That is how a retired New Jersey school teacher, Carol Rivielle, described a deer cull in South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, New Jersey. She is also a member of Save Our Wildlife. According to Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr., the Essex County executive, there are too many deer destroying the ecosystem and causing property damage.
After years of protest, the cull has been going on for five days and 155 deer have been eliminated with a goal of around 200. It is unfortunate that things have gotten to the point where this tactic has to be employed to save the deer and the ecosystem but as long as there are anti-hunters and animal lover groups who insist that it is more humane to let animals starve to death and die of disease while ridding a region of several other species of wildlife, we end up with communities having to hire sharpshooters to systematically kill the deer.
But what has always angered me are the tactics by those who oppose hunting or in this specific case, a culling operation. I guess it shows their real colors of intolerance and hatred when they resort to violence and death threats in order to sway public opinion and get their way.
The retired school teacher describes the cull as “a barbaric slaughter of our animals”. I wonder how she would describe these acts in an article published in the New York Times about the cull?
The hunts are so controversial, Mr. DeVito said, that he has received nasty phone calls, his vehicle door locks have been glued and his car spray-painted with the words “Bambi Killer.†Mr. DiVincenzo, too, said he has been bombarded with nasty phone calls, letters and e-mail messages. “I have gotten death threats,†he said.
Emile DeVito is manager of science and stewardship at the New Jersey Conservation Foundation.
Is this not a barbaric act? Give me a break. Where’s the outrage? Human beings are threatened and their personal property damaged or destroyed and the only outrage seems to come from the media presenting the event as “The bloody aftermath of the shooting was grisly enough” and other descriptive terms, once again showing that these sick and perverted people are more concerned about the welfare of the deer than the safety of county officials having to deal with a situation these same people created.
What is wrong becomes right and what is right becomes wrong! The beginning of the end.
Tom Remington
