On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:10:16 GMT, "NOYB" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:31:26 GMT, Rick wrote:

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:12:29 +0000, NOYB wrote:


Proposed New York bill is absolutely criminal
By Gene Mueller
Published February 23, 2005

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New York hunters are in an uproar over state assembly Bill 1850 that
would
make sport hunting a punishable act of animal cruelty.
The bill, introduced by Assemblyman Alexander Grannis, New York City
Democrat, would revise the state's definition of animal cruelty to
include
the "killing or injuring [of] wild game and wild birds." The revision
would
make hunting and trapping activities criminal offenses. The bill is now
being considered before the body's Agriculture Committee.
"The bill creates a contradiction in the law [because] the state
code
allows regulated hunting," said Tony Celebrezze of the U.S. Sportsmen's
Alliance, a national watchdog group that is ready to enter the fray
whenever
Americans' right to hunt is challenged. "If [this] becomes law,
anti-hunters
will have a field day ensuring that sportsmen are prosecuted on animal
cruelty charges."
The proposal is similar to a Texas bill that also would turn
everyday
hunters into criminals. Hunters in Iowa and Connecticut also have had to
defeat animal cruelty bills that threatened hunting with dogs.

Next thing you know they'll try to ban fishing. Daaaaaamn!

What do you mean next thing - they already are after the recreational
fishery.

Marine sanctuaries and no-fish zones are popping up all over the place.

Not to mention restricted access to beaches or really innovative ways
to circumvent the law to keep the riff raff out.

Take Greenwich for example. When the State Supreme Court ordered open
public access to the beaches, Greenwich grudgingly complied, but the
town closed all public parking, restricted roadside parking
effectively making it impossible to access the beaches unless you were
capable of walking five miles.

Last year, it was particularly delicious when one of the biggest
liberal "protectors of the common man" in the state legislature, the
author of the Beachway Access Law (I think that's what it was called)
was himself in violation by locking the beach access between his 25
million dollar property in West Greenwich and his neighbors property.
His reason was that people wandered above the Mean Highest High Tide
mark and were too close to his property - being a public figure and
what with all the terrorists wandering around the state, he had that
right.

Later,

Tom