Thread: Warning Distressing and Disturbing Photographs- 1080 Poison

Originally Posted by Tahr

You are attempting to create a link between your anti 1080 cause and unrelated issues, and gain leverage from them. That is mischievous. There is no link between the Tahr cull, whitebait and for that matter the trout and salmon issues with 1080.

Also, the Tahr Foundation have since 20 Sept raised $135,000 - that is what can be achieved when a reasonably minded Foundation and hunter support pull together.

Why this has never occurred for your cause is a critical question that you should ask yourself.

The link is easy to find 'Tahr'. 'EUGENIC RAGE' The unelected Green Party member who is the Minister Of Conservation. She has found 80 million dollars more for her budget. What she aims to do with this money does not have to be spelled out. It will be poured into extermination campaigns Reduction of Tahr numbers by 27500 from a herd which may be less than 35000. Does she intend to listen to the hunters, no, she will continue to take her advise from City bred organizations until she is made to listen to the hunters.

More mischief from the Minister is the desire to curtail the sale of whitebait and the numbers caught. There is no science that backs her claims of diminishing numbers of bait. When I talk to white baiters which I am one, they mostly have catch records, 'the best science of the lot' that show the fishery is alive and well. The white baiters are so suspicious of the 'unholy alliance' that they will not show their records to anyone If the councils would stop spraying the river banks and letting farmers cows trample the salt grass where the fish lay their eggs it would be of more use.

More from our Minister, Trout, I have heard them described by DoC and their partners in crime the Green Party and Forest and Bird as the possums of the waterways. I and all I speak to, don't believe that the mandate to poison trout even in our most Iconic waterways is a good policy. But 'Poisoners' think differently to the rest of the country we realise.

So this is why I think all these silken threads from the Hand of the Minister are what will be used to slowly strangle the fisherman and the Hunter/Gatherer. It will be done slowly and with such stealth that most will not even be aware that the cord is already around their neck. The raising of the $135,000 for the Tahr Foundation is admirable. But we count our numbers in troops and have much higher numbers than that of troops on the ground signed up. We count our successes in the cases we have brought before the courts. The Brook Valley Case, The Poisoning of the Auckland water supplies, The case very soon before the Maori courts to stop the North Auckland, Russell 1080 drop. These have cost a lot of money.