(Columbus, OH) –California Senate Bill 1221, a bill that will ban the use of hounds to hunt black bears and bobcats, passed the state’s Senate today. The passage of SB 1221 by the senate casts a dark cloud over the future of all hunting and wildlife management in California. Senate Bill 1221 passed with a vote of 22 to 15 in favor.

The bill, which is sponsored by the radical animal rights group Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), triggered a strong outpouring of opposition from California sportsmen and women, plus sportsmen’s organizations, in the state and nationwide. The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) denounced this retaliatory wildlife management bill that was created when HSUS could not have a state game commissioner removed for his legal mountain lion hunt. As the bill moved forward from introduction and through the hearing process, hundreds of opponents wearing orange “NO on SB 1221” buttons also packed the corridors of the capital to let their Senators know they opposed this anti-hunting bill.

“The California Senate today chose retribution and revenge over sound science-based wildlife management,” explained Evan Heusinkveld, USSA’s director of state services. “Despite having a Fish and Game Commission explicitly designed to handle these questions free from the politics of the statehouse, the California Senate voted in favor of a hunting ban.”

USSA has been working with the Masters of Foxhounds Association, California Houndsmen for Conservation and the California Outdoor Heritage Alliance to defeat SB 1221.

Fast Facts on SB 1221

The bill would outlaw the use of hounds to hunt bears and bobcats.
Hunting bears and bobcats with hounds has been legal since the state formally organized a game commission and established game management and hunting laws.
Hounds are actually used in wildlife management practices and projects.
Hunters using hounds to pursue bears actually take fewer bears than is recommended by the state’s game department.
This bill is being pushed by the radical animal rights group—the Humane Society of the United States—the same group that has pushed anti-farming and puppy mill bills in California in the past.

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More interesting than the short article, is reading the comments below. What a wide range of opinions.

May 19, 2012 – LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Farmers and ranchers are characteristically self-sufficient, freedom-loving, ruggedly independent, hard-working individuals. In addition their industry leaders possess the awareness and stamina required to cope with increasing threats to rural life. Deceptively designed long-range goals reveal demise of private property and food production industries. Feds and environmentalists dream of “open space” free-roaming wildlife devoid of humans; concentrating severely reduced populations into high-density production centers with top-down control. Government ownership and management would replace free enterprise, profit-motivated capitalism and privately owned lands.

Government Agency and NGO Activities:

l. Agencies performing land grabs and resource lock-downs: Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife, BLM; Wildlands Y2Y, dam removal, free-flowing rivers, wetlands, wilderness designations, endangered species. Simply by Presidential signature Obama is able, through Antiquities Act, to declare millions of acres National Monument.

2. The Nature Conservancy and American Farmland Trust trick owners into contracts forever relinquishing control over land use while committing owners to all costs, ultimately assuring government ownership/control.

3. EPA disguised as “protection” controls land, water, air, animals and humans (deemed a blight on the earth).

4. Power-hungry elite aspire to complete take-over and UN world domination.

America is the last bastion of freedom and private property. Ranchers and farmers now battle for rights to water, land and air. Example: EPA is sensitive to dust. Farms are made of dirt. It forms dust. Environmentalists should return to their polluted cities allowing farmers to use their dirt to produce food essential to life. This is what farmers do. . . their job, their livelihood, their business. THIS IS AMERICA. Private property is the foundation of our Constitution.

Bob Fanning/Joel Boniek, Tim Fox and Brad Johnson would be the strong Montana team defending property rights and state sovereignty; utilizing nullification, coordination and collaborative strength with other states facing similar problems.

Respectfully submitted,

Clarice Ryan

The Activist Post has a complete story about this.

The free dispersal of information allows for the reader/researcher to independently decide from the information he or she has found whether it is useable and substantiated. When Google and other search engines began “helping you out” by making determinations based on your search history, etc., this became a form of censorship, potentially blocking you from obtaining the information you wanted or at least making the task much more difficult.

Now Google introduces the Knowledge Graph. In the video below one of the narrators states that Google has decided to help users move from “information” to “knowledge”. While this may sound good, the Knowledge Graph is a tool to give “Googlists” the information it determines you ought to have regardless of whether it is factual or not. This so called “knowledge” is predetermined bits of information that lots of people like, regardless of its accuracy. Not only is this censorship but it is indoctrination and manipulation of what is determined to be dispersed as information. In short, brainwashing while purposely restricting researchers from access to information the censors have decided you shouldn’t have. This kind of doctrine I’ll call “Googlism”.

As examples, some the “knowledge” will come from the CIA databases, which any rational thinking person understands is mostly propaganda. In addition, Google will use Wikipedia, which is a common source database riddled with inaccuracies and biases and the information can be changed often by most anybody.

Knowledge is defined at what a person understands. This can be far from what is factual. Resist this brainwashing censorship and find other non government controlled search engines.

Fight Googlism! Don’t be a Googlist.