[Newsbot]

Title: Canada debates eagle hunting
Category: Videos
Posted By: Scape
Date: 2011-01-02 16:48:51
Canadian

[Guy_Fawkes]

Screw em! There is no valid reason to allow natives in BC to hunt bald eagles for trophies. Im sure they can me imitation feathers that look just as nice. It's also not a debate at all, natives are crying for more special rights, nothing new here.

[Gunnair]

Well as long as everyone gets to blaze away at 'em...

[andyt]

It's a good idea. They did the same with natives fishing illegally - called it a pilot project and now the natives are taking the same fish legally. Do the same for bald eagles, and you won't find 50 corpses of bald eagles stripped of claws, beaks and feathers left to rot on a North Vancouver reserve. Instead the eagle corpses will be disposed of properly. Might as well, since no law enforcement agency/government has the balls to go after native law breaking anyway. At least this way we save some money on useless investigations that don't result in any charges, or no significant penalties if charges are laid.

[Canuckism]

It's traditional.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Canuckism Canuckism:

It's traditional.

That's a heck of a shot using "traditional" hunting weapons.

[Scape]

andyt andyt:

It's a good idea. They did the same with natives fishing illegally - called it a pilot project and now the natives are taking the same fish legally. Do the same for bald eagles, and you won't find 50 corpses of bald eagles stripped of claws, beaks and feathers left to rot on a North Vancouver reserve. Instead the eagle corpses will be disposed of properly. Might as well, since no law enforcement agency/government has the balls to go after native law breaking anyway. At least this way we save some money on useless investigations that don't result in any charges, or no significant penalties if charges are laid.

Hear! Hear!

[Canadian_Mind]

andyt andyt:

It's a good idea. They did the same with natives fishing illegally - called it a pilot project and now the natives are taking the same fish legally. Do the same for bald eagles, and you won't find 50 corpses of bald eagles stripped of claws, beaks and feathers left to rot on a North Vancouver reserve. Instead the eagle corpses will be disposed of properly. Might as well, since no law enforcement agency/government has the balls to go after native law breaking anyway. At least this way we save some money on useless investigations that don't result in any charges, or no significant penalties if charges are laid.

Why should the natives be treated special?

[andyt]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

andyt andyt:

It's a good idea. They did the same with natives fishing illegally - called it a pilot project and now the natives are taking the same fish legally. Do the same for bald eagles, and you won't find 50 corpses of bald eagles stripped of claws, beaks and feathers left to rot on a North Vancouver reserve. Instead the eagle corpses will be disposed of properly. Might as well, since no law enforcement agency/government has the balls to go after native law breaking anyway. At least this way we save some money on useless investigations that don't result in any charges, or no significant penalties if charges are laid.

Why should the natives be treated special?

Because they are - our constitution says so. We should really be instituting a First Nations spatialness acknowledgement day, where we offer praise, apologies and tribute. Of course, really every day is FNSAD.

[Gunnair]

andyt andyt:

It's a good idea. They did the same with natives fishing illegally - called it a pilot project and now the natives are taking the same fish legally. Do the same for bald eagles, and you won't find 50 corpses of bald eagles stripped of claws, beaks and feathers left to rot on a North Vancouver reserve. Instead the eagle corpses will be disposed of properly. Might as well, since no law enforcement agency/government has the balls to go after native law breaking anyway. At least this way we save some money on useless investigations that don't result in any charges, or no significant penalties if charges are laid.

[Gunnair]

There was a move afoot earlier this year by some bands to kick start a sea otter hunt because they were suffering yet another tradition deficit.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Gunnair Gunnair:

There was a move afoot earlier this year by some bands to kick start a sea otter hunt because they were suffering yet another tradition deficit.

A deficit? Hell, they'll never have a tradition deficit as long as they keep whining to the Fed about this and that. Seems to be FN's longest standing tradition.

[PostFactum]

Eagles cause problems?

[BartSimpson]

I'm okay with allowing the FN to go back to their tradition of killing eagles so long as they don't mind my new tradition of shooting people who shoot at eagles.

[andyt]

Bald eagles are just vultures with better pr.

I wold have no problem letting any native who is living a traditional life style to hunt eagles, game out of season or fishing when and where they want. Traditional life style means no white man's technology what so ever. And since I don't believe in discrimination, if some white bread wants to give it a go, let him/her I say. In fact we have lots of wide open spaces in Canada. Let's pick one up north somewhere, and set it aside as traditional living land. You go in naked, but you can do what you want in there. You can come out any time you want, but then can't go back in. Heck, we could probably make some coin giving licenses to Americans to do it too.