Rural Extermination News

by JIM BEERS

Item number one:

"Comment period extended for park gun plan"

The proposal was to reach decision makers early this summer, following
public comment. But on June 26, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D- Hawaii, and Rep. Raul
Grijalva, D-Ariz., wrote Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne requesting an
extension.

 

Their letter stressed that the "department's proposal is ardently opposed by
current and former park ranger professionals who have countless years of
experience in park management and resource protection."

Critics - including the National Parks Conservation Association, the
Association of National Park Rangers, the U.S. Park Lodge of the Fraternal
Order of Police and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees, a group
whose 640 members have a combined 19,000 years working in the nation's
parks - also wrote Interior requesting the extension.
They have argued allowing guns in parks will increase violent encounters
between visitors and will lead to additional wildlife poaching. Tourists
scared by a noise in the night, critic argue, might be compelled to open
fire in crowded campgrounds.

 

COMMENT: "Allowing guns" outside Parks doesn't "increase violent
encounters"; this is an "old ranger's tale". Wildlife poaching outside
Parks is not increased by allowing citizens to exercise their 2nd Amendment
rights in accordance with state laws: if poaching is a problem - arrest the
poachers. "Noise" in the night, like things that go "bump" in the night, is
greatly overrated. If one of "your" (NPS) wolves or bears or cougars is in
that campground threatening human life or if someone is threatening the life
of another, how does that differ from the same circumstances outside the
Park? But all this is merely diversion. This NPS autocracy example is
about gun control and the drive to erode and then destroy "the right to bear
Arms" that is guaranteed in the 2nd Amendment. Despite NPS employees' and
retirees' and their lobby groups' gun control efforts - Parks, National or
not, are not sacred islands where portions of the US Constitution do not
apply at the whim of federal autocrats. This is especially true when the
denial of citizen rights is perpetrated by public employees being paid from
the public trough and even more egregiously on lands bought and administered
with public funding. The only bright spot here is the public relief we
should all feel that these "Lords" have not turned their attention to
suspending other Constitutional rights like freedom of religion or speech or
the press on their fiefdoms: although in fact there are many instances of
these federal agencies trying to override the Constitutional guarantees of
freedom from "unreasonable searches and seizures" by this trickery of
writing their own regulations for what they believe to be their own estates
in order to garner political support from various groups and politicians.

 

Item number two:

 

Recently on Fox News, John Kasich asked a young urban yuppie lady that
evidently lives in New York City (this lady is a financial commentator and
works on or near the fabled "Wall Street") the following question. "When I
go into these 7-11's and see these clerks making minimum wages, I ask myself
how can they pay $4 and $5 per gallon for gas just to get to work? What can
we do to make gas more affordable for these people? What can they do?

 

This is what the lady babbled about:

"We need to invest in more public transportation. We need more buses and
subways. We need more wind and solar power. We need to stop living far
away from jobs. "They" need to get rid of all those trucks and SUV's.

 

When John said, "they" can't sell those trucks and SUV's because there is no
market for them right now, her answer was "they" should just abandon them
and stop using so much gas.

 

COMMENT: What do you think this lady and her ilk will do when Obama
proposes expanding all the Parks and putting "more" wolves and grizzlies and
cougars all over rural America? What will she and her lunch pals think of
it when McCain proposes more Wildernesses and more road closures and closing
down all grazing and logging on all federal lands? What will she and her
"workout" partners think when Diane Feinstein proposed millions more to look
for the extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker or when Charley Rangel proposes New
York City gun laws as the model for all federal lands. How happy will she
and her "vacation club" acquaintances be when gas hits $8 or $10 per gallon
and rural employment and rural life grinds to a halt? Will she and the
other urban ladies even look up from their mud bath and massage on the
cruise ship when several rural residents are killed and injured in a few day
period by wolves and cougars and grizzly bears that are being protected and
spread by public employees utilizing public funds? Will they even mention
at the next Brie and Chardonnay buffet that hunting and trapping and fishing
are being banned on public lands and that license requirements are
accelerating the decline of new hunters and fishermen? Of course not! They
will basically think that it is only right that those "Red" Counties that
once denied urban "Blue" Counties the Presidents and Congress they wanted,
are finally getting their comeuppance and will eventually only be weak
remnants of inconsequential voting blocs.

 

But, you say, "The Constitution will protect us!" I think that is an
increasingly slender reed to lean on. Read on.

 

Item number three:

 

Out of respect for a "balanced' approach, we go to CNN News reportage on the
US Supreme Court decision that said we have each had a "right to bear Arms"
for a couple of hundred years now and that the Washington, DC ban on
handguns was and remains illegal.

 

One of the "eye candy" lady reporters asked, "Does this mean that the
Constitution trumps policy?"

 

COMMENT: What can you say? We are grinding out more and more such citizens
each day. They believe that the will of the mob, whatever it may be, should
rule. Property rights; freedom of speech; a right to bear Arms; culture and
traditions; and the right to live, work and raise our families in rural
America: all these things are simply reversible grants from the powerful
depending on the whims of the majority and the perceived benefits to those
in power and their cronies.

 

SUMMARY: These three current examples of urban values (banning guns,
forcing everyone into cities, and ruling by the mob's desires like Roman
circuses) do not bode well for rural America. These powerful rulers
(currently ascendant liberal politicians, urban professionals without
children or concern for anything beyond their immediate gratification, and
conniving bureaucrats that skim profitable "positions" eliminating rights
and making rural life more expensive and more dangerous) plan to make their
future wealth by destroying American Constitutional rights and rural
American society.

 

If we cannot come together and reverse these trends and circumscribe the
power of these groups, rural America as we know it will not only disappear,
they will see that it disappears from the history books as well. They are
deadly serious.

 

Jim Beers

13 July 2008

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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 Centreville, Virginia with his wife of many decades.

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