COEUR d'ALENE - A man charged with unlawfully shooting and killing a grizzly bear had so many supporters at his arraignment Tuesday in federal court that the judge had to move the hearing to a larger courtroom.
Even there, every seat was taken as his family, friends and neighbors, young and old, squeezed in.
Jeremy M. Hill, 33, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to killing the animal with a rifle on his 20-acre property near Porthill, Idaho, at the Canadian border. He lives five miles from the closest grizzly bear recovery zone.
The grizzly bear is classified as a threatened species in the lower 48 states, according to the Endangered Species Act, and protected by federal law. Hill's charge is a misdemeanor.
Magistrate Judge Candy Dale set trial, at least for now, for Oct. 4.
Hill has declined comment. His lawyer, Marc Lyons of Coeur d'Alene, said he plans to defend Hill on the basis of self-defense and protection of family.
Following the hearing, his father, Mike Hill, of Athol, said, "This whole thing is a waste of taxpayer money."
He said his son was concerned for the safety of his children playing outside when a mother grizzly and two cubs wandered onto his property on May 8.
Jeremy Hill has six kids, ranging in age from 14 years old to 10 months old. At least five were home when the grizzly was killed, Mike Hill said.
The bears had gone after some pigs in a pen that the kids had been raising, Mike Hill said.
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Here's the message. If you shoot a grizzly or some other endangered species, bury the damned thing and keep your mouth shut. That, or throw a big BBQ, invite the Sheriff and eat the victim.
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Schteveo
6 comments:
What I shoot on my property is no business of the Government. This guy should have followed that.
If it's listed as endangered, it is the governments business. It's a crime. Of course, if this were not a socialist/Marxist country, the guy would get a medal for protecting his family. I'm an animal lover, but my family comes first.
I'd a shot the bear, the cub and had bear meat in the freezer!
That, or a BBQ!
This nanny state needs to be brought down before it destroys us all! Guns are not just for bears.
I feel I will be arrested and jaile soon. Things like this to the police taking cameras at a public event in a public building leads me to the realization that we are no longer living in a free society. If I ever hear from a POlice officer, "Do we dothis the easy way or the hard way?" I am choosing the hard way. I am done being the copitulat citizen and peaceablydoimg what a person of so called authority says it is so, when they daamn well know it isn't. I could give a Rat's behind if it is an endangered species or not, if it is a threat to me or my family and I have the ability, that critter is getting lead poisoning.....plain and simple. If I want to film a public event, I WILL, and if Mr. Johnnny Law wants to give me the choice, I am taking the hard way. PERIOD. I am done with our non representing government, I am done with batack huessain obama, and the whole communist clan that now infests what was once a respectable nation that could pay its bill and live withing it's means plus defend itself. I am done with regulations, presidential directives and "I think that is the law" bullshit ideals. Hey Big sis, SCREW YOU AND YOU PATDOWN, IRRADIATING LISTEN TO MY PHONE CALLS CRAP. Eric Holder, you and "Your People" can lick my dirty bunghole. Joe Biden, You are a Moron! And to the two communist on the Supreme Court Eat S**t and live. COME AND GET ME!
First, let me say that i wouldn't stick-up for any cop who does wrong. But, don't always blame the police. Blame the politicians who make the laws those cops "must" enforce. And above all, blame the weak, mindless voters who put those elected lying crooks in office. Remember, unlike the politicians, those cops have to live under the same bullshit laws and rules as everyone else.
If it turns out that by the middle of 2012 Obummer seems to be losing, trust me, we will very likely need those cops, and probably, the National Guard as well. Blacks, communist unions, and illegals who are controlled by radical South American Marxists like LaRaza, will not take his loss lying down. They will do everything they can to intimidate the voters into re-electing the Marxist-in-Chief. If that happens, we'll all get a chance to use all that ammo we've been buying.
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