WAR Defends Ted Nugent for Illegally Hunting Bear in Alaska
*sniff*
I’m sorry… I just get all choked up hearing Ted Nugent talk about the mystical circle of existence, and how nature is in balance, and how the Palins and all the good people of Alaska live off the land as God intended, and how when we kill stuff, we’re all joined together in this interconnected web of the miracle that is life, and…
Wait. What?
Activist and musician Ted Nugent has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors admitting he took an illegally shot black bear in Southeast Alaska two years ago, according to the agreement.
Ted Nugent? A lawbreaker? I’m shocked.
We can now add the Motor City Madman to the growing list of those who illegally hunt Alaska’s big game animals. And Ted Nugent, big bad hunter guy, not only had to use a bait station to get near the black bear in question, but shot it with an arrow that wounded, but didn’t kill it. Nice going.
I suppose we can’t expect much from the man who said, “I’m stymied to come up with anything funnier than people who think animals have rights. Just stick an arrow through their lungs.” Nope, nothing funnier. Haha. (The link for that quote is HERE, but I suggest you don’t click on it without some good prescription-level anti-nauseants at the ready)
He’ll pay a little fine, and do a public service announcement telling people not to do the very thing he was just busted for doing. Because when someone has to do a public service announcement as a punitive measure for doing the very thing they’re telling you not to do, it’s super persuasive and believable.
Perhaps he can also do an anti-pedophilia public service announcement about not having sexual relations with underage girls (even if you adopt them for that purpose while you’re still married).
And one about not threatening the President.
Or shooting an arrow at the likeness of a “scrotumless” sitting female Governor.
Or messing your drawers for a week to avoid military service.
It could be a whole series.
“When you are doing God’s work, the devils go berserk,” Nugent has said. “That the enemies of America and freedom so despise me is a powerful sign I represent all the right stuff.”
That’s one kick-ass God-fearing patriot, right there.
Nugent also recently made the news when Mitt Romney sought his endorsement, and capitulated to Nugent’s requirement to get it. They’re off to such a great start, perhaps the two can plan a nice hunting trip together to cement their friendship…
“We are actually talking about that,” he tells Peterson’s Bowhunting, a sporting and hunting magazine. “I will be hunting every day as usual all September, October, November, December, January, February and March, so I would welcome self-evident, truth-driven patriots including our new president and his family,” he adds.
But back to our little Alaska problem. Nugent (who decribed himself as Sarah Palin’s “biggest fan”) has found legal representation befitting him in his fellow NRA board member… wait for it… you know it’s coming… Wayne Anthony Ross. Yes, Sarah Palin’s champion – the only nominee for a cabinet position to have ever been summarily rejected by the Alaska legislature. He who called gays “degenerates” and compared them to lima beans. He who salivated during his confirmation hearing to become the Attorney General about how “provocative” governor Palin looked in leather. He who got caught telling a big whopping lie by an Anchorage Daily News Reporter. He of the giant red Hummer with the WAR vanity plates. And now, he who is “honored” to represent Ted Nugent.
Ready for the defense?
“They’ve got apparently some crazy law in Southeast that says if you even touch an animal with an arrow, it becomes your animal,” Ross said by phone Friday. “He looked to see if he had hit it and didn’t believe that he’d hit it fatally.”
Some crazy, crazy law that says you can’t shoot an animal, not kill it, let it get away, and then just go kill another one. And another one. And another one. I mean if the law is silly for one wounded animal, where do you draw the line? Just keep goin’ until you kill something, right? Ross went on,
The law is less than 5 years old, and Nugent, who’s hunted in that part of Alaska for years, was unaware of it, Ross said.
Less than five years old? Why that law is practically brand new! If it were a person, it would only be in Kindergarten. How can anyone be expected to know a hunting law that’s less than half a decade old? And as we have all learned, “Ignorance of the law is a perfect excuse,” or something like that. An experienced hunter such as himself, who hunts for nine months out of the year, every day, simply can’t be bothered to be familiar with all those laws in all those states he visits. But, for some reason, the law says they have to. I mean, the same unfair, crazy requirement to “know the law” seems to be an issue in California too!
In September 2009, Nugent embarked on a hunt near Somerset, El Dorado County, California. He was accompanied by a guide and a cameraman, filming for his Outdoor Channel show “Spirit of the Wild.” The video taken appeared in an episode of the show first broadcast on February 9, 2010. California Fish and Game wardens who watched the broadcast noticed that it showed Nugent killing a very young buck which had been attracted by commercial bait. Both the killing of such a young deer and the use of bait are crimes under California state law. On August 13, 2010, he pled no contest inYuba County to two misdemeanors: illegally baiting a deer, and failing to have a deer tag signed by a government official after a kill. He was fined USD $1,750 by the court.
Hey, that sounds kind of like this crazy, crazy Alaskan situation…
“The Motor City Madman” was filming on Sukkwan Island, south of Hydaburg, for his TV show “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild,” according Nugent’s deal with federal prosecutors, made public Friday.
It’s unclear if a viewer notified federal authorities or if the investigators saw the clip themselves.
Ross made sure to note that the defendant had “devoted his life to ethical hunting” (except for that California thing).
You know, hunters should be offended by him. My dad is old enough to remember when there were hardly any deer or other game left in the forests (in the southern US). The protections of the game and fish have made it possible not only for these creatures to florish again but for generations of us to be able to hunt. If someone poached an animal because they actually needed to eat it, that is one thing but to do it because you can get away with it and probably to tape a damn show is just beyond what most hunters consider right.
Every state should have additional laws about these people with shows taking animals out of season and without proper permits. He shouldn’t be able to hunt in CA or AK ever again. Other states should also ban him.
I see Fort Knox has cancelled his concert!!!!!! YES!!!
Hey Mud…..
I’m not sure how you guys continue to tolerate the global abuse that rains down on Alaska almost daily, from the wreckage the Palin’s have left on your lands. Nuggent just represents more of that wreckage and there seems to be no end!
WHY? Why do you folks take this? One family that continues to bring abuse and negative media to you guys almost daily. Can’t there be some organized force to get them outta your state? Just wondering….
It hurst from here!
I just can’t figure out WHY anyone would want any kind of endorsement or recognition of any kind from this piece of garbage.
He’s not talented, he’s disgusting, he has no redeeming qualities and he’s broken numerous laws in numerous states. He also committed one of the most heinous draft dodging schemes I’ve ever heard of. And THIS is what the GOP stars want to be associated with??? I just don’t get it.
Note that this was not some “aw shucks” minor violation of an obscure technicality by an otherwise well-meaning good ol’ boy. According to the plea agreement, Nugent was not just out with some of his buddies. He was filming an episode for his hunting TV show. You can’t have a “real man” hunting show if the “real man” just wounds the bear. It is much more likely that they pushed the envelope to get a kill for the show. Even if you had any other doubt about the seriousness of the violation, look at the penalty to which Nugent agreed. He pays $10,000 and he can’t hunt or fish in Alaska or on any US Forest Service land for a year plus two years of probation. And then who was Nugent with on the trip? Well, the boat “El Dorado” is listed by the Coast Guard as owned by Kula Fisheries LLC, which according to the state is owned by Jaspar Allbrett. Would that be the same Jaspar Allbrett from Hawaii who was reported by the State Troopers as pleading guilty in May of 2010 to “Unsworn Falsification” for obtaining “multiple hunting and fishing resident benefits over the previous three years, without ever qualifying as a resident of Alaska.”? …. Yep, just a bunch of good old boys out having some fun until those evil bureaucrats tricked them.
What ever happened with that person who was harassing Shannyn? Is it told somewhere I’ve missed? What was the whole situation, I know I missed that somewhere.
was just wondering about that myself. hope all is well.
The plea agreement
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2012/04/20/13/30/1g0hCV.So.7.pdf
signed by Mr Nugent and Mr Ross rather puts paid to the silly posturing after the fact by Mr Ross.
Mr Ross- it’s not a “southeast” law and you know it.
And your swaggering client , however and whatever license he was using , somewhere signed that he understood regs.
So Pffft! and Phy ! on both of you.
Shame on you Mr Nugent for pretending ignorance .
shame on you Mr Ross for trying to trivialize the situation under law and you an officer of the court and all.
OT
So WAR kinda looks like the guy who was harassing Shannyn. Either that or it was Randy at the AK Repub headquarters.
I met the creepy Nugent years ago. Here in Alaska.
He is one of those guys who ain’t gonna be a gentleman unless he gets something for it.
It was actually a good meet up for my family, but mostly my son. Due to Nugent’s crude, rude behavior on full display, my son learned how to behave proper around elder women.
WAR, what is he good for?
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Say it again. Good god ya’ll.
Oh, YES. I apply that song to him almost every time I hear of him.
Hey, Ted!!! (Loud whistle) Over here!!! Reality is this way!!!
Nice one Morothead, nice one.
I have never understood humans who take pleasure in killing magnificent creatures. There is something insanely wrong about that which defies comprehension. At the same time they go into coniptions of apoplexy over the killing of an unwanted blastocyst that is perhaps the result of an horrific crime and trauma. It calls into question whether human reason truly merits an opportunity to grow and flourish in this small universe.
Biology requires us to ingest nutrients in order to survive.We can make choices about how those nutrients are acquired.
I don’t really know anything much about this fellow Nugent, except past press and recent press, and some allusion to a rock song a few decades ago – and pedophilia – draft evasion -other forms of nuttery. He sounds like he is one of those closet cowards who compensates for his fear by acting out orchestrated rituals of manliness instead of actually facing reality, head on. He seems to be very afraid of the future, that is a reliable motive for such extravagent posturing. Bloviation is an applicable term. Blustering. But I do think the most appropriate descriptor of all is coward.
nicely said Krubozuma. seems we have seen a full spectrum of lunatics cross our national stage the past twenty years or so.
Well said.
Reading the assorted informations..re nugent..one wonders what his parents did..to cripple his mind..and curdle his heart? Hunting as a sport-showoff..he is a piece of work..for sure. Now that is one bit of human trash….I will never, ever..have to be anywhere near. I can imagine him as, .a walking septic tank..as it were.
“walking septic tank.” wonderful visual Juneaudream.
I like the crippled mind and curdled heart visual, also too !!
I no longer live in Alaska, but still get tired of all the nonsense about how “the good people of Alaska live off the land.” 90% of Alaskans are urban dwellers, and live off the land containing Safeway and Walmart.
A mama grizzley in Alaska is called a sow.
“…the Palins and all the good people of Alaska live off the land as God intended…” Oh, that’s right! Where did we think her favorite meal came from? From the Crunchwrap Supreme Being, of course!!
😉 Good one, Motorhead.
Hey, them crunchwrap critters is realll tricky to hunt down and catch! Don’t make much of a trophy on the wall, though…
Ted Nugent, Romney, and WAR – birds of feather who may go down together as misfits not patriots (include Palin in this because they all have a nexus with her). They are unable to relate to other sentient creatures because they are lack empathy, sympathy, compassion and basic decency.
I just ordered The Real Romney after hearing Lawrence O’Donnell read juicy tidbits from it last night. Is there reputable lit on the disreputable Nugent. I am not sure I could stomach reading about him, but after polishing off the stuff on Romney, maybe.
I don’t get how killing animals just for the thrill of the kill is manly, and I certainly don’t get how someone can brag about wounding and leaving animals to suffer is manly, let alone even human, at least not modern human-like. Maybe primitive man – no, they would have killed the animal and used every part of it for subsistence, even the kill was in self-defense, right?
There is less than six degrees of separation between Nugent, Romney and WAR – and the Palins. Gives me the creeps to think these people have power to attract the media and want power to impact the nation (I assume someone like WAR would if he could, but perhaps he is content on being a pain only in Alaska.).
I too heard Lawrence O’Donnell last night—-reading the “real” Rommney. Sounds to me like everything was handed to him on a platter.
Devoted his life to ethical hunting? The guy is banned from hunting in California for illegally baiting deer. Shortly after, was busted for an illegal pheasant hunt in South Dakota. He’s a disgrace to the American hunter and a terrible ambassador.
EXACTLY…!
Wouldn’t it be a little more befitting if he had to A) lose 3 x the money he makes on one episode of his bait-so-we-can-shoot hunting show as a fine per occurence, and B) make him donate a like amount to PETA or something?
Geez.
And, as to the law being so new??? BS. And since when can anyone get away with ignorance of the law as a defense? WAR is so incredibly dense. Why didn’t he get the message after the debacle with Palin that he is not an asset to we Alaskans or the wildlife?
Increasingly, it astounds me that WAR is still in an attorney in Alaska.
Bang Up work on the pun, Slipstream! 😀
Actually,if I remember the interview the “Nuge” gave to a leading mens magazine,it was two weeks of urine,poo-poo and puke before his trip to the draft board and I believe his quote was that he got out of military service on pure stink. His ex-adopted wife-Pele-gave an interview about life with Ted and it wasn’t all bliss. For the wildlife of Alaska and elsewhere,I’d like to leave you with this one little Nuge nugget,for the next time you see him. You can’t grill him, til you kill him. Try anyway,will ya?
If he was in the military, he would crap his britches. He is just a man with a big mouth. He and Chenney make a good pair. Big Chickens!!!!!!!!
Two ‘manly’ men…….(lol!)
The interview was in High Times and he has since repudiated it as a joke. Gee he does tell a lot of “jokes” doesn[t he.
I think Nugent and Ross would have a great time if they went hunting with former VP Cheney. Wouldn’t that be a blast?
Ted, this is how a real sportsman hunts bears,
First you wear a loin cloth, then you rub Salmon Roe all over yourself, grab your bow and then you head out at dusk.
The really neat thing, is that while you’re hunting the Bear, the Bear is hunting you.
I think they should all be dropped off at some remote island ASAP …… Adios, amoebas….!
No island is that remote.