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11/14/2002 "On Dec 1 2001, a woman was killed because there is never anytime in Wisconsin when the DNR forbids killing in natural settings"

HUNTER PLEADS INNOCENT IN SHOOTING DEATH
This paragraph was in the Janesville Gazette Sept 27, 2002, page 3B

Chippewa Falls - (Chippewa County Circuit Court)A man charged with shooting a woman last year pleaded innocent.

Michael E. Berseth, 44, is charged with felony second degree reckless homicide in the death of Deborah A Prasnicki. Prasnicki was walking her dogs near the woods where Berseth was hunting.

A criminal complaint said Berseth of Chippewa Falls was hunting with two other men during a special muzzle loader season Dec 1.
Berseth shot a white object, which turned out to be a white scarf that Prasnicki was wearing.

Berseth told investigators he thought the white object was moving faster than a person could walk.
He is free on $25,000.00 signature bond. A trial date has not been set. The charge carries a maximum of 15 years prison.
Now here is a case where the defense will be: she should have known better than to wear a white scarf and she should not have been jogging. As always animal abusers will attack the victim whether it is a cat or a human being and seek to equate the animal's behavior or the animal owner's behavior with their own. These are their common blame the victim excuses.
ABUSE TOLERANCE
She should have known better than to wear those items.
She should not have been THERE. (The animal had no right to be there).
Her behavior was not appropriate so we had a right to abuse her (it).
It doesn't belong to anyone.

You add justifications you find in the newspapers. I am particularly interested in our Abuse Tolerant Culture and how people want to believe it was the victim's fault so that they can also believe it will not happen to them. They are smarter and more appropriate than that victim. Their status in society will protect them. The interesting thing is that this blame the victim mentality, condones abuse and creates a culture where more of us are victimized because complaints are silenced and abusers go unpunished. What you support, will become your way of life.

Excellent analogy of how victims of malicious hunting "accidents" are still being denied their Rights of even the minimal amount of justice! We as Non-hunters' have to speak for the past, present, and future victims of hunters gun violence, wherever hunters gun violence may occur!

If hunters' cannot distinguish the elementary difference between a Deer and a Human Being, then the act of hunting needs to be BANNED EVERYWHERE! When peoples' lives and domestic animals' lives are threatened with gun violence and unfortunately, death, there is a very dangerous and serious onging problem in the United States regarding hunting of any animals! Furthermore, to hear hunters tell their "story" of how they "promote hunters ethics"; "respect the landowner"; and "respect the non-hunters"?

Hunters want non-hunters to fall for their cliches',yet, even after all of the evidence documented of people being shot, shot at, and/or killed by hunters in the United States, hunters still attempt to underhandedly persuade the non-hunting community, that they just want to "take" a Deer?

Is anyone safe from hunters destructive and dangerous tactics? The answer if NO! No one will ever be safe while the act of hunting is promoted and/or allowed!

"(Hunting is) no longer necessary in this day in time", said Priscilla Feral of The Friends of Animals, an Animal Rights Organization based in Connecticut. That's why in the past five years, an encouraging 941,000 persons have given up hunting."

Pythagoras: "As long as humanity continues to be the ruthless destroyer of other beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as people massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed those who sow the seed of murder and pain will never reap joy and love."

Exposing Hunters Myths & Malevolence Everyday,
Rex Stuart
President/The Non-hunters' Rights Coalition

Posted by Rex Stuart @ 11/23/2002 03:27 AM CST

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