Posted by
Jonathan Cooke on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:18:30 PM
Judge Orders Hunter to Donate Money to Radical Anti-Hunting Vegans PETA
Craig Miller, a 43 year old lifetime hunter and resident of Little Canada Minnesota was in Colorado to bow hunt black bear. He had his $251 non-resident license in order and was looking forward to a pleasant four or five days of hunting. He made mistakes however.
At the urging of his family to return home early, he hunted one day before the season officially opened. On Saturday September 1st he dropped a black bear with his bow. The season didn’t officially start for one more day, on Sunday September 2nd. In his hurry to bag a bear, he had also dropped food as bait, which is illegal in Colorado. Upon skinning his prize he also was unaware that leaving the meat in the field is against Colorado law.
Subsequently complying with the law he went to a Colorado State Patrol office in order to get a Division of Wildlife seal that is required in order for a taxidermist to be allowed to process the head and pelt of the bear. Raising suspicion, an investigation was performed at which point authorities found evidence that Mr. Miller had not complied with all of the laws of Colorado on his bear hunt.
Fair enough. Mr. Miller appeared before Judge Charles “Chuck” Buss, a retired district judge that was filling in for Judge James Boyd, who was on vacation. Judge Buss ordered Mr. Miller to pay $5,300 in fines, gave him two years of unsupervised probation the loss of his hunting rights for a period of five years … and … ordered him to make a $500 donation to the radical group PETA.
PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is a group of hardcore Vegans. People who not only wish to ban the eating of any meat whatsoever, they don’t want humans to own leather, wear fur, drink milk and they don’t even believe that humans own animals. Worse, they have also acted as the mouthpieces and financial supporters of the eco-terrorist groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, officially designated by the FBI as terrorist threats these organizations have among other illegal activities used violence and even arson in several firebombing campaigns.
PETA also gained some notoriety by placing the lives of animals higher than the lives of humans. In January of 2003, a month when 29 people in Israel were murdered and 127 injured by Palestinian terrorist attacks. The President of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, wrote to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat complaining, not about the loss of human life, but that Palestinians had strapped explosives to a donkey, at which she was incensed. She pleaded with him to “leave animals out of the conflict”. When asked by the Washington Post if, aside from donkey welfare, she would criticize the Palestinian terrorists for blowing up human beings she stated that it was not her business to do so.
PETA has also distributed graphic pamphlets to children with the aim of disturbing them, such as “Your Daddy Kills Animals!” showing a wild eyed snarling madman slicing open terrified fish with a hunting knife, stating that fishing is murder, and that children should hide their pet cats and dogs from their fathers since “He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals, they could be next!" Also disturbing would be the cover of “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” showing a maniacal wild eyed housewife grinning as she thrusts a hunting knife into the belly of a terrified kicking rabbit with blood splattering everywhere, intended to terrify and horrify our nation's children. PETA is way off the deep end folks, these are radical, dangerous people.
With the hefty fine, and the loss of hunting priveledges, I think Mr. Miller has suffered enough already. “In our house, we do hunt, it’s woven into the fabric of our lives. Loss of hunting privileges is very sad.” Not good enough for Judge Buss though. Forcing Mr. Miller to make a donation to a radical eco-terrorist organization devoted to, amongst other things, ending all hunting across the land was the sign of an activist Judge that has no business ever sitting at the bench.
Activist Judges are nothing new to our nation, yet it seems there is not enough public outrage to prevent them from acting out their personal agendas in the public forum, whenever they so choose. Forcing a hunter to donate money to an organization as radical and as reprehensible as PETA should cause alarm, permitting this judge to even sit on a bench again should cause fear.
Hopefully Judge Chuck Buss will never be called from retirement again.
Jonathan RF Cooke,
17 October, 2007For more articles ...
[ Go to the main blog of Jonathan Cooke at http://coffee.townhall.com ]Sources:
The Aspen Times, “Was PETA the right choice?”, 17 October, 2007
The Outdoor News Hound, "Judge orders poacher to pay PETA", 16 October 2007
Federal Bureau of Investigation, FOI Act documents.
Wikipedia article on PETA