It is a great sadness to receive e-mails and copies of small town newspaper articles like the following, almost every day. The feelings of helplessness and anger when Big City newspapers either ignore these incidents or even worse, deny and ridicule those being harmed must be what it was like after WWII to reflect back on all the lies and disinformation from news accounts and politicians about the German wonderland Hitler was forming and how misunderstood Stalin and his henchmen were as they were forming a “worker’s paradise” that the American press published during the 1930’s.
Who speaks for and
defends the ranchers, farmers, businessmen and families of rural America as
they are pillaged like this by politicians and bureaucrats working in league
with coalitions of wealthy interest groups that prance about and dress like
secular missionaries imposing their hateful ideology of lies and nature
worship?
The article below
(Editor's Note: the article Jim's referencing is posted here) is from the Wallowa County Chieftain newspaper in Enterprise, Oregon (in the NE
corner of Oregon). They won’t read it in Portland or Eugene where the state
politicians and their bureaucrats are “breakfasting” as I write. You won’t see
it in the San Francisco paper or the Chicago paper or even the vaunted
Washington, DC paper read by our impotent Congressmen, our self-serving federal
bureaucrats, and all the despot-wannabees that would make Mao proud.
- I could send it
to my Minnesota big city paper but they would simply snicker as they dismissed
it wondering why anyone was so stupid as to send them something like this.
- I could send it
to my “Department of Natural Resources” but they would just tell everyone to
ignore it because Oregonians just don’t know how to “live with wolves” like we
do here in Minnesota. Our Governor Dayton might see this as a chance to “work
with” fellow progressive for votes here at home; he might send out a Minnesota
DNR delegation that could“advise” the Oregon “Wildlife” agency and in the
meantime they could swap information about federal job opportunities and
after-retirement opportunities with the “Unlimiteds’, “Forevers”, and
“Defenders”.
- I could send it
to the University of Minnesota and if they said anything about the problem at
all it would be on the order of it probably being the result of insufficient
leash laws for dogs and that the calving problems are some sort of new
infectious malady for which Oregonians should fork over millions to the
University to “conduct research” and “develop recommendations”.
- I could mention
it to acquaintances but after listening they would shrug and say it is
interesting but what can they do as they look at me with that look of, “what a
funny guy”.
- I could send it
to the US Fish and Wildlife Service but they would send me form letter #46 that
begins. “Thank you for your recent letter…” and ends after a bafflement of BS,
“Thank you for writing”.
- I could send it
to my Congressman (a good guy) but some young staffer would smile as he came up
with a polite letter telling me that while Congressman Kline understands the
gravity of the situation, it is not a matter that occurs in his District but he
will forward my letter to the US Fish and Wildlife Service that enforces the Endangered
Species Act, oh and thank you for writing.
- I could send a
copy to my two US Senators (Franken and Klobuchar) who are elected by;
supported (financially, publicity-wise, and vote-wise) by; and beholden to a
coalition of urban, progressive environmentalists that want the government to
put more wolves and grizzly bears, buy more and more land, and
declare more and more“wildernesses” “Out There”. My letter to them would
evoke no more than,“I didn’t know there were any people like this left in
Minnesota?”
I can only send
this article to you and tell you it is only one of many that I receive. The
only solution is to abolish any and all authority for the federal government to
impose the will of these radicals on one rural community after another. Simply
put, the Endangered Species Act must be abolished and its detritus throughout
Rural America removed. Then begin rolling back federal land ownership and
federal land non-management and non-use from Wilderness Declarations and
Roadless Areas to restoration of wildlife, forest and range management for
people.
You will be
pleasantly surprised at how quickly and naturally Local government authority,
Local government revenue, and Local control of local matters will increase and
how, neither as quickly nor as naturally but inevitably, your state wildlife
agencies once again manage the natural resources of your state for the benefit
of your state and all those that live in it.
Two things must be
done first, but that is something I hope to speak about next month if arrangements
come through. I hope to circulate that talk and share it with you after I give
it.
If you found this
worthwhile, please share it with others. Thanks. Jim Beers
Jim Beers is a
retired US Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge
Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in
North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also
served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in
the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game,
Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC.
He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US
Fish and Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife
funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority.
He resides in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.
Jim Beers is
available to speak or for consulting. You can receive future articles by sending
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