Originally posted by Critr Gitr:
We can make our personal choices. The problems begin when we start making choices for others. Wiley E said it well.
I agree 100%. Wiley did say it well. It is unfortunate that many sportsmen make a judgement. Some don't like bowhunting, or running game with dogs or pickups, lots of regional practices that don't fly all across the Country. We need to be very careful about expressing disapproval, if we expect support when our particular interest comes under fire.
Sounds good, don't it? Except that the "environmental" movement would have to fold it's tent, should they adopt the same attitude. Don't count on that happening. They firmly believe in dictating "right and wrong" to the rest of us, and that irritates the hell out of me. Anti hunting, anti gun, the whole Liberal Establishment should have respect for our ourdoor traditions, but do they? Not a chance! It's an attitude as dictatorial as Hitler or Stalin ever was. They believe that they know better, because they have been spoonfed a lot of crap in our educational bureaucracy. Every one of your sons and daughters has had to defend what Dad does. It's systematic, and they are winning. When it's all over, and they have won, watch them sanctimoniously announce that it was all fair and democratic. The problem here is that it is not democratic, it's tyranny of the majority over a minority, a basic principle of freedom that they have studiously ignored.
Some will give up predator hunting without a whimper, some won't mind if they ban waterfouling 'cause they never do it anyway. Then look for wanton waste to become a buzzword, no squirrels or related vermin, because they all have a right to live. Anywhere they can, they will whittle us down, one by one, until we don't give a damn anymore, let them deer hunters sink, they didn't support us when they had the chance, did they? The answer is; no they didn't, by the way. But, we won't stick together, and project a united front. Not our nature, we tend to be individualists, not big-time joiners. Be afraid, my friends. It's coming to a theater near you, to borrow a phrase.
Good hunting. LB