They wanted to wipe out small farmers with the food safety bill in favor of industrial ag. Now they want to wipe out small fishermen for industrial seafood. It’s all tied into controlling the food supply. If you’re too weak to pull the trigger, the 2nd Ammendment doesn’t mean much.
Those guys all thought they were immune to the forces we contended with. Some of them saw what was coming, but were roundly dismissed by their peers as kooks and crazy cranks, and so ignored.
Some irony here, in that while many FRs support natural resource harvesting, too many haven't a clue what the actual upshot is, thinking it just some other poor b. and has no effect on their personal lives.
Wish you guys could have been there as we were labeled: “the last of the buffalo hunters”, “worse than child molesters” and roundly decried as evil from the pulpits of the very churches we attended.
I do wonder at times how our lives might have been different had we been able to win WA vs Passenger Vessel in SCOTUS or manage to make the public at large understand what was at stake for them in all that nastiness.
We tried the best we could, but the Federal Gov had more money, the media had the public ear, and, despite a few victories, we lost in the end.
You are right in seeing that they now have virtual control of the food supply. But that is only the beginning. They have the long view, and are willing to wait. Look closely and you can see were this is headed years from now and what will become of you and yours in those later years.
They care about small fishermen as much as they care about industrially produced food; only the money industry is willing to directly pay them for the privilege is their concern ...