Gcan is right mtmuley! This wolf issue is about destroying hunting!
Most of the time the animal rights (AR) extremist is also the environmental extremist -- same person with the same misanthropic personality with a hatred of all things human!
There are two types of animal rights (AR) and environmental extremists.
The first is the person in the trenches – the ones spiking the trees and throwing red paint on someone wearing a fur coat or releasing the mink from mink farms. The second is the executive of the big organizations, such as the HSUS or PETA and other extremist groups. The executive doesn't have the same OCD behavior of the person in the trenches. The executive can take a loss and move on without emotion where the person in the trenches is emotionally destroyed by a loss.
The strength of the AR in the trenches is the fact that they won't quit – as Gscan pointed out. They won't quit because they're OCD about it. This OCD problem is also their weakness because they tend to burn out – because they're not
able to quit. I've known a number of AR extremists and have watched them have mental breakdowns because their OCD behavior drives them to mental instability – but there are so many of them -- losing a few here and there is hardly noticed.
I've been in the fight against animal rights extremism since 2003 but knew about the AR's 10 years before that. I didn't get involved in the fight until I felt personally attacked – and I've seen the same thing with others. Until a person feels personally attacked they often don't tend to get involved!
I'm not only a hunter but also a dog breeder of show dogs and the dog show people have the same problem getting everyone on the same page as Gcan said. Show dog breeders look down on the commercial dog breeder but the AR's are after both groups as well as the back yard breeders, the ranchers and farmers etc. They're also after the guns and some of our dog breeders have realized we all need to hang together but it's a work in progress.
We all need to be in the same page/fight opposing the extremist environmental and animal rights agenda – because they hate all of us – whether we're a show dog breeder, a commercial breeder, a rancher or farmer, a hunter, fisherman or logger – we all need to support the same organizations.
The NRA is the first one we need to support and the National Animal Interest Alliance (NAIA) is another. The Calvary Group and the Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance (SAOVA) are others.
The thing is – you and I mtmuley, can disagree with each other – but we both are on the same chopping block! So we should all pull together to protect each other because as Ben Franklin said: "
If we don't hang together, we will assuredly hang separately"
