Are you really talking about any alternatives or real effects when you read or hear about wolves being "reintroduced" ("planted" is a more accurate term) into New England? Are you really talking about "animal welfare" when dog breeders are Federally licensed, or vets are forbidden nationwide to clip dog ears or bob tails, or horse slaughter is forbidden? Are you really talking about "saving the environment" when logging and grazing and hunting and fishing and trapping are forbidden? You are no more talking about these things when you discuss them today than I am talking about global warming and Ivory-billed Woodpeckers when we discuss them verbally or in writing. You are really talking about Federal imposition on rural New England residents to eliminate rural livelihoods and rural living by all but the wealthy. You are talking about eliminating dog breeding, breed maintenance, pet ownership, and the possession of dogs or horses by all but the wealthy. You are really talking about eliminating all plant and animal ownership, use, and management in order to give back to government precisely what our Revolution and Constitution took to ourselves from King George and his Parliament. It is America denying it's 200 plus year record of freedom and success in order to race back down the scale of freedom toward the Zimbabwes' and North Koreas' of the world.

In all of these issues we are really talking about the swirl of hidden agendas behind them, the unlikely-to-materialize alleged future benefits, and most of all the increasing harms they will create over time (think Endangered Species Act, Wilderness Act, etc.). Proposed global warming "remedies" and alleged Ivory-billed Woodpecker "sightings" are merely Hysterical Claims to justify Radical Proposals. The kernel of legitimate concern and serious need for inquiry is the mask for Federal power growth, UN power creation, and the fulfillment of radical agendas based on self-serving pronouncements that are neither verifiable nor provable.

Just as we were correct to reject obligating ourselves to the Kyoto Treaty prescriptions; we should reject (by repeal and a fresh search for models that build on rather than destroy our unique American freedoms and system of government) the failed and harmful prescriptions of the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, The Animal Welfare Act, and The Wilderness Act. They are collectively destroying wildlife, animal use, plant and animal management, "public" land, private property, families, communities, and our system of government. They do this just as Kyoto was also supposed to: by destroying our freedoms and our economy and shifting traditional American freedoms and rights from citizens to bureaucratic overlords in the pay of others.

Jim Beers
2 December 2005