Lynx deserve protection

One county is not alone in its opposition to the preservation of the Lynx. Lake County and St louis county also oppose the lynx habitat improvement. Secondly, what the other 49 states do or think about the Canadian lynx is certainly up to them but not at all relevant to what we in Minnesota think about wanting the Lynx here in our midst. For instance Flordia or Arizona probably don't care for hunting snowshoe rabbit or partridge either, but we here in Northern Minnesota do. Actually we here in Northeren Minnesota are active in preserving the partridge and snowshoe rabbit habitat and thus preserving your Canadian Lynx is not at all conducive to our own plans. In fact, although we here in the United States respect your right to believe in any policy you or the Queen might desire to believe in, those beliefs are not in any way reflective of what we may believe in and most of us do not believe in or care the least about your Canadian Lynx habitat improvementy in our state particularily when it is at odds with the preservation of our own desired game preservation plans. On the other hand, if I can get a good fair price for the trapping of the Canadian Lynx then I will feel more inclined to place it on the list of my other sought after "fur bearers", along with the trapping of the fisher, martin, mink, otter, beaver and of course the timber wolf. The addition of the Lynx to my list of furbearers, providing me with a reasonable return on my investment, might allow me and most others in this area, a reason to further examine your unreasonable request to damage our rabbit and partridge populations in lieu of your lynx population, which we don't want or desire. No, the Canadian lynx deserve nothing, have no rights of any kind over the desires of our local population and certainly do not "deserve" any esoteric concept called a "protection" from anything. Humans, particularily the kind of human called a "fetus" deserve a thing called protection but the Canadian lynx, I don't hardly think so!!! The concept of "preserving" I don't hold for any plant or animal other then man. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion even in our country. But I'll tell you what I'll do just to show you I am not an unreasonable fella. You folks pass a law banning abortions of the human fetus in your country (I call it the human habitat preservation plan) and we will examine your concept of preserving the habitat of the Canadian lynx plan, in our country.

While you are pondering my offer of my "human habitat preservation plan", you might also ponder one little additional idea I have. That is, undertake the effort of finding 100% of those decendants of the "Riel Uprising" and return 100% of their monies and property, with interest, and in addittion pay an additional amount for punitive damages inflicted upon those people of French/First Nations blood because of the horrendous harm inflicted on these people in the past. Its just a little thing for you to consider. I am sure anyone desiring to protect the Canadian lynx would certainly care about protecting the rights of the mixed blood French/First Nations people before undertaking any further plans in protecting a "cat with a bad hair day"!!

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