By Jim Beers 22
August 2015
This meeting was
about the inevitable and currently happening spread of federal wolves into
California from Oregon (that got them from Idaho that got them from Montana
that got them from Yellowstone National Park that got them from Alberta and the
Yukon where they were trapped and then transported and released without
documentation in Yellowstone by US Fish and Wildlife Service bureaucrats using
over $35 Million stolen by USFWS Managers from Excise Taxes on Arms and
Ammunition intended only for state wildlife programs After Congress had
refused to authorize or fund this wolf debacle.)
Note: NO federal
bureaucrats were ever charged or disciplined for this criminal act, indeed the
Director at the time is now a top executive of Defenders of Wildlife and her political
lieutenant at the time in charge of the stolen funds is currently the Director
of USFWS. The stolen funds were never replaced in the state wildlife funding
budgets because the state wildlife agency directors and their Washington lobby
group refused to request the replacement for fear of angering federal
bureaucrats that increasingly fund and direct state wildlife programs. But I
digress.
The subject meeting
of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife was fairly (read the report)
reported as:
"California’s Draft Wolf Management Plan was finished last
year. At the California Wolf Stakeholder group’s final meeting (Dec.
2014), much of the discussion focused on how to “limit information sharing”
and what sorts of penalties and pressure can be put on ranchers who might
share information about wolf locations with their neighbors. The remainder
of the meeting was devoted to detailing the acceptable non-lethal
“COEXISTENCE” measures ranchers will be allowed to employ as wolves begin
eating their stock."
Please read that
again, more slowly. Now ask yourself if this meeting is being held in the
United States or is this a History Channel Documentary about Russian
Bureaucracy Directives during the establishment of the Gulags in the 1920’s or
the starvation of millions of Ukrainians to collectivize their farms in the
1930’s?
There are 4 phrases
in this news item that would provide any still-living Russian communists
(Russian communism was birthed in Anarchy) grounds to sue the California and US
federal governments for stealing copyrighted communist bureaucratic procedures
and material.
1.“Wolf
Stakeholder group’s” are euphemisms like “Peoples Republic”, “Comrades
Commission” and “Collective Managers”: that is to say it is a group of
government toadies assembled to create the illusion of “public input” and
“participation” as a fog for government mandate. In this case however, since
there is still the illusion of the USA being a Constitutional Republic to be
maintained for a short while, we have not only the gaggle of state and federal
bureaucrats and an elected “Agriculture” politician plus the radical groups
they answer to (Defenders, Sierra, NRDC, CBD, Wolf “Centers”, etc., etc.): we
have those clandestine representatives paid by and employed by those comrades-to-be
that will actually be hurt, damaged and even destroyed by their
fellow-travelers in this meeting. I speak here of “The Woolgrowers”, “The Elk
Hunters”, “The Mule Deer Hunters”, “The Farmers”, “The Cattlemen”, and “The
Deer Hunters” whose paid lobbyists are dressed up as “Foundation”,
“Association” and “Bureau” Representatives to lend their name and their
Organization’s name and “gravitas” to this document.
That means that all you
members of these ELK & DEER Foundations and Associations; all you members
of these CATTLEMEN & WOOLGROWERS & FARM Bureaus and Associations are
paying your organization not only to diminish and ultimately destroy your own
livelihoods and communities but also to push this nation further into
government tyranny that will burden your children and grandchildren and leave
them with the choice faced by Our Founding Fathers that fought and died in the
American Revolution against Britain over 220 years ago or of acquiescing to
slavery as subjects of tyrants..
2. Consider “much
of the discussion focused on how to “limit information sharing” as a
topic “discussed” by bureaucrats, an elected official, a gaggle of radicals and
a group of Benedict Arnolds “representing” those about to be further diminished
and even destroyed. The key word here is “limit”. Just as “information”
about purposeful starvation of Ukrainians was “limited” as a “famine”, and
German “information” about concentration camps was “limited” as “work camps” so
too are these ex-Americans plotting to control and “limit information” about a
terrible action that will:
- Endanger, especially children and the elderly, rural residents and
rural visitors by exposing them to death and injury from wolf attacks as is
common in Russia and Asia and is increasingly common in North America.
- Eliminate big-game hunting (as Minnesota wolves have done to Minnesota
Moose Hunting).
- Eliminate domestic livestock husbandry as we know it (as wolves are
doing to cattle, sheep, and dogs of all stripes) currently from Washington
State to New Mexico as well as all over western Canada, Alaska, Asia, and
increasingly in Europe).
- Expose rural Americans to over 30 deadly and debilitating diseases and
infections that wolves catch and transmit over the vast areas they roam
including but not limited to:
- Rabies (H) (OA)
- Brucellosis (H) (OA)
Hydatid Disease (2):
- Echinococcus granulosis (H) (OA)
- Echinococcus multilocularis (H) (OA)
- Anthrax (H) (OA)
- Encephalitis (H) (OA)
- Great Lakes Fish Tapeworm (H) (OA)
- Smallpox (H) (OA)
- Mad Cow Disease(BSE) (OA) (H)
- Chronic Wasting Disease (OA)
From Ticks (10) Carried by wolves:
- Anemia (H)
- Dermatosis (H)
- Tick paralysis (H)
- Babesiosis (H)
- Anaplasmosis (H)
- Erlichia (H)
- E. Coast Fever (H)
- Relapsing Fever (H)
- Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever (H)
- Lyme Disease (H)
From Fleas (4) Carried by wolves:
- Plague (H)
- Bubonic Plague (H)
- Pneumonic Plague (H)
- Flea-Borne Typhus (H)
- Distemper (OA)
- Neospora caninum (OA)
- 2 Types of Mange (H) (OA)
- GID (a disease of wild and domestic sheep)
(OA)
- Foot-and-Mouth (OA)
- Parvo (OA)
Of the 30 diseases and infections listed, 24 affect humans and many of
these are deadly. Whether it is a child ingesting tapeworm eggs from a ranch
house floor rug or a jogging soccer Mom encountering wolves as a schoolteacher
did recently in Alaska that resulted in a horrible death, the fact that these
human health hazards have been given short-shrift by wildlife agencies and
their veterinarians is nothing short of scandalous. (James Beers’ Testimony
before an Oregon State Legislative Committee 25 May 2010)
“Limit
information?” “Who, me?”
3. As they
“discuss, “what sorts of penalties and pressure can be put on ranchers
who might share information about wolf locations with their neighbors”
all Americans of every stripe should rise up and demand the firing of these
bureaucrats and the recall of any elected officials involved in such a travesty
of American Constitutional government. Radical environmental and animals rights
organizations AND the so-called hunter/farmer/ranch organizations should be
barred from any future participation in any federal or state work groups or
advisory committees of any nature!
Oh, and by the way,
those people that hire and support such organizations should be reminded that
those that support bureaucrats and politicians subverting such Constitutional
guarantees as required in their oath to “uphold the Constitution of the United
States”; when the 9th Amendment guarantees “rights” “not denied or
disparaged” in the Constitution; and when the 1st Amendment that
specifically protects and guarantees our “FREEDOM OF SPEECH” – THEY ONLY PROVE
HOW IGNORANCE AND LAZINESS allows freedom and liberty to be replaced by tyranny
due to indifference on the part of the citizenry! Why all the way back to The
Magna Carta (1215 AD), Item 45 stated “We will appoint as justices, constables,
sheriffs, or bailiffs only such as know the law of the realm and mean to
observe it well.”
We are regressing
into the mists of the terrifying world Thomas Hobbes described in his 1651 AD book
Leviathan where “life was nasty, brutish and short” by permitting these
evil people to dismantle our liberties and guaranteed rights that have existed
nowhere else in the world!
“Penalties
and pressure”? You mean like, “Comrade Children, you will inform your
teachers or the police if your parents or anyone in your family “share
information about wolf locations” (???) What about “sharing
information” about politicians, or bureaucrats, or the government, or the laws,
or (fill-in-the-blank)”? Do they mean, “Penalties” like fines,
jail, prison, loss of property, deportation to Gitmo to free a terrorist, or
being locked in a room for a year listening to recordings of speeches of
politicians like Hillary or Arlen Spector drone on 24/7? Do they mean, “Pressure”
like mandatory re-education for all rural residents like sex and race
propaganda movies mandated for government employees, or watching demeaning
Public Service propaganda advertising clips on TV and the radio that belittle
all those expressing any disagreement with government policies?
4. Finally we come
to the “piece de resistance”, detailing the acceptable non-lethal
“COEXISTENCE” measures ranchers will be allowed to employ as wolves begin
eating their stock." Government dumps the wolves on rural
Americans and despite all the evidence to the contrary allows NO lethal control
for ranchers as “wolves begin eating their stock”. Even the
ineffective and childish non-lethal (fladry, electric fences, collars, taste
deterrents, noises, prison fencing, pits (like in the Tarzan movies), wolf
puppy training, etc., etc., etc.) methods must be examined and government
determination made as to what is allowable and what is prohibited to owners “when
wolves begin eating their stock”!
There is not even
provision for protecting dogs, or whatever havoc is wreaked on game animals, or
the presence of wolves in rural living spaces, or schoolyards, or at school bus
stops, etc.
Also, there is the
vaguely-concealed anti-2nd Amendment agenda so rampant in California
political and political-correctness hysteria:
1. No one should have a gun.
2. No Concealed or Unconcealed Carry Permits (except for “Leaders,
Commissars and other Exceptional and Favored Comrades as Determined by Government”)
are necessary or allowed.
3. Cougars should reach and maintain densities where human attacks and
human deaths are routine and no hunt or armed protection is needed or allowed.
4. All gun ammunition for any use should be regulated to assure that the
least effective bullets and shot, and the most expensive ammunition are the
only ammunition permitted to be sold. The only exceptions being for exceptions
as noted under #2 and those that protect them or are on active duty with the
armed forces while outside the State.
5.
Government-introduced wolves are to be fed, protected and ignored by all “ranchers”
(soon to include everyone except those exempted by government in writing). No
lethal controls are hereby authorized for anyone not mentioned under #2 until
after pleading to and receiving from government a specific permit. No permits
are authorized until further notice.
It all reminds me
of a college philosophy class I took many years ago. The (crooked) syllogism
emerging from all this would look something like:
California is ruled
by the Procedures of the Communist Manifesto.
California is a
State in the United States of America.
Therefore, The USA
is ruled by the Procedures of the Communist Manifesto.
This wolf model
from California is but one of a succeeding progression of precedents that we
continue to ignore at our own peril.
- Like US Fish and Wildlife Service increasingly evading responsibility
for harms and costs they impose under the auspices of “saving X, Y & Z”
leads to an EPA that is not responsible for or liable for the destruction of
the Animas and San Juan Rivers or answerable to the residents of the States and
Reservations they have affected.
- Or how the responsibility and liability for all the annual
“catastrophic” forest fires, deaths and property losses throughout the West are
evaded by the US Forest Service and the Sierra/Wilderness/NRDC/et al “Bunches”
that cause them.
- Or how the National Park Service is not accountable, responsible or
liable for the deaths of visitors gored by a mountain goat that for years had
threatened visitors or all the hikers and campers killed by grizzly bears or
gored by “free-roaming” buffalo.
So too have these
despicable “Stakeholders” composed a Wolf Manifesto that
serves many other foul agendas and that others must live by or feel the harsh
retribution of a government that no longer even gives lip service to the
history and traditions of the US Constitutional Republic and has adopted
disproven communist principles that give them short term returns and surely an
inevitable pushback that, like King George and his servants, they will one day
regret.
(PS Strong letter
to follow and if you want to know how I REALLY feel about this, drop me a
line.)
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Jim Beers is a
retired US Fish & 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 &
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.
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