From: jjohnson@convex.com (Jenifer L. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Hunters Needed
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:34:31 GMT
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Jeff Achenbach writes:

> 
>              HUNTERS and ANTI-ANIMAL RIGHTISTS
>      The Fund For Animals invites YOU to the third Bi-Annual
>              TEXAS CONFERENCE FOR THE ANIMALS
> 
>Perhaps your fondest dream:  Get Ingrid Newkirk and Wayne Pacelle in the
>crosshairs for a debate!
> 
>               SUBJECT:  Sport Hunting
> 
>When:   Friday evening, October 2 at 8:00 P.M.  (Kicking off the
>                                                    Conference)
> Where:  Austin, Texas at Red Lion Hotel
> 
>The public is invited to this event.  However, as of this posting, no one has
>stepped forward to take them on in public - _even_ after a comprehensive
>search.  Furthermore, several hunting advocates have backed out of the debate
>after first accepting the invitation.
> 

>>Don't they know Oct. 1 is opening day of bow season? Also small game? You
>>really think hunters are going to go see these folks instead of going out
>>in the woods?

This event was scheduled to coincide with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept.'s
Hunting Expo, also in Austin next weekend.  According to an article in
yesterday's Dallas Morning News, ~700 hunters were registered for the TP&W
awards banquet.  That means that at least 700 hunters have chosen to be at the
Expo rather than in the woods on the opening day of bow season.

Included in those 700 are Ted Nugent, self-proclaimed hunting advocate, George
W. Bush, and Nolan Ryan.  The Morning News article said that Nugent will be
performing a 30-minute mini-concert to attract attention to his anti-drug,
pro-hunting message directed at kids, and quoted Nugent as saying, "The kids
listen to me because I play rock n' roll, and I speak the truth with great
passion.  It works like magic."

If Nugent believes his message "works like magic," then why does he refuse to
participate in the FoA debate?  It's certainly not because he's going to be
busy bowhunting that day.

So what`s the real reason we can't find even two hunters out of the bunch who
are willing to test their views against two members of the opposition?  If the
leaders of the AR movement are simply disseminators of misinformation,
wouldn't this be a wonderful opportunity for those level-headed hunters to
give us the facts?  Or are hunters afraid to test beliefs based largely on
tradition and myth against the well-founded arguments of Ingrid and Wayne?

I'll be in Austin for the Conference and for the debate, so I can post a
followup as to whether any of those ~700 noble, level-headed hunters could
muster the conviction and the courage to stand up to a bunch of gullible,
Bambi-worshipping vegetarians.  My guess is that the hunters will prove
themselves to be the cowards we AR folks suspect they are.

-- 
 Jennifer L. Johnson | "Those who kill animals for food will be more prone 
 jjohnson@convex.com |  than vegetarians to torture and kill their fellow
	IWTFM	     |  men."  		--Pythagoras