A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

--Balthasar Gracian

DO WE KNOW WHO OUR ENEMIES ARE?

OR SHOULD WE SAY, DO WE KNOW WHO THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA ARE?

A Humane Society Of The United States.......

Eco-Terrorist Plans to Takeover Sierra Club

A man who flies the skull-and-crossbones on his sea vessel and has sunk nearly a dozen ships in the name of animal rights has set his sites on one of the nation’s largest environmental organizations.

Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is “advocating the takeover of the Sierra Club.” Watson wants the organization to take a strong stance against hunting, fishing and other management of natural resources.

Watson is known for his tactic of ramming and sinking whaling ships. Some of his actions have landed him in jail in foreign nations, but he claims he is not an eco-terrorist. He said at the 2002 Animal Rights Conference that activists “should never feel like we’re going too far in breaking the law.”

Watson was elected to the Sierra Club Board of Directors in April 2003. According to the San Diego Union Tribune, Watson’s efforts to control the board include stacking the organization’s governing body with like-minded individuals. He claims to be three directors away from controlling the 15-member board and, in turn, the group’s $100 million annual budget.

Source http://www.ussportsmen.org/interactive/features/Read.cfm?ID=1221

..........Make no mistake about it, this behavior endangers human life.......

Department of Justice

Make no mistake about it, this behavior endangers human life?

Conservation Groups Sue to Stop $5.2 Million Proposal to Slaughter Cougars

..........The plaintiffs are: The Animal Protection Institute, Cascadia Wildlands Project, The Fund for Animals, The Humane Society of the U.S., Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Sierra Club Oregon Chapter, Siskiyou Regional Education Project, Umpqua Watersheds, Inc., The Mountain Lion Foundation, Al Thieme.........

Source http://www.hsus.org/ace/13190

Cougar attacks rising in southern Oregon

MEDFORD, ORE. — Cougar attacks are becoming more common in southern Oregon, leading to more loss of livestock and threats to humans, biologists said.

Just this week, cougars mauled three ewes on Roger Thalacker's 15-acre ranch in Eagle Point, puncturing the throat of one of the animals. The dying ewe is the seventh victim of a cougar attack in the last two years.

And last week, a cougar near Williams killed an ostrich and some ducks. Also, last Wednesday in rural Ashland, a man shot and killed a cougar that appeared not to fear people, according to state biologists.

Biologists say the conflict between cougars and humans is here to stay.

"We're always going to have to deal with cougars now," said Mark Vargas, district wildlife biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. "Shooting the cougars is just a short-term fix. Cougars are highly territorial and when one is taken out, another will move in."

Encounters with cougars have been in the news following a recent incident in Southern California, in which a bicyclist was killed and another seriously injured in separate cougar attacks in a wilderness park. It was the first fatal cougar attack in California since 1994.

Oregon has never had a documented fatal attack by a cougar on a human, but it is surrounded by states that have had attacks in the past decade.

"I'm amazed we haven't had an attack in Oregon," Vargas said. "I hope it never happens, but odds are it will."

Animal-rights activist Sally Mackler called the attacks in California a tragedy, but she doesn't believe they translate into a reason for heightened concern about attacks on humans here.

"I don't think there's any more need for fear now than in past years," Mackler said. "You're still more likely to be hit by a car or die by a bee sting than you have being attacked by a cougar."

Biologists believe Oregon's cougar population has expanded since a 1993 ban on hound-hunting which was the most common form of sport-hunting. The number of cougars killed dropped dramatically at first but has risen in recent years. Encounters over personal safety and damage have also increased, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife statistics note.

In 2002, the last year for which statistics are available, hunters killed 230 cougars statewide, while another 110 were killed for property damage like that suffered by the Thalackers. Another 22 were killed for personal safety.

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