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Listener: Allen
Category: General
Date: 28 Apr 2010
Time: 11:52:16 -0700
Remote Name: 64.216.33.206
Robert,
I was amused to hear about the Governor's quick and decisive action to protect his dog and person against a coyote.
I fully expected the mainstream media to try and come up with a story angle
that fits their template. Something to the tune of:
"Obviously Governor Perry has it in for coyotes otherwise he wouldn't be baiting
them by jogging on a path known to contain coyotes. He must only carry a gun for
the specific opportunity to kill one of mother nature's innocent creatures just
doing what it naturally does in its own habitat. He would never have needed a
gun if he simply stayed out of their territory and in particular hadn't brought
a canine interloper into their territory."
or
"Governor Perry must think he still lives in the wild west, packing a gun on
his belt in public and spoiling for an opportunity to use it. He got his
opportunity to use his military style hi-tech pistol, tricked out with an
advanced laser sight and cop-killer hollow point bullets to kill an innocent
coyote on one of the back-woods jogging trails near his $10,000 a month
temporary home in Austin . We have only his word that the coyote, normally a
peaceful creature, threatened his dog and not that he simply saw an irresistible
opportunity to draw down on an innocent animal."
or
"Taking the law into his own hands, the Governor decided to use his gun to
resolve the problem himself instead of calling the properly trained and
designated authorities to come to his assistance. Where was your cell phone
Governor? No room for it on your belt AND the gun?"
or
"Everybody knows "coyote" is a euphemism for someone who assists undocumented
workers into our country. Isn't this really just a symbolic gesture on the
Governor's part that reveals his racist nature and hatred of Hispanics and the
migration to the north? The next thing you know he will be supporting a Texas
law similar to the hateful, race profiling one in Arizona to detain innocent
Hispanics whether here with or without documentation."
or
"The Governor's use of deadly force to an imminent threat was a wild
overreaction. Perhaps reasoning with the coyote would have provided better
results and allowed the Governor and the coyote to co-exist in peaceful harmony.
The UN could have provided mediation assistance and if that did not work, a
sternly worded letter could have been drafted and submitted to the coyote."
or
"According to animal behavior experts from PETA the coyote was not menacing the
puppy, rather simply looking to scare the human master and free a fellow canine
from pet slavery"
I could go on, but it simply gets silly after that.
Dear Governor Perry, I have but two things to say
1. Well done!
2. Get a bigger gun!
Allen
Pratt responds:
The response from the media has been ridiculous, take this example from one of the state's senior political reporters: http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/texas_politics/2010/04/gov-perrys-coyote-hunt-may-hav.html
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