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Former GF&P Commissioner chides Sec. Cooper and Gov. Rou

LB: "Is SH really this obtuse or does he have to work at it?"

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LB: "In this great nation of ours, you can not negate individual rights with a majority vote, even if the vote is 99% in favor of whatever action it is that violates that individual's rights."

Is that right????

Highway expansion is a perfect example of private property rights being violated for the greater good of the majority. I have known many who have fought highway expansion going through their property and guess what? Majority rules!

When water was piped around the country and they had to run it across private property. Did it go around those landowners who opposed it? Nope! Majority rules!

This situation is no different. The rare case where private property rights would be violated yields to the greater good of managing the public's wildlife resources.

You lockout advocates don't have the corner on private property rights concerns.

There is many, many laws that threaten individual rights for the greater good of the majority. Smoking in public is another example. Drinking and driving is another.


LB: "It is also NOT the function of GF&P to trespass on private land without the permission of the individual who owns that land."

It is the function of GF&P to enforce the wildlife laws that are in place. To do that effectively requires access to private property to do compliance checks during hunting seasons.


LB: "GF&P has no reason to trespass on private land. Period. No matter how much spin SH tries to put on it, wildlife IS a side issue and a handy smoke screen for GF&P to use to justify their trespass."

What an absolutely ridiculous claim ("wildlife IS a side issue").

If not to enforce wildlife laws and conduct hunter compliance checks, WHAT OTHER REASON WOULD CONSERVATION OFFICERS HAVE TO BE THERE?????

We have already been over the fact that I cannot personally enter private land without permission and I have to have WRITTEN PERMISSION to set equipment so where does that fit into your "BROAD BRUSH PAINTING" of GF&P trespassing????

I contacted every landowner that I did grouse lek counts on this year, where was the trespass in that situation?????

You can't argue your position at face value. You have to mislead and deceive with your remarks.

Your first was that Conservation Officers can come onto private property and DO WHATEVER THEY WANT. You know that isn't true.

Now you suggest that GF&P (which includes all GF&P) can trespass without permission. More deception on your part.


LB: "It would very easy for them to work with the landowner to gain access to private land. The fact that they refuse to even try to obtain landowner permission tells us a lot about the true motives behind their bull-headed stance."

Any fool knows that a game law violater will not grant permission.

That's like saying that permission should be obtained before searching someone's luggage at the airport.

Hundreds and hundreds of folks getting their personal rights violated everyday at airports across the U.S. for the benefit of the majority.

WHODA THOUGHT THIS COULD HAPPEN IN THE "LAND OF THE FREE"??????


Keep waving that flag Liberty Belle on the rare chance that you might see a Conservation Officer checking hunters on your property since you haven't seen one yet.




~SH~
 
I'm no lawyer and its obvious SH isn't either, but I do know that the taking of private property for public use (highways, pipelines, etc.) is called Eminent Domain and is a constitutional power granted to government by the 5th Amendment. It requires the government to pay "just compensation" to the landowner and majority rule has nothing whosoever to do with it. By the way, where is the "just compensation" to landowners when GF&P takes away their property rights?

SH: "If not to enforce wildlife laws and conduct hunter compliance checks, WHAT OTHER REASON WOULD CONSERVATION OFFICERS HAVE TO BE THERE"

Ask this question of the CO in Harding County. When a local landowner had the CO arrested for trespassing on private land it was not during any hunting season so there were no hunters for him to do compliance checks and there were no wildlife laws being broken. Heck, there wasn't even any wildlife around for the CO to inspect, so "WHAT OTHER REASON WOULD CONSERVATION OFFICERS HAVE TO BE THERE"? That's a very good question!!

Another good question is why the CO wasn't prosecuted for that trespass. It wouldn't be because our attorney general thinks that GF&P CO's are "special" would it?
 
LB: "It requires the government to pay "just compensation" to the landowner and majority rule has nothing whosoever to do with it."

The majority put that law in place.

The individual rights of the landowner yielded to the greater good of the public.


LB: "By the way, where is the "just compensation" to landowners when GF&P takes away their property rights?"

There is nothing to compensate for. They didn't take the land as in the case of imenant domain. They simpy checked hunters or fisherman for the license on private property with the legal right to do so.


LB: "When a local landowner had the CO arrested for trespassing on private land it was not during any hunting season so there were no hunters for him to do compliance checks and there were no wildlife laws being broken."'

You natually assume he didn't have a valid reason to be there. If I have learned one thing from you folks it's to get the other side of the story.


LB: "Another good question is why the CO wasn't prosecuted for that trespass. It wouldn't be because our attorney general thinks that GF&P CO's are "special" would it?"

Kinda like JJ was "special" when other pilots lost their plane for similar circumstances? That kind of "special"?

I doubt you would be happy unless they threw them in the stockade in front of the courthouse.



~SH~
 
SH: "The majority put that law in place."

And which LAW would that be? I'll save you time - here is none.

SH: "There is nothing to compensate for. They didn't take the land as in the case of imenant domain. They simpy checked hunters or fisherman for the license on private property with the legal right to do so."

Trespass is a form of taking. It's called EMINENT DOMAIN and if GF&P wants to use my land to run their wildlife and then trample on my property rights while they are trampling down my grass, I don't think compensation would be out of line, do you? Oh wait, I forgot who I was talking to.

LB: "When a local landowner had the CO arrested for trespassing on private land it was not during any hunting season so there were no hunters for him to do compliance checks and there were no wildlife laws being broken."'

SH: "You natually assume he didn't have a valid reason to be there. If I have learned one thing from you folks it's to get the other side of the story."


Sooooo, what was the "valid reason"? As SH said before, "If not to enforce wildlife laws and conduct hunter compliance checks, WHAT OTHER REASON WOULD CONSERVATION OFFICERS HAVE TO BE THERE?????"

We're listening – what other reason did he have?

Now, not to change the subject or anything, but have you heard that pilot Gary Hanson and state trapper Mel Utter crashed the state plane while hunting coyotes a few miles east of our place Wednesday? Mel was able to walk for help and got out of the hospital the next day. Gary was flown on to Bismarck because he was injured severely. The sheriff told me his injuries were not supposed to be live-threatening and I certainly hope that's right. I don't know Hanson very well, but Mel has become a friend and does a very good job getting along with landowners and keeping predators under control. They're both on our prayer list.
 
Good post Liberty Bell.

SH is the special one here he has nothing to lose.


Back from California and Dane got to swim in the Pacfic Ocean with the dolphins.
 
SH I don't remember saying GF&P did a poor job on KBHB.

As far as the Court Cases Larry Nelson was referring to---- most came from GF&P when they were trying to justify Open Fields. You might should have attended a few of the working group meetings or maybe shoud read the GF&P web site that also lists these cases.
 
SJ, welcome back to God's country. Sounds like you and your grandson had a good time. I got back late last night from my trip to MN to meet my new grandson. He's a keeper, although his year-old brother would have rather had a puppy!

Did you get to hear Larry Nelson and Robert Johnson on Derry Brownfield's show over KBHB Friday? I listened on my way to Minnesota and it sounds like the meeting in New Underwood went well. The 125,000 acres added to the lockout are a nice addition.
 

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