[Vision2020] North Idaho Poachers Taking Heavy Toll On Game

[Kai Eiselein]

There is a clear difference between the two. It's called "wanton waste".

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> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] North Idaho Poachers Taking Heavy Toll On Game 
> From: thansen at moscow.com 
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:19:49 -0700 
> CC: v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm; vision2020 at moscow.com 
> To: fotopro63 at hotmail.com 
>  
> Kai Eiselein suggests: 
>  
> "Let's say a person is unemployed and needs to feed his/family poaches  
> a deer or an elk for food, should that person be treated the same as a  
> trophy or money poacher who only takes the rack, hide or parts that  
> have cash value?" 
>  
> As much as I hate to say this, Mr. Eiselein . . . 
>  
> Yes.  A law is only as strong as the people who enforce it. 
>  
> In both cases, "trophy poachers" (who take the elk/deer racks for their  
> cash value) and indigent people (who are striving to put food on the  
> dinner table), are guilty of the crime of poaching. 
>  
> The individual reason for poaching may be presented during the judicial  
> process.  At which time the judge or jury may impose punishment  
> commensurate with the motivation behind committing the crime.  In  
> military courts-martial, that portion of the judicial pricess is  
> referred to as "presentation of matters in extenuation and mitigation".  
>   Where the "trophy poacher" may be sentenced to some jail time and a  
> heavy fine, the indigent person may be sentenced to a short term of  
> probation. 
>  
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . . 
>  
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on) 
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>  
> Tom Hansen 
> Moscow, Idaho 
>  
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still. 
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill, 
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill." 
>  
> - John Lennon 
>  
>  
> On Apr 19, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Kai Eiselein  
> <fotopro63 at hotmail.com<mailto:fotopro63 at hotmail.com>> wrote: 
>  
> Let's say a person is unemployed and needs to feed his/family poaches a  
> deer or an elk for food, should that person be treated the same as a  
> trophy or money poacher who only takes the rack, hide or parts that  
> have cash value?