Stop The Killing: An Open Letter To Governor Schwarzenegger

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My open letter to Governor Schwarzenegger. An excerpt from the SF Chronicle's article follows that letter.

TLC
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Dear Governor:

The California Fish & Game Department has, once again, murdered a beautiful animal in cold blood.

While it is claimed the mountain lion posed a “potential risk” to children, that is also true of every Fish & Game employee. Certainly in the past few years they have slaughtered a multitude of innocent beings without just cause. Who’s next?

The claim that the lion was not shot with a tranquilizer because a dart might take several minutes to work is complete bovine excrement. The lion could have been shot with one or more tranquilizer darts, and that probably would have brought a peaceful conclusion. Had the darts not worked and if the lion then became an actual imminent danger to the children that were initially TWO HUNDRED YARDS away—inexplicably and inexcusably even that close—Fish & Game could have shot to wound the lion, and then if that too failed, and as a last resort, could have shot to kill.

The claim that the mountain lion had to be executed to protect children is likewise without merit. If it took Fish & Game two hours to notice nearby children, and if during that time they—in conjunction with local law enforcement—did nothing to get children and other civilians away from the immediate area, then their ineptitude surpasses that of even FEMA.

Rather than handle the situation with competence, once again the first, last, and only resort of Fish & Game was to kill.

Can you imagine Jesus returning to Earth today, gunning down God’s creatures? And to think we call ourselves a “Christian” nation. Nothing could be further from the truth. And the California Fish & Game Department epitomizes the increasingly dark turn this nation has taken in recent years.

It is long past time that the head of the Fish & Game Department, Ryan Broddrick, be fired. Further, an independent commission must be established to draw up sound policies designed to promote the protection and preservation of wildlife so that we can live in peaceful harmony. The era of Fish & Game as a death squad must come to an end.

Sincerely,

Terry L. Clark
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Mountain lion shot and killed in Pleasanton condo complex
- Glen Martin, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 13, 2006


A mountain lion was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Pleasanton condominium complex this morning, the California Department of Fish and Game reported.

Police arrived at the scene around 8:45 a.m. A department animal control officer cut a hole in a chain-link fence surrounding the lot and tried to coax the lion through it to an adjacent creek, but the cat didn't cooperate, Swauger said.

A Fish and Game warden arrived about an hour later and determined the mountain lion was a danger to the community. It was shot and killed by the warden around 11 a.m.

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