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To: joesnuffy

Joe, I well understand what you are saying. It's not a "racial" issue, it's a cultural one. If Serbians or Swiss folk were doing this, there would be the same reaction, but it isn't a part of their culture.

Everything you said hits home and I should add a few things. As an angler in a small community, I am well aware of their disproportionate poaching activities. Bear poaching, cougar poaching, deer poaching and fish poaching. Look in the hunting guide directory and you'll see many Hmong names as guides. About 1/4th.

I don't want to discriminate, but this spring in one fishing area, there were 11 able-bodied young Hmong men who fished every single day, all day (according to the ranger) and into the night. They drove new cars. I wondered how they made a living. Fact is, Hmongs get busted all the time for poaching and selling game fish and animals, sometimes for "medicinal" purposes and so forth. I met a few and they seemed decent enough, but when 11 grown men spend every waking hour on my fishing spot for 3 months straight and drive brand new cars, I get a little suspicious.

In Southern California, the cops broke up a ring of cat smugglers. They were taking people's cats off the street in LA, skinning them, and selling teddy bears with cat fur at the San Diego Swap Meet. In San Francisco, they had to ban catching a certain type of mussel because of Hmong poaching, and around here, our ponds are nearly barren because they come at night with illegal nets and clean out the fish.

Environmentalists and animal rights activists are still silent.
Why?


419 posted on 11/23/2004 6:35:56 PM PST by followerofchrist
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To: followerofchrist
Environmentalists and animal rights activists are still silent. Why?

Anti-white racism. Every other culture -- Hmong, Eskimo, Apache, Zulu, etc -- has a right to hunt and fish and even poach, because "it's their culture". But the liberals can't stand it when white people ("rednecks") practice their own culture, which among other things has a 40,000 year old tradition of hunting.

426 posted on 11/23/2004 6:58:27 PM PST by Rytwyng (we're here, we're Huguenots, get used to us)
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