Post by Minca on Mar 29, 2005 1:38:52 GMT -5
Ooby said:
What it will ULTIMATELY do, is require the falconry community to police itself more. No more paper sponsors, more active apprenticeship info and coaching in state clubs, more active upkeep of records of potential sponsors, and more responsibility when we see a fellow falconer breaking the law.
This is something we SHOULD do, its also something we should not deny, regardless of our feelings on it, as it is a LARGE step in the direction the sport should go, completely deregulated.
This is where I've got to disagree. I don't see anything that looks to me like these changes will be a cause for an increase in the self policing of the falconry community. Some can see it as an encouragement for it, but the only forecast I see is that with relaxed regulations are gonna come more relaxed falconers as well. Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything that's gonna MAKE sponsors and the falconry communty take liability. Ok, so you'll have to have had your permit longer to sponsor someone. My sponsor was a grandfathered in falconer. That's means he's been licensed for, what, somewhere over 30 years? He is extremely lenient, a bad influence (actually encourages things that would be illegal) and laughs at the idea of me killing my kestrel instead of taking the concept seriously. Years mean nothing. It's an attitude thing. And I don't see anything in the proposed regs that are gonna do anything about that.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for relaxed regs and self policing over govt policing. But if it's not thought out properly, I'm afraid it can do more harm than good.