The stupidity of our "deer emergency"

I am very concerned about City Council members Andy Ruff and Dave Rollos’ crazy project to introduce night snipers to control invasive species.

What is wrong with these guys? They likely believe they have incontrovertible scientific evidence that some deep Illuminati plot brought down the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon with pre-planted high explosives.

They also likely think treason is at work at the highest levels of government and beyond and for no apparent reason.

Now, they have even more certain, genuine, legitimate and accurate data to show why the deer at Griffy Lake need to be shot by DNR-hired “professional” night snipers in this “deer emergency” that so immediately threatens the fragile ecology and way of life of our finest IU gentry.

Any normal person who visits Griffy cannot sense the looming doom in the forest there, but Ruff and Rollo have evidence only they and their highly trained experts are able to see.

Only they can avert this catastrophe by making sure they can hog their bully pulpit until common working citizens leave public meetings out of disgust, boredom and frustration. Their project, in which they hand picked the “Deer Task Force” members and excluded opponents, has been undemocratic from the very
beginning.

Now they use the power of the government, IU and their elected office to rush this ugly legislation through a City Council dominated by IU employees. The current debate about gun control makes this whole idea seem preposterous to those of us attempting to bring our local and national human slaughter to rational curtailment.

What could set a worse example than shooting pregnant deer at night in our city limits?

Perhaps only using predator drones could upstage this stupidity. Someone today suggested a petition for a recall election. It won’t be hard to find signatures.

Marc Haggerty