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More on NC deer killing
riflemike
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I grew up going to this little country store OH and there will be blood
FOX8 Staff Writer
11:06 p.m. EDT, September 28, 2011
RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP)-
A clerk at a Randolph County grocery store said uniformed officials demanded petitions critical of the state's fatal shooting of nine deer last week to be taken down.
The clerk said the officials, who did not identify themselves, entered Williams Grocery in Archdale on Tuesday and asked for the removal of the petitions because they were illegal.
"They didn't identity themselves at all. They just said, 'This is illegal. Get it off your counter,'" said Jo Henderson, who made the petitions that were put up in the store.
Henderson is circulating the petitions as far as Wake and Catawba counties. Not only do the petitions ask for change. They also name names from the magistrate to wildlife officers.
"All across the state of North Carolina, people own pet deer and have them. I believe they should be able to get a permit. You cannot turn a tame deer into the wild," Henderson said.
Henderson's deer Jezel was among those North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission officials killed last Tuesday on Wayne Kinley's farm near Asheboro.
Kinley was cited for not having a permit to hold deer in captivity. Wildlife officials said they killed the deer to test them for Chronic Wasting Disease, which has never been found in North Carolina.
The disease, essentially mad cow disease for deer, is highly contagious and has hurt deer populations in the northern Rockies. Test results are expected in a few weeks.
Henderson said she has received some threats after making the petitions. She said she will fight for animal rights in the same way she fought for civil rights in the 1960s.
"I'm not going to stop until I get the law changed. If they can do it for a dog, they can do it for a deer," Henderson said.
The petitions have been put back up. Henderson said she and a group plan to picket Kinley's court hearing in late October, as well as attend a public meeting with wildlife commissioners on Oct. 13.
Law enforcement officials are reminding those who carry badges of the public's right to petition government boards.
FOX8 Staff Writer
11:06 p.m. EDT, September 28, 2011
RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP)-
A clerk at a Randolph County grocery store said uniformed officials demanded petitions critical of the state's fatal shooting of nine deer last week to be taken down.
The clerk said the officials, who did not identify themselves, entered Williams Grocery in Archdale on Tuesday and asked for the removal of the petitions because they were illegal.
"They didn't identity themselves at all. They just said, 'This is illegal. Get it off your counter,'" said Jo Henderson, who made the petitions that were put up in the store.
Henderson is circulating the petitions as far as Wake and Catawba counties. Not only do the petitions ask for change. They also name names from the magistrate to wildlife officers.
"All across the state of North Carolina, people own pet deer and have them. I believe they should be able to get a permit. You cannot turn a tame deer into the wild," Henderson said.
Henderson's deer Jezel was among those North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission officials killed last Tuesday on Wayne Kinley's farm near Asheboro.
Kinley was cited for not having a permit to hold deer in captivity. Wildlife officials said they killed the deer to test them for Chronic Wasting Disease, which has never been found in North Carolina.
The disease, essentially mad cow disease for deer, is highly contagious and has hurt deer populations in the northern Rockies. Test results are expected in a few weeks.
Henderson said she has received some threats after making the petitions. She said she will fight for animal rights in the same way she fought for civil rights in the 1960s.
"I'm not going to stop until I get the law changed. If they can do it for a dog, they can do it for a deer," Henderson said.
The petitions have been put back up. Henderson said she and a group plan to picket Kinley's court hearing in late October, as well as attend a public meeting with wildlife commissioners on Oct. 13.
Law enforcement officials are reminding those who carry badges of the public's right to petition government boards.
Comments
The "uniformed officials" should be photographed and then told to F right off.
They were photographed. I gather the store has security cameras, like any proper "Stop 'n' Rob."
Guess they never read what the U.S. Constitution says about the right to petition for grievances. They should lose their jobs.
However, it does not mean a thing without more information and proof that this incident actually occurred. By the few words quoted as being attributable to this woman, I don't like what I heard. Make that, bleeding heart liberal type. If there exists a law prohibiting the keeping of wild animals, why was she keeping the deer, dammit!!? I know from personal experience that you cannot "tame" deer. They may become used to humans, but they will never be pets in the conventional sense and also can never be returned to the wild. They cannot be domesticated without thousands of years of domestic breeding such as occurred with wolves-to-dogs and like horses. I personally do not think keeping deer is a good idea at all!!
The wildlife officials probably did the correct thing in destroying the animals as far as upholding the law and in serving the public, common good. The wildlife officicials probably used Chronic Wasting Disease as a real reason for destroying the deer, since CWD was first discovered in a large, fenced deer preserve. CWD gets into the soil and may be impossible to erradicate. I believe that CWD, like Mad Cow Disease, can easily make the jump to humans. As far as where CWD "currently" is found, nothing really stops deer from migrating off their common range. Also, nothing stops people from importing "pet" deer and other species off their common range to their hobby farms and ranches.
Whenever I hear the words, "Animal Rights," my antennae go right up. Animal rights translate, by a circuitous route, to the licensing and government administration of livestock.....i.e. more bureaucracy and more taxes.
I suggest, unless more develops to suggest otherwise, that we consider this one as the wildlife people doing the right thing.
By the way, I do not condone police of any type coming to intimidate someone into giving up their First Amendment rights of free speech or by other means, preventing the exercise thereof. I'd like to know more about that aspect of this developing business.
Also, if "thugs in uniform" really came around bullying someone into removing a petition, they should be fired along with whoever ordered them to do the deed and prosecuted under Federal Civil Rights laws. This sounds pretty far-fetched to me, and may be a gross exaggeration or outright lie by some old hairy-armpit civil rights activist with nothing to do, trying to relive former glory by donning the tainted cloak of an animal rights activist.