It's a restraint on freedom of the press and free speech.

MoonRiver has a thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024592888

I hope you're right.

Selling out to corporate interests...

again and again and again

But corporations are PEOPLE. And money is SPEECH!

posted by red dog 1 on Jan 24, 2013

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11311709

Idaho's GOP Governor Declares War on Endangered Wolves


First, a little background information:
On January 11, 2007, Idaho Governor Butch Otter announced his support for a
"Grey Wolf kill," in which all but 100 of Idaho's recently recovered Grey Wolf population would be eradicated pending the forthcoming U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removal of the wolves from protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Otter, a Republican, even remarked that "he would be first in line to purchase a tag to kill one of the wolves."
(Wikipedia..Idaho Governor Butch Otter)

In mid-2010, Governor Otter extended the wolf hunts in Idaho.
Defenders of Wildlife is urging President Obama and the courts to end these hunts.
"It is impossible and biologically unsound to allow hunting of wolves when they are not fully recovered as a regional population, and should not have been removed from the Endangered Species List."


Now, Governor Otter plans to gas dens to kill mothers and even pups, and shoot them from the air.
Even without wolf tags, people continue to poach and hunt these creatures that are ancestors to "man's best friend".
To add to all the trouble, 70,000 or even more permits to kill Idaho's magnificent wolves are planned to be sold to hunters and ranchers.

people say it's a cop out to move, but one can only bed with the enemy for so long.

I bet HSUS is already working on it! Bastards!

Isn't it unconstitutional?

We fierce Democrats at the grass roots level here in Idaho fanatically resist the Republicans total dominance of our state. We are organizing and educating people to vote in Democratic blocks, doing the dirty work, digging around in the dirt, working our asses off 2 and 3 jobs just to get by.

This is a horrible, illegal, unconstitutional law. Can we keep calling out Republicans instead of demonizing whole states?

I think we all know that good and decent Democrats, maybe even a few animal loving Repubs, are fighting to end this barbaric law. It's been tried in many other states. HSUS has been able to keep it out of most. I suspect they are working hard to reverse it in Idaho. I think the law will be overturned, but in the meantime animals will suffer horribly with no consequences.

Big Ag is in total control here. Its a continuing pattern of abusing the land and our furry friends.

In the 1980's the Japanese built offshore sawmills on ocean ships. Millions and millions of logs were sold to the Japanese who cut the trees into lumber, forcing thousands of millworkers out of their jobs. There was no opposition at that time until the OMG clearcut, (encompassing hundreds of square miles near the Idaho/Montana border) was made known nationally to the general public. The social fallout from the Reagan years was devastating to the people of Idaho. Education went in the toilet, schools crumbled, people embraced alcohol and we ended up with a service economy where you have to be an already made guy to get along.

They lined up the dams along the river like tombstones and ruined the fisheries so they could transport wheat by barge to sell to Asia. When workers have risen up before in the mines up North and went on strike, powerful corporate entities forced the Feds to to bring in a brutal campaign of suppression, infiltration and incarceration. They used Federal troops.

So the criticisms of Idaho are, in general, accurate. I can see why people say, "fuck Idaho." But here is the thing. Idaho is still an outdoor national treasure, it belongs to everyone. We've got more wilderness than anywhere in the lower 48, thanks to Democrat Frank Church. Help us save this place.

yet extremely common when people get frustrated. I thank the liberal Idaho folk for all of their hard work.

influence across multiple state legislatures.

Edit to add: ALEC IS behind it! Utah passed one of these shit laws as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

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Disgusting.

What a truly despicable law...and further proof that some humans are very, very damaged...

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024592916#post13

I don't understand why no one is challenging these laws as unconstitutional.

and appealing it to higher courts. When, not if, that happens, the Humane Society will have his/her back. Of that I am 100% certain.

The other really rotten bill is to bring guns on campus.

Down the Corporate Craphole (R) with the right of Americans to know WTF is going on with their food.

Republicon Corporate OCCULTISM, Inc. (R) at work against the interests of the human beings.

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