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(28,277 posts)How else will she get her Christian Nationalist "Cruelty IS the Point" street creds?
Someone or something has to suffer and die.
BWdem4life
(1,735 posts)Celerity
(43,916 posts)I could be wrong, and I am open, as always, to seeing evidence showing that I am in error
With a disdain for science that alarms wildlife experts, Sarah Palin continues to promote Alaska's policy to gun down wolves from planes.
https://www.salon.com/2008/09/08/sarah_palin_wolves/
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Wildlife activists thought they had seen the worst in 2003 when Frank Murkowski, then the Republican governor of Alaska, signed a bill ramping up state programs to gun down wild wolves from airplanes, inviting average citizens to participate. Wolves, Murkowski believed, were clearly better than humans at killing elk and moose, and humans needed to even the playing field.
But that was before Sarah Palin took Murkowski's job at the end of 2006. She went one step, or paw, further. Palin didn't think Alaskans should be allowed to chase wolves from aircraft and shoot them -- they should be encouraged to do so. Palin's administration put a bounty on wolves' heads, or to be more precise, on their mitts.
In early 2007, Palin's administration approved an initiative to pay a $150 bounty to hunters who killed a wolf from an airplane in certain areas, hacked off the left foreleg, and brought in the appendage. Ruling that the Palin administration didn't have the authority to offer payments, a state judge quickly put a halt to them but not to the shooting of wolves from aircraft.
Detractors consider the airborne shootings a savage business, conducted under the euphemism "predator control." The airplanes appear in the winter, so the wolves show up like targets in a video game, sprinting across the white canvas below. Critics believe the practice violates the ethics of hunting, while supporters say the process is not hunting at all, but a deliberate cull.
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BWdem4life
(1,735 posts)stopdiggin
(11,448 posts)particularly given where this subject sprang from this evening ...
Irish_Dem
(48,650 posts)All the Covid deaths which could have been prevented.
All the mass murders with military grade weapons in the US.
Women denied emergency medical care to save their lives.
DFW
(54,587 posts)Republicans like killing people, too.
(It wasnt the Democrats who were yelling, hang Mike Pence, if you remember.)
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