Posted on 06/20/2013 8:14:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember when a woman sent Hillary Clinton a “Dream Catcher” with an eagle’s feather she found on the ground? Hillary turned her in.
“How dare you shoot the King’s deer in the King’s forest!”
RE: My brother-in-law wanted to pick up the feather to take back to Australia. I warned him that he would likely be jailed and deported for so much as possessing an eagle feather he found in the forest. It is my understanding that only Native Americans are allowed to have eagle feathers and only for ceremonial use.
My mother ( who immigrated in Australia ) bought hand-painted OSTRICH EGGS when she visited South Africa several years ago. They were CONFISCATED when she arrived in Melbourne. It is DISALLOWED.
These are examples of idiots following the letter of the law but ignoring the spirit of the law. This is what Judges used to be for...to throw out cases that are ridiculously misguided.
Hope they don't find the two birds I flip at the TV every time I see a politician on the screen..
One thing I love about where I love is that if I were keeping a bald eagle and my neighbors found out, the only question would be BBQ or broiled.
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Snitching hardly warrants cannibalism. Just sayin’.
It never got to Hillary. They screen everything coming in to the White House far away.
From Snopes.com
[Peg] Bargon pleaded guilty in August 1995 to two misdemeanor counts of violating the Lacey Act and the Bald Eagle Protection Act. She was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Urbana to two years of probation and fined $1,200.
The Monticello woman was pardoned Saturday by President Clinton, who pardoned or gave clemency to 140 people in the final hours of his presidency.
Her troubles began when she gave first lady (now Sen.) Hillary Rodham ClintonCQ a dream-catcher made with eagle feathers at a University of Illinois ceremony in May 1994.
According to American Indian lore, dream-catchers, which are made of string, stones and feathers attached to a hoop, are supposed to bring good dreams to the owner. But it has brought nothing but nightmares to Bargon.
Bargon said she had no idea that it was illegal just to possess the feathers. Possession of such a feather is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of as much as $56,000. Possession with intent to sell the feathers could bring up to a year in federal prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
The AP estimated 573,000 birds are killed each year by wind turbines.
Hundreds are golden or bald eagles.
Inside many government agents is a fascist just itching to inflict harm.
I see you are familiar with the Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 285, which is also a quote from Oscar Wilde.
Rule 284: Deep down, everyone’s a Ferengi.............
I think the writer’s heart is in the right place, but she really needs to report the facts.
I clicked on the very link that she supplied to read about the woodpecker story because I was totally confused as to how the woodpecker wound up in Lowe’s with the girl.
The link tells, at the end, that the mother’s citation was canceled and no fine was taken.
It is my understanding that only Native Americans are allowed to have eagle feathers and only for ceremonial use.
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I think you are right about that. The memory is quite fuzzy, as I read the piece about 15 years ago, but I remember seeing an article about a woman who got into trouble for incorporating into the jewelry that she crafted feathers that she had picked up here and there in the wild. She was displaying her wares for sale at some sort of festival, totally unaware that she was breaking the law until someone associated with USFWS learned of her jewelry.
I actually don’t have a lot of sympathy for this guy. He’s a former DNR worker, so he knew what he was doing was wrong. It takes about three seconds with google to find several raptor rehabilitation groups in Indiana. I live in Alaska, and it’s common for eagles to find themselves injured and the raptor centers do a great job in trying to get them rehabbed and back out into the wild.
I’ve been aware since I was about 18 that it was illegal to even posses a bald eagle feather that one happened to find, much less try to keep one for even altruistic reasons.
Just because it is a law doesn’t mean it is right.
Possessing “songbird” feathers gets fine or jail. That includes bluejay.
What kid didn’t grow up with beautiful bluejay feathers in their treasure box?
Damned regulatory fascists!
I found some sort of raptor claws (probably red-tailed hawk) out in a field and was dumb enough to think I could use them to make a neat kerchief slide for my son's boy scout uniform. Before I could start on it, however, someone told me about the law.
Since Zero and his Marxist cabal rode into DC, I would say you are correct.
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