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Know the Enemy
by Anthony Marr
 In
the United States, millions of dollars of animal-loving anti-hunting donors’
hard-earned money and heart-given donations are pumped into pro-hunting and
downright hunting organizations with names like the National Wildlife
Federation, the Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, to
name just a few. (At least the Safari Club International, the quintessential
big-game hunters’ club of which both Presidents Bush and VP Cheney are members,
as well as, for example, the National Rifle Association and the Christian
Bowhunters of America, are more honest with their self-indicting nomenclature.)
Not only are vast financial resources injected into these imposter groups from
the innocent animal-loving public, but the Animal rights and animal welfare
movements are deprived of these same resources in the process, so the damage
done to the animal rights/animal welfare movement is doubled.
If you are interested in
donating to an organization, the first thing to do is to call it and ask point
blank what its position on hunting is.
To help us understand these
organizations, and hunting itself, there is no better place to start than from
the quintessential hunter himself, who often holds high positions in these hunt
clubs and imposter groups, and, not least of all, government. Know thy enemy is
what it’s about.
1. His most primal motivation
is to kill animals for entertainment, but often justifies it as a God-ordained
gift, with the created-for-humans animals thrown in. And, to perpetuate the
“culture” and “tradition”, he teaches his offspring, as young as 3, to kill for
fun and “hook them for life”.
2. He prides himself on being
the “true wildlife conservationist”, when his true motive, even if he ends up
conserving some species, is to have more of that species to hunt next year, not
to preserve nature in perpetuity for its own sake as lived by real wildlife
preservationists.
3. He “harvests” the most
magnificent specimen of any given species, fully knowing, yet disregarding, that
this would diminish the quality of that species over time. All he cares about is
to have the biggest trophy in his rec-room, perhaps as a compensation for his
personal shortcomings which he would certainly not hang on the wall.
4. He regards the natural
predators, such as cougar, bear, wolf, lynx, coyote and fox, as competitors for
deer, caribou, elk and moose, and seeks to exterminate them by any means
necessary, including involving these pseudo-conservation groups and imposter
groups in the process. They of course enjoy killing all animals, including,
perhaps especially, the predators.
5. He wants as many deer
(being the main prey by far, plus elk and moose and others) to hunt as possible
– to the tune of over 10 million per year. Eradicating the predator species is
one means to this end. They also artificially feed deer in the wild and on their
own land in the form of food plots, for the express purpose of cultivating as
large a deer population for hunting purposes as possible.
6. He and his political and
industrial cronies then complain bitterly and loudly to the public that there is
a deer overpopulation problem from coast to coast, which causes ecological
damage as well as deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs), and that, therefore, deer must
be and need be hunted in huge numbers, both in the wild and in urban settings –
the latter by bow hunters - to “protect the public and the environment” across
the land.
7. He makes it sound as if he
is doing the public a favor, but the truth of the matter is that first, he is
the origin of the deer population problem, and second, the direct cause of DVCs.
Call any major insurance company and it will tell you that the largest number of
DVC claims occur during the deer hunting season, with a sharp spike on the
opening day of the season. Deer are usually prudent and cautious while
approaching any open space, such as a glade or a roadway. But in the hunting
season, they dash across the road to escape from the hunters in the woods.
Hunters argue that it is the rut, not the hunt, which causes the DVCs, but
nonhunted areas do not have the problem.
8. There exists a broad range
of non-lethal and humane strategies, tactics, methods and technologies,
including two proven categories of immuno-contraception vaccines, and the new
low-labor/low-cost DAC (Deer Auto-Conveyor) method of vaccine delivery (see
www.HOPE-CARE.org - deer section), which in combination can easily replace and
displace the lethal methods in urban and small forest preserve settings. For
this very reason, immuno-contraception is by-and-large discredited and not
permitted by the hunter-dominated governments in the vast majority of states.
9. The reason for the
government’s pro-hunting policy as a rule is that most of the wildlife-oriented
decision-makers in government are themselves hunters and their cronies. This is
an artificial situation, dictated by laws and rules and regulations created by
hunters, for hunters. Things cannot be more glaring than in such examples as the
NJ Fish and Game Council filling itself with hunters by means of the archaic
Title 13 which requires that at least 6 of the 11 voting members must be
“sportsmen”.
10. The hunters, hunter
groups, imposter groups and the hunting industry are immensely rich and powerful
(partly due to the misdirected donations from the deceived public) that most
politicians, from the president on down, have become their puppets.
All in all, the prevailing
situation in most states is that less than 6 percent of their populations hunt,
in some states much less. In New Jersey, for example, only 0.8% of the
population hunts. But hunters and pro-hunters have the inside track in most if
not all political decisions where wildlife management is concerned, and in some
states, this is firmly entrenched in the state constitution itself. The small
minority calls the shots. In this context, American democracy is a joke.
Finally, a word of caution
about anti-hunting organizations. Some are only partial or conditional on this
score, exempting certain classes of hunters and certain types of hunting.
Further, the same or others may have enormous overhead, some to the tune of over
50%, meaning that less than 50 cents per donation dollar go to the animals, and
the rest to salary, real estate, investment, and, not least of all,
fund-raising. A certain leading organization has an annual fund-raising budget
of $6 million. Again, before donating, ask!
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