In what we can only imagine was a poorly considered joke, Rep. Stevan Pearce (R-New Mexico) said on Wednesday he hoped the Department of Fish and Wildlife would release Mexican gray wolves in Central Park and Washington, D.C.
"I think we should bring them here and turn them loose on the [national] mall," Pearce said during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on whether the Bush administration has meddled with science related to the Endangered Species Act.
Pearce who hails from Hobbs on the eastern side of New Mexico was railing about the wolves that, since 1998, have been released on the western border of his state in an attempt to restore a species hunted to near extinction. Some county officials in New Mexico have asked federal authorities to remove the wolves, which can attack livestock. Fish and Wildlife denied the request yesterday.
Pearce described a recent attack on a horse, saying the wolves devoured the animal like "piranhas." Soon, he implied, they might hunger for human flesh. Nothing is more attractive to a wolf than the sound of a crying baby, Pearce said. It would only be fair to visit the same fanged fears on the people of New York City and Washington, D.C.
Note: Stop grazing cattle on mall.
