Stop the Wisconsin Wolf Slaughter with a lawsuit .

There are two ancient legal tenets that must be addressed in modern Courts. There are a wide variety of actual laws but they boil down to "Law of the Gun" and "Right of the Kill." The first concept means that if you have the means to kill, you have the right to kill. It used to apply to slave humans. It still applies to women in some parts of the world. It always applies to non-human sentients. The second tenet, and the one that need to be addressed the most, means that if you take the life of something, you get full economic use of it. It becomes yours. It belonged to everyone or no one before the kill, but after the kill, it belongs to you. The problem with that idea is that I should have just as much right to have that animal alive as someone else has to have it dead. Giving them ownership by right of the kill takes away my ownership - the ownership of every other living thing on earth - since the environment is fully connected in every way. IF we give someone the right to kill an animal, they should still have no economic rights to it. Any meat or fur should be confiscated and sold to buy safer habitat so not so much killing would be required. I'm not an attorney but these are old laws that came into existence simply because they always were - and perhaps when humans were few and wildlife plentiful, it worked. Humans were just another predator, killing to eat to live. That's not what we have today when the 4% of the population that is psychopathic, sociopathic, or sadomasochistic, hides under the guise of "hunter." Killing of animals for fun, sport, entertainment, or profit, is not nature's way, and it should not be man's way either. I want rhino, elephant, tigers, and lions on the plains of Africa. I want wolves in the north woods. I want bison on the Western ranges. I want dolphin, whales, sharks, tuna, and cod in the oceans. I want snakes and gators in the swamps. That is my desire and my right - a right "sports" hunters take from me. Perhaps instead of leaving it to the Native Americans to fight, the rest of us should start class action lawsuits against states for taking away our rights.

this petition is asking the tribes to act on a law suit. I am wondering if you all have made phone calls (those of you wrote this petition) to the tribes in those areas to find out if that's even a possibility? I know that in MN several Reserves have closed their land to these wolf hunts. So what I would do is make a few phone calls and see what they are doing about the hunts on their tribal lands and ask them if it's even a possibility for them to do anything legal about this off the reserve. Just a thought. Also, knowing more about what the tribes in that area are able to do and not able to do without yelling or getting upset it always helpful. Thanks