Posted on 04/29/2004 10:01:32 AM PDT by Bob J
“Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.” – A. Sachs
Almost everyone knows about New Jersey’s infamous Bear hunt this past winter. Any way you look at it, it appears to be a simple method of population control. However, there were some New Jerseyans who thought this hunt was very “controversial”. I don’t know why a number of people think it’s a conflicting issue; many states allow hunts like this go on all the time.
So what makes New Jersey so special that hunting bear becomes a “controversial” issue? Are we trying too hard to be politically correct? Well, maybe.
I think I got this: many commuters this winter witnessed the actions of Mother Nature first hand. A death of a baby cub on Rt. 23 in West Milford, New Jersey lying in “a pool of blood”. A hunter must of shot the poor animal and left him there to die for all to see.
Well this story is not true what so ever.
Paul Mulshine reported in one of his columns in the Star ledger that this was nothing but a conspiracy to make the hunt look barbaric.
Paul said in his article “The story begins in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 9, when a 65-pound bear cub made the mistake of trying to cross Route 23 and was hit by a car. The driver kept going, but (Steven) Meyer stopped to take a look”. Mr. Meyer decided to drag the bear off the highway onto the grassy area off the side of the road. Many newspapers reported that the cub was shot near the highway and left there to die in agony. Well, that never happened. A car hit the cub and the driver left the scene, I think the animal activists are mad at the wrong person in this crazy event. Don’t hate the hunter; hate the person that acted on the hit and run.
Still to this day, I bet Mr. Meyer is being blamed by pet lovers, anti-gun activists, and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (one of my favorite New Jersey bureaucracies: The Division of Fish and Wildlife). My beef is not with this Bear Conspiracy, but with the fact that we have people out there who regard bears as being more important than human lives. Our society sentences numerous pre-borns to their death with only a few people caring, but when a cub dies on the side of some highway these people get angry to the point of almost rioting.
People that live in these bear infested parts of New Jersey are afraid that the bears are going to get hungry some day and snatch away their children to feast upon. Where I live in this state, we don’t have that kind of problem. So when an activist from my part of New Jersey, or Newark, or Jersey City get into a little tiff about that small cub that just wanted a chance, common sense should strike them down and remind them that they don’t have to worry about a bear coming into their apartment or home and kidnapping their child from their yard. I don’t think all of New Jersey has the right to say how Northern New Jersey should deal with their problem. I am from the Jersey shore, and we don’t have bears in my neck of the woods, so I say it’s none of our business.
In the beginning of my column, I quoted Sachs, and he might not mean what I am trying to get at, so I’m changing it! Everyone dies… But, not every person has a chance to live. Remember our country was founded on foundations of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Not all humans are always given the opportunity to live. For a country that represents individual freedoms and rights for all, we no longer defend those whom are about to live. They are sentenced to death with no jury, no court, and no test. We as a society fail every time there is an abortion of life. If it happens here my state or elsewhere throughout our great nation, we are doing a great injustice for the future of our society. By supporting abortion, we are legalizing murder of humans - what will happen next? Human cloning so we can bring them back to life? So much for our grand civilized society.
If anyone had a choice in an abortion, don’t you think that child would choose to live? Our society is so wrapped up in the fear of … “what if” that we become totally irrational and immoral people.
We need to straighten out our problems with abortion and stop increasing death count of human babies. Then we will worry about what is right and wrong about this state’s “controversial” bear hunt. Until then, someone has to defend the defenseless, and I’ll say this, you can count those animal activists out on this one. Their priorities “bear- ly” make any sense.
Governor: Bear hunt not needed (Just tell that to the people that live in North Jersey): http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1078567524317661.xml
“Something fishy about this game”: http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/mulshine/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1078989502122020.xml
British TV channel to screen graphic film of abortion (Will we ever see this here in the United States): http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1185399,00.html
Alan Moretti is a student at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Affairs and Politics. Alan holds a Bachelors Degree from Ramapo College of New Jersey in Political Science. He is the State Vice Chairman of the College Republicans of New Jersey. Currently he is working for Dr. Murray Sabrin in Center of Business and Public Policy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Alan resides in New Jersey with his family.
True; the foundation of the Dred Scott decision was that black persons were not "citizens" under the Constitution, and therefore had no standing to sue in the federal courts for their freedom.
Similarly, pro-abortionists try to hang their hats on the specious argument that because the unborn have not yet been born, they are not yet "citizens" deserving of the protection of the Constitution.
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I used to have the similar standing, but like you, I've changed. I've taken it akin to saying "I wouldn't personally murder someone, but I won't force my views on you, go ahead and choose to murder someone, I won't stand in your way." Doesn't sit well when put that way.
So, you'd rather be dead than have gay parents, eh? I wouldn't, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that opinion.
Besides that, at least with domestic adoption, a birthmother can pick what kind of parents she wants her child to have. It's up to her in most cases.
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