Hunters, fishermen, and trappers
have a very real stake in maintaining the animals they pursue. No other persons
have anything like this "very real stake" as they watch nature
programs or pontificate in urban coffee shops. The animals provide pleasure,
food, products, and an ancillary industry that benefits the nation as well as
each of us.
| Animals are NOT humans or citizens with
rights; they are PROPERTY. Whether it is the private property of my pet or
livestock or the public property of wild animals held in trust for each of us
by OUR government they belong to us. No matter whether they are so smart or so
big or "so much like us"; they are and shall remain property for us
to butcher or bob their tail or shoot over decoys on a cold fall morning. Those
who would take away our rights in these regards have more in common with
socialists and communists in foreign lands than those of us living under the US
Constitution. |
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So if someone like the lady I first mentioned
wants to ask about it after Church, I will discuss it. If some teacher wants to
brainwash little kids with lies and propaganda I will oppose him or her.
If some bureaucrat wants to restrict my rights
or public property I will remind him or her that they work for me.
If some professors wants to advocate that he
and his "science" should dictate my lifestyle, I will see that his
opinion is but one of many considerations taken into account.
If some politician supports eliminating
management or closing public lands I will oppose him and work to get a
politician elected that will preserve my rights.
If I see any of these radical organizations or
their supporters spreading their hateful propaganda or trying to influence
others in any way, I will oppose them publicly, privately, in writing, and
verbally to anyone that will listen.
Hunting is important to me and I will do
whatever I can to preserve it from those that would exterminate it. How about
you? 
Jim Beers
31 December 2004
This article and other recent articles by Jim
Beers can be found at
http://www.allianceforamerica.org/bb/viewforum.php?f=91
Jim Beers is available for consulting or to
speak
Contact: JimBeers7@earthlink.net
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