Whether dousing himself in cow blood or trying to block traffic, Jason Miller's campaign to save the deer in Shawnee Mission Park has often been met with law enforcement.
Most notably, in late October, Miller visited the home of Michael Meadors, director of the Johnson County Park and Recreation District, to deliver a protest letter regarding the impending deer harvest. Meadors didn't take well to the personal visit and, after filing a report with Olathe Police Department, got a restraining order against Miller.
Fast forward to December 8. That week, Canadian animal rights activist, Anthony Marr, flew to Kansas to lead a funeral motorcade through Shawnee Mission Park. Miller took Marr to the JoCo Parks and Rec administration building, where Meadors has an office, in the hope that county officials would meet with Marr about non-lethal means of dealing with the deer overpopulation. "Meadors wasn't even there," Miller says. "There were no incidents. We had a cordial conversation with the parks police officer in the lobby."
Fast forward again to January 20. On Wednesday afternoon, when Miller returned home from work, two officers from the Johnson County Sheriff's Office were waiting to arrest him. The charge: "On or about the 8th of December, 2009, in the County of Johnson, State of Kansas, Jason S. Miller did then and there unlawfully, willfully, knowingly and intentionally violate a protection from abuse order."
His stint behind bars was quick. Arrested at 4:15 p.m., Miller
posted a $5,000 bond and was home before midnight. He'll be back in
court for a hearing next Friday on the misdemeanor charge. He insists
his arrest was political. "I think it was a retaliatory move on their
part, meant to intimidate me," he says.
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This Michael Meadors sounds like a world class pussy.(ie: Barack Obama voter)
If he supports the killing of life may he burn in hell.
I really think It's screwed up that the park officer got a PFA just because he was being annoyed by this guy . Yet hundreds of women DIE at the hands of abusive husbands and boyfriends , as well do there children because they can not get one. Fucked up world =/
harassing people, breaking the law, damaging property, ect. is not the way to make a point. Extreme actions do nothing but ruin credibility. Its very difficult for alot of people to see someone's point of view when they are being threatened or harassed. Why aren't these people using their money to help out shelters that are being shut down due to lack of funding? I'd support that, and listen to what they may have to say. Instead, they choose to hold some wierdo funeral procession, that to most, just looks like a bunch of crazies walkin' down the street.
I don't know this person, but I would say that the director of the Johnson County Park and Recreation District had a good reason to have an court order of protection against him. He seems to be a unstable by the activities that go on at his Bite Club website. If comments are left on that website that are no favorable to animal rights activist, profane comments are added to the messages. Jason Miller is also listed as an "officer" on the website of
The North American Animal Liberation Press Office which claims to be the press voice for the Animal Liberation Front. The ALF as we know proudly proclaims they break the law, damage property and intimidate people.
@ Peri -
Hahah I love when you people get riled up you immediately expose yourself as the irrational zealots you truly are.
"i hope someone hARVEST your mother you dumb ass redneck. as for budda- he was a vegatarian- hope your body rots from the inside you low iq bastard."
Truly the voice of an enlightened person! You wish harm upon another persons mother, you wish harm up them and you insult their IQ. Its almost too easy with you people. Maybe if you knew how to interact a little better with your fellow human then society may actually take your cause (has its merits) a little more seriously.
Instead you have people like yourself saying fairly unstable things online and fools like Jason Miller making a complete mockery of your cause with his attention seeking actions. Great job!
People lets not let these ARA terrorist keep taking our inalinable rights..Stand up some of these people think that animals ar equal to humans and should have the same rights as we do..Please Kansas stand up these people are so deep in our goverments pockets that their money is making decisions for us..These guy are nuts dont let these people tell us how to live if the deer are causing more harm to the public then they should be removed from the park..What is better than eatting them??? Maybe these guy can relocate them to their back yard.
I just want to thank The Pitch for continuing to cover this issue. I'm happy that activism is alive and well in Kansas City, and I hope he finds a good lawyer and files a civil suit after he is found innocent.
TAFL says "There are no non-lethal solutions to the deer overpopulation problem."
Please do check the link to my name. I tried to post link here but mine does not work like Brandon Becker's did.
The video is by Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick
Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick, deer contraception expert, explains the startling successes in deer contraception, its authorization for use and availability. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the founder and Director of the Science and
Conservation Center, Montana. He has worked with
contraception on 90 species of animals, including wild horses, several species of deer, African elephants and water buffalo .
He quotes "it works and works well"
"60% drop in deer herd size"
And you TAFL sit here telling us there is "no non-lethal means of deer population problems"? Who are you? A nobody!
Plus who is creating the deer herd? Hunting industry thats who!!
Thus, late fall up to early winter is very important for deer herd managers to impact and influence fawn production, so make sure the plant communities on your property is properly managed deer habitat. " Deer Hunting and Management TX
"If you're not providing the local herd with enough of the right groceries for maximum antler and body size, as well as high fawn survival, you're not enjoying the full benefits of sound management." North American Whitetails
"We strive to maintain a deer herd that each year that can provide quality sport to more than a million hunters." PA Deer FAQ
"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reason that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large numbers of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. "PA. Game Commission
"Historically in all states, including West Virginia, hunting regulation have been restrictive during the period of deer restoration with mainly short buck-only season to protect does and encourage deer population growth." Fundamentals of Deer Management W. VA.
The hunting industry knows about CRE (Compensatory Rebound Effect)
" Fawn crop is often density dependent. Generally, as doe numbers increase, fawn production per doe decreases. Fewer does can and often do raise more fawns to weaning age than more abundant does." QDM
(Lots of Hunting agencies uses Quality Deer Management)
" Thus, does are healthier, reproductive
success is higher and more does are able to carry two fawns. Ironically, this can result in a greater deer harvest each year." Quality Deer Management
"With high quality habitat and increased nutrition, the percentage of doe fawns that breed their first fall increases (sometimes up to 25 percent).. Also, a higher percentage of yearling does produce two fawns instead of one." Quality Deer Management
(Food plots and even supplement feeding are very popular in the hunting communties. Google it)
"Because fawns are born at approximately a 1:1 sex ratio, more bucks maybe born each year. Therefore, in some areas, you actually can increase the number of bucks born by shooting more does." Quality Deer Management
"Other habitat management practices that can improve the quantity and quality of forage available to deer (thus increasing carrying capacity)" Quality Deer Management
Create more land to plant food plots thus more deer you can hold on that area.
About the Compensatory Rebound Effect
What is reproductive rebound?
"Reproductive rebound is a well documented population dynamic in deer and other mammals. Deer conceive multiple embryos but the number of fawns actually born is determined by a number of complex factors including nutrition and herd density. With competition for food reduced by a sudden drop in herd numbers, younger fawns will breed and females will give birth to twins and triplets instead of single fawns.
In its 1990 report, "An Assessment of Deer Hunting in New Jersey," New Jersey Fish and Game offered a detailed example of this process. Its report shows that even during hunting seasons in which killing female deer was the objective (antlerless seasons), the remaining females had increased birthrates that not only replaced the ones killed, but increased the overall size of the herd. " PZP FAQ's
"One reason the policies failed, Choisy and Rohani said, is that they didn�t take into account an ecological principle known as compensation. When a portion of the animal population is reduced, those that survive are left with more resources such as food and shelter. As a result of the newly plentiful resources, the death rate decreases and the birth rate increases, compensating � and sometimes overcompensating � for the loss. Hunting Can Increase The Severity Of Wildlife Disease Epidemics"
See how the hunting industry knows about it and uses it. They know killing creates more deer
�By keeping the deer population below the carrying capacity of the available habitat, more forage (nutrition) is available per deer. Thus, does are healthier, reproductive success is higher and more does are able to carry two fawns. Ironically, this can result in a greater deer harvest each year. Depending on the relationship of the population and the carrying capacity, an �optimum sustained yield? can be achieved where a relatively high reproductive rate allows an abundant harvest each fall. With high-quality habitat and increased nutrition, the percentage of
doe fawns that breed their first fall increases (sometimes up to 25 percent). Also, a higher percentage of yearling does produce two fawns instead of one. Because fawns are born at approximately a 1:1 sex ratio, more bucks may be born each year. Therefore, in some areas, you actually can increase the number of bucks born by shooting more does.� �Quality Deer Management: Guidelines for Implementation,� 6. Agricultural Extension Service, The University of Tennessee. http://www.utextension.utk.edu... (last accessed November 2008)
"Some people disagree with shooting antlerless deer; they reasn that protecting them -- thus maintaining a maximum breeding base -- will assure large number of antlered bucks because terrific numbers of deer will be born each year and button bucks wouldn't be harvested. But bear in mind, a smaller herd in balance with its habitat can produce as many fawns as an oversized herd on poor range. Does have fewer young when habitat quality is lacking" PA Game Commission
Please note that none of these oh-so-humane people have stopped paying taxes to support the country that kills more innocents by dropping bombs on them than any other country in the world. That should give you some idea of the sort of "morality" they would happily force on the rest of us if they only could. Fortunately for us, they can't.
If anyone thinks stalking and killing deer is a good idea to control populations, or that it's necessary, or that it's "humane", read this fact sheet:
"Deer Kills: A Bad Idea -- for Animals, Ecosystems, and People" http://www.rpaforall.org/facts...
"The Human Causes of 'Too Many Deer': What Decision-Makers and Residents Should Know about Organized Deer Kills" http://www.rpaforall.org/facts...
Don't believe the lies of the hunting industry and their government allies. It's all about money and continuing the speciesist status quo.
BADKarma says:
"So, instead of using a minimal amount of the taxpayers' money to hire professional cullers to humanely and quickly kill a select percentage of the massive deer overpopulation in Johnson County, "
Have you seen the videos? How can you say these deer died quickly or humanely ? Do you know what humane means?
hu�mane
These adjectives mean marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering.
If you watch the videos you will clearly see there was no alleviation of suffering. Only long drawn out suffering.
These deer were very alive and healthy till you murders came along.
There are no non-lethal solutions to the deer overpopulation problem. Deer herds across the country are too large and are overgrazing and eliminating their preferred food plants, which has a cascading effect on the rest of the ecosystem. The only solution is to decrease the size of the herds.
So, moving the animals from the park to anywhere else only increases the problem of overpopulation elsewhere. That is not a solution anybody concerned with the environment would condone.
As we eliminated the predators that kept the deer population in check, we have a moral obligation to fill that role and keep the deer population in check, ourselves. I guess the folks who wish to avoid having to kill the animals to save the environment could always try to enforce condom usage by the stags during rut...good luck with that.
Oh isn't this pathetic? They send a man who were only trying to save defenseless animals from brutal killing to jail while the hunting community has caused terrorism to not only non-human animals but to human animals.
How many humans have died at the hands of the hunting community? Not only do you kill your own disgusting kind but the life of innocent humans like the young college women shot mistaken for a deer right before Thanksgiving then another one of a women and child on horseback shot again mistaken for a deer. Then look at the bullets that comes flying into to daycare centers and peoples houses, thru girls pillow (luckly she was in the shower at the time). Then in hunting accident where hunters kill each other, themselves even their own children and who is to know if its really a "hunting accident"? Anyone that can kill get gratification out of killing innocent animals for "sports" and trophy or just because they "can" can well take another human lives you know the jealous husband type of things.
Jason Millers is the hero and the hunting industry is the criminals and terrorist but where are they?? These terrorist are called "sportsman" ALSO the hunting industry lies to the public on how they are about 'reducing" deer population thus "reducing" deer vehicle accident yet DVA's has gone up as the result of hunting because the hunting industry have absolutely NO intention of long term deer herd reduction. There are way too much blood money made while innocent humans die every year in Deer Vehicle Accident. Whitetails are a billion dollar industry and the hunting industry make 70% of their blood profit from deer so why would they want long term herd reduction? That means more death because of the hunting communities yet are they in jail? These killers sits in their high horse pretending they are the doing a public a "favor" . We don't need any more killing its been proven that IC deer contraception works according to Dr. Jay Kirkpatrick yet they keep rejecting it. Should hunting be held accountable for human death from DVA's and also from hunting accident ? I say yes. Sue the industry and leave the innocent alone and people like us who are trying to better the world for ALL.
They did this to Jason just to try and prove a point that they do not tolerate anyone getting in the way of the killing industry but sorry we will never go away till the truth is told and the pain and suffering ends. We should live in a civilized world but there is no 'civility" where there is serial killers of the innocent terrorizing the forest creatures and innocent human lives.!
We love you Jason you are a hero to our innocent sentient being that suffer and die in silence. Also incase you did not know Jason also fight for human oppression as well so he fights for ALL.
Click onto my name and watch the video and see what the hunting community is about and also read the video information...They all belong in Jail and one day there will be when if a human even lay a hand on an innocent animal with intent to kill for self gratification they be led away in jail and guns won't be sold to just any old body who wants to destroy life. Hunting license is an easy way for anyone to purchase a high powered assault weapons even felons can purchase them and even bows and arrow so quiet that if they want to kill someone how easy could it be?
I can stand by no longer while you revere this insane,misguided, attention-seeking so-called zealot! He is seeking a name for himself he can feel better about himself. This newly adopted veganism and supposed love of animals is a joke. His past actions are lless than compassionate, or heroic. He has gone through many wives,obviously unable to commit to one woman or for the women to want to stay with such a high maintenance, emotionally-draining individual. He, over the years has owned a pletora of pets and sold them or returned them because he no longer wanted to mess with them! He was in arrears with his child-support for years, and was emotionlly and verbally abusive to his children. He also no longer communicates with many family members because them made him angry. Yet, he writes that everyone should forgive him for his trangressions, yet he forgives noone! He is mean,vindictive, and unstable! However, he would blame all this on his now self proclaimed,and medically diagnosed mental illness. Also, he ate a lot of meat of the animals he now purports as his cause! Rest assured, his cause is attention to feed a large ego, not the animals. I am all for standing for one's convinctions but people follow someone who is actually there for the right reasons not to further his own agenda!
To the person above with the eight point buck pet. Most states and locals have a law against owning and domesticating certain animals like deer. I hope you have accomidated the requirements for you to do as you are. In order for you to get him to the "pet status" you claimed, you took or are keeping him from his natural tendancies and depriving him of living in the wild. A wild deer's perception of man and captivity is much different than of one that is domesticated. To me, hunting is natural and an instinct born within people that are still in touch with reality. The true voice of God gave man dominion over all animals. Dominion is rule, superiority and the right to make life and death decisions for them. Meat consumption is a natural and pure source of vry digestable protein that cannot not be derived no imitated source. Science has and is proving that both plant and animal protein are necessary to humans. If you don't like hunting, then don't go, if you want to deprive you body of animal protein, then don't eat meat, but you will not lobby away my rights to do as I feel to be natural......
Regardles of the issue involved. Mr. Miller should not have gone to the parks department employees home. Period.
Once he was issued the restraining order he should not have gone near the mans home or place of work. Violate the order go to jail.
Speak at public meetings, sign petitions, protest,run for public office yourself to replace the city council or park board. But stay away from the employees home.
Once issued a restraining order comply with it.
It's so easy to spot the posters who are hunters ... they wear their ignorance like a badge of honor. Kudos to Jason for his compassion and courage to speak up in the midst of a sea of imbeciles. Jason, you restore my faith in my species. By the way, if there was a god, I doubt he, she, or it would condone the brutal killing of innocent creatures.
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."
Alice Walker
Check out this informative and inspiring video on why people choose vegan: http://veganvideo.org/
It's always the same - laws are there to protect the corrupt and the evil, while the innocent are punished, suppressed and sacrificed. Animal users have created such a violent world - As you sow, so shall you reap. There is no justifiable reason for harming those who cannot defend themselves. Be consistent in your values. End speciesism - Go vegan.
Jason Miller is a hero.
Everyone needs to go VEGAN while they still have a choice.
-And no I am not joking.
Bambi-beebles are one of two animals on the face of the planet, (the other being rabbits), so stupid and high-strung that simply being herded into one place can cause them to die of shock.
So, instead of using a minimal amount of the taxpayers' money to hire professional cullers to humanely and quickly kill a select percentage of the massive deer overpopulation in Johnson County, the Fart-Sniffing Bambi Fascists, (FSBF's for short), want to force the County to spend what could possibly be up to millions of the taxpayers' money fruitlessly attempting to "relocate" the Bambi-beebles without traumatizing them to death, then spend even more money disposing of their rotting corpses when they all die of shock in the process. How thoughtful and "humane".
Remember, boys and girls, FSBF's don't really give two craps about animals. Their agenda is controlling your life, from cradle to grave.
i hope someone hARVEST your mother you dumb ass redneck. as for budda- he was a vegatarian- hope your body rots from the inside you low iq bastard.
Welcome the Voice of God! I run a wildlife hospital..I beg to differ with your assessment of deer, not as pets, but as companions. I have an eight point buck that grew up in my house and lives behind a six foot fence..yeah, he can leave anytime he wants, and he did once for a day. He came home that night, last year in October and has never left again, nor has he wanted to leave. He is intelligent taking verbal and hand signals, he is sweet, he counts his cookies every night and knows if you short him. He does not smell and there is not a mean bone in his body. He knows new dogs from the ones he grew up with and sleeps with our cats.He tells me when he is hungry by a belch sounding noise he makes. I know many people who have deer living in their homes. I also know people who moved them to another location and the deer died..every one of them...so I know they are family oriented. I could no more eat him than my own child! Jason Miller stands for something and is willing to risk his freedom for it, I am happy SOMEONE stands up for these most passive and beautiful of creatures!
Aren't you the cream of the crop 'anonymous'...see what meat eating will do to your brain kids???
The speciesists hate when the 'dreaded comparison' is made. Yes, Anonymous, human slavery and nonhuman slavery are analogs. But your anthropocentrism blinds you to the obvious truth. That's why you flare up with irrationalities.
Animals are slaves. They are used as raw material: their bodily integrity violated; their skin removed; slaughtered; raped. But you slave defenders will lose like the slave defenders of the past. Free Your Slaves!
Yeah we are cannibals JENINE. I would love to take a bite out of that sweet vegan ass of yours, of course you're vegan aren't you? Mmmmm you guys taste the best, like VEAL.
HAHAHAHA
Once again, you do your cause more harm that good with your irrationality. I would rather deal with "unevolved, scumb bag rednecks" than zealots like yourself.
Hey douchebag posting as Slave Abolitionist, go fuck yourself. Its zealots like yourself that cause mainstream society to ignore animal rights activists, you do your cause more harm than good. Bringing slavery into this, you must be fucking crazy.
@ Natural Foodie - I couldn't have summed it up better. "Anyone who would oppose the local harvesting of sustainable, organic, free range venison for the family table is nothing more than an ecologically confused asshat food fascist and should be ignored." Not only that but this food went to people in need...seems pretty noble to me.
As for Jason Miller going to jail. Oh well, dude is obviously toeing the line with these officials.
Most of the above sound like a bunch of cannabilistic backwards, unevolved, scumb bag rednecks who would cease to exist if they couldn't get the pleasure of taking life.
Oh, God, I am so glad you finally showed up. You're doing a remarkably shitty job, you know that? Yeah, it's long past time for a mutiny - you couldn't find your own ass with a flashlight and a map so to actually expect us to read your fairy tales as life's navigational tool is completely idiotic. But we always knew you were a complete tosspot, ever since you created man-tits, really, baaaaaad idea...
Animal exploiters and their lackeys do not warrant our sympathy. The innocent animal victims of their barbarity should be our only moral concern. Jason Miller and the countless others defending the interests of the exploited animals deserve our reverence.
You know, if it weren't for the hunters of ancient times we all would not be here. To the people who say deer are "pets," go live in Africa, and hug a lion. Go see the true nature of the Darwinian habitat science has proven to exist. I'm sure the lion will hug you back with a nice bite to your jugular.
Killing deer isn't morally wrong, it's actually God's(Buddha's, Allah's, etc.) way of providing food for man.
If we kill them, we should eat them. Otherwise, it's pointless. Venison is good stuff. Tastes like chicken. Hahaha
Anyone who would oppose the local harvesting of sustainable, organic, free range venison for the family table is nothing more than an ecologically confused asshat food fascist and should be ignored.
To hell with bored suburban douchebags posing as persecuted angels of compassion!
Anyone who would oppose people harvesting locally available, natural, free range, organic venison is just a plain asshat!
It's the most low impact local food available. More people should be out putting a deer on the table.
How is taking Anthony Marr to try to speak with Michael Meadors peacefully a threat? Mr. Marr is a respectful man who has made thousands of speech's all over the world. There was no threat to Michael Meadors here, this is purely political. Jason Miller's only crime is that he is a compassionate human being against the Deer being needlessly slaughtered in a family park. Pathetic society, that more do not feel Jason Miller's pain for these lovely, innocent animals. Shame.
The State of Kansas, Johnson County, Parks Board, and other government agencies / officials never once took the time to listen to those who desired non leathel means to handeling the situation. Any one with a disenting view was ignored or in the case of Jason arrested. Government officials do what they want when they want and how they want and the people who disagree go to prision, get intimidated by the FBI, the police, etc. Its a fight to prevent killing and because there is profit in killing those who disagree will be forever outcased. Continue the fight, Jason! Global Anti Hunting Coalition
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