Obama Creates Trail of Tears for My Little Ponies

Remember how Sara Palin was brutally criticized for allowing hunters to kill wolves using helicopters to protect their land, families and livestock? Well, Obama is using helicopters to round up wild mustangs and forcing them into cattle cars for forced relocation. Its like a Horsey Holocaust!

From the AP here:

One of most stirring symbols of the American West — mustangs thundering freely across the range — could be heading east.

The government wants to carry out what is believed to be the biggest-ever roundup of wild horses on federal land, moving as many as 25,000 mustangs and burros to pastures in the Midwest and East out of fear their fast-multiplying numbers will lead to mass starvation.

The plan is facing heated opposition from advocates, including celebrities Sheryl Crow, Bill Maher and Ed Harris, who contend the proposal is itself inhumane and unnecessary. They say the situation is not as dire as the government has painted it.

The government argues that the mustang population in 10 Western states is growing so rapidly that the horses are quickly running out of food, in part because of drought ravaging the region.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the BLM, a part of the Interior Department, would instead ship 11,500 to 25,000 horses from the range to pastures and corrals in the Midwest and East.

Ranchers view wild horses as a menace to their grazing land and were allowed to kill them until 1971, when the practice was banned. The government has made numerous efforts of its own over the years to control the population, including using a contraceptive vaccine. But capturing and injecting mares with the vaccine one at a time has proved costly and time-consuming.

In recent years, the government has rounded up and relocated wild horses to other lands in the West. Helicopters are used to drive the mustangs toward cowboys with lassos. The cowboys then put the horses onto trucks.

I predict that hundreds of these horses will die cruelly because of bureaucratic bungling. And how much money does it waste to force horses to take birth control pills? How expensive will the relocation be? Wouldn’t it be easier to just euthanize them or hunt them?

But you won’t hear about too many liberals criticizing Obama over this. You can force-march ponies cross country using a helicopter if you are the first black President. But if you are a woman Governor, you can’t kill a dangerous, encroaching carnivore using a chopper.