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When is Activist Season?
by Lee

our activists opposed to the state’s week-long bear hunt were arrested in the woods of Wawayanda State Park in Vernon Wednesday and charged with interfering with the hunt, state officials said.

“From what I understand ...the hunters were walking down a path and the anti-hunt activists got in their way and refused to move,” state Division of Fish and Wildlife director Martin McHugh said. “And I guess they had a video recorder and they were verbally abusing the hunters, and the hunters requested they step aside ... and they didn’t.”

Anti-hunt activists are calling the arrests a “sting operation,” and allege that the park ranger wore a ski mask to disguise himself as a hunter. State officials declined to comment on how the arrests were carried out.

The four arrested were Angela Metler, 49, of Vernon, who is director of the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, which had unsuccessfully sued to stop the six-day hunt; Theresa M. Fritzges, 57, of East Windsor; Albert Kazemian, 49, of Vernon; and Janet A. Piszar, 52, of Millburn.

McHugh said all four were charged with harassment, resisting arrest and obstruction of the administration of law. He said Kazemian was additionally charged with making terroristic threats.

Kazemian told the arresting park ranger, ”I’ll get my Arab friends to hunt you down, see how you like it,” according to complaint summonses filed with the Vernon township municipal court. [Emphasis mine]

Now, can you imagine for a second if a hunter had made such a remark, insinuating that Arabs want to hunt down other human beings. The moral indignation we would hear from the left would be deafening. But, again, the left believe in freedom, unless you choose to engage in an activity that they deem unacceptable, like legally hunting animals.

Posted by Lee on 12/08/05 at 06:47 AM (Discuss this in the forums)

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Posted by on 12/08/05 at 08:59 AM from

Sigh. Saw something like this down here in ‘Bama, when hunters went to thin the deer herds out at Oak Mountain.

Thankfully, nobody really paid attention to the animal activists.

--TR

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 09:18 AM from

One must be sure to immeadiately Clean and prep the Animal rights activists lest they tastes gamey:-)

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 10:40 AM from

Rifle butt. Forehead of activist. Some assembly required. Problem solved.

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 10:42 AM from

Oh, and why is this Kazemian guy slandering Arabs? Is he a racist? Perpetrating a hate crime?

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 11:29 AM from

Regardless of thier enviro retardedness, you gotta admit that it takes a pretty big pair of stones to aggressively confront an armed person when you are all alone in the woods…

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren’t shotgun blasts impossible to trace?

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 01:24 PM from

aggressively confront an armed person when you are all alone in the woods…

They know (but won’t admit to the fact) hunters are in general reasonable, sensible people. If they a 1/5 of what the animal nutjobs thouhgt they were, they’d be bear food as of now.

I like having them in the woods. The more bodies out there the more the cause the game to move around, which increases the harvest.

Posted by HARLEY on 12/08/05 at 02:17 PM from

I’ll get my Arab friends to hunt you down, see how you like it,”

My response, would be to release the safety on my rifle and say, “not if i use you as fresh bear bait.”

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 02:26 PM from

I love animals...they’re delicious.

Posted by Lee on 12/08/05 at 02:43 PM from

Regardless of thier enviro retardedness, you gotta admit that it takes a pretty big pair of stones to aggressively confront an armed person when you are all alone in the woods…

Actually I disagree. These protesters are relying on the inherent morality of the people they are confronting. They’re like the “human shields” who went to Baghdad. The only reason a human shield could ever have any possible effect would be if the person they are confronting (i.e. US military) has a respect for human life. Notice that the human shields never placed themselves between, say, and insurgent terrorist and an Iraqi waiting in line to vote. This is because the terrorists would simply blow up a human shield without batting an eyelid. And these protesters know that the vast majority of hunters will not cause them any harm, and if they happen to run across a hunter who does, then they can use it for a propaganda victory. Which, if you think about it, is exactly what terrorists do.

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 03:22 PM from

And these protesters know that the vast majority of hunters will not cause them any harm, and if they happen to run across a hunter who does, then they can use it for a propaganda victory. Which, if you think about it, is exactly what terrorists do.

I see your point. No doubt that the actions of these protestors, much like terrorists, are guided by the inherent (possibly unconscious) understanding of the limited reaction of those that they antagonize. However, they are also relying on the presence of sympathetic witnesses (I.E: The media) to keep the response relatively subdued. Taunting hunters out in remote areas, where that protective layer of witnesses has been removed definitely adds to the risk. Hence the bigger stones comment.

It’s not like the hunters are tramping through drum circles. These ‘activists’ are deliberatly trying to piss them off while thay are partaking in a perfectly legal recreational sport.

Put yourself in the hunters’ position, if you were alone in the woods and the only person for miles around were some shitbag hippys who were actively confronting you, wouldn’t “self-defense” cross your mind? Especially if they started to get WTO protestor aggressive?

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 07:45 PM from

enviro-freaks and animal rights nuts are really just religious extremists. Kind of hard to actually consider them to be sentient.....

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 07:52 PM from

enviro-freaks and animal rights nuts are really just religious extremists. Kind of hard to actually consider them to be sentient.....

I would disagree with that. Sounds like you just want to lump everyone you disagree with into one big pile.

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 07:59 PM from

Did you mean “just LIKE religious extremists?

Posted by Drumwaster on 12/08/05 at 08:05 PM from

Actually, he probably means the Gaia worshippers…

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 08:24 PM from

Actually, he probably means the Gaia worshippers…

Okay. I had to do a quick Google search of Gaia worshippers (Google is, btw, quite handy for some of us “non-intellectuals").

Hmmm.... will read more on it in the morning. Now, bedtime!

Posted by on 12/08/05 at 09:18 PM from

What would have been more fun. picture this the hunters get some bears chasing them then run down the path were the protesters are and watch the fun.

Posted by on 12/10/05 at 03:41 PM from

I love animals...they’re delicious.

Better one: “There’s plenty of room here for all of God’s creatures—Right next to the mashed potatos.”

Someone on FR had a tag that said something like: “I can’t wait until animal activists take the logical final step and dress up as deer during the season.”

Posted by HARLEY on 12/10/05 at 04:33 PM from