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I love the irony of it at the end....LOL

10/29/09



In an example of how activists can hinder law abiding sportsmen, the head of a local animal rights organization recently blocked a Connecticut bow hunter from harvesting a deer he had legally hunted and shot.

The incident took place in early October near Redding, Connecticut when the unnamed bow hunter shot a deer and then tracked it to the property of animal rightist Lynn Gorfinkle. After knocking on the door of the Gorfinkle residence and asking permission to claim the deer, the hunter was told unceremoniously to leave the property without it.

Mrs. Gorfinkle is the head of the Animal Rights Alliance in Redding and a staunch opponent of hunting. According to press accounts, Mrs. Gorfinkle stated, “If someone's going to eat that deer, I want it to be natural predators.” As of press time, the dead deer, to no one’s surprise, was slowly decomposing in Mrs. Gorfinkle’s yard.

Ironically, the actions of Mrs. Gorfinkle may result in the death of another deer. According to the Communications Director of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees deer hunting in the state, “since the hunter did not recover the deer, he did not need to tag it and it doesn't count toward his bag limit.”

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Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths

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Here is a direct link to the story.

This is a link to another forum discussing the article.

While I consider it to be a complete waste of the resource, when someone has their mind so totally closed on a subject there will be nothing that changes it. There are aspects of the story I find humorous, such as her considering it a "crime scene" and to what extreme some people will sentence an animal to a death that if done to a dog would warrant a meeting with the police. Its hypocrisy to this extreme that I doubt I will ever be able to understand.