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N.Y. Wildlife Group Calls Hunting a Terror Threat

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
N.Y. Wildlife Group Calls Hunting a Terror ThreatSaturday, November 10, 2001 Respond to Editor Email this Article ALBANY, N.Y. - Saying hunters can easily be terrorists in disguise, a wildlife group on Friday asked for a suspension of New York's annual hunting season. Anne Muller of Wildlife Watch is aghast that being armed and disguised in camouflage is legally permitted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Hunting "is just a wonderful opportunity for someone who would want to do a terrorist act," Muller said. "They don't have to report their whereabouts and can be lurking anywhere. They can lurk in groups." But Peter Constantakes, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Conservation, said the Empire State sees things differently."We take our direction from law enforcement professionals, not groups that would attempt to use the war on terrorism to advance their own agendas," Constantakes said.Robert Kazmierski, founder of The Wildlife Sports and Educational Museum being built in Vail Mills, 40 miles northwest of the state capital of Albany, agrees."They're against hunting and they'll use any means possible," Kazmierski said of Wildlife Watch. "If these people want to express their thoughts, they're welcome to express their thoughts," he said. "But they shouldn't terrorize the rest of the people by something that they're dreaming up." But Wildlife Watch, an animal and wildlife advocacy group, says that the Sept. 11 terror attacks have changed the climate in New York."Armed and camouflaged individuals can get close to chemical, agricultural, business facilities, gas pipelines, electrical power lines, substations, transformers and airports," the group said in a statement. "Local police and environmental conservation officers will merely slough off concerns saying that the individuals are 'just hunting.'"The group is asking for a suspension of gun and bow hunting for more than 330,000 hunters on Nov. 19, when deer season begins in New York's Southern Zone, its busiest area. The group cites an Alaska shooting in October in which a hunter apparently punctured the trans-Alaska oil pipeline, sending 285,000 gallons of oil gushing onto the tundra. Constantakes said DEC officers won't "slough off" any suspicious behavior, as Muller said. "We're proud of the job we do," he said. "We're very vigilant." Kazmierski accused the group of "using [terrorism] as a threat.""It's just another means of getting the public riled, just like with anthrax," he said. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,38439,00.html
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Boy thats great. When I was coming home from my NY deer hunting trip, there were protesters on the side of the road near the thruway entrance. They had a big banner that said "END SPORTHUNTING NOW". When I drove by these bozos, I could not help giving them the finger. I know this was wrong, but I could not help it. I did check to see if any video cameras were around-there wasnt.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are these people serious? Sounds as though they are really grasping. While hunting this past week in Potter County I observed many a pickup truck loaded of armed blaze/camo clad men who claimed that they were actually hunters......could I have been fooled? The only thing I saw being shot were deer and some unfortunate trees who happened to be in the line of fire of these suspicious characters.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, in the name of public safety, I agree we should ban hunting.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And police shall be banned from the streets too (they might be terrorist in disguise )andall mooses and deer must register their antlers before 12/31/2001 to prevent any terrorist using them as "Boxcutters" and"plastic knife" alternatives ....
    Good , Bad ? Who cares? as long I am the one with the GUN..
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mooses? I thought the plural of moose was meese.After all it's goose, geeseMouse, miceLouse, lice Why not grouse, grice.Cow, cattleWhy not sow sattle?Then there are sheep, sheepdeer, deerBut why goat, goatsand horse horses.It is it any wonder nobody can make sense of the english slanguage?
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Its becausa is har to spek with ther mouthaFull....
    Good , Bad ? Who cares? as long I am the one with the GUN..
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    I live just outside Albany, but this is news to me.Two seasons ago, I went to Colorado to visit my brother, we went out hunting on opening day in a public wildlife park area where hunting was permitted. Little did we know, the local PETA chapter was roving the area. In what I can only figure was a precisely orchestrated plan, a few dozen of them ran through every public hunting area in the county, sounding airhorns in the woods to scare all the deer away, and vandalizing several vehicles while they were at it.Some poor guy in the same parking lot as us got his tires slashed and all his bumper stickers spraypainted over, all because his stickers and back window shotgun rack identified him as a hunter.Luckily, my brother's Neon escaped unscathed, probably because they couldnt definately identify it as a hunter's car. But every car in the lot got several pamphets filled with the most false, vile and obscentiy ridden propaganda (printed and paid for by PETA) shoved under the winshield wipers.I still keep one of them, the most disgusting, as a matter of fact, as a reminder of who our true enemies are in this world, and to what extremes they are willing to go to force their issues on others.In bold-faced type, on the back: "DISCOURAGE INBREEDING: KILL THE F***KING HUNTERS", and a big PETA logo under it.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This experience w/ PETA brings to mind the Tee shirts / bumper stickers some natives sport up this way - "If it is tourist 'season' why can' we shoot the @##$$%%^^?" Sure would have been nice to catch those vermin in the act of doing those things.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Don't you find it amusing that idiots who use "ethical" in their organization's name have no ethics?
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What always gets me is how all the anti-hunting people are so short sighted in their arguments. They fail to see, or maybe it's admit, that hunting is also the process of herd management. I wonder what they'll say if you ask them if they're willing to pay for the feed for the increased herd size to live off of if they suspend hunting season? Will they be willing pay for somebodys autobody work because of the increased number of dear-car collisions? I doubt it! They're only going to hear what they want to hear. I guess they think it's better for a large number of deer to starve than it is to create a better environment for the herds.
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good for Mr. Constantakes. He politely told them to F--- OFF!Mudge the pleased
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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