You ain’t never gonna’ gitcherdeer by John C. Street

Please forgive the repetition but I can’t explain this any better than I did in March of last year (“You ain’t gonna’ gitcherdeer - and you deserve to know why, CLARION NEWS, March 5, 2009) when I wrote …

 “… hunting is one of the largest businesses in Pennsylvania.  According to a report commissioned by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, Keystone State hunters – nearly all of whom are deer hunters - spend $1.7 billion every year in the conduct of their favorite pastime and, as a direct consequence, support 28,000 jobs and add $214 million tax dollars to the state’s treasury.   

“Given this enormous financial impact (and especially in light of the decline in license sales from nearly 1.2 million to just under 800,000 in the last couple decades), it would be logical to assume that whatever the Pennsylvania Game Commission did in relation to managing whitetail deer, its prescription would be deferential to this economic reality.  Remarkably, however, this logic was apparently lost on the PGC.      

“It could be argued that the first hint of the troubles we’re now experiencing surfaced at a PGC Board of Commissioners meeting back in October of 1997 when then Commissioner Sam Dunkle said, ‘I firmly believe one of the first steps to be taken in regaining the credibility that this agency once held is to have a thorough evaluation by an outside…agency.’ 

“Within a year of Commissioner Dunkle’s pronouncement, but with remarkably little fanfare, the PGC was undergoing an external evaluation conducted by the Management Assistance Team of the US Fish & Wildlife Service.  And when the final report (dubbed the ‘MAT Report’) was completed in July of 1999, Commissioner Dunkle’s call for an evaluation seemed prescient.  ‘Currently,’ the MAT Report advised, ‘in a number of ways, the [Pennsylvania Game Commission] is in the dysfunctional category.’

“And the authors of the MAT report didn’t mince words in their final conclusion. The Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Report stated bluntly, ‘has maintained a strong [law] enforcement orientation, but has not achieved concurrently strong orientation for professional wildlife biology.’

“Given this stinging indictment, one might rightly expect the leadership of the Pennsylvania Game Commission to have gone to Hades and back to incorporate sound biology in their deer management program.  But, as the controversy that soon erupted over the program revealed, it was samo-samo on Elmerton Avenue. 

“Rather than putting the mechanics of the deer management program on hold until they had the whole biology matter firmly in hand, the PGC’s leadership employed the Wildlife Management Institute to create a public relations campaign “to increase dialogue and communication leading to the development of informed consent on deer management.” 

“And then, in 1999, they authorized the creation of a stand-alone Deer Management Section and drafted the high-profile Dr. Gary Alt to run it, immediately sending the deer doctor on a state-wide speaking tour to ‘inform and educate the public about managing deer and management challenges.’

“Unbeknownst to most people, though, at the very same time the PGC was kicking-off their deer management program, the National Audubon Society was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the Pew Foundation to establish the ‘Heritage Forest Campaign.’ 

“Interestingly, as a little research revealed (see www.unwatch.com), the ‘Heritage Forest Campaign’ is one small component of the much larger ‘Agenda 21,’ the operating manual of the United Nations’ campaign to achieve a ‘New World Order.’  This just might explain why the National Audubon Society … and their enablers at the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources are prominent players in this debacle.   

“Suffice to say, the deer management program was not created in a vacuum.  And it most certainly was not created to nurture the economic force that spends $1.7 billion dollars every year, sustains 28,000 jobs and contributes $214 million in state taxes.”

If this repetition still doesn’t make the situation clear for you, permit me to be very blunt.  Pennsylvania’s deer management program has never been about applying sound management to our whitetail deer herd; it has always been about the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources quest to have Pennsylvania’s public forests meet the “sustainable” criteria required for inclusion in the “Heritage Forest” program!

And if that hasn’t raised the hackle on the back of your neck, you should also know that the “Heritage Forest” program, along with the “Wild and Scenic River” program and the “Greenway Plan” (that you’ve been reading so much about in this newspaper recently), are all parts of a much bigger United Nations Plan called Agenda 21.  And the ultimate goal of Agenda 21 is to replace our representative form of government with a “New World Order” controlled by the intelligentsia of the worldwide progressive movement (Please see www.takingliberty.us. for details).    

For over ten years, Pennsylvania’s deer hunters have been jousting with the “deer wars” windmill while a far more insidious threat hums along under the public’s radar screen. While we’ve self-righteously focused on the perennial question, “didjagitcherdeer,” a disciplined cabal of state and federal agency employees and sportsmen organization leaders (financed by several of the largest foundations in the United States) have been covertly implementing - step by inexorable step - the schematic of the “New World Order” prescribed in detail in Agenda 21 (To understand how this is being done and how far along it is, please see http://sovereignty.net/)

The “deer wars” are nothing more than subterfuge, an effort to divert our attention from the ideological war that is taking place right under our noses.  And if we lose that war, “you ain’t never gonna’ gitcherdeer.”

And that will be the least – the very least – of our problems.