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Buckeye Trapper Article

ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! A Proclamation

Article from Nov - Dec 2001 Buckeye Trapper

by Col. Richard L. Stanley, Sr.

There will be no resistance. You will be arrested on sight if you are caught possessing the steel holding device known as traps as noted in the attached photos, or any similar devise capable of seizing the leg, head, body or the tail of any living animal, no matter what design or materials the device is made of.

ACHTUNG! You will be arrested on sight, and possibly shot for resisting by several different governmental agency officers within the state borders if you are seen setting or placing these devices for the capture of animals.

ACHTUNG! You will be seized and arrested and held in any of the numerous jails and/or prisons if you are caught or if the smallest of evidence is presented showing you have been selling, bartering, buying, or in any way using or contributing to, or supplying others with this type of device. By the HIGH COMMAND you are subject to long prison incarceration and severe monetary fines. All equipment you are dealing or working with will be confiscated by the HIGH COMMAND; including pelts, trucks, cars, homes, or trailers used to transport. There will be high cash rewards for comrades reporting said violations against the state and its powerful animal lovers and bunny huggers.

ACHTUNG! You will obey these directives by the HIGH COMMAND or suffer harsh prosecution and ugly persecution by orders of the state. ACHTUNG!

Nope, this is not the GESTAPO NAZI Germany talking, nor is it a joke, my friends. This is the dark shadow already enveloping many of our state territories. Every day this plague encroaches deeper into new lands. It feeds like a parasite on individuals and non-aligned groups who have no power or voice to fight back. Members of small unaligned groups using said devices are often ridiculed and spoken ugly of. Outcasts of society. Children are turned away from stories of our early day settlers, mountain men, wilderness trappers and hunters; hunting for food and fur to live.

The HIGH COMMAND brainwashes and dictates to these young minds that our forebears were monstrous, cruel, primitive barbarians to kill and destroy the animals. That other alternative methods could have been sufficient. (Yeah, like shopping at the "Grab & Run Stores").

Our schools are dominated by the urban culture and city minded leaders. (PeTA's) Some have never left the city limits of their birth. I have presented several schools, including so-called agricultural and FFA departments with beautifully written stories and articles from magazines such as the Buckeye Trapper and the American Trapper to permit the students, all teenagers, to read and better understand trapping, hunting, and game management. Every article, over two dozen over the past years, were strongly censored and then thrown out as not being suitable for schools. Then you are forever on the "dirt list".

With this type of censorship, I ask you, how are these children ever going to learn that all they are taught sometimes is not the total truth and that they have the right of personal choice. Some kids I've talked with were hunters of small game; farm kids. They indicated they had heard exciting stories from their granddads of the trapping game, but their dads were afraid to discuss it due to the laws and arrest stigma.

Oh yes, many states have paid trappers on the tax rolls, and a few critter control people who must pay fees to the government and buy license and insurance. But what about the poor, tax paying run-of-the-mill sportsman of yesteryear?

Please join you state associations and the NTA to give strength to those who are trying to help preserve our way of life. So is it all over now? Has the door been closed and locked forever? If so, will the last guy out please pull the plug and turn out the lights. Wake up Free America.

 
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