Vested!

 

The Scribes

Vested!

Committed Family

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

 

            The church of environmental splendor is akin to a fire ant invasion.

            Word Friday morning of a pending plan to fly 90-150 jaguars at hack in Arizona and southern New Mexico was only one of three weekly pincer attacks on the remaining sanity of written history of the Southwest. At issue is not just an effort to engineer another impossible large carnivore entry into the world of make believe, it is the deliberate and conscious effort to formulate an end run around the previous removal of critical habitat for jaguars in lands where they have only been occasional visitors over the past 100 years.

            The big cats can’t live in a world where they can’t make a living and the arrogance of the world savers, payroll patriots, and chest thumpers ensconced in their safe foxholes that push such fallacy is as stifling as it is destructive!

            The second incident is the killing of a wolf and the reward of finding the sharpshooter who killed it. The story about the incident places the killer in the category of a modern-day Boston strangler. What the public is not being told, though, is the fact the deceased was a problem wolf in the recovery area and was shipped to Mexico to make it somebody else’s problem. It was a dereliction of responsibility of dealing with the wolf when and where the problems occurred as the policies and protocol have stipulated.

            The problem could have been hidden from the public’s eye except the wolf decided to go home to the subsidized chow line in the Arizona/New Mexico recovery area. Being collared, it was tracked across hostile and friendly grounds until somebody took matters into their own hands and shot it outside the recovery area in Arizona.

            Now, that person has being tried in absentia by the complicit press and awaits a public hanging if and when he is found.

            The third strike is the bill awaiting final disposition in New Mexico’s Roundhouse making it illegal to trap on public lands. The entrenched progressives of the land of enchantment have taken it upon themselves to act on behalf of United States government land agencies, the Tribes, and even the DOD to declare sovereign jurisdiction across all lands that form the footprint of the state.

            Of course, every sane person knows where this bill is ultimately heading, but one must wonder what the 47^th state admitted to the union might be like if similar efforts were made to make itself self-supporting … rather than another modern-day reservation and ward of the American taxpayer.

            The Scribes

            One of the points of greatest incredulity of accepting things as they truly are is coming to grips with the press.

            They are the facilitators of the cause and hate exercises. To start with, there is no such thing as a fair and balanced press. So many productive and independent Americans have entered into public debates on the basis of actions being taken against them without any prior warning much less representation. Time and again the inevitable is played out whereby they are played and treated as fools (and increasingly in recent days as fascists). The prevailing press has no aptitude nor natural inquisitiveness to flush out any other side of a story other than what must be described only as the party line. It is certainly a function of their surroundings and their training, but it is also more.

            It has long been foundational.

            The problem isn’t simply a function of the times although 24-hour press cycles and social media have elevated most folks into a different stratum of involvement. Rather, there is realization the majority of the press could not write a countering or dissenting opinion if they were assigned the task. They weren’t taught fairness regardless of their representation. There is no balance in journalism schools just like there is no balance in the vast majority of law schools. The graduates of these mills are simply incapable of such an assignment and the prevailing message remains mired in smugness, ignorance, misconception, singlemindedness, and mediocrity.

            It’s kind of like the city kids who used to come to see their country cousins and want to play as equals in that unequal but much more realistic world.

            Vested

            The progressive line has become so corrupted with hate, vitriol, and destructive intent there is no recourse other than doubling down.

            The process becomes a thread of ever tighter controls and demands because the outcomes are never satisfactory. Never is the end game enough nor is the actual result an outcome that was envisioned in the first place. It becomes and has become a dark and dead-end tunnel.

            There is an interesting story of Eisenhower during the last days of World War II that dramatizes this process. The scene was an inspection of yet another scene of horror that littered the landscape of war-torn Europe. As Ike was walking along, he noticed an inscription on a wall. Asking what is said, someone interpreted it for him.

            The STATE is everything and the individual is … nothing.

            Ours is a world that is descending ever closer to that reality. A parallel if not central theme of the movement is the fact that extraction of the benefits of existing productivity has become more of the theme of society than the benefits derived from the production itself.

            There is also the realization that the governance of our society is increasingly carried out by the people who are emotionally and fundamentally in disagreement to its tenets and the Constitution under which it was founded. That is a bad place to be.

            All we can hope for and commit to assure to succeeding generations… is this will turn out to be a story whereby the family stood together and weathered the catastrophe cast upon them.

 

            Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. “I’ve got to go figure out where water from a new pump is actually going.”

Editor's note: Mr. Wilmeth submitted this piece just prior to the adjournment of the legislature. The anti-trapping legislation passed and has been sent to the Governor.