Posted on 08/05/2013 8:44:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
The bad news is that governments do a lot of things they shouldn’t do. The good news is that I never run out of material.
I’ve even created some sub-categories, such as my U.S. vs U.K. government stupidity contest and my great-moments-in-local-government series.
But I never thought I would have a special category about bureaucrats vs. Bambi.
1. Bureaucrats in Virginia filed three misdemeanor charges against a man for the horrible crime of rescuing a deer that was hit by a car.
2. Bureaucrats in Maryland fined two men $90 each for not having life jackets when they had the gall to rescue a deer that fell through some ice.
3. Bureaucrats in Indiana are threatening prison time for a family that rescued a baby deer from coyotes.
The paper pushers of the world seem to harbor a special grudge against these harmless ruminants, since we now have another story about a baby deer. But this time, Bambi was the victim, not the family.
Here are some of the unbelievable details from a local news report.
Two weeks ago, Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant. “(There were) nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth,” Schulze said. The focus of their search was a baby fawn brought there by an Illinois family worried she had been abandoned by her mother.
My first reaction when reading this was “what the @#$*?” Is he public sector really so bloated that 13 bureaucrats have nothing better to do than to serve a search warrant for a baby deer?
And why on earth were they heavily armed? Were they expecting Osama Bin Bambi?
But don’t answer yet, because it gets more absurd.
The Department of Natural Resources began investigating after two anonymous calls reporting a baby deer at the no-kill shelter. The warden drafted an affidavit for the search warrant, complete with aerial photos in which he described getting himself into a position where he was able to see the fawn going in and out of the barn.
I’m not sure what part of this excerpt gets me more upset, the fact that some snitch informed on the shelter for having a baby deer, or the fact that the government is so wasteful that bureaucrats went through the cost of arranging aerial surveillance!
Dangerous criminal executed
As a taxpayer, I get agitated about the waste of money. As a decent human being, this next part bothers me even more.
“I was thinking in my mind they were going to take the deer and take it to a wildlife shelter, and here they come carrying the baby deer over their shoulder. She was in a body bag,” Schulze said. “I said, ‘Why did you do that?’ He said, ‘That’s our policy,’ and I said, ‘That’s one hell of a policy.’”
The local cops justified the overkill approach by equating an animal shelter with a crack house.
“Could you have made a phone call before showing up, I mean, that’s a lot of resources,” WISN 12 News investigative reporter Colleen Henry asked. “If a sheriff’s department is going in to do a search warrant on a drug bust, they don’t call them and ask them to voluntarily surrender their marijuana or whatever drug that they have before they show up,” Niemeyer said,
Horrified citizens are complaining and fighting back, though I’m not holding my breath that justice will be served.
Schultz said she plans to sue the DNR for removing Giggles without even a court hearing. She also questioned what such an operation costs taxpayers. “They went way over the top for a little tiny baby deer,” Schultz said,
Remember, though, that this type of government thuggery is hardly unusual.
The Food and Drug Administration raided a dairy for the terrible crime of selling unpasteurized milk to people who prefer unpasteurized milk.
New York City imposed a $30,000 fine on a small shop because it sold a toy gun.
The pinheads at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission went after Hooters for not having any male waiters in hot pants and tight t-shirts.
An unlucky guy wound up in legal hot water for releasing some heart-shaped balloons to impress his sweetheart.
Yup, our tax dollars at work. And Obama thinks government is too small and needs more of our money so it can do even more things.
Every bastard in this chain of governmental power abuse from the hjead of the Department of Natural Resources down to the neanderthals who carried this out, need to be fired, and banned from ANY further public employment.
They are public safety menaces.
Our forefathers would be shooting by now.
It probably had something to do with Chronic Wasting Disease, in which case the animal needed to be put down. But, a couple of DNR dudes in a pickup truck could have gotten the job done. Very bad form.
It’s daily becoming VERY clear that the rule of law has disintegrated in this country. And yes, I mean is HAS, as in it’s done. The only thing holding us together is a very tenuous social contract for a modicum of respect. It’s only a matter of time before the feral mobs of the inner city realize that the police will turn a blind eye to save their own hides and we’ve got internal strife unlike anything seen since the Civil War.
Make no mistake folks, the police and the government are no longer on our side. America, as we knew it, is done. Rule of law, courts, police, it’s all smoke and mirrors.
If I happen find a dead deer along the road I would be so tempted to find the nearest beer-o-crap’s office and throw the thing through their window...
This idea of punishing human kindness through stuipid not well thought out regulations and inhuman laws is plain anti-human.
They want to prevent humans raising wildlife and that is fine, maybe instead of killing these animals and punishing kindness maybe they should have a policy of saying, yes you can rescue wildlife, just let us know about and let us help instead of punishing people for doing the right thing...
So we are punishing people for doing good things and then we are letting trespassing law breakers off scott free, it is not only the rule of law that has gone bonkers, but the spirit of the laws has been so badly trampled upon that we have been turned against nature’s law as described in our founding...
All true.
Land of the free...
Will we ever again be able to say those words again without sarcasm?
The Food and Drug Administration raided a dairy for the terrible crime of selling unpasteurized milk to people who prefer unpasteurized milk.
I think someone should protest this crap by going to a nearest state border and getting a small group of people and “selling” the bottle of “raw” milk across the border multiple times, of course everyone will be wearing masks and such to hide their identity, but post the thing up to you tube with an anonymous account.
People need to see how stuipid these crazy regulations are first hand and we should be using social media to do so....
Soon we will probably start seeing intentional civil disobedience in form of protest by breaking stuipid laws and dumb regulations.
Because that step is the next step after peaceful tea party protests are seen as ineffectual ....
Our forefathers would be shooting by now.
As well as tar and feathering and tying up these buffons to the nearest lightpoles in the city squares and hanging big signs around their necks mocking them....
That has happened many times. They target the Amish for this horrible terrorist act.
Land of the free...
Will we ever again be able to say those words again without sarcasm?
I always add “Home of the Slave” after that line...
“Land of the Freebie... Home of the Slave”
Because the freebee has enslaved us all, the person receiveing the freebie is a slave to the state in terms of who they vote for “dems”.
The ones paying for the freebie is a slave because they slavishly vote for the “Repubes” to change that but they never recieve no relief from their servitude of taxes.
We are right where they want us... Enslaved at the wallet....
They are right where they want them as well.... Enslaved at the mind....
“Land of the Freebie, Home of the Slave”
Ping
They target anyone. Damned uppity farmers—thinking they can sell their own produce as a private enterprise. Treasonous capitalist pigs!
The 14th Amendment IS the Constitution! Bow before the All-Powerful Commerce Clause, you bitter, clinging scum!
Wisconsin conservative WTMJ 50K watt am talk show host 8:30-noon weekdays Charlie Sukes had a run in with the operator of the wild life center in Kenosha some years back. It seems he reports he was being sued by her where she gave written instructons to someone who was to testify to lie. She wound up paying his legal bills.
While I feel having an army barge in to kill Bambi is really excessive there’s seems to be more to this tale than white lies.
In fact two years earlier Governor Walker pardoned another white tailed Bambi under similar circumstances.
Which is why we will never get spending/debt-incurance under control w/o a Constitutional Amendment.
Amendment 14, Section 4.
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
We had to kill the deer to save it.
We may find the same mentality applied to us at some point in the near future.
Not too mention that far too many on our side are in denial that things are as bad as they really are. I've talked with too many people who think there's still a resolution to be found by "working within the system." If both parties have turned their backs on the the Constitution and the Rule of Law, how the h*ll is working within the system going to do any good, I ask? They respond with some variation on "I just don't think it's as bad as you say," and a quick change of subject.
Claire Wolfe's alarm clock is ringing, but too many folks on our side refuse to smell the coffee.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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