Don,

I have to agree with you here. It is like saying that because there are
laws against it, no one ever jaywalks, speeds, drives drunk, or
shop-lifts. Tom, if you think people in our society have that much
integrety, then why do we have police officers, people to enforce the
law?


Michael Dossett
Shoreline, Washington
mpdossett at Juno.com




On Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:42:53 -0800 Don Baccus <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
writes:
>At 09:03 PM 2/15/98 -0800, Tom Foote wrote:
>
>> re-read my statement..that's what I said. No falconer
>> would buy an illegal bird..(i.e., one without a band)
>
>Sorry, Tom, but this seems overly optimistic. It's like saying
>"no hunter would ever poach".
>
>OK, some take the point of view that a hunter who poaches can't be
>a hunter, so tautologically then "hunters don't poach" becomes a
>truism, but there is no dictionary support for the notion that a
>hunter
>is no longer a hunter if he fires 1 nanosecond before the season opens
>as opposed to firing 1 nanosecond afterwards.
>
>Of course most falconers are legit, just as most hunters are, but I
>have
>no reason to believe 100% of falconers are honest.
>
>After all, we can't claim 100% of birders are honest. The workload of
>
>records committees would drop if this were true...
>
>BTW, a peregrine was taken from the PAS mews a month ago, after the
>barred mews window was pried apart. It was due for release a couple
>of
>days later.
>
>Falconer? Or not-falconer presumably
>because illegally taking a bird makes them a "poacher", and therefore
>the
>person can't be a "falconer" even if he/she trains/maintains/hunts the
>bird in accordance with falconer lore? It was a first-year
>bird.
>
>
>
>
>- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
> Nature photos, on-line guides, and other goodies at
> http://donb.photo.net
>

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