Here's a link to Santa Rosa [link|http://nl12.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SA&p_theme=sa&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_text_search-0=Brighthaven&s_dispstring=Brighthaven&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2002&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no| Press Democrat] which is just an archive search on 'Brighthaven' since 1/1/02. (It's about the only daily around, 'cept for a tiny rag in Sonoma) Didn't look to see if SF Chronicle picked up on it. Yet.

I expect that letters to editor - both printed and 'extras' to the website - will indicate continuing fallout. It made the front page of the PD on Saturday (the raid was on Fri.). Other orgs have begun to coalesce, around the country - according to a friend.

Alas the PD option to "see full text of the article" (from which I quoted above) gets me a small MT box (with j-script-on): in &^#$ Mozilla 9.9. With j-script-off - nada, zippo happens. YMMV with a less j-script brain dead browser. ('Course too, it could be PD's site M$-d into illegibility ?)

I'll eventually know a lot more about the local Fish & Game habits, as well as the agenda of the particular creep who uttered the stuff you can read. [maybe read..] What I hear from those who have frequent interactions with F&G is (what one would expect) -- their folks vary greatly in both intelligence and attitude towards their 'authority'. {sigh} It ain't as if the whole org. were monolithically in favor of this stupid Act. There will be repercussions though - that seems now inevitable.

There will be a website address reel soon, for coordinating the interest already rolling. Place to send a few $.. couldn't hoit either, I guess. Your efforts can't hoit either! :-)



Thanks,

Ashton

mixed with the hubris of a petty grade of 'authority'. He did not go there to observe anything or listen to anyone - and he didn't. Used the words "make an example of you". This despite the fact that there are mechanisms for umm "emergency sanity" (sanity during emergency?) or even -- just licensing them, as is licensed near here: a deer/fawn rescue facility. As I said - this place is a model care facility -- for *any* species. And it's not about "pets" or a desire to have jillions of such. Actually it's about love.

With the gentrification of this area as elsewhere - wild animals have less and less chance of living a fine life free of homo-sap meddling.. or any life at all, in some areas where new Yuppie villas are being shoved in, a few feet apart. Folks move to get away from the street lights, noise and blight they built, then try to bring that crap here - so it might look just like what they fled from. As Spock would say, "it is not logical but it is often true".

To me the idea that "this bird is better off dead" is just too close to the US Vietnam mindset: better Dead than Red. And We Meant It. So did this hateful wannabe-cop.




Ashton

Govt. or not, it does not have to be this way - however frequently it is this way. Ignorance Kills. In this case - literally.