Former democrat governor of Idaho, Cecil Andrus dressed up in costume yesterday in what was no doubt an orchestrated protest on the steps of the temporary Idaho capital in Boise, to announce his displeasure of what property rights haters and holier-than-thou purveyors call “canned hunts”.
“Those people that believe in shooting animals through a fence after enticing them to the fence with a bucket of grain ought to turn the rifle around the other way,” said Andrus, a Democratic former governor and U.S. Interior secretary.
When much of one’s life is spent deceiving the public to get a vote, we can only expect the same no matter the occasion. I guess in reality if a person took a bucket of grain and went up to someone’s fence holding livestock in order to entice the animal over to shoot it, maybe, as Andrus suggests, they should be shot. On the other hand, when someone stands up in front of people disbursing information that isn’t remotely accurate in order to deceive and manipulate public opinion, in which direction should the rifle then be pointed?
At least if you think you have a legitimate reason to protest hunting on private preserves, be honest and inform the public with facts. But intelligent people understand that when truthful discourse is missing the only alternative is to fabricate information.
Sad.
Tom Remington
