and why isn't our beloved homeland security department running a full blown investigation into this "domestic terrorism" ?
Anybody but somebody who won't take their SH**. In the early 1980's while on active duty in Washington State, I had a close encounter of the granola kind with some anti-hunting types. My buddy and I were after Elk at the foot of Mount Rainier, just outside of the national park. I think we were on Weyhauser Land by permission. But these little soft hippies braced us where we parked the cars and said they were going to spoil our hunt by dogging us, making noise and scaring off the game.
A hurried conference with my compadre and we decided to have a bit of fun, but to postpone the hunt until the following day. So we set off, we two young infantry studs. We ran those kids straight up and straight down mountainsides that's make a billy goat stumble. Right thrrough the nastiest swamps we could find. Within 45 minutes they were lagging behind, so we'd stop and wait for them to catch up. Inside of 90 min they were crying, and we led them deeper into the woods.
When the sun went down and they realized how LOST they were, we broke out the night vision scopes we'd checked out of our units. The hippies huddled together for warmth (what kind of idiot wanders around the woods and not prepared for darkness, weather and navigation? Much less unarmed?)and cried. Then we started chunking rocks at them using the starlight scopes. They really cried then. Next moring we led them right back to their little VW vans with the flowers on them and they trembled and cried as they started their cars and crept home to Seattle. We waved buh-BYE and we started our hunt.
We got back to our unit and told the tale and both our platoons wanted to go back our and run the hippies around the woods for more sport. We were going to make it an exercise with chopper support and everything, but our boss nixed the idea as being bad for the image of the US Army. ~sigh~ At least we got our elks and had a B-I-G unit barbeque at the battalion HQ!