Londonderry, NH:

A mother kicked, chased and eventually pinned down a rabid fox that bit her 8-year-old daughter while the girl was on a swing set. Pamela Berube, 39, of Hudson, had taken her eldest daughter to a flute lesson at a private home in Londonderry on Thursday.

Her other two children, 8-year-old Deena and 10-year-old Joshua, were playing in the flute teacher's back yard when Berube heard a scream - "and it was not a regular scream," she said.

She ran outside to discover a fox chasing the children around the yard. Deena fell, and her mother kicked the fox away from her.

"Apparently not hard enough, because he kept going after Deena," said the flute instructor, Cindy Winsor, who also ran to help.

Winsor grabbed a plastic baseball bat and hit the fox with it, but the blow didn't stop him. Berube chased the fox until it bit her arm. Then she grabbed it by the neck and pinned it to the ground for 10 minutes, until police arrived and shot it.

I have to give credit to her for keeping a rabid fox pinned to the ground for 10 minutes.  That must have been terrifying.

But what if this had been a crazed human intent on murder?  What might have happened in those 10 minutes if she had tried to stop him/her with a plastic bat?

American Freedom Agenda is asking presidential candidates to sign the Freedom Pledge.  Follow the link to read the details, but the basic points are these:

1.  No military commissions except on the battlefield.
2.  No evidence extracted by torture or coercion.
3.  No detaining [United States] citizens as unlawful enemy combatants.
4.  Restoring habeus corpus for suspeced alien enemy combatants.
5.  Prohibiting warrantless spying by the National Security Agency in violation of law.
6.  Renouncing Presidential signing statements.
7.  Ending secret government by invoking State Secrets Privilege.
8.  Stopping extraordinary renditions.
9.  Stopping threats to prosecute journalists under the Espionage Act.
10.  Ending the listing of individuals or organizations as terrorists based on secret evidence.

The American Freedom Agenda’s (AFA) mission is twofold: the enactment of a cluster of statutes that would restore the Constitution’s checks and balances as enshrined by the Founding Fathers; and, making the subject a staple of political campaigns and of foremost concern to Members of Congress and to voters and educators. Especially since 9/11, the executive branch has chronically usurped legislative or judicial power, and repeatedly claims that the President is the law. The constitutional grievances against the White House are chilling, reminiscent of the kingly abuses that provoked the Declaration of Independence.

So far only one candidate has signed the Pledge.  You can guess who.

Via The Liberty Papers.

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I went over to my dad's house this morning to pick up some fence posts.  One more doe had given birth to twins yesterday, so I helped tag them.  Twin doe fawns this time.  We're going to have to start building more pens pretty soon.