RURAL EXTERMINATION NEWS

 

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 2^nd 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 2^nd 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.