December 4, 2005

Dear Mr. Snyder,

            In response to your certified letter dated November 14, 2005, I see that you were chosen to do the work of the Northwestern Regional office in this issue. I do note from your letter that you do not know me and that you are sending this as ordered by your superiors. I don’t hold you personally responsible for this letter because after all, you are only doing what you were told. It seems that only fragments of this issue were ever brought to your attention other wise you would have thought twice about issuing me this letter. In regards to the so-called violations of the Hunter-Education Policy 1.4, I did not have a copy of that policy till my meeting with Regis Senko on June 8, 2005. At that time I was given the policy and then I was threatened and my constitutional rights were violated. I took this to a higher authority and had no satisfaction. However it is common knowledge among hunters that your organization is deceitful and corrupt to the core and that your organization is known for violation of civil rights of individuals. The letters that I wrote after that were in defense of my rights. However you allowed me to continue to instruct and of course promote the program. What you failed to realize is that I am a journalist and your representatives of the Northwestern District violated my freedom of the press and that is news to be printed and shared. All this became public knowledge the moment I walked through the door and was violated by your personnel. So you are wrong on count one of policy number 1.4. In brief your personnel violated my constitutional rights and I printed it. I never once degraded the program; I only questioned the outcome and impact of public safety. You also spoke of my opinions and they were of the nature that I was never given any real explanation of how the new program was adopted or why it was adopted. I was only sent letters that were of a degrading nature to me from your superiors.

            In response to Policy number 1.3 being a liability. That is really a stretch of someone’s imagination. It seems plain and simple that the PGC just wanted to get rid of me rather than to answer my questions. Some how that makes me a liability. This makes no sense to me at all. Over a 3 year period we graduated 856 individuals from the program, established credibility to hunting and generated new revenue to the PGC. This was all my doing and now I am a liability. I guess that you should go to the dictionary and look that word up because what I have done was an asset. If you really want to know whom the liability was read my complaint letter about the deputy who verbally abused all the students in my class and I had to apologize for that deputy’s actions at my club. Many of those students won’t set foot in the woods because of him. Now he was a liability. Being a writer and reporting significant issues in the realms in which I am involved is my job. Taking my card away will not shut me up. I will continue to listen to hunters that are hassled and harassed and landowners whose land is violated by the PGC and I will continue to publish this. Your organization is not above the law and someday you all will be held accountable for your actions. Thank you for relieving me as part of your malevolent organization.

                                                            Paul A. Bensur, Jr. Ph.D.