chaifetz said the next step will be newspaper advertisements and other drives to increase membership in the Animal Protection PAC, which he said would push hard on animal rights issues.

The announcement came as New Jersey hunters entered their second day of a six-day shotgun deer season. It also followed a federal judge's Dec. 2 ruling blocking the Fish and Game Council's endorsement of the second hunt.

While hunting in the Garden State is dwarfed in comparison to some neighbors -- 69,465 deer were killed in New Jersey last year compared to 464,890 in Pennsylvania -- it does maintain a hold here. Advocates call it both an important sport and vital population control.

"We are aware of them and I fell that this year's bear hunt activity was part, just one part, in an overall objective of banning all hunting," said George P. Howard, a member of the state Fish and Game Council, which sets parameters and seasons for hunting.

Howard said former Gov. James E. McGreevey stocked his administration with opponents of hunting and added national groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will likely lend Chaifetz and his group some support.

"It's a movement that's out there," he said. Anti-hunting groups "are well-entrenched in this administration and in New Jersey."

Department of Environmental Protection officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Separate bills pending in the Legislature would strip Howard's council of some power and also prohibit bear hunting in the Garden State for at least five years.

The chairman of the Assembly Environment and Natural Resources Committee said the group is unlikely to succeed in its quest. The panel oversees legislative aspects of hunting and fishing.

"Hunting in this country and in New Jersey is a long-standing tradition and it's a favorite pastime for many sportsman," said Assemblyman Robert J. Smith, D-4 of Washington Township. "I do not envision eliminating hunting in this state or any other state."

The controversy over a proposed second black bear hunt erupted when the Fish and Game Council voted this summer to authorize a second season.

In 2003, hunters killed 328 black bears in the first six-day season in northwestern New Jersey, considered the prime territory for bear.

Campbell has called for greater study of and reliance on non-lethal means of population control such as chemical contraception and so-called aversion therapy, or teaching the animals to fear humans.

[Calpernia]

If the animal rights group gains leverage in NJ, they will gain leverage and precedence for all of the 'southern' states. Please don't dismiss because it is only NJ.

[Calpernia]

ping

[NRA2BFree]

It looks like Peta and the anti-gunners are joining forces. These wackos want to control gun owners. I hope the hunters win.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Wait til the bears start eating their pets and kids...

[Dan from Michigan]

If this can be stopped in Jersey of all places, it can be stopped anywhere.

[NRA2BFree]

Wait til the bears start eating their pets and kids...

Yep, then they'll want the hunters to kill them off. IF they get hungry enough, maybe they'll eat some of the PETA gang. LOL

[Coleus]

Hysterical, Fruit Loop alert.

Naturism at its best in NJ.

Remember, we're the state which arrested a man for killing a rat in his garden.

[Coleus]

Wait til the bears start eating their pets and kids...>>


It's happened in the NY/NJ metro area, a 2 yr. old baby was killed last yr., 2 boy scouts were held up for an hour and scratched up a bit by a bear cub a couple of weeks ago and some bears have been found under and on porches.

[loboinok]

Remember, we're the state which arrested a man for killing a rat in his garden.

Get outta here!! Is this Ripley's?

[Calpernia]

You are right and it has gone a little further than you realize.

http://breederville.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=20

[Calpernia]

>>>Wait til the bears start eating their pets and kids..

The lion and panthers that have been dropped in states have already. Can't kill them, they are dropped with tracking devices.

[Calpernia]

>>>If this can be stopped in Jersey of all places, it can be stopped anywhere.

That is the point, legal precidence.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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[SoDak]

Agree, this noxious effort needs to be stopped there as well as any other state where it shows up.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Issaquahking]

Civil disobedience rule #1 from the west...S,S,S...that's Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up! Saves a lot of grief.

Better get this stupid $hit nipped in the bud, before they try to establish some "new precedence" with there activist judges, legislating from the bench.

Can'g you people have an animal rights season out there? They think nothing of killing a human fetus.

Listen to their trash talk???


"It's time for a warrior society to rise up out of the earth and throw itself in front of the juggernaut of destruction, to be antibodies against the human pox that's ravaging this precious, beautiful planet." - Quoted by Albert Gore in his book Earth in the Balance (1992)

"We must... reclaim the roads and the plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers, and return to wilderness millions and tens of millions of [acres of] presently settled land." - Quoted by Dixy Lee Ray in her book Trashing the Planet (1990)

"I'm not advocating illegal activity unless you're accompanied by your parents, or at night." - Quoted by Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb in their book Trashing the Economy (1993)

"We advocate bio-diversity for bio-diversity's sake. That says man is no more important than any other species... It may well take our extinction to set things straight." - Quoted Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb in their book Trashing the Economy (1993)

"An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population." - Quoted in From the Trenches, a publication of Putting People First, March 1, 1993


View some more of the stupid stuff they say here.

Some other good information -

News about Environmentalist and Animal Rights Organizations

Environmental extremism.

.Ever heard of re-wilding?

Summed up nicely, here is how dangerous they are.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Dan from Michigan]

Gottlieb is actually pro-2a and pro-hunting.

He was quoting the Humane Society, PETA, and other types.

[Issaquahking]

Shows how under the microscope, and subject to attack mode we are! Some goof, out to make a name for himself, MSM puker (normally a master of spin doctorate), can take out of context, or change a sound bite (being Michael moored - A$$holes who splice film to fit their agenda), to take a shot at you.

Suppose that's what I get for being in a hurry on a cut and paste...

[freepatriot32]

Remember, we're the state which arrested a man for killing a rat in his garden.

I hadnt heard that one do you got a link for that story?