Given other historical precedent, there’s nothing wrong with our current government leaders that wouldn’t be solved far more rapidly, by simply chopping 342 of them open with tomahawks and hurling them into the Potomac river-since Boston Harbor is kinda far to toss the bodies
“…and the sad truth is that 95% of the problems we have in this country could be solved tomorrow, by noon… simply by dragging 100 people out in the street and shooting them in the fucking head.” – An anonymous US Marine.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” ― Patrick Henry
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein
“The U.S. government now poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, even more than the perceived threat posed by any single politician, the U.S. government remains a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.” – John W. Whitehead
Last October, a father and son set out into the Oregon wilderness, stalking blacktail deer. After they split up, only one of them made it out of the woods. This is what happens when a hunter disappears.
Last October, a father and son set out into the Oregon wilderness, stalking blacktail deer. After they split up, only one of them made it out of the woods. This is what happens when a hunter disappears
Trevor Higgins was starting to panic. Even if his dad had shot a deer, he should have reached the trailhead by now. Or, if he’d fallen and broken a leg, Trevor was sure his dad would have belly-crawled to the road. He wasn’t the kind of guy to depend on someone else for help, to sit and wait for rescue. But two and a half hours had passed since his dad, Shawn Higgins, had entered the woods. Maybe more. Trevor wasn’t sure anymore. But he knew that his dad should have come back to the truck already.
Their plan was simple: Shawn, 41, would hike down the narrow footpath, looking for a blacktail. Meanwhile, Trevor, 21—who had killed a buck the day before—would wait with the truck at the next trailhead, 2 miles up Burnt Ridge Road in the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon. After a couple of hours, they’d meet and drive to get Will Chandler, Trevor’s uncle, whom they’d dropped off earlier. They did this sort of thing often. There was no reason for Shawn to have taken more than an hour or so to make the hike. Now, a storm began to bear down on the mountain, which further unsettled Trevor. He watched as the October sky grayed. He could see a darkness coming.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”― Frank Herbert
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or a police officer: give any one person (or government agency) too much power and allow him or her or it to believe that they are entitled, untouchable and will not be held accountable for their actions, and those powers will eventually be abused.
We’re seeing this dynamic play out every day in communities across America.
A cop shoots an unarmed citizen for no credible reason and gets away with it. A president employs executive orders to sidestep the Constitution and gets away with it. A government agency spies on its citizens’ communications and gets…
It’s never been more clear that now is the time to act. The hunter numbers are in, and they’re not good. Preliminary findings of U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation indicate a 5-year fall-off of over 2 million hunters. Since 1980, hunter numbers have fallen from nearly 18 million to the current count of 10.5 million. The preliminary findings are summarized well here. The future of conservation in this country relies heavily on our collective ability to reverse a devastating trend in hunter participation.
But what can we do about it?
1. Accept reality. Lack of access is choking us. Land sales and hunting leases are going to continue to eat up large tracts of land, and public land is going to get more pressure than your old honey hole. I miss my old honey hole, too… you know the one… the place we lost when Grandpa sold the farm, or when that trusty old CRP became a corn field. When you do find a good spot on public land there may be other hunters there, fearing running into you as much as you feared running into them. Be gracious, you’re probably a couple kind words from being hunting buddies. And, please if you take nothing else from this letter, ask yourself who really gives a shit whether they shoot a crossbow, or they shoot an autoloader, or they have the wrong brand of camo. They’re on our team, stop focusing so much on what makes us different.
This is a hunting pic.
2. While we’re accepting reality, let’s accept this: The world has changed and will continue to do so. We are not going to rid the world of video games and cell phones. There’s nothing we can do about 80-game soccer leagues for 10 year-olds. People are going to continue to move away from rural areas. Families are going to lose their farms to inheritance taxes. Baby boomers are going to age out of their hunting days in the next 10 years. Anti-hunting and anti-gun organizations are only going to pick up steam during this presidency – just like gun and ammo sales picked up steam during the last presidency. Millennials are going to continue hunting for different reasons than generations-past. As hunters, we need to learn to thrive inside of the constraints of these tectonic realities. Here are some examples of things each of us can do, 1) hold a wild game feed and invite the families from the soccer team, 2) start a trap league, rather than joining a golf league, 3) create hunting opportunities for youth in programs like National Archery in the Schools, and high school trap teams, 4) get your whole family involved in your local Ducks Unlimited, National Wild Turkey Federation, or Pheasants Forever chapter.
This is a hunting pic.
3. No matter who you are, what you look like, or where you’re from if you care about the future of hunting, you have to figure out ways to bring a new person this hunting season. It doesn’t need to be a kid, the person doesn’t even need to shoot, but we need to invite them to come along. No one learned to love hunting through a social media post or a hunting show. You and I need to intentionally seek them out, invite them, bring them along and teach them. If each of us brought 1 new person every 10 times we go we could reverse this trend. If you’re up for the challenge, consider taking the National Hunting and Fishing Day Pledge. When you do so you’ll be entered to win all kinds of really cool experiences from Bass Pro Shops, NASCAR, and more.
Wayne Pacelle and HSUS fire up the anti- hunting machine for yet another sleazy underhanded attempt to ban hunting.
They will never stop- ever.
It’s up to sportsmen, ranchers, and pet owners to stop these people. Among the stated goals of HSUS- ban all hunting and trapping, ban raising any animals for food, ban ownership of any animals, aaaannddd- force us all to become vegan.
Even the crazy cat ladies should be fighting HSUS and helping to expose their lies, half truths and obfuscation.
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