Just to clarify, I was not in anyway suggesting that I believe the Stavrianoudakis' to be "paranoid whack-job's" (your words) but the PLF link that you supplied does a pretty good job of painting them that way in an effort to get blood boiling in the camp of the ultra-libertarian crowd. Most middle of the road folks reading that would get that impression. When was it that someone married to a falconer was pinned to the ground and handcuffed again? I seem to have missed that part. When you are painted in the media by someone allegedly trying to "help" as worrying about hypothetical situations which have not occurred then you appear to be paranoid. And if that situation HAS occurred then the person who was handcuffed should have been the plaintiff. I would even go for the woman who reportedly had to urinate in her pants (presumably because they were worried about her flushing birds or 3-186 forms I guess) since that is a reasonable assertion that officers overstepped reasonable bounds.Originally Posted by Peregrinus
I would also like to point out that in most states game wardens, CO's or whatever they are called are armed all the time. In my state they also respond to incidents when the state police are busy. They
are law enforcement officers and for a good portion of the year the people they are checking up on (let's call them hunters) are ARMED themselves so it is not unreasonable to assume that they be allowed to carry sidearms. Now if they busted down the door with a battering ram wearing helmets and carrying automatic weapons we can talk about a show of force.
PLF is doing a pretty good job of spinning this like we are living in a totalitarian prison state. I am guessing that even in California the situation is not quite that grim.
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