American Thinker:
By Adam Yoshida
Some recent news from Colorado is a better metaphor for the current unpleasantness than any novelist or screenwriter could invent. On Election Day (or rather, in the late campaign, during the two months or so of voting), the people of Colorado voted, by the narrow margin of 50.84% to 49.16%, to reintroduce gray wolves in the areas of Colorado west of the continental divide. Without digging too deep into the details, the people for the measure, labeled Proposition 114, supported it for environmentalist and conservationist reasons. The opponents, especially those who lived to the west of the continental divide, opposed it because they feared that the wolves would harm their property and themselves. However, the measure carried largely because Denver and Boulder, despite overwhelming opposition in most rural counties, voted for it by a 2:1 margin. I’ll let you guess on which side of the continental divide Denver and Boulder are.
Seeing that news, I thought: Isn’t this the perfect metaphor for our present troubles? Hundreds of thousands of people, almost all of whom have never seen and will never see a wolf in their lives, vote to unleash the wolves on their fellow citizens who, from the perspective of those voters, live in faraway places of which they know nothing, so that they can feel a little better about themselves. Doesn’t that, I thought, also sum up what’s going on now with regard to COVID? Read more
Thank the Lord for the turkey, pass the ammunition please.
Wolves for thee, but not for me.
My buddies who are Tribal members kill them. Period. Full stop. And there ain’t jack anyone can do about it.
Wolves are hated with a burning rage in the Stovepipe of Idaho. They kill everything and their numbers are out of control. They are wiping out the elk, moose and deer herds. I was told that if I saw one while bear hunting to kill it. A friend of mine who has a license to trap them is having a banner year and gets a $1,000 check for every one he brings in. You should see the photos of them. They are huge.
That pretty well sums up the attitudes and behavior of most “wilderness” activists. If Biden is inaugurated, look forward to implementation of Club of Rome mandates in a contemporary version of the Highland Clearances.
One of the first steps will be implementing mileage-based highway taxes/fees. Another will be the elimination of grazing and resource extraction leases on Federal lands, road/trail closures, banning non-electric vehicles in National Parks and Monuments and eventually on all Federal land, limiting public access to parks and monuments because of the Xi virus, requiring welfare recipients to relocate to urban areas The idea will be to take away the ability to make a living in rural areas that survive on ranching, resource extraction, tourism and welfare checks. When you take away income sources, eventually you reach a critical mass that implodes the multiplier effect and people leave. (Way back when, I was preparing to do a master’s thesis on federal mandates and the multiplier effect in rural communities.)
The next step in clearing rural areas will be establishing onerous regulations on agriculture, citing the deadly carbon and nitrogen cycles. They will remove subsidies, including ag fuel, to all but corporate farming. They can do this because elections are now meaningless and they no longer need farmers and ranchers to vote Democrat.
Back to the subject, Colorado’s Eastern Slope can look forward to coywolves prowling their neighborhoods in about five years. Maybe they will help with Boulder’s homeless problem?
This is the kind of thing that gets voted in by people who don’t spend much time in wilderness areas, if any, but think it’s a good idea.
…this happens a lot where people with no stake get to screw people who have one. Less dangerous but more expensive, there neighborhood I live in is largely rental properties and is run by Democrats, so there are severe limits on when and how much rents can be raised, but NO limits on how much TAXES can be raised, plus which its on the bus line, so I’m picking up most of the tab for the Section 8 renters anyway.
Like I said, its run by Democrats, so they are fond of raising both income taxes AND property taxes. This does have to have the formality of a City wide vote, however, but since the vast majority of fellow citizens neither own property or have a taxable income, they generally have no problem whatsoever voting themselves more of my money, to use in whatever half-assed, corrupt way the City sees fit. They generally don’t get whatever the City promises anyway, but since it cost them nothing, they also aren’t very diligent about holding the City’s feet to the fire the NEXT time they’re asked to vote them more of my money.
It wasn’t originally that way, but the Democrats bred poverty, want, hatred, and a sense of entitlement in the BIG city 25 miles away with LBJ (“I’llhave them Nigers voting Democrat for the next 100 years) and his “Greatly Crippled Society), then used the Democrat crippled Ford administration to foist Section 8 on the nation, blowing up the projects for gentrified neckbeard housing downtown while spreading voters they had poisoned throughout the rest of the County, including my formerly bucolic corner of it because it was on the bus line. It worked like a treat for them because they have completely flipped my entire, formerly rick-ribbed Republican County to Democrat, even to where we have a woman who thugged her way into government and publicly threatened to have firemen who worked for her at the time beat up a reporter as Black as her because she didn’t like a truthful story as a County Commissioner, and a lesbian whos been busted more than once as a cop for abuse of power as Sheriff, so you can see that the wolves they’ve unleashed on ME are eating everything I have at the ballot box, and it affects the people who unleashed them not at all.
It’s just another example of Democrats Ruin Everything.
We NEED this Civil War.
But yesterday’s MAGA March makes me wonder if we’ll EVER shoot BACK…
I know a guy that hunts in Colorado. He tells me, that if he sees a wolf, he will exterminate it…..
Actually once owned a Wolf Big Bone Shepard Hybrid pup in the 70’s and called it Big Foot (Giant size Paws). Once grown it was Hip high and just over 120 lbs. Bought it out of the Cherokee Nation Res. in Western North Carolina. Cost me $250 or about a week and halves pay back then. It was the most loyal dog I have ever owned. Sad to say Parvo got it.
But I totally agree, the Wolf is too dangerous of breed to be running loose in a Community Subdivision.
The packs I have seen in the Western NC mountains tend to hunt in smaller packs of 5 or so. But these small packs still take down a deer and small cows. Children, dogs and etc are just a quick dessert.
Best be careful – those wolves order a lot of explosives from Acme Corp. and they’re not afraid to use them.
Oh, wait —
SSS.
Maybe that could be applied more widely as well for greater effect.
Will the wolves be bringing illegals across the border like their cousins the coyote?
Vietvet, I thought that was their coyote cousins.
I wish I thought of it, the wolves should be set loose in Denver
my neighbor had an elk tag for the northern black hills. He’s an avid hunter and said he heard and saw a large pack of huge wolves stalking elk. If they are here, 3 hours from the Rockies, they will be everywhere shortly
The wife and my families raise wheat and cattle on the WA-ID border. Last Feb a neighbor was at his kitchen window at 5am, it was calving season and he’d brought all his cows in near his barns, and he sees a black wolf come trotting through the pasture towards his calving pens. Fish & Game said “there’s no wolves here”. He took a photo and it became the front cover image on the local phone book, much to the chagrin of the government humps.
Wolves are NOT cool, they’re Apex predators who have been recorded to stalk and kill humans. They can and will severely damage livestock and wildlife populations as well. The wolves here are from the Glacier National Park packs and, of course, the govt. denies they’re here.
Of course the leftist nitwits in Boulder and Denver think it’s real cool, just as long as they stay west of the divide. Just like the Glacier wolves stayed in Glacier.
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to make democrats feel as uncomfortable and threatened as possible when on your turf as they do to you on theirs. Get them the fuck out of your home, neighborhood, town, county, region, and state, as best as you possible can. They are a fucking deadly pestilence.
@HungJumper – I remember reading a report in the early 1990s (in Reason magazine, I think). It was when authorities wanted to reintroduce wolves into Yellowstone Park. At that time in Wyoming there was an annual coyote roundup to reduce their population. It was a competition the shot coyotes would be turned in and counted. Of course the coyotes were long distance shots, and it was illegal to kill wolves (despite official position the wolves were extinct there for decades)
One of the hunters shot a coyote. But when they reached the dead animal it was clear to them it was a wolf. Most advised to just leave the animal and deny one of them shot it. But the shooter thought the right thing to do was turn it in and face the consequences. Which he did. But people from state wildlife department would not admit it was a wolf. Saying it’s DNA would have to be checked to be sure. They never did admit it was a wolf. Nor according to the story confirm it was a coyote. It’s possible it was a wolf-coyote cross.
The conclusion was if a state agency admitted wolves were present from natural migration it would threaten obtaining funding to reintroduce wolves into Yellowstone. A few years later funding was approved to bring wolves into Yellowstone. Followed by wolves leaving Yellowstone killing rancher’s livestock in bordering states and funding to compensate the ranchers for their livestock killed by wolves. However, I think they found or claimed livestock kills were lower than anticipated after they found the wolves did migrate out of the park.
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-restoration.htm .
Locally official position is mountain lions have been extinct since the 1930s and none are here today. But I know several people who claim they see them once in a while. And read reports of others who say they’ve seen them.
Their pelts make nice fireplace rugs.
MT FW&P used to claim that grizzlies and wolves are limited in number and range here. But those who get out and about know damned well they’re lying in their teeth
Some years ago I heard a possibly apocryphal story that someone shot a wolf and discovered that it had a radio collar on it. The story goes that the radio collar was removed and tossed on an interstate semi parked at a truck stop. I hope the story was true!
@geoff the aardvark: You must’ve missed the “Oh, wait — ” part of my comment.
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