I decided to create this blogspot to give people a place to post their viewpoints on the recent pending legislation introduced by Senator Richard Stuart regarding Conservation Police. I have never been much of an activist but this situation has outraged me to the point of standing up and saying, "enough is enough". Most of us sit back and shake our heads when we hear news stories about politicians that have done something dishonest, unethical or self-serving. We almost expect it. A little bit of deal making and compromise has to go on to get the job done; however, this situation has gone way beyond the typical political wheeling and dealing.
As I have said from the time I decided to create the petition against this legislation...this is something that ALL citizens should be outraged about. This time it is about hunting and fishing. Next time it may be about something that affects YOU. The point is, we have not been paying attention people! We cannot allow this type of behavior by our elected representatives to go unchecked. They are not royalty and we have got to stop treating them as such. The people that fought and died to get away from this type of government are probably rolling over in their graves! The citizenry elect senators and delegates to represent their concerns and interests, not to introduce legislation as retaliation for a personal matter.
Please take a few minutes to learn the back story and you will understand that this is not just another tale of an unethical politician. The following story gives the basic details of how this legislation got introduced. http://hamptonroads.com/2012/02/some-senate-bills-would-greatly-hinder-state-game-department
I hope this angers and outrages you. Ask yourself if you want a person of this caliber in the General Assembly or worse...holding a higher office someday. If we don't come together as citizens and hold our representatives accountable for their actions, then we will only have ourselves to blame when we wake up one day and find out that we have lost all of our liberties while we were busy posting Youtube videos, discussing who is the best on Dancing with the Stars or the latest drunken escapades on the jersey shore.
I am providing a link to sign the petition against SB26 also. I urge you to sign it and send out to your contacts to sign. If this bill passes it could be extremely detrimental to the Game Department as a whole. There will be less people buying licenses if they know that they cannot be checked, which in turn means less revenue to fund fish and wildlife management. Fish and wildlife populations will be negatively affected because officers will not be able to check creel and bag limits to ensure that laws are being followed. We will be effectively turning the clock back one hundred years on wildlife management. Think about it...
http://www.change.org/petitions/conservation-bills-attempt-to-weaken-law-enforcement-authority
