Death Park Deer Defenders Surrender? Never….

Our latest billboard opposing the Death Park Deer slaughter is positioned on I-670, just outside of downtown Kansas City, MO and receives over 50,000 views per day….

Journal Entry by Jason Miller

11/9/09

The slaughterers have annihilated 313 deer at Death Park, but the rest of the herd still needs us. JOCO and the Kansas Department of Wildlife intend to massacre even more innocent, semi-tame, sentient deer by unleashing empathy deficient bow hunters on the remainder of the herd. This despite the fact that they’ve already massacred so many deer that the biodiversity of the park will be restored. And Randy Knight once told me in a telephone conversation that biodiversity was the only true concern driving this slaughter.

We will be protesting at the entrance of Death Park this Saturday at 2PM. And again on Sunday. And there will be much more activism to follow to oppose the impending bow hunt……It’s never too late to do the right thing and implement Anthony Marr’s nonlethal deer management plan!

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

Image: Karma by ~kimag3500

By Susan Bennett

11/9/09

From: Susan Carol
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:24 PM
To: randy.knight@jocogov.org; bocc-commissioners@jocogov.org; bocc-staff@jocogov.org d; lloydf@wp.state.ks.us d; governor@ks.gov; Miriam deVore; Emily Scott; Judith Junior

Cc: Mr. Poletti; assistant_secretary@jcprd.com; assistant_treasurer@jcprd.com; secretary@jcprd.com; treasurer@jcprd.com; vicechair@jcprd.com; Jason Miller

If it is possible the citizens may have you arrested and tried as criminals we [they] will do so. The people did not give you the right, nor the authority to take these lives. There must be a legal way to have you arrested and held accountable for this slaughter. No one gave you the authority, nor the right.

I grasp for tolerance to get through this. All that comes to mind is perhaps God put you to a test, and you failed Him. Or we have witnessed the death of God Himself. If it was His plan to put you to a test, I pray He show you no mercy, as you have treated us, the deer and abused and extended the power of your office. You are not only old and decrepit, but morally stripped of salvation. Your fate for eternity is in the Lord’s hands. I believe His work has shown itself already. You look old enough in your photos, but you’ve aged even more, and one member has gained a huge amount of weight, different from the photo on your website.

In the meanwhile, secular law protects you. You oughta know. You make up ordinances and unfounded laws as you go along. You can hide behind those things, but will have to answer and account for them eventually. You’ll never achieve another public office. You’re all so old, I had no idea until this. I doubt you have future political aspirations. No. This will be your last actions as government officials.

If you believe it is over because the deer are dead, you have never been more wrong. From reading about the other culls, none have slaughtered as many as here in less than 30 days. Buried somewhere in history your names will be published as the ones behind one of the sickest and most perverse and sloppy slaughters in the history of Johnson County, Kansas. Deer heads everywhere. Particles of deer flesh strewn. Blood everywhere. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that some of you may have pulled more than the trigger here. Sympathy to your decendents who will be burdened with such a legacy. They have a lunacy instead. It will follow them for the rest of your lives. Have you even given thought to that? Your children and grandchildren will be known and acknowledged as guilty by association. Your actions will not be forgotten. I understand Larry Winn III is running next term. Tell him to save his campaign money for something else.

Shocked and Appalled: Death Park II?

Journal Entry by Jason Miller

11/8/09

Now that Anthony DeNicola, Michael Meadors, Lloyd Fox, Randy Knight, Mike Hayden, Annabeth Surbaugh, Jim Allen, C.Edward Peterson, David Lindstrom, Ed Eilert, Doug Wood, Calvin Hayden, George Schlagel, Nancy Wallerstein, Steve Baru, Gary Montague, Anthony L. Adams, Bill Flohrs, Dr. Marvin E. Wollen, Mark Parkinson, Bill Maasen, and Dan Field have transformed Shawnee Mission Park into Death Park by mercilessly butchering over 300 innocent, semi-tame does, bucks and fawns, I am boycotting Death Park. For recreation, I now go to the Ernie Miller Nature Center.

When I arrived at the Ernie Miller Nature Park this evening, I was shocked and appalled at the nauseatingly gruesome sight that awaited me. Apparently, our horribly negligent public officials can’t even keep track of the heads that Anthony DeNicola, his minions, and local law enforcement officers severe from our defenseless, beloved deer whom they’re slaughtering with high-powered rifles at close range as they come to feed on the corn that they use to lure them to their agonizing demise.

Somone had placed it atop one of the visitor information signs!

It was emotionally devastating when I discovered the macabre partial remains of one of the many gentle does that DeNicola and company are mowing down with hails of bullets. This precious deer’s head also served as an enraging symbol of the obscene waste of our hard-earned tax dollars, as Johnson County and Kansas officials could have employed Anthony Marr’s nonlethal deer management plan for less money than it’s costing them to turn our suburban family park into a killing field.

As if it wasn’t horrifying enough to witness one severed deer head that Johnson County public officials had lost, (again it served as a disturbing reminder of the bloodbath taking place at Death Park), I very nearly vomited when I laid eyes upon a second one, resting in the basin of the children’s water fountain!

When and where does this nightmare end?

Are any of the parks in Johnson County safe or free of the repulsive fallout from this barbaric deer massacre?

Must we prepare ourselves to recoil in horror each time we venture into a park administered by Johnson County or the state of Kansas?

As responsible and concerned citizens, it is our responsibility to see to it that each of the individuals whom I named above is elected out of office or removed from their positions for making and implementing the worst plan in the history of the county or the state.

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/.

LEAVE TOWN, MURDERER!

(Image compliments of our allies at Point Reyes….)

We don’t want him in our park either! Go home, DeNicola! You’re a bloodthirsty sociopath!

For the latest updates on the animal liberation movement, visit NAALPO at http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/.

HUNTING – the war on wildlife

Simulposted with Animal Rights Africa

Hunters are killers, plain and simple. Let us not mince words. Hunters try to justify their violent pastime, but whatever they say to the contrary, hunting is the premeditated, cold-blooded killing of innocent animals.

The object of the hunt is to kill animals. Hunters argue that it is not just about killing. They claim that the camaraderie, nature appreciation, exercise, nature education, and so-called conservation benefits are just as important a part of the hunt as the actual killing or attempted killing of the target animal.

But most people can appreciate and learn about nature and also contribute to nature conservation efforts without having to kill animals, and by doing their shooting with a camera instead of a gun or bow.

Do hunters really care?

It is ludicrous to believe that someone who actively sets out to kill a healthy animal for fun, trophy or profit really cares about wild animals specifically or nature in general. Photographs of smiling hunters posing with their dead victims hardly reflect the kind of “caring” that most normal people relate to. If hunters are the “true” conservationists they claim to be, and really do care about animals, they would pursue every humane, non-lethal possibility or means of caring for wild animals and the environment. Instead, their solution to any perceived problem with animals is to reach for the gun. Why is it that hunters, as so-called conservationists, are interested only in those animals that are most attractive as trophies, most enjoyable to eat or most “challenging” to hunt?

Stop Killing Deer

By Anthony Marr

Simulposted by Heal Our Planet Earth

Without a doubt, the biggest and hottest wildlife issue concerns deer “management”. Biggest because well over 10 million deer were killed by hunters in 2006, plus another 1 million died in deer-vehicle accidents (DVAs) which also involve human fatalities, plus the fact that massive culling of urban and suburban deer is spreading like wildfire across the land. And hottest because the 30-states-in-5-months (July-December) Compassion for Animals Road Expedition #5 (CARE-5 or Deer Tour) of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) is making it so.

The first point I make here can cause wide-spread controversy and confrontation between hunters and anti-hunters. Hunters blame deer overpopulation for causing the DVAs as justification for the massive killing of deer in the eyes of the non-hunting yet safety-conscious public, but I contend that the DVAs are at least in part deliberately caused by none other than the hunters themselves.

Although only 6% of the American public hunt, they still amount to millions of deer hunters. To ensure themselves of enough deer to hunt, they use feed plots in the wild to artificially boost the deer population to “overpopulation” levels, which then causes high DVA rates.

White Buffalo, Inc., NPS Ignore Humane Society’s Plea for Deer

Wailing Wall for Fallow Deer, Point Reyes Station, CA

Simulposted with Tangergreen

1/28/08

For an outsider, it may be hard to believe the situation that’s going on right now over at the seashore in Point Reyes, CA. The Point Reyes National Seashore is currently under the tyrannical rule of a superintendent named Don Neubacher who has got such an incredible Napoleon complex that, no matter who has approached him to ask for humane management of the local Fallow and Axis deer population, the guy simply won’t listen. The following organizations and government officials have now attempted to request that the NPS, under Neubacher, stop killing the deer who are so highly valued by the local people. He is simply not interested in the opinions of the following:

The Humane Society of the United States
The Marin Humane Society
U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey
State Senator Carol Migden
In Defense of Animals
WildCare
Dr. Jane Goodall
Friends of the White Deer
The taxpaying citizens of Marin County, California

Shooting a defenceless animal from a close range in their own territory is a sign of cowardice….

By Narinder K. Verma, DDS; MS

11/1/09

Editor’s Note: Dr. Verma has been a tireless and determined deer defender in our campaign.

As you are aware that most of the three hundred innocent Deer residing in Shawnee Mission Park are about to be killed by some self acclaimed sharp shooters and bow and arrow super marksmen hired for this job. Shawnee Mission Park attracts visitors from all over the world for its magnificent outlay and a natural habitat for the wild life. Deer provide unconditional joy and happiness to thousands of parents and their loved ones who visit the park every year. Humans and Deer possess the same power of thought, feeling and action. Central to all religions is the concept of Ahimsa—To do no harm and nonviolence.

I wish to quote a verse from Bhagawad Gita.

Who sees his Lord
Within Every creature
Deathlessly dwelling
Amidst the mortal
That man sees truly.

Thank you, fellow deer defenders….

By Jason Miller

11/1/09

NOTE: This is not to say the campaign is over. It’s simply time that I publicly thanked those who’ve made this campaign possible.

I want to thank the thousands of people (and particularly the hundred or so stalwarts who’ve contributed so much of their time, effort, and/or money) who’ve made our tenacious, relentless, and intense campaign to defend the deer in Death Park so powerful.

We’ve employed a vast array of bold, creative, and innovative tactics. Wildlife defenders around the world have told me that our efforts have inspired them, we have forced a vigorous debate over the use of nonlethal versus lethal options to deal with wildlife overpopulation problems, we have put Anthony Marr’s brilliant nonlethal plan front and center for the entire world to consider, and have helped Anthony launch his Anti-Hunting Alliance.

Despite the fact that we initiated our efforts too late to stop the sharp-shooting phase of the Death Park slaughter, we still have the capacity to prevent bow-hunters from bringing further torture and misery to the deer in our family park. And we have struck serious blows on behalf of the deer and nonhuman animals everywhere.  Remember, ours is but one small battle in humanity’s global war against nonhuman animals that kills 50 billion innocent, sentient beings per annum.

While the animal murderers may “win” by killing 300 or more deer, we will have seen to it that it was a Pyrrhic victory. As promised, we’ve given them serious hell and have given Death Park, Johnson County, and government officials throughout Kansas the huge black eye that they deserve.

Thank you all and let’s keep after it!

The deer still need us….

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/.

Save Johnson County Deer, Victims of Government Abuse

Video by Susan Bennett

10/31/09

Please help rescue the remaining deer. Contact the Board of County Commissioners of Johnson County at 913-715-0430 (BOCC-Commissioners@jocogov.org) and Michael Meadors and the Parks Board at 913-438-7275 (Michael.Meadors@jocogov.org) and tell them to STOP the slaughter and the violence NOW. Demand that they implement Anthony Marr’s nonlethal deer management plan today!

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http://biteclubkc.wordpress.com/.