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WHA UPDATE
Based on strong
opposition from sportsmen and women throughout the country, The World Hunting
Association (WHA) recently announced that it has dropped the most contentious of
its issues -- shooting whitetail deer with tranquilizer darts. David Farbman,
founder of the upstart WHA, said Saturday that intense criticism from the North
American hunting circle mandated a change in format for his project. Read
more about it HERE.
PETA BOYCOTTS CHINA
According to the
U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (www.ussportsmen.org) the latest example of
its thirst to inject itself into the news, PETA has called for a boycott on
Chinese products after the Chinese government’s brutal killing of 50,000 dogs to
control a recent rabies outbreak.
“We are urging
everyone to actively boycott – not a word we use lightly – anything from China
given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,” said PETA president Ingrid
Newkirk.
The PETA boycott is
ironic considering the fact that two PETA employees face felony charges for
illegally euthanizing cats and dogs in 2005 in the back of a PETA-owned van. The
two employees, neither licensed to euthanize animals, illegally dumped the dead
animals in dumpsters around Ahoskie, North Carolina. The Center for Consumer
Freedom reports that in 2003, PETA euthanized over 85 percent of the animals it
took in, finding homes for only 14 percent. As many as 14,000 animals are
reported to have been killed by PETA since 1998.
The Center for
Consumer Freedom website is urging readers to actively boycott all things PETA –
something sportsmen have been doing for years.
MAN FIGHTS DEER TO DEATH
For 40 exhausting
minutes, Wayne Goldsberry of Arkansas battled a whitetail buck with his bare
hands in his daughter's bedroom. Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point
whitetail deer that crashed through a bedroom window at his daughter's home.
When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay dead on the
bedroom floor, its neck broken.
Goldsberry was at
his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check on the
noise and found the deer. "I was peeking around the corner when the deer came
out of the bedroom," Goldsberry said. The deer ran down the hall and into the
master bedroom, he said, "jumping back and forth across the bed." Goldsberry,
about 6-feet-1 and 200 pounds, entered the bedroom to confront the deer and,
after a brief struggle, emerged to tell his wife to call police. After returning
to the bedroom, the fight continued. The man finally was able to grip the animal
and twist its neck, killing it.
Goldsberry, sore
from the struggle, dragged the dead animal out of the house. "He got kicked
several times. He was walking bowlegged for a while," Deputy Doug Gay said. At
this time of year, a buck that sees its reflection in a window often charges,
believing it is fighting off a rival, Gay said. Goldsberry had the deer
butchered. "He's in the freezer," the man said before walking to the kitchen and
showing off pounds of freshly wrapped venison.
DUCK POPULATION UP 14 PERCENT
Results from a U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service survey estimate a total duck population of more
than 36 million, or a 14 percent increase from last year's estimate and 9
percent above the 1955-2005 average. The survey indicated an increase in the
quality of waterfowl breeding habitat in the United States and Canada from 2005.
"There's a lot of good news in the survey this year for the total duck
population and waterfowl breeding habitat," said H. Dale Hall, director of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Waterfowl Breeding Ground Population and
Habitat Survey, the largest and most comprehensive survey of its kind in the
world, samples 1.3 million square miles across the north-central United States,
south-central and northern Canada, and Alaska.
BILL TIES U.N. GUN CONTROL ACTIVITIES TO U.S. FUNDING
In recent years the
United Nations has sought to advance policies that could affect the individual's
right to bear arms, and members of the U.S. Congress have recently gotten
involved by proposing to tie American purse strings to U.N. action. Legislators
from Louisiana, Sen. David Vitter and Rep. Charles Boustany, have introduced S.
1488 and H.R. 3436, respectively, each of which would require that the President
of the United States certify to Congress each year that the U.N. has taken no
action to "restrict, attempt to restrict, or otherwise adversely infringe upon
the rights of individuals in the United States to possess a firearm or
ammunition…" If the president cannot provide that certification, the legislation
would allow for the refusal to submit any funding to the U.N. for that fiscal
year.
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ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP CLAIMS CREDIT FOR BOTCHED ARSON
ATTEMPT
According to the
U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance (www.ussportsmen.org) the Animal Liberation
Front (ALF) web site has recently claimed responsibility for a failed arson
attempt in Los Angeles. An incendiary device, intended for the home of a UCLA
psychiatry professor, was placed at the wrong address. Fortunately, for the
elderly homeowner the device did not detonate and no one was injured.
ALF claims that the
intended target of the explosive device was keeping monkeys to study
"psychological, psychiatric and social problems such as Attention Deficit
Hyperactive Disorder, substance abuse, criminality and violence."
Arson investigators
stated that had the device functioned properly, the 70-year-old homeowner would
have had a difficult time escaping.
It is exactly this
type of reckless crime that has led the FBI to list animal rights terrorism as
one of the largest domestic terrorism threats in the United States. The press
officer of the ALF, Jerry Vlasak, recently declined an FBI invitation to speak
about animal rights activism at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. Vlasak
and his wife, Pamelyn Ferdin, were convicted of illegally demonstrating outside
the home of a Los Angeles city animal service employee.
This past July all
55 Republicans, joined by 28 Democrats and 1 Independent, voted to pass Senator
David Vitter's (R-La.) amendment to prohibit the use of taxpayer funds allocated
under the Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 5441) to be used to
confiscate lawfully-possessed firearms during an emergency or major disaster.
Sixteen Senators opposed the prohibition.
In passing this
legislation, the United States Senate acted on a bi-partisan basis to protect
the self-defense rights of citizens when those rights are most vital, in the
aftermath of a major disaster, when law-abiding citizens are left to defend
themselves and their families.
Sixteen Democrats
voted to defeat this commonsense legislation under the unblinking eye of the
C-SPAN cameras, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) voted against the Vitter amendment,
then minutes later he reversed course and voted for it. These 16 extreme
opponents of the Second Amendment are:
Daniel
Akaka, Hawaii Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts Barbara Boxer,
California Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey Hillary Clinton, New York Carl
Levin, Michigan Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Robert Menéndez, New
Jersey
Dick
Durbin, Illinois Barbara Mikulski, Maryland Dianne Feinstein,
California Jack Reed, Rhode Island Tom Harkin, Iowa Paul Sarbanes,
Maryland Daniel Inouye, Hawaii Chuck Schumer, New
York
