Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Wild Animal Release

Buffalo as Metaphors, Posted on March 18, 2015 Written by Jim Beers (METAPHOR, n. a fig­ure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to some­thing to which it is not lit­er­ally applic­a­ble, in order to sug­gest a resem­blance, as “A mighty fortress is our God”.)
 
I have just fin­ished read­ing the lat­est fed­eral EIS/Plan/ Federal Reg­is­ter Notice/Request for Com­ments writ­ten by the US National Park Ser­vice (or is it the US Fish and Wildlife Ser­vice, or the US For­est Ser­vice, or some other fed­eral bureau­cracy — I for­get) about FREE ROAMING BUFFALO IN THE YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM (my underline).
Think about that for a moment – A Fed­eral Plan for a com­mon crit­ter through­out AN ECOSYSTEM!  Trans­la­tion; since “Ecosys­tem” can be what­ever you choose it to be, this fed­eral plan com­posed by fed­eral (i.e. unac­count­able) bureau­crats, and buf­falo being the crit­ters they are, these cen­tral gov­ern­ment “plan­ners” are out­lin­ing what they will do – 1) in Yel­low­stone Park, 2) on the fed­eral lands beyond Yel­low­stone Park bound­aries, 3) on pri­vate prop­erty sur­round­ing Yel­low­stone Park, and 4) on all the pub­lic and pri­vate prop­erty sur­round­ing all the pub­lic and pri­vate prop­erty that sur­rounds Yel­low­stone National Park.  Shades of Soviet Cen­tral Plan­ners cre­at­ing Stalin’s “Plan” to starve mil­lions of Ukraini­ans to kill all the farm­ers that thought they still owned their land and replace them with the Soviet Col­lec­tive Farms that, like this buf­falo lunacy, will be a harm­ful and dis­mal fail­ure, except in the halls of gov­ern­ment where bureau­crats will slap each other on the back like the Sovi­ets did for 60 years while giv­ing each other bonuses as peo­ple, fam­i­lies and their com­mu­ni­ties disappeared.
There is NO author­ity or juris­dic­tion for fed­eral bureau­crats to con­sider, much less delin­eate, where buf­falo will occur or under what con­di­tions they will be tol­er­ated and who will pay for it OUTSIDE THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION of Yel­low­stone National Park.  Yel­low­stone National Park is unique in this char­ac­ter that it shares with only the Dis­trict of Colum­bia.  State gov­ern­ments have juris­dic­tion under the Con­sti­tu­tion over the plants and ani­mals in or about to be in their state regard­less of who (fed­eral, non-profit, pri­vate, etc.) owns it.
Con­sider:  Buf­falo are not “endangered”.
Buf­falo are among the most dan­ger­ous ani­mals encoun­tered by vis­i­tors to the var­i­ous U.S. and Cana­dian National Parks and will attack humans if pro­voked. They appear slow because of their lethar­gic move­ments but can eas­ily out­run humans—bison have been observed run­ning as fast as 40 miles per hour (64 km/h).  This fact is stu­diously either avoided or down­played in the fed­eral “plans”.
Between 1980 and 1999, more than three times as many peo­ple in Yel­low­stone National Park were injured by buf­falo than by bears. Dur­ing this period, buf­falo charged and injured 79 peo­ple, with injuries rang­ing from gor­ing punc­ture wounds and bro­ken bones to bruises and abra­sions. Bears injured 24 peo­ple dur­ing the same time frame. Three peo­ple died from the injuries inflicted—one per­son by buf­falo in 1983, and two peo­ple by bears in 1984 and 1986.
Romance Biol­ogy accounts of the “mas­sacre” of buf­falo by “hunters” in the 1800’s never men­tion how towns, roads, farms and ranches could have ever been estab­lished, much less co-existed, with free-roaming buffalo.
Romance biol­ogy accounts of the dis­ap­pear­ance of buf­falo also men­tion fre­quently that “live­stock dis­eases dec­i­mated buf­falo”; fed­eral plan­ners today down­play and ignore the threat that free-roaming buf­falo would present to live­stock such as bru­cel­losis, hoof-and-mouth, BSE (Mad Cow) and Anthrax.
Buf­falo are can­tan­ker­ous; a point I thought about as I hunted pheas­ants in Mon­tana prairie hill coun­try slated for a free-roaming buf­falo ref­er­en­dum that was soundly rejected soon after my visit.  (There was a BIG sign by the church entrance on Sun­day morn­ing that read, “NO BUFFALO IN MALTA!”) Imag­ine some guys on foot with shot­guns behind dogs com­ing on a band of buf­falo that get irri­tated by the dog’s, miles from any­thing but grass, pheas­ants and sharp­tails.  Where do the dogs go?  Why to YOU.  Who storms after the dogs?  Why the buf­falo.  What do you do?  Why you either die or suf­fer injuries that YOU will be blamed for caus­ing by some sort of reg­u­la­tory vio­la­tion based on some Romance Biol­ogy Professor’s nos­trum paid for by government.
Imag­ine liv­ing where buf­falo knock down fences (com­monly); where buf­falo wan­der through crops and destroy them rou­tinely; where buf­falo (they are dark and heavy like moose) stand­ing in coun­try roads are struck by vehi­cles caus­ing death, injuries, and prop­erty destruc­tion to local men, women and kids; and where buf­falo attacks on live­stock are common. But I digress: in what way you may ask are buf­falo, metaphors?  Let me count the ways.
Buf­falo and their enablers are like:
Fed­eral Wolf Plan­ners that bear no respon­si­bil­ity for the lies and may­hem they cre­ate for their own ben­e­fit and the con­tin­ued reelec­tion and spon­sor­ship of their polit­i­cal patrons.
State Wolf Plan­ners that do fed­eral bid­ding and spend scarce hunt­ing and fish­ing rev­enue money on fed­eral schemes designed to ulti­mately destroy hunt­ing and fishing.
State Bureau­crats that express only con­tempt and dis­dain for res­i­dents of their state and Local gov­ern­ments in their State that object to wolves, griz­zlies and pro­tected moun­tain lions in their communities.
Wolves that spread dis­ease, kill domes­tic ani­mals like dogs and live­stock, kill or com­pete with more desir­able (to sports­men and local com­mu­ni­ties) game ani­mals, and present clear and present dan­gers to humans forced to coex­ist with them.
Wolf Enablers in that they (their major­ity) live else­where; do not raise live­stock; do not hunt, fish or trap; and do not rely for effec­tive local gov­ern­ment rep­re­sen­ta­tion on County gov­ern­ments and their rev­enue streams.
Griz­zly Bear Advo­cates that spread and pro­tect these very dan­ger­ous and very destruc­tive ani­mals based on lies and denials of deaths, destruc­tion and injuries.  Griz­zly bears, like wolves, no more belong in the set­tled land­scapes of the Lower 48 States than ele­phants, tigers or Nile Croc­o­diles belong here in this day and age.
Anti-Hunting/Animal Rights Rad­i­cals that promise to com­pen­sate losses from these ani­mals but never do: that deny the truths right before their eyes with wide­spread pro­pa­ganda in enthu­si­as­tic news­pa­pers, TV, and school class­rooms; and all the while forc­ing (through law­suits) state fish and wildlife agen­cies to drain their funds for wildlife man­age­ment on these pro­grams to destroy hunt­ing and rural Amer­i­can life.
Envi­ron­men­tal­ists and their hid­den agen­das to vacate rural Amer­ica by a com­bi­na­tion of gov­ern­ment land pur­chase; federally-financed and coor­di­nated sur­ro­gate pur­chases of key ease­ments and land options; clo­sure of roads; clo­sure of pub­lic lands to man­age­ment, use, graz­ing, log­ging, hunt­ing by con­trived claims of “impor­tance”, Wilder­ness, Road­less, Sanc­tu­ar­ies and other bureau­cratic cre­ations; and the elim­i­na­tion of Local gov­ern­ments while simul­ta­ne­ously co-opting state bureaucracies.
Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment and World Gov­ern­ment Activists that envi­sion a world THEY RULE where there are no such things as Con­sti­tu­tional guar­an­tees, Con­gres­sional over­sight, Judi­cial Review, pri­vate prop­erty, or the oppor­tu­nity for local com­mu­ni­ties to live in peace and pros­per­ity, free from out­side influ­ences that only take from them for the ben­e­fit of others.
Pro­gres­sive (choose your own term here) Activists that believe that ANYTHING you can gen­er­ate a major­ity, or influ­en­tial, or rich, seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion to sup­port should be imposed by any means on the minor­ity or less pow­er­ful NO MATTER THEIR OBJECTIONS.
HHHMMMM, roll all the above together, put all their lit­tle hid­den agen­das and activ­i­ties in one pot, and what do you have?  What­ever you want to call IT; IT is a metaphor all its own.  IT is like:
Islamist “Plan­ners” out­lin­ing and incre­men­tally forc­ing their world­view on the rest of the world, NO MATTER WHAT THEY THINK regard­less of civ­i­lized stan­dards of behav­ior or any moral considerations.
Soviet “Plan­ners” tak­ing advan­tage of every incre­men­tal oppor­tu­nity to expand the Soviet Empire by what­ever means from lies and inva­sion to forcible occu­pa­tion. Never for­get that the “Soviet” or “Russ­ian” nuclear plant at Cher­nobyl was in Ukraine, sur­rounded by Ukraini­ans and not in Russia.
Mao’s “Plan­ners” destroy­ing the cities and intel­li­gentsia inside China while gob­bling up Tibet and the South China Sea’s resources out­side China.
Nazi “Plan­ners” lying about their plans for out­side Ger­many until resis­tance was impos­si­ble and then swiftly invad­ing and estab­lish­ing con­cen­tra­tion camps and slave labor with the intent of killing “sub-humans”, enslav­ing “infe­rior races”, and restor­ing a Romance His­tory Fairy­land pop­u­lated by “Pre-Roman” plants and ani­mals, “super-men” and the estates of Nazi overlords.
Mar­garet Sanger Pop­u­la­tion Con­trol “Plan­ners” jus­ti­fy­ing the mass mur­der of mil­lions of fel­low human beings by abor­tion and the ster­il­iza­tion of oth­ers by gov­ern­ment man­dates (China) with gov­ern­ment fund­ing based on racist beliefs and dis­re­gard for the intrin­sic value of each human life.
Same-Sex Activists that appeal for “equal treat­ment” and then pro­ceed to destroy the legal con­cept of mar­riage and par­ent­hood and then destroy busi­nesses, indi­vid­u­als and now churches and Chap­lains that object to what they represent.
Gun Con­trol Advo­cates that get politi­cians to do any­thing, no mat­ter its Con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity, to ban ammu­ni­tion, restrict “only cer­tain” guns, nego­ti­ate and secretly write UN agree­ments to sub­vert the 2nd Amend­ment, and smug­gle guns to Mex­i­can killers as jus­ti­fi­ca­tion to restrict guns in the US; while protest­ing how they “hunt” and “don’t want to restrict all guns” and how they “respect” the 2nd Amendment.
Cur­rent Amer­i­can Soci­ety with its gov­ern­ment secrecy; ero­sion of checks and bal­ances; vil­i­fi­ca­tion of police; flag bans on cam­puses; gov­ern­ment sex and race pref­er­ences; loss of local gov­ern­ment; debil­i­tat­ing debt; and grow­ing dis­parate jus­tice stan­dards based on wealth, gov­ern­ment stand­ing, and the polit­i­cal party of the judge’s appoint­ing sponsor.
 
 
In the study of Logic you quickly encounter the Syl­lo­gism.  A syl­lo­gism is a ver­i­fi­able argu­ment wherein two ver­i­fi­able (i.e. true) premises explain, or lead to, a ver­i­fi­able con­clu­sion.  For instance:
Premise #1– Buf­falo are a cur­rent tool of a coali­tion of extrem­ist agen­das that aim to destroy Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tional governance.
Premise #2– Cur­rent Amer­i­can Society’s Con­sti­tu­tional gov­er­nance is erod­ing at an accel­er­at­ing rate.
CONCLUSION– Buf­falo are con­tribut­ing to the ero­sion of Con­sti­tu­tional gov­er­nance in Amer­ica Society. Come to think of it; buf­falo are far more than just a metaphor for our times.  They are but one of the destruc­tive forces we face and must overcome.
Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ager, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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