Greg Gutfeld remarked recently that he wondered how many homeless people were grad students studying the phenomenon. I have often wondered how many drug dealers were sting officers. Today, we question how many poachers are government agents.
The Southeastern Hunters Sportsmen Alliance and the Swain County Center of the Arts hosted a gripe session (1, 2) to collect complaints against Operation Something Bruin; a four-year joint sting perpetrated by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Forest Service, and the National Park Service. Now that your long names are aside, the story is the state and federal agents pestered hunters to entrap them. Allegations include charging a one-armed hunter with killing four deer while shining a spotlight on them. Others said the agents nagged and nagged them to do illegal things, which some never did. Some got charged for transporting the animals the officers killed illegally, and a girl got in trouble for sitting in a vehicle.
