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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.  — John Adams

Horse Advocates state clearly, from fact, that there is no need for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse Herd Roundups, a sub-agency of the Department of the Interior (DOI).  Many also think there is no longer a need for such a contempt oriented government agency as the BLM, and the most litigated and non-functional, incompetent agency in American history.

The unnecessary roundups cost taxpayers millions if not billions of dollars yearly.  Yet this reality, this “thing” our government refers to as “acceptable abuse” or “acceptable expenditure” after their non-fact based and false documentation toward reasoning for the roundups, and everything connected with it, can and should be considered nothing more than mis-use of taxpayer money and criminal in nature.

The fact, or truth is the horse roundups remain contrary to it’s program that established the endeavors of such a useless need, contrary to management principles, contrary to science, contrary to Congressionally passed law and policy, remain and certainly abusive to the horses .  And yet. . .

The Bureau of Land Management Incompetence = Criminal

Awkwardly, BLM and DOI operate contrary to any values that prescribe decency, morals, non-abusive behavior, and law.  Within the matter of the Wild Horse Herd Roundups and their holding facility management guidelines and principles, one can become disgusted with the BLM and DOI.

The treatment of animals, when simply observed, is wrong and on many different levels.  Taxpayers continue to pay for this mismanaged operation of abusive Wild Horse Herd Roundups, abusive storage of these same Wild Horses, and the BLM simply tells taxpayers to go to hell. . .  Yes, arrogantly, the old “. . . everybody is wrong but us attitude. . .”  And as we all acknowledge, this unreasonable of all paradigms becomes quite costly, both monetarily and life threatening.

One example of many:  The payment process to those who do the helicopter roundups, in one government contract person’s opinion and after perusing several BLM contracts with private contractors, states, “It is an abomination.  They essentially pay contractors unearned money, with no proper parameters or checks and balance systems toward quality of work or restrictions on abuse of the horses.  Way too many items left out of contract to actually adhere to government contract guidelines. . .”

Facts abound not only about and toward the most litigated and costly government agency in America’s history, but the BLM was investigated in the early 1990’s in regard to severe criminal activity throughout this agency.  By the way, those investigated have become those in upper management, supervisors, and other levels of responsibility. Mysteriously, with 2,000+ felony arrest warrants compiled, and several hundred misdemeanor arrest warrants signed and ready to serve, the warrants discontinued the night before, with no reason other than orders given from higher up.

There does exist volumes of information, accumulative, about questionable contracts, conflict of interest issues, contractor hiring practices, roundup methodology and violation of both policy and law, and wasted taxpayer money – both criminal and due to: BLM incompetence; sever animal abuse toward horses and outright killing them without proper explanation or (saddly) due to mistreatment of the horses; Federal Court cases won that demonstrate and show repeated Constitutional violations by BLM staff, management, and law enforcement; Federal Court cases that show BLM incompetent in their decision making (billions of dollars lost with this one); harassing of American’s by BLM staff and law enforcement; blatantly ignoring Court Orders and on many occasions; employee misconduct and even theft and other criminal activities and situations; conflict of interest between Director’s of the BLM and DOI, as well as top and mid management personnel; and the list goes on!

Many American’s wonder why this agency exists

Every bit of information mentioned above, noteworthy evidence against the BLM and DOI employees, is indeed backed by witnesses, certification of fact, scientific reports which are often arrogantly ignored, data, photos, and videos of all this obvious questionable conduct that indeed is both costly to the taxpayer and could be considered criminal in nature.

Then, ironically, something happens to all of this precise information collected.  All of it becomes eligible to fit into whatever extreme characterization is most politically expedient at the moment for BLM or DOI employee management or Directors, or media people in the agency to spew to the Public-At-Large.

Advocates have been blamed for “. . . the sky is falling complex. . .” and “. . . the facts Advocates portray as real driven by their emotions only. . .” or recently, “. . . the NAS Report” (Scientists find BLM incompetent and using bad science for decision making) portrayed as “being nothing more than propaganda done by Horse Advocates.”

The problem is this, the NAS is a government organization, and sub-hired private contractors–Independent Research Scientists, to research and assimilate the report over a two year time period.  The NAS was contracted by the BLM/DOI to find out what the problem was with their inefficient and ineffective methodology.

BLM Employee Incompetence Abundant

Yes, we can conclude very easily that longevity within a career ambition should be made of much sterner stuff.  We can also conclude that distributing false information, propaganda, lies, and innuendo coming from our American taxpayer based public/government employees are wrong.

After all, it is taxpayer property and the BLM and DOI consistently abuse, steal, or label taxpayer and American property as insignificant entity, which costs the taxpayer often millions of dollars yearly within itself, and by just plain old bad reasoning by government employees.  I also speak of the continuous expenditures for situations and items unnecessary to do or have, and give a “zero” return to the taxpayer.

Yes, the Wild Horse Herd Roundups are only a small item, yet costly in the billions to taxpayers — and unneeded; especially when considering the non-payment or special interest and politically driven next-to-nothing payments for our Public Lands usage, especially by foreign corporations or mining — and fees often not paid at all, amounting to billions upon billions of dollars.

What’s Going On?

This is really the heart of what the Horse Advocacy is about.  The rule of law is dependent upon a government that is willing to abide by the law.  Disrespect for the rule of law begins when the government believes itself and its corporate sponsors to be above the law.

But need we discuss, or write here, about the laws and policies being ignored, and even changed at times, to arrange nature into a political paradigm.  I think not right now, as research by the reader of this article, when accomplished, is much more memorable.

The only situation provided here, since this should be of concern for every American, is to actually accomplish the research and discover these vast amount of situations the BLM and DOI disregard, favoring corporations and political agendas instead!

This has to do with all American’s and not only our quality of life, but the quality of life for us and our families, for our animals, our nation’s wildlife, and our overall existence toward not becoming corporate pawns, and paying our tax money only to support corporations!

HORSE ADVOCATES

More generally, the question of whether Horse Advocates do their job?  Yes, it is good and brings out not only honest perspective, but forces irresponsible government agencies, as the BLM and DOI to keep responding to the public.  When accomplished consistently, and the same old excuses, toward their innocence when indeed the innocent, horses in this case, are being abused, and even tortured and killed at times, then the truth becomes quite obvious over time.

It has simply become a matter of survival for the Wild Horses, and Horse Advocates are the people who defend these animals, who remain defenseless without Advocates.

We can, as humans, expect no less from any man or woman, and to do what is right — and in this case what is right is defending our Wild Horse Herds from malicious and dishonest people!  — John Cox, Horse Advocate

Overhunting has led to extinction of much of Our wildlife throughout the world, as a strong and noteworthy history prevails here.  Today’s hunters, calling themselves sportsmen to mellow the effect of the term hunter (i.e. because of negative connotations directly related to hunting history) remain nothing more than re-made wannabe’s, or blowhards, thinking their tales bring them into manhood.

The price of extinction now, with the availability of current wildlife low at best, conclusively remains unacceptable to the majority.  Many of this majority state clearly, to sacrifice our wildlife to hunters of today is simply disgusting and unwanted.

Examination of the Extinct Species List demonstrates beyond doubt the realm of excessive overhunts.  A good example here is Lord Ripon, an Englishman and touted English Safari Club member, who died in 1923.  He bragged about his kills insistently — 500,000 kills of birds and mammals.  This amounts to 67 living animals for every shooting-day of his hunting life.  One can only imagine the membership and how this may prevail on their mind-sets of today — being awkwardly and obviously psychopathic at best.

Fish and Wild Services – State and Federal

Excessive hunting remains a problem within our wildlife and outdoor regions, as we have not learned an adequate lesson from history yet.  The Fish and Wildlife Services structure, or paradigm toward management, is based on the principle that since hunters pay for licensing, then they are the crowd to appeal toward.

Forgotten is the fact the Fish and Wildlife agency situation is predicated upon the Stewardship of our wildlife, not hunting.  Management and proper techniques of fostering and protecting our wildlife is a priority and the soul source of establishing such government, both state and federal, agencies — and the majority of taxpayers do pay for this attribute.

If this has changed many taxpayers, including this taxpayer, would like to know, as we acknowledge current administrators in the Fish and Wildlife services may be misrepresenting their budgets as well as the need for this type of agency.  It is not, nor ever has been, an agency to provide sportsmen with easier or more plentiful hunts; rather, a thorough management of wildlife!  Not management toward extinction, then move-on to another species for extinction, as long as the hunters or sportsman lobby groups are happy!

A survey of Americans find that the acceptable practice of hunting for meat obtained large approval ratings;  But these same people, 80% of them condemned trophy hunting.

The fact is throughout history the most sought after animals for a trophy, or today a photo and let the animal rot afterwards, are all endangered species.  Not so surprising is the fact that these most sought after species are also the more refined of each species; in another words, these are made up of those animals that should be left to maintain the genetic strength of that particular species.

The Safari Club

The Safari Club, one of many hunters for animal-trophy’s clubs, has a distasteful history at best, especially when dealing with wildlife and Extinct Species.  In 1978, for example, the Safari Club International applied to have 1,120 endangered animals shipped to the United States — putting them in pins and shooting them for trophy’s to hang on their walls.  When the general Public found out about this situation, the outcry tremendous, and the application pulled.

The Safari Club done the same thing in 1982, kept it quiet, and were successful in acquiring importation of Leopard trophies — yes, pinned and shot from a safe distance, the head stuffed and hung on their walls.  The particular species of Leopard they imported is now Extinct, none exist on the face of this planet any longer what so ever.  It is gone forever!

Today they want to do similar activity!  Other legislation that is critical to sportsmen includes: H.R. 1818 (Young-AK) and S. 847 (Crapo-ID) allowing the importation of a small number of already harvested polar bears; H.R. 1819 (Young-AK) reinstating sustainable use importation of polar bears by U.S. citizens; and H.R. 322 (Miller-FL) protecting traditional hunting and
fishing equipment and other policy issues important to all hunters.”  Traditional activity must be questioned here, as their traditional activity has led to many wildlife Extinctions, as outlined on the Extinct Species Lists — Once again, history is quite clear about this.

Jim Hastings described these hunts the best.  “They take a hunter, normally a pot-bellied slob with a high-powered hunting rifle and scope, roll him in the dirt a little bit, then point him toward the hay or grain pile at the other side of the pin.  They had fed the trophy animal from this pile the past few days, so it will wander over to feed.  The hunter in the dirt not more than 40 yards or 50 yards away.  He then scopes the animal, then shoots it.  The animal is then sent to be stuffed, and the hunter receives the head, or whole animal at home, stuffed, within two or three weeks.”  This is not hunting!!!!!

Conclusion

It is plain to observe when we look at any sportsmen lobby groups tenacity, to pass a legislative action, that their history must be observed.  History shows they are not conservationists, as they would like people to believe.  History shows, and demonstrates, they will directly apply toward, then receive under false pretense, government support for their hunting, and under certain circumstances we must question their term hunting to mean —

History shows their landscape of destruction involves irresponsible conduct and the making of Extinct Species by means not only distasteful, but disgusting as well.  Without a doubt, these supposed hunters, could care less, these supposed conservationist, could care less.  In reality they do nothing more than liquidate wildlife in a callous manner to the extreme of Extinction.

This is all recorded facts, well documented, throughout the past and involves the current century.  A good example today is the massacre of wolves taking place as this article is being written.  No more excuses, the hunting of this type must STOP!