Wisconsin law, we're told, prohibits the “possession” of wildlife. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was told about an animal shelter that had a fawn, and they confirmed this through covert surveillance.
So far, nothing really awful.
If you were a DNR employee responsible for handling this situation, what might you do? The obvious thing would be to knock on the door of the animal shelter and ask them why they have a fawn. Had the DNR done this, they would have discovered that the fawn was due to be sent to a wildlife rehabilitation facility the next day. That would have been, one supposes, the end of the story.
But that's not what the DNR did.
Instead, they created, in effect, a SWAT team comprised of 9 DNR agents and 4 deputy sheriffs, all heavily armed. They descended upon the animal shelter in a convoy of cars to conduct a surprise raid. They captured the fawn, tranquilized it, then took it away to be euthanized.
This sort of grotesque over-reaction is very disturbing, and it's happening more and more frequently. When I was a child, such an event would have been unthinkable – and any bureaucrat who perpetrated such an atrocity would be out on his or her butt in short order. The DNR is defending its actions, not punishing the people who executed the fawn.
And what the hell is the DNR doing with heavily-armed agents, anyway?
The trajectory of heavily-armed, over-numerous, out-of-control government thugs is a positively terrifying one – it's the trajectory of a proto-fascist state. We need to rein this in ... if we can. There are only two ways to do this that I know of: via the ballot box, or via the gun. The ballot box isn't working very well so far...
Doom. I hear the drums of doom, and they draw ever nearer...
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