Threats & Intimidation

The news media of late (2 weeks after the 2006 mid-term elections wherein
the House and Senate went Democrat) sounds more like Al Jazeera or one of
those Al Qaeda videos.  Boasting and gleeful warning to all opponents
abound, to be ignored at our own peril.

No, I am not talking about the politicians (they merely reflect the rest of
us): nor am I referring to the bureaucrats or talking heads (they just say
what they think we want to hear.

I am talking about the heads of all the Tax-Exempt Environmental and Animal
Rights organizations that have popped up like prairie dogs that have just
heard a particular bark or whistle.

This from the august Sierra Club cautioning, "'Any candidate who allows
himself to be recklessly out of touch with mainstream environmental values
is vulnerable,' said Carl Pope, the Sierra Club's executive director."
(NOTE: I don't seem to remember any mention of, or any debate about these
things.  I guess this is somewhat like the Iraqi elections where some of us
saw a democratic government established and some Iraqi's and radicals saw a Shia/Sunni confrontation platform?)

"Cathy Duvall of the Sierra Club said winning candidates made it clear to
voters that a new more environmentally responsible energy policy was
consistent with a sound economic policy."  (NOTE: Oh, really?  That is not a
"fact": it was not "clear" at all.  Further, to assert that the
"environmentally responsible energy policy" they espouse is "consistent with
a sound economic policy" is an oxymoron or as the dictionary so defines it
"pointedly foolish".)

"Our long national nightmare is close to being over," said Philip Clapp,
president of the National Environmental Trust, paraphrasing Gerald Ford on
assuming the presidency after Nixon's resignation over Watergate. (NOTE:  I
hope that we all appreciate how these anti-property rights and anti-States
rights and pro- all-powerful central government types simply lie dormant
until certain environmental conditions allow them to explode and begin their
anti-American agendas right where they left off.)

"The Humane Society Legislative Fund, a new political arm of the Humane
Society of the United States, decided in September to actively work for the
election or defeat of lawmakers based on issues important to the
animal-welfare movement, such as banning the slaughter of horses. The group
then spent more than $200,000 in the final four weeks of the campaign, most
of it targeted at defeating two lawmakers who were in tight races, Pombo in
Northern California and Wilson in New Mexico." (NOTE: Placing flyers on
autos in Church parking lots during services just before an election
accusing (unjustly) the candidate of being pro-gay and pro-abortion hardly
qualifies as an endorsement of the sacredness of horses, the legitimacy of
replacing animal ownership with animal "guardianship", or the immorality of
hunting.)

"Sara Amundson, executive director of the Humane Society Legislative Fund,
sees her group doing for animal welfare what organizations like the National
Rifle Association and the League of Conservation Voters have done for gun
owners and environmentalists." (NOTE: Except the NRA DEFENDS Constitutional Rights while these outfits want to DESTROY Constitutional Rights.)

"As a Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen noted in a press
statement, "Pombo's defeat... serves as notice that extreme
anti-environmental positions can be an extreme liability on the campaign
trail."  (NOTE:  How many remember the name of the "2nd female Director of
the US Fish and Wildlife Service?  You remember, the one who oversaw the
theft of $45 to 60 Million (per the GAO Audit of the US Fish and Wildlife
Service) from sportsman excise taxes that were STATE fishing and hunting
funds.  You know, the funds that WERE NEVER REPAID TO THE SPORTSMEN OF THIS COUNTRY and then were used to introduce wolves into Yellowstone (after Congress refused to fund it) and to open an office Congress refused to authorize and to pay excessive bonuses to bureaucrats.  When Congress began looking at the illegal office, USFWS simply transferred the child of a powerful politician (who had somehow been hired and promoted by USFWS without any background) into the office thereby making the office "electrified", politically that is, to any investigator.  Yeah, that same
ex-US Fish and Wildlife Director, the same one Congressman Pombo went after for the violations until all but a few brave political supporters (like Helen Chenoweth to name one) abandoned the fight because political support slunk away when the Environmentalist/Animal Rights desires to eliminate hunting and fishing by changing state agencies was made clear.  Well guess who is the "Executive Director" of the Defenders of Wildlife, the outfit that now brags about spending $1.2 Million to defeat Pombo?  If you guessed the same person that took the sportsman's money to put those wolves in Yellowstone for Defenders to manipulate to their advantage today, you are
right.)

Pombo's sin was that he supported sensible and environmentally-sound
development of Federally-controlled oil and natural gas to reduce our
dependency on foreign oil.  He tried to rewrite the Endangered Species Act
to reflect the Constitutional values it destroyed: which, incidentally, were
the basis for the success of this nation for over 2 centuries.  He also
tried to set an acceptable level of incidental take of porpoises in tuna
nets, something that has eluded Congress for 30 years.  Finally, he held to
the old-fashioned notion that Federal agencies work under laws and FOR
political appointees. All this matter not at all though when you are accused
unjustly of "corruption" and more lies about your stands on other issues are
voiced everywhere that money can buy.

Any "sportsman" out there, think things will get "better"?  Are any dog
owners or animal users or natural resource users or anyone believing in
"managing" as opposed "being managed by" animals and the environment, not
worried?  Remember the "Ivory-billed Woodpecker" "sighters" and
"horse-slaughter-precedent" lawyers and all the anti-hunting lobbyists and
animal "guardian" activists et al schmoozing as I write with Congressional
staffers and agency bureaucrats.  If you aren't worried you really don't
care about these things.

If you are worried, it is time to get to work.  I intend to write and speak
and explain issues more for the middle and those lightly committed to the
Environmental and Animal Rights Movement and their agenda.  If ever there
was a need for "the truth will set you free", it is the next two years.

I hope we do discuss these things prior to the next election.  The last
thing we need is more of this anti-human and anti-American agenda shoved
down our throats incidental to the other issues du jour.  They were no more
elected to do these things than was our retreat from Vietnam or a
precipitous Iraqi withdrawal a confirmation of the validity of dictatorships
or the acceptability of terrorism. Only when good men do nothing can these
radical agendas prevail.

Jim Beers
16 November 2006

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