If true, this is very disturbing.
From Fox News: The president of a Wisconsin animal shelter is furious after the state Department of Natural Resources raided the facility with armed agents, detained volunteer workers and killed a baby deer named “Giggles.”
“I’m furious,” said Cindy Schultz, president of the Society of St. Francis in Kenosha, Wis. “We are a no-kill shelter. And they killed her. They killed Giggles. I’m furious – furious.”
Schultz told Fox News an Illinois family found a baby fawn that had been abandoned by her mother. The family brought the deer to the Wisconsin shelter.
Staff members nicknamed the deer “Giggles.”
Wisconsin law bans residents or shelters from possessing any live wild animals without a license. Wisconsin does not rehabilitate deer so if they find an abandoned fawn, the creature is left to die, Schultz said.
“We took it of course and we made arrangements to transfer the deer to an animal reserve in Illinois,” she said. “The day before she was supposed to leave, we had the raid.”
On July 15 DNR agents and four deputy sheriff’s staged the surprise raid in what staff workers called a massive and “intimidating” show of force.
According to a state affidavit, the DNR had been conducting aerial and ground surveillance in advance of the raid searching for an “illegally-held live captive Whitetail deer.”
“We didn’t know they were doing surveillance,” she said. “Five days before the raid, a DNR agent was hiding in the woods by our shelter watching the deer walk in and out of the barn.”
Schultz said agents rounded up the shelter’s nine staff members and detained them for nearly three hours as they searched for Giggles.
“They shut down our shelter and wouldn’t let anyone leave,” she said. “Nobody was allowed to use their phones. They were under armed guard.”
A 19-year-old staff member took photographs of the raid, but Schultz said a deputy sheriff confiscated his cell phone and deleted all the pictures.
Agents eventually found Giggles in the barn.
“She was a very scared little deer,” Schultz said. “The poor little thing must have been absolutely petrified.”
According to her version of events, two agents killed the deer in the barn and stuffed her in a body bag. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/agents-raid-animal-shelter-kill-deer-named-giggles.html
If true, this would be horrible, however, there is a animal nut case named Cindy Schultz in Southern Wisconsin is just a little bit off her rocker. In 2001, she lost a defamation of character lawsuit against a conservative talk radio show host, Charlie Sykes and she was the plaintiff. The case was so bad that as a plaintiff, she was ordered to pay Sykes legal bills because of misconduct. So, if this is the same Cindy Schultz, then I would have trouble believing her story.
But, the DNR does collaborate some of what she said:
But DNR Supervisor Jennifer Niemeyer denies that Giggles was killed at the animal shelter.
She told television station WISN the deer was tranquilized and killed at another location.
“These are always very difficult situations for both parties involved and we are empathetic to the fact of what happened because we know in our heart of hearts they tried to do the right thing” she told the television station. “ http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/agents-raid-animal-shelter-kill-deer-named-giggles.html
Many years ago, the Wisconsin DNR was basically run as the NAZI gestapo- they didn't care people's rights and tried to many industries out of business.
When Scott Walker was elected governor a few years ago, he replaced the DNR with a new leader who was supposed to get clean it up.
Obviously, if this scenario is true, they need to do some more cleaning up of the gestapo.
We MUST Have an Enemy!
5 hours ago
The entire dnr.wi.gov site is down. The error message I'm getting is that the site may be busy. People need to wake up and see where our government is headed. We should dictate how the country is run, not the government. When they act like this, it's time.
ReplyDeleteWisconsin has a death panel run by Supervisor Jennifer Niemeyer who ordered the killing of giggles and armed harassment of the staff of St Francis shelter. PETA must support thuggery by public servants in this case. Is there any proof this fawn was infected as the head of the DNR death squad alleges? Were the acting under a law or an arbitrary regulation? The dnr.wi.gov shut down it site and goes into hiding like they do in DC.
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