I love nature, too. I get out of the car to move turtles off the road.
But to hit a bird with a golf ball, any bird at all, and punish a man for doing it, for any reason at all is a liberal act. 
Posted on 03/06/2008 2:38:01 PM PST by oblomov
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show Isenhour was with a film crew for "Shoot Like A Pro" on Dec. 12 at the Grand Cypress Golf course. The 39-year-old golfer, whose real name is John Henry Isenhour III, was charged Monday with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird.
According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then 300 yards away, but gave up.
Isenhour started again when the hawk moved within about 75 yards, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer Brian Baine indicated in a report.
Isenhour allegedly said "I'll get him now," and aimed for the hawk.
"About the sixth ball came very near the bird's head, and (Isenhour) was very excited that it was so close," Baine wrote.
A few shots later, witnesses said he hit the hawk. The bird, protected as a migratory species, fell to the ground bleeding from both nostrils.
Isenhour's agent, John Mascatello with SFX World Sports Management, did not immediately return an e-mail or telephone message Thursday.
"He just kept saying how he didn't think he could have hit it, which I think is a stupid thing for a PGA Tour golfer to say," said Jethro Senger, a sound engineer at the shoot. "He can put a ball in a hole from hundreds of yards away, and here he is hitting line drives at something that's, I don't know, a couple hundred feet away?"
Senger said it was "basically like a joke to (Isenhour)." He said no one in the roughly 15-person crew intervened, and many later regretted it.
"It was one of those cases where there's some trepidation on whether or not they should speak up and do something," Senger said.
Senger said the killing was not captured on video. The bird was buried at the golf course and later dug up by Florida investigators.
Isenhour, of Salisbury, N.C., turned pro in 1990. He had two wins on the Nationwide Tour in 2006.
I love nature, too. I get out of the car to move turtles off the road.
But to hit a bird with a golf ball, any bird at all, and punish a man for doing it, for any reason at all is a liberal act.
The point is that God gave mankind dominion over the creatures of the Earth, absolute sovereignty, each and every man, and if a man trespass his responsibility, it is God who will judge. The tiniest part of the welfare on any one man is worth an uncountable number of birds.
You may not like but, it is not your or society's call to make.
Frankly if the bird was too stupid to take the hint, it seems like it would only improve the gene pool.
What would improve the gene pool most would be the elimination of pro football, and pro sports in general!
Bunch of steroid enlarged pretty boys, raking in the big bucks, from a bunch of couch potatos!
We have to cloak it in the terms that hold human beings higher than animals. If we don't, we slide right back to the old customs that hold human life as worthless.
Where in the Bible does God tell man to wantonly slaughter animals without good reason?
Where God gives dominion over all the creatures of the Earth to mankind. Dominion means dominion, your choice of emotionally load words notwithstanding.
If you want to let God do the judging then why should we try murderers?
Because murderers kill human beings, and kill them in such a way that it makes them dangerous to the rest of society (human beings). This is distinguishable from manslaughter and wrongful death.
People who kill an animal are not murderers. The implication that the murder of human beings is equivalent to killing an animal is disturbing.
If someone were to kill my pet for fun, I would sustain personal damage. The killing of a wild bird causes no one personal damage. Except some rather confused outrage from liberal programing.
Some of us enjoy wildlife, and take great pleasure in watching God's creatures. Killing animals for no purpose is not the proper way in which man is to exhibit dominion over the animals. Yes, human life is more valuable than that of a bird, but it doesn’t mean that man is free to kill and torment the lesser living creatures.
I enjoy wildlife. I go out of my way to avoid a squirrel on the road and move turtles out of the way of traffic. I kill deer because I like to eat them.
But this comes from inside, not by force of law, which law was instituted by liberal institutions, who use it to damage society and individuals who challenge their green agenda.
You cannot separate the radical green agenda from the statutes it lobbies into legislation, or the constant conditioning of people with that agenda.
The endangered species act, what is being used on this person, is one of those blocs of legislation.
If you do not like what this guy did, write him a letter. Join with others and all of you write him a letter. Write a letter to the editor or an article. Protest in front of his house for a time. Spread the word.
But don't use the force of asinine law to damage him. Take the responsibility yourself
This guy’s carer could be ruined for this stupidity. Imagine PETA members screaming in his backswing, every backswing, every hole, every tournament.
Who can finish this proverb...” HE WHO KILL HAWK WITH GOLF BALL.....”
What is disturbing is the lack of value you place on a living creatures life. All creatures have a purpose, and for man to interrupt that purpose for no good reason is simply wrong. This hawk was not killed to be eaten, or killed because it had become a danger to man. The bird was just killed for some guys kicks.
Of course the killing of an animal should not be equated with the killing of a human being, but that does not mean it should go unpunished. A wild bird is something given by God for all of us to enjoy. I would bet that most golfers at that course enjoyed watching that hawk and the other nearby wildlife. Those golfers were all deprived of something they enjoyed. The young man that did this needs to be taught a lesson.
I would prefer not to use the force of law to punish him; however, political correctness frowns upon kicking someone’s ass these days.
But you are on the side of using the law, which means if you had the authority to apply that law, you would, or be a hypocrite.
I said nothing about physical assault. You brought that up. I said writing letters and pretesting, spreading the word of your outrage.
Every time you use a bad law, you give it strength, until you feel it, and the children of its precedent, nibbling at your heels. You let the emotional application of the law go on long enough, you find yourself in a state run by the media and people that don't have your interests at heart.
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