Letters

Sat., June 28, 2008

The Spokesman-Review

Land-use issue turns up ‘extremist perspectives’

I had quite a chuckle at the recent letters to the editor by the PETA people responding to my letter to the editor on land-use issues and permitting.

My point in my letter was that the house owner was the object of personal attacks because he was a hunter. I implied that the previous letter writers entirely missed the legal issues surrounding the permitting in this case, and were more interested in their personal antihunting agenda entirely unrelated to the Shields building their house. His is one of many big houses built on Liberty Lake in recent years. I doubt all the others are owned exclusively by hunters.

Additional letters by Bill Gerhart and Mary Louise Long (Valley Voice, June 21) further prove my point. They have expanded a land-use issue into telling us what we should all eat (I know a lot of unhealthy vegetarians), and why we should all avoid hunting (I made no endorsement of hunting, I only criticized biased antihunters).

How Mr. Gerhart can tie land-use issues to the animals in the “circus” validates my point on their extremist perspective.

Steve Shirley

Liberty Lake

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