Monday, March 28, 2005
Culture of Life, pt. XXXXIVIIMCLMICV
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, whose motto is "Conserving the Nature of America" has a new friend. Some highlights:
This may be surprising at first glance, but I assure you it is not. The "Nature of America", according to the lights of the Bush administration is bloodlust, hypocrisy, greed, crime, cruelty, cowardice and destruction. Mr. Hogan is therefore the obvious choice to conserve our nature. Under his stewardship these qualities should have small prospect of dying out.
(again via Mike Malloy)
posted by Scats : 3/28/2005 10:44:00 PM
Interior Secretary Gale Norton has named Matthew J. Hogan to be acting director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Hogan was formerly the chief lobbyist for Safari Club International (SCI), an extreme trophy hunting organization that advocates the killing of rare species around the world.
SCI members shoot prescribed lists of animals to win so-called Grand Slam and Inner Circle titles. There's the Africa Big Five (leopard, elephant, lion, rhino, and buffalo), the North American Twenty Nine (all species of bear, bison, sheep, moose, caribou, and deer), Big Cats of the World, Antlered Game of the Americas, and many other contests.
To complete all 29 award categories, a hunter must kill a minimum of 322 separate species and sub-species - enough to populate a large zoo.
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They shoot captive animals in canned hunts...
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SCI members have even tried to circumvent federal laws to import their rare trophies from other countries.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, now under Hogan's watch, is the agency charged with granting or denying such trophy import permits.
This may be surprising at first glance, but I assure you it is not. The "Nature of America", according to the lights of the Bush administration is bloodlust, hypocrisy, greed, crime, cruelty, cowardice and destruction. Mr. Hogan is therefore the obvious choice to conserve our nature. Under his stewardship these qualities should have small prospect of dying out.
(again via Mike Malloy)
posted by Scats : 3/28/2005 10:44:00 PM
