| No, the recommendations and
"warnings" of these State "Federal-wannabees" should be
taken for what they are and nothing more. Many State fish and wildlife agency
personnel today go to work for Federal resource agencies either for promotions
or when they are fired. Many Federal employees now go to pay-increase jobs in
State agencies now that they can move retirement accounts so freely. Other
state and Federal employees go to environmental, animal rights, and
conservation Non Government Organizations (NGO's) both here and abroad for pay
increases or when newly elected political Parties may come after them. They
are certainly free to and encouraged to do these things in this great country,
but there is a downside that we must be aware of. Increasingly these State and
Federal agency agencies, NGO's, and University professors that provide
justifications and receive grants form an entity unto themselves. They are
identical to what President Eisenhower once referred to when he cautioned to
"beware of a military/industrial complex." These groups form such a
complex today. They recognize State governments, Presidents, the Congress, the
US system of government, and you and me as merely obstacles to be overcome or
pawns to be played for their own benefit and the agendas of those who would
harm us and eliminate our rights.
As we ponder this recent spate of Invasive
Species propaganda (spurred mainly by the Federal bureaucrat's belief that you
can wring out promises from politicians for the most egregious stuff during an
election, especially a close one) remember to swat this stuff down at every
opportunity. We don't need to create any more Federal environmental or animal
rights authority. Indeed we should be discussing how to reduce dramatically
what has been created in the past thirty years. Remind your state bureaucrats
that they work for YOU and that they should manage your State's environment
and plants and animals for YOU, not Federal bureaucrats or Federal mandates.
Challenge these NGO's whenever they write or claim things that you know will
take away your rights or harm your property both private and public.
So you can bring the women and kids back out
now and go out and take a picture of a mute swan. Try some new snakehead
recipe while you're at it. And last but not least, try live minnows for
flatheads, I caught two of them on minnows years ago back in Illinois before
they had a deer season and all the mallards were full of corn and fat as well,
whatever. 
27 August 2004
This article and other recent articles by Jim
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