What do you folks think about Ted Nugent's recent Alaska

by Steve, Monday, April 30, 2012, 20:52 (4384 days ago) @ Rob Leahy

I don't know the details of the violation. However, I will give an example told to me by a Federal Wildlife Officer with arrest powers. He was stationed in Fairbanks and then moved to our town in the South for a few years. He said that a pilot in AK accidentally hit an eagle while flying. It was a miracle that the bird did not damage the small plane, and a crash was avoided. He said that, after an investigation, they decided not to charge the pilot for the eagle's death. Wasn't that so nice of them, haha.

Another example: Our state wildlife officers just charged a man, that a friend of mine knows, with poaching. He was driving through a wildlife area with an unloaded shotgun in his truck, and a couple of loose shells were found under the seat that had been there for some time. The driver did not even know they were there. He was not hunting, just taking a shortcut through the woods. He was charged with a felony, and as a plea deal his hunting privileges were suspended and he had to pay a very large fine.

Just ask the 60+ year old man and his wife who suffered a violent home invasion from a gang of federal wildlife officers dressed in SWAT gear because he was selling orchids without the proper federal permits. This man was not a criminal, just ignorant of the myriad regulations necessary to sell flowers. Why didn't the officers just knocked on his door, inform him nicely that he needed to apply for said permit, and give him 30 days to comply?

How about the Gibson guitar company who endured two invasions at their factory in TN by armed agents from the federal wildlife office looking for wood from India that they suspected was imported without the proper permits. Gibson lawyers produced all the permissions, from both the Indian government and the US govt, but the feds did not listen; they confiscated all of their wood. No charges have been filed for over a year, and their wood is still in custody of the feds.

They are nothing but a bunch of hit men looking for a way to charge someone with a crime to justify their positions and enhance their careers. There are so many game, land, and resource laws that it is almost impossible to hunt without breaking some sort of law.

"A gang of thieves writ large." (Murray Rothbard)