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December 5, 2005
Activists Oppose Controlling New Jersey Bear Population
Posted by Dave Blount at December 5, 2005 1:28 PM
Today is a special day for hunters in northwestern New Jersey: the first day of bear season. Due to an exploding black bear population that is becoming increasingly dangerous, hunting the oversized beasts will be allowed for 6 days, provided hunters use a shotgun or old-fashioned muzzleloader.
Hopefully hunters will be able to put a lid on the bears' numbers, before someone gets eaten. New Jersey's black bear population has increased as much as 3,200% since 1970. Due of course to the iniquity of humans, bears have been ever more apt to look for food in people's trashcans. Recent encounters include a sleeping camper who was bit by a bear last July, and a 150-lb bear that caused a week of havoc in the Atlantic City area the month before.
Naturally moonbats are siding with the animals against endangered humans, despite the fact that dumpster-diving bears compete with freegans for food. Kooks dressed in bright orange "Bear Rescue Team" t-shirts gathered this morning at a bear-weighing station to pose for cameras. Ever the noble guardians of free speech, activists pulled a "Support the Bear Hunt" sign off a hunter's truck.
Hunt opponent Ann Ilkiw planned to join other moonbats who were going out into the woods to search for wounded bears to help. "We'll carry them out if we have to," said Ilkiw.
Moonbats trying to carry wounded bears out of the woods — now there's something I would pay top dollar to see.
But of course the real idea is to take pictures of dead bears to use for animal rights propaganda. Needless to say, if children playing in their own backyards get mauled by hungry bears, pictures of their corpses will get much less attention.
