Three New Ones From Jim Beers

An excerpt from Wildlife "Management"

Several years ago I was asked for some advice about what the US Fish & Wildlife Service was doing on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, also located in the "western Arizona desert". It seems President Franklin Roosevelt set aside a big chunk of western Arizona desert during the Depression specifically for the desert bighorn sheep, a very desirable big game animal. The area was called the Kofa Game Range and was managed for years by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM.)...In the environmental craze of the 60's and 70's BLM was used as an example of government "rape and ruin" by environmental fundraisers. Accordingly, the Kofa Game Range was "saved" by transferring it to the emerging darling of the radicals, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS.) Cheers were heard as it was renamed the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. FWS and the environmentalists immediately set to work to stop grazing, shooting, rabbit hunting, driving, etc. on the Kofa under the banner of "protecting the desert bighorns" which the state of Arizona managed just fine thanks to guzzlers and a profitable permit system that provided management money for the secretive game animal and other desert creatures. Arizonans and big game hunters kept the FWS and their "partners" in check. Along came the Wilderness Act and Senator Mc Cain...

And from Ownership

As the government controls more land, more human activities, more animals, and more plants; the model for and the acceptance of more government control of more things from where you live and what you can "own" to who "owns" a business or who controls your family grows. Look at how the Marine Mammal Protection Act has evolved from "saving" baby seals and tuna to destroying all marine mammal uses while growing US and UN bureaucracies and radical coffers. Look at how the Animal Welfare Act has evolved from assuring animal "welfare" to setting impossible standards and registering and destroying animal breeders and farmers. Look at how the Endangered Species Act has evolved from "saving species" to listing flocks of animals and stands of plants while taking property without compensation (as required by the Constitution) to exempting government agencies and bureaucrats from the very activities and actions that citizens are imprisoned for. I ask you to look even beyond these matters and consider how the entire structure of government and the guaranteed rights of citizens are being eroded...

And finally, from A Current Fairy Tale

Once upon a time a sinister group of men talked in a tavern near the King's castle. They agreed to use their influence with the King and the nobility to seize control of the rural valley known as Darbia. Each man had his own private reason for taking the land of the farmers and tradesmen but the reason they spoke of between themselves was for the good of Darbia. The farmers were ignorant and the tradesmen were poor and Darbia was not well treated by them, according to the men.
So they convinced the King to give Lord Faws a sack of money and offer it to the farmers and tradesmen for their land. But the Darbians said this was their home and where they grew things to feed their families and where their villages were located. Lord Faws countered with the fact that the Darbians were pitied by people throughout the realm because they cared for their valley in the old ways. Lord Faws said he would tell everyone of the animals that lived there, which the smart people of the realm wished to hear about. He said he would clear the land and put in animals that were long gone...

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