Michigan DNR staging armed raides to enforce feral swine ban.

[Skippy00004]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-mich-dnr-stages-armed-raids-to-enforce-feral-swine-ban/

Last week, according to Cheboygan News, the DNR filed a civil complaint against Ronald and Charlene McKendrick, owners of Renegade Ranch, after access to the property was denied without a search warrant. Shortly after the complaint was filed, the Renegade Ranch was visited by the DNR on Saturday with one of the representatives having filed a restraining order, which Natural News calls ?an attempt to bully their way onto the property.?

Fines for violations range from $1,000 to $20,000 per infraction according to the outlet. McKendrick will appear in court April 20 over the complaint filed against him.

McKendrick told Cheboygan News that most game ranches in Michigan depend on hog hunting to sustain business. He sees this order as a method of trying to get rid of game ranches in the state all together. For the Renegade Ranch specifically, McKendrick said hog hunting comprises 70 to 75 percent of his business.

The Farm to Consumer Defense Fund, a group supporting the cause of the swine ranchers and farmers, seconded this sentiment, stating the DNR has tried to push privatized game hunting out of the state before with little success:

For more than a decade, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has worked politically to drive private hunting preserves out of business.  However, the Michigan state legislature repeatedly rebuffed their attempts. Elected officials recognize how important private property rights are, and they were unwilling to prohibit landowners to raise and harvest animals in open areas. Now, backed by large Agribusiness interests in the state, DNR has done an end run around participatory democracy and declared swine with certain characteristics ?feral? which not only includes animals raised at hunting preserves but thousands of other small farms across the state.
Natural News goes on to report Dave Tuxberry shot all of his livestock in anticipation of a DNR inspection. Bakers Green Acres, a farm covered in our original article about the feral swine ban, posted Tuxberry?s thoughts about the raid on its website:

I was served a search warrant yesterday at 7:45 a.m.
After 8 guys 3 four wheelers, and 4 hours, DNR decided I was correct. I have killed all my hogs. They gave me papers that say I do not have any hogs on my property. All they saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering.  It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks.
Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute.
They commented to everyone that they never saw a fence built so tough and no way would a hog get out of this area. I trenched  2′ then installed chain link fencing, then a 10′ high tightlock fence on top of that. ( 200 acre area ) They never saw a fence like that.

According to a release earlier in the month, the DNR had conducted six voluntary inspections where the owners were found not to be in possession of the swine. The department emphasized that those still owning the banned pigs are in violation of the law and subject to civil and criminal penalties.

?Our intent from the beginning of this Invasive Species Order has been to enforce the law while minimizing the impact on individuals and livelihoods,? said Department of Natural Resources Director Rodney Stokes in a statement. ?For that reason, we provided additional time and assistance for ranch owners, breeders and others to remove prohibited animals from their properties prior to the April 1 enforcement deadline. The additional time allowed property owners to adjust their business plans to minimize economic hardship. We will continue to work cooperatively with property owners where we can.?

*While Natural News does use the term ?armed raids,? it should be noted that game wardens naturally carry weapons.

This is getting a bit ridiculous.

[JohnyMac]

Cass Sunstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein

Mr. Sunstein is Barry's Regulatory Czar. Laws that Barry would like passed that can't be passed do to the split in the US Congress are being written as regulatory restrictions. This is how Barry is getting around Congress.

I suspect that this man will some how write regulatory restrictions on firearms in Barry's second term if he can not get new firearm laws passed.

A great and very public example is when Gibson Guitar was shut down earlier this year: http://theamericansurvivalguide.com/showthread.php?4752-Obama-Justice-Department-Shuts-Down-Gibson-Guitars-For-Breaking-Indian-Law

They were shut down due to a regulation that Mr. Sunstein wrote.

Stay tuned.

[sledge]

Cass Sunstein is not one of my favorite people.  But then, I can't think of any of the host of Czars that I'm fond of.

[EJR914]

Good thread.  This is getting out of control, this is not going to end well.

[EJR914]

I'm not sure Cass Sustein, as much as I would like to blame this on him, had anything to do with this.  Cass is Federal and this was a local State DNR doing the raid, right?

Were the local state guys trying to enforce Federal regulation here?

[JohnyMac]

I just heard that Ted Nugent was forced to put all of his wild pigs under the knife on his ranch in Michigan. This is the same farm that he allows military veterans to hunt on his porperty free of charge.

[CrookedSights]

Johny, I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with his little date with the secret service. 

EJR, if the Feds have anything to do with this, it wouldn't be the first time state and local guys did their dirty work for them.

Cass Sunstein is gonna regulate us to death. Without a doubt they're trying to kill off the family farm. They've all but said it. The Amish raw milk raids, this, all the new regulations about kids working on their families farms. Anyone remember what happened to the farmers when the commies took over in Russia? 

[EJR914]

Johny, I'm sure it had absolutely nothing to do with his little date with the secret service. 

EJR, if the Feds have anything to do with this, it wouldn't be the first time state and local guys did their dirty work for them.

Cass Sunstein is gonna regulate us to death. Without a doubt they're trying to kill off the family farm. They've all but said it. The Amish raw milk raids, this, all the new regulations about kids working on their families farms. Anyone remember what happened to the farmers when the commies took over in Russia? 

I don't doubt it one bit CS.  Yep, I do, Stalin killed more people in one winter than Hitler did in all of his rein. 

[EJR914]

The War on Food, the War on Self-Reliance.  How many more wars can we take against the citizens?

They are going to regulate us into government dependency induced starvation.

See my post here on the subject:  http://straightprep.com/forum/index.php?topic=2374.msg26184#new

Become self-reliant, locally.

[EJR914]

[JohnyMac]

What blows my mind is that the country is 50/50 on the direction we are going: Socialism more government Vs. Constitutionalists less government.

This coming Presidential election is very important, maybe as important as the 1860 election. Remember a civil war followed that election.