Putting People First / January 14, 1994
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PEOPLE'S BULLETIN
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     News and notices in the struggle against animal rights and eco-
     extremists

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of citizens who believe in rights for humans and
welfare for animals, and who oppose the goals and
tactics of "animal rights" and environmental extremism.

PO Box 1707
Helena, Montana  59624
(406) 442-5700
FAX (406) 449-0942

4401 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
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Washington, D.C.  20008-2322
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OR ANARCHY!

In 1849 Henry David Thoreau wrote the essay, "Civil Disobedience," setting
up an intellectual framework for citizens to disagree with their government.
Thoreau advocated passive resistance to governmental injustice, suggesting
that ignoring the government might be the best way to restrain its influence
on the life of a just man.

During the Sixties, however, civil disobedience took a more aggressive form
as sit-ins, peace marches, and police riots.  When extremist groups (and
being an extremist in the Sixties required a long stretch) bombed and robbed
banks, their actions were called criminal.

Nowadays, extremists claim "civil disobedience" as their watchword in the
battle to sanction "rights" for animals.  Along a spectrum of activity from
harassing children in 4-H and disrupting county fairs to fire bombing
department stores that sell fur and sending death threats to those who won't
be convinced.  These activists assert that their behavior falls within some
description of the morally authentic concept of civil disobedience.

But Thoreau wrote, "All men recognize ... the right to refuse allegiance to,
and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are
great and unendurable."  Resistance to government is civil disobedience.
The same behavior toward one's neighbor is anarchy, and anarchy is a short,
dark road to chaos.

If Thoreau was right, and the American government is merely a tradition
"endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity," perhaps the
authorities should be trained to calculate the differences between civil
disobedience and anarchy more carefully, and respond accordingly.

In addition, non-profit organizations that promote violence as civil
disobedience can lose their tax exempt status with the IRS.  With millions
of dollars of non-taxable funding at risk, extremist groups advocating
violence against innocent citizens could be forced to rethink their position
about an appropriate level of protest.

For a copy of PPF lawyer's letter to the IRS/Postal Service, call us or
write: P.O. Box 1707 Helena, MT  59624-1707



SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

     The Sierra Club's Pacific Northwest Regional Director, William Arthur,
espouses such sentiments as, "You can't save a forest and cut it down, too."
Last summer Arthur ignored his own advice, and sold the timber off his
vacation property to Global Pacific Forest Products.

Global, a log exporter of Snohomish, Washington, paid $10,000 for the trees.
According to a Coeur D'alene Press report, Arthur intends to make
improvements on a house he owns with the money.  Wayne Cook, owner of Global
Pacific noted, "When it comes to money, the politically correct things kind
of go out the window."




IDAHO RALLIES TO "SAVE WESTERN WAYS"

A day long series of workshops and a rally to build awareness about the
issues confronting western states in their effort to stop federal
encroachment on our way of life, our economy and our culture will be held in
Boise, Idaho on Tuesday, January 18, 1994.

Rally Speakers are Senator Conrad Burns, R-Montana, William Perry Pendley of
the Mountain States Legal Foundation, Dave Lucas, who won a U. S. Supreme
Court victory over the South Carolina Coastal Council, and Cy Jamison,
Former National Director of the BLM.

A parade down Capital Boulevard will kick-off at 11:00 am.  The rally begins
at noon in the Boise Center on the Grove in the Falcon Room. Workshops begin
at 2:15 pm.  Three concurrent workshops will last 40 minutes: 1) Endangered
Species Listings and Agency Consultations, 2) What To Do When an Agency
Targets Your Community, 3) Unfunded Federal Mandates.  A full group workshop
on Public Lands/Private Property will begin at 3:00 pm.

For more information contact:

R.C. "Bob" Sears
The Idaho Cattle Assn.
(208) 344-5403


SCIENTISTS PROTEST THE NATURE OF THINGS

PBS is scheduled to air a new series, called, "The Nature of Things." (Check
local listing for air date in your area.)  This program is produced by
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and includes five segments, one of which
is "Animals in Research: Breaking the Habit."

Many in the scientific community in Canada have objected to the "Animals in
Research" segment as being intrinsically flawed, and unfair.  In a letter to
the CBC, Bessie Borwein, Ph D., Associate Dean-Research, Faculty of Medicine
at the University of Western Ontario, states, "The tenor and tone of the
program gratuitously denigrated the remarkable achievements of Canadian
medical research "




TRAVEL AGENTS SUPPORT BRADY BILL

The Board of Directors of the American Society of Travel Agents voted
unanimously to support the Brady Bill.  The Travel Industry Association of
America has called for stricter gun laws.  These organizations say they are
reacting to the recent murders of tourists in Florida.

Asked to respond to travel industry claims that gun control will create a
safer atmosphere for tourists, Bill McIntyre, spokesman for the National
Rifle Association, replied, "They obviously haven't made an honest
investigation into the problem.  In 20 out of 22 states with waiting
periods, violent crime or homicides have gone up in the last five years.
Most have gone up faster than the national average.

American Society of Travel Agents
Earlene Causey, President & Chief
PO Box 877
Baytown, TX  77522-0877
(713) 267-6528


Bill McIntyre
NRA
(703) 267-1190


REINVENTING WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

George Divoky is chairman of Pacific Seabird Group, a scientific,non- profit
organization dedicated to the study and conservation of seabirds and their
environment.  Divoky wrote to Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, urging him
to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to "...restore the natural
biodiversity of the seabird colonies in the Alaska Maritime National
Wildlife Refuge by promoting an aggressive program to eliminate exotic rats,
foxes and other creatures that have caused the local extinction of seabird
colonies."

George T. Frampton, Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks,
responded to Divoky by claiming that FS "has been carrying out a rather
aggressive program" to remove introduced predators.  But, before joining the
Clinton Administration, Frampton ran the Wilderness Society which opposed
any use of toxicants to manage wildlife.

PSG has asked Secretary Babbitt to support limited use of toxicants on
remote islands where native species will not be affected.  Now the
organization is left wondering from whence the Clinton Administration's
Department of the Interior will draw its policies.

For more information contact:

Pacific Seabird group
Kenneth Warheit
PO Box 178
Tenino, WA  98589



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