Three Cheers for My Alaska Governor
And She’s a Woman No Less!
by Bud Sonnentag (originally posted at Hunter’s Alert [here])
Why, you ask?
Governor Sarah Palin has sense enough to know the difference between what it means to “control predators and manage them” by her choice of words in a recent article in the AGRI NEWS dated 11-30-2007 which is more than I can say for most of the state governors and their appointed game agency directors. Alaska may be worth keeping your eye on. Governor Palin says: “Predator control is not hunting; it is a carefully prescribed, directed management action”. She goes on to say: “Our science-driven and abundance-based predator management programs enlist volunteers permitted to use aircraft to kill predators in specified areas of the state where we are trying to increase opportunities for Alaskans to put healthy food on their tables”.
One of Governor Palin’s opponents, California Representative George Miller even admits several times in the article that the Alaska aerial wolf hunting program is…predator control!
Without on the ground action of predator control, which is killing predators, the word management becomes worthless; except in Nevada where NDOW [Nevada Dept. of Wildlife] spin-doctors have managed the word “management” very adroitly while conveniently staying away from the word predator control…killing…because like Gilligan of Gilligan’s Island fame would say, “WORK!!!” You get the picture.
NDOW and the Wildlife Commissioners are about to set a precedent in the state of Nevada during the upcoming February 8th and 9th, 2008 Commission meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada when they will have the third and final reading of the changes to the Draft Predator Management Plan, which I see will forever set in stone, where predator control will be changed to become predator management in the state of Nevada.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has the right idea by doing predator control whereby you kill predators aggressively to control their numbers as opposed to predator management as merely warm and fuzzy inter-office public show of talking or planning with no action.
It’s too bad hunters won’t show up for this meeting on February 8th & 9th and stop this from happening.
Julie Smithson, the nationally recognized expert on property rights [here], bless her heart, has produced a 16,000 page CD exposing the deceitful way government agencies manipulate definitions in order to discombobulate the average Joe so they can carry on their status quo agendas. My experience with this tactic tells me that you and I are those average Joes if we’re not alert enough to see it coming, and all too often we’re not.
Again, judging from past experiences, it probably won’t do any good to show up at this commission meeting because what has happened so many times in the past is that the commissioners and NDOW already have their minds made up as to the outcome, substituting the word management for the word control in this case.
If you will heed my warning and voice your opinion at this upcoming February meeting, we may be able to head them off from this deceitful language substitution of predator control versus predator management.
Please give this careful thought. This is more insidious than you would ever think! Let’s all think and talk alike. See you there?
