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Here is another shocking story of unnecessary government police action resulting in the use of deadly force and unnecessary death all in the name of “health safety.” A peaceful, no-kill animal shelter took in a baby orphan deer that was in the process of being transferred to an animal rehabilitation center. The owners of the shelter had even given a name to the baby deer. But the Department of Natural Resources stalked them and committed a sting operation to enter the property and kill the deer, all the in name of “protecting the public” from the “health” concerns of harboring a “wild” animal.

We are seeing these types of stories of forceful government intrusion into the private lives of peaceful citizens far too often these days! Just recently, we reported the story of how police stormed into a nursing home near Chicago because a 96 year old man who needed a walker to get around, and who was also a WWII veteran, had refused medical treatment for himself. The police used a taser and shot gun to subdue him, resulting in his death. In another story, a mother who could not breast feed her baby developed a formula using fresh goats’ milk and was threatened by the government to have her baby put in foster care because she did not follow a doctor’s advice to give him commercial formula based on GMOs and soy. In another story, a SWAT team in Texas raided a peaceful organic farm looking for marijuana, where they completely disrupted their lives and operation but found no illegal drugs. All of these stories, and the one below, happened within about a 2 week period. And these are just the ones we know about!

In almost all these cases, it is the result of what the government deems is proper action in regards to private health decisions, all in the name of “protecting the public,” and sometimes even protecting someone in the public sector from themselves, which was not considered a legitimate use of government force by our founding fathers. Who is going to protect us from these unnecessary forceful actions taken by the government? Is the United States heading towards medical tyranny by enforcing upon peaceful citizens what it deems is proper medical treatment, taking away our freedom to choose which foods we eat, and the freedom to raise our own food all in the name of public health? While these freedoms have been a part of our national heritage since the founding of our country, they are often a financial threat to certain industries that control the medical system and the industrial food supply.

While this story does not involve food, other government actions we have reported have taken place where private property was ordered to be destroyed by peaceful farmers’ raising food. See the story of the Baker Family in Michigan, for example, where the Bakers and other farmers of heritage pigs were ordered by the DNR to destroy their pigs, because they resembled “feral” pigs in the wild. The Bakers are still challenging the order and involved in a lengthy lawsuit.

Armed agents raid animal shelter for baby deer

by Colleen Henry
WISN

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WISN 12 News investigates an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn.

“It was like a SWAT team,” shelter employee Ray Schulze said.  Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant.

“(There were) nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth,” Schulze said. The focus of their search was a baby fawn brought there by an Illinois family worried she had been abandoned by her mother.