Palin shows no love for baby wolves

[undeterred]

On a beautiful Alaskan summer morning in July of this year, a litter of 4-week-old wolf cubs were napping in the safety of their natal den, cuddled together, little bellies full of mother's milk when suddenly they were roughly pulled, half asleep, into the light of day and one by one, had their brains blown out by a bullet to each one of their tiny little heads. Who could do such a thing? A group of Alaskan state employees who were helicoptered into the wolves habitat at the behest and with the blessing of Gov. Sarah "Terminator" Palin, that's who.

On federal land it is illegal to kill pups in their den (a practice charmingly referred to as "denning") but the mother wolf had made the grave mistake of giving birth to her babies on state owned land, so Palin's posse had the legal right to kill those pups on the spot.

The reason Palin and her mighty hunter pals want to kill off most, if not all of the wolves (and bears) in Alaska is to reduce the hunter's competition for the elk and caribou. Even though generations of Alaskans have negatively impacted the caribou and elk population through over-hunting, logging and other human activity, somehow the wolves are being made to pay the price for the decimation of these herds. What state game officials in Alaska will tell you is that it is necessary to kill predators in order to sustain the elk and caribou population, but what they won't tell you is that they kill wolves, bears and other predators in order to artificially boost the herd numbers so there are plenty of animals for the hunters to shoot. Given that only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population must hunt for sustenance and given the fact that our grocery stores are brimming with meat for our dinner tables, why must we mess with the main source of a wolf's diet?

In her all out war against the wolves, Gov. Palin used the power of her office to help defeat a ballot measure in Alaska last month that would have banned the cruel and decidedly unsportsmanlike practice of aerial hunting of wolves. She approved a $400,000 state-funded propaganda campaign to promote aerial hunting and proposed to pay a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of every wolf killed. She is also helping to pass legislation to make it even easier to hunt wolves and bears from aircraft.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cheri-shankar/palin-shows-no-love-for-b_b_124532.html

Mother and babies all dead. Sorry if this was posted already.

[bdamomma]

1. shows no love period.

[dkf]

2. Hunting for fun is sick.

Its one thing to hunt so you can eat...its another thing to enjoy killing another living creature.

Sick.

[Upton]

3. I never will understand

how some people can get a kick out of killing another living creature.

[MindMatter]

9. Selective about life

I will never understand how these "pro lifers" live with themselves. Apparently they have created an image in their minds of a god who went to the trouble of creating all this life just for our amusement. What kind of god would do that? Not any god I'd want to worship, that's for sure. Life is life.

[sasha031]

4. I wish the media would pay more attention to this

every time i read or see something about her inhumane activities towards wildlife, I shake and cry inside.

would woman be flocking to her if they saw and knew what a vicious person she is.

[bunnies]

5. Thats just pure fucking evil. "pro life" my ass. nt

[KingFlorez]

6. Sick

[hedgehog]

7. If you look over all the ads for stuff to display in your home (statues,

prints, throws, coffee mugs etc.)you'll notice that a lot of people admire wolves. I wonder how those people would feel about Sarah if they knew she hates wolves?

[undeterred]

8. I honestly wonder if its that she hates wolves or if its more

that she is a woman who will do ANYTHING to please men. And there are a lot of men who enjoy killing as sport, so this makes them very happy.

[donutwant]

10. Why do you people care about wolves?

Have you ever seen what those cute cuddly little wolves do to the cute cuddly baby caribou? Why aren't you fretting over that? They're killing them to control the population so they don't kill off other animals that people rely on for sustenance. There aren't many grocery stores in the back country of Alaska you know and even if there were where do you think that meat comes from? Why aren't you fretting over the cute cuddly baby cows and pigs? Have you ever seen the inside of a slaughterhouse? I can assure you it isn't pretty so unless you're a vegetarian you're a hypocrite and should STFU. Really, this is a stupid attack to be making against Palin and It'll turn off a lot of people who aren't as overly sensitive as everybody here seems to be. As long as the wolves aren't endangered there's nothing wrong with culling them to make room for more useful animals.

[undeterred]

11. enjoy your brief stay

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. What a waste of a funny username.

You trolls are polluting the namespace.

[Beaverhausen]

13. I seriously doubt that in the largest state sizewise and the smallest population-wise that...

...there is any kind of over-population of any wild animal.

Remember - they were there first. Wolves eat Caribou. That's what they do.

and yes, I'm a vegetarian.

[dkofos]

14. How disgusting, palin kills puppies.