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At least 3 bald eagles found shot; state offers reward

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Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:52 UTC

Granite Falls, Wash. - Four dead eagles discovered floating in a lake Jan. 9 outside Granite Falls, Wash. appeared to be the victims of a poacher, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police said.

The four eagles were retrieved by WDFW Police on Jan. 10. Initial observations show at least three of the birds were killed by a small caliber rifle. All of the birds appeared to be perched on trees before they fell into the lake.

Bald eagles are protected under state and federal laws. Killing an eagle is a Class A misdemeanor, and carries a maximum penalty of $1,000 and 90 days in jail.

WDFW, the Humane Society and other groups offered a $3,750 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the persons or people responsible for killing the eagles. Anyone with information related to the crime can call the WDFW tip line at (877) 933-9847.

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solitude · 2013-01-17T01:40:16Z

Eagles

Question: How many Americans does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: All of them. One to replace it, then one to shoot it out again. Then one to replace it, then one to shoot it out again. Then one to replace it, then one to shoot it out again. Then one to replace it, then one to shoot it out again...etc...lol .

Rowan Cocoan · 2013-01-17T07:23:03Z

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird... As for me, I'd be happy - nay - I would pay for the privilege - to be the one kill the shooter. And I dare say, I'd even sleep better that night. I'd be confident there'd be one less obviously evil soul on the planet. (He didn't eat them nor even use their feathers.) He's just a Ted Bundy/GWBush*t torturing animals in their youth, I'd bet.

From the movie of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird..."

AtTTICUS FINCH: I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

JEM: Why?

AtTTICUS : Well, I reckon because mockingbirds don't do anything but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat people's gardens, don't nest in the corncrib, they don't do one thing but just sing their hearts out for us.

To which I would add that many eagles there feast on non-native carp that are destroying our western lakes' ecosystems. Also, ever since the earliest of the gunpowder era, it has been considered "unsporting" (i.e., immoral) to shoot a sitting bird. It still is.

"Bald eagles are protected under state and federal laws. Killing an eagle is a Class A misdemeanor, and carries a MAXIMUM penalty of $1,000 and 90 days in jail." Oh, wow! As if THAT'S a deterrent.. (sarcasm.)

And yet, Aaron Scwartz was facing - what - 30+ years & Millions in fines - for trying to make the internet free? Or as another recent article here at SOTT noted, it's "OK" for Cops to arrest a para/quadriplegic for smoking a joint and then let him suffocate in jail.

It is long past time for the masses of good people to get the rest moving. (As to the US, I'd estimate we've got: 10% PTB/AF* Wannabes; 25% AF's, 10% awakened and good, 35% basically good, and the rest swayable with the breeze)

The problem is that the good and awakened (total, 45%) cannot and will not use evil to their purposes while the PTB/AF's (35%) are more than happy to. We gotta wake more up, somehow.

Another brick in added to the wall of a Broken System? Certainly placing this under "Society's Child," was perfect.

R.C.

*"Authoritarian Followers."

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