Once again, a pro-native rights individual starts to threaten when someone disagrees and stands up.
I don't know why I came back to this thread and I don't know why I get suckered into these discussions. But, I'm going to voice a few thoughts even tho I'm gonna get labled a racist again.
For starters, protests are alot easier for a group of people who can afford to stop working and go to parliament hill. Funny how that works, kinda like the pipeline meetings. Some are paid by our govt, with our tax dollars, to protest. I however, work. That takes alot of my time.
Even better is when my tax dollars go to pay for someones education, (like law school) so that person can take more tax dollars to court and fight my govt for more land claims and rights. WTF happened there?!
But, that's not primarily dealing with the wildlife issue that started all this, so,
let's get back to protests.
Here in Cape Breton, a few years back, the local folks DID try and protest the un-regulated moose hunting by "natives". What did we do?
We blocked off the main logging road going into the hunted area. We protested.
What happened? The provincal DNR and the RCMP landed and told us to leave or we would be charged. We were not allowed to interfere with their hunt. How do you like that.
As far as "stewards of the land" goes, lets get something straight.
Before the whiteman came to this land, the natives didn't put any huge pressure on the natural resources. Not becouse of any conservational practices that were being followed, but becouse you didn't have (1) the population base and (2) the technology to have a negative impact.
The native tribes were hunter/gathers, and living areas were seasonal becouse of it.
They would move into an area and live off the land in that area until it became necessary to move to find resources. The animals became wary from hunting pressure, the berries and seeds where used up. The firewood gathered from that area.
Only now your using technology that you didn't have, and it will and is having an impact.
Your not practicing conservation. But your giving lip service to govt and media to make it look so. The native bands here even said that they were going to keep track of harvest numbers with the moose hunt by putting up a check site. That didn't last. There was only someone there half the time and only during the day. You never see native's heading back to hunt till dusk. Most moose are being shot at night here. How many are lost in the dark? That's conservation. Stewards of the resource.
I could go on and on about this but it's lost on the ones who love to cry "racist"!
You can thank our lieberal courts for this becouse the people of Canada certinaly don't stand behind you. As someone else pointed out, the general public either dosen't know the details or are scared of being labeled a racist.
