Letters to the editor Feb. 7
War against wild animals
Your article, “Wolf hunting and trapping down despite added opportunities,” (Jan 30) presents the activity of killing wolves as something that is valuable, when an opposing view would call it an activity of very sick individuals.
Stating that hunters and trappers have “achieved” killing a mere third of the allowable number of 450 wolves to be killed in Montana is supporting the status quo of this ecologically and ethically indefensible madness brought on by legislators, and a governor and his choice of FWP commissioners, who have no respect for wild animals.
Emphasizing the “harsh weather conditions” and increased gas prices that make wolf killing so hard for the poor sportsmen, omits the animal side completely. It really does not get more anthropocentric and biased.
What about the hundreds of wolves getting killed just for fun, recreation and private profit?
How many wolf pups are going to die in their den, now that their mother won’t come home to nurse them?
Just like sometime ago in the Bitterroot, when a mountain lion mother who was found, strangled to death by a snare with her two little cubs also dead next to her body.
Do you really not care about this?
At a time of global plant and animal species extinctions, destruction of nature and exploding human population growth, and let’s not forget climate change, we do not need the media glorifying Montana’s war against wild animals. What we need is inspiration for how we can change our false, yet culturally entrenched belief that humans are separate from, and superior to, other animals.
It is one thing if your reporters personally support the killing of wolves, but please do not put your opinions in a public article that presents us with a biased information. As you certainly know, words matter.
— Anja Heister, Missoula
Book banning
I have been following the recent controversy surrounding Kalispell’s library. Apparently, several self-appointed moral jurors, both locally and around the nation, have been perusing libraries to find offensive books so they can be banned or burned. This movement tends to be focused more south of the Mason Dixon line, but Montana seems to have joined the fray as well. We certainly don’t want to be outdone by Mississippi and Alabama.
If we are going down this road as a community, let’s at least be consistent. We wouldn’t want anyone to be able to claim that we’re being politically arbitrary in our methods for rooting out some of the most obscene material found in our library.
For instance, there is one book that tells a story about two daughters that got their father drunk and had incestual sex with him. How disgusting! I think we can all agree that we don’t want our children or our adults exposed to that type of filth! That book must be banned. I’m glad we’re all in agreement.
And that’s how fanaticism got the Bible banned from the Kalispell library. (Genesis: 19 (30-35))
— Steve Nardi, Lakeside
Faith in Fauci is not science
The letter by John Santa in the Jan. 13 Daily Inter Lake, Stunning indeed, is truly stunning. We still have those who seem to believe that some continual claims of science by Dr. Anthony Fauci actually represent science.
Incredibly, the letter writer demonstrates blatant hypocrisy in attacking two people, one a local and the other RFK Jr. He provides nothing in the way of science. Blind faith in Anthony Fauci is not science.
Anthony Fauci’s NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. And when confronted by Sen. Rand Paul with the emails that prove it, he lied. Anthony Fauci said, in a keynote address at Georgetown University, on Jan 10, 2017, on the topic of pandemic preparedness, that the Trump administration would face a “surprise outbreak.” I have the video. He knew it was coming, so if anyone stills buys the claim that it sprung naturally from bats, I guess the bats must have told Fauci it was coming. There are emails to him early on that suggest it was lab leaked, and he immediately covered them up. How is that called science?
It seems we have people who still subscribe to CBS or NBC or CNN, media outlets who are aligned with the deep state, and who will never ever ever report the truth about this "plandemic."
As for me, I’ve learned how deadly these “vaccines” are in some cases, and also how non-threatening covid really is. I’ll risk covid before ever taking some jab. I have a supply of Ivermectin. The fact that the deep state is out to mandate these “vaccines” for something that amounts to not much more than the flu tells me all I need to know.
And by the way, the so-called Covid numbers quite often include those who are hospitalized for something else, but since testing is required, if they’ve acquired Covid in the past and recovered, it counts as a Covid case. The CDC made it pain in a directive on March 24, 2020 that this would be how the Covid numbers are counted. That’s pure politics, and it’s not science. When they tell us about hospital “overcrowding”, they never mention the staff shortages.
Anthony Fauci needs to be tried for crimes against humanity, and for crimes against puppies too.
— Eric Knutson, Dayton