Ted Nugent agrees to pay $10,000 fine because some "crazy law" in Alaska will not allow him to leave enraged wounded bears roaming the wilderness. Update!

This from the ADN:

Activist and musician Ted Nugent has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors admitting he illegally shot and transported black bear in Southeast Alaska two years ago, according to the agreement.

Nugent, 63, launched an arrow at a black bear while on a bow-hunting trip with friends in Tongass National Forest in May 2009. Federal prosecutors say he wounded the bear, attracted to the hunters by a bait station. Nugent's lawyer says the arrow grazed the animal and it scampered off alive. 

Whether injured or merely scratched, the bear got away. Nugent shot and killed another bear four days later. Then he put the scenes on TV.

Now this law is fairly self explanatory, and Nugent really did not have much  flexibility with which to launch a defense. However just to make sure he would lose he hired ex-Plain flunkie, and worst lawyer ever, Wayne Anthony Ross (We call him WAR) to defend him.

You remember WAR right?

He was sort of like Elmer Fudd's less capable brother, who Sarah Palin once tried to foist on Alaskans as their Attorney General, but who the Alaska bloggers, and others, helped send back into the shadows.

Here is what Ross had to say about this law and his client:

 "They've got apparently some crazy law in Southeast that says if you even touch an animal with an arrow, it becomes your animal," Ross said by phone Friday. "He looked to see if he had hit it and didn't believe that he'd hit it fatally." 

Ross said he watched video from that episode of "Spirit of the Wild." The lawyer and gun-rights advocate said the arrow "touched" the bear and stuck in the ground. It might have cut the bear's skin, he said. 

I like how Ross characterizes it as just "touching" the bear. As if Theodore simply walked up to the bear and tapped it on the nose saying, "This time I will let you go, but next time you are going to be a throw rug."  In reality Nugent tried to kill the bear while trying to show his best side to the camera crew that accompanied him, hit it, and then left the wounded animal to wander off to either bleed to death or, in an enraged state, attack another hunter or camper who had no idea they are sharing the woods with five hundred pounds of wounded fury.

"There wasn't any blood trail that they could find," Ross said. "There was a little blood apparently at the spot, but nothing that indicated the bear was hard hit." Nugent and his hunting buddies looked for the bear but didn't find it, Ross said. 

"The bear didn't die. He only took one bear."

Okay now personally I have issues with the whole idea of "Bear baiting" anyhow.  Essentially that is where you put out the Ursine version of a picnic basket and wait for a hungry bear to wander by before shooting it from the safety of a tree blind, while sitting in a comfortable folding chair knocking back a few brewskies.  It is essentially to hunting what Wii Bowling is to sports.

Ross goes on to say that Nugent has hunted in Alaska for years, which of course means he should have known about the law, or perhaps even had the personal integrity to make sure that he did not allow a wounded bear to wander the Alaska wilderness.  But let's face it, Nugent does not exactly respect the laws of our country now does he? Which is why he recently had to explain his veiled threats directed at our President to the Secret Service, and why he also ignores those "crazy" statutory rape laws as well.

You know I have to wonder exactly HOW Nugent came to be represented by Sarah Palin's best buddy Wayne Anthony Ross in the first place? Just how close IS Palin to this confessed pedophile and lawbreaker?

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Update: It appears that the military did not buy Nugent's excuses for making threats against the President. Courtesy of  the Hollywood Reporter:

Citing inflammatory language while expressing his displeasure with President Barack Obama, the military has uninvited rock star and conservative political activist Ted Nugent from performing at Fort Knox in Kentucky, according to the U.S. Army post’s Facebook page.

“After learning of opening act Ted Nugent’s recent public comments about the president of the United States, Fort Knox leadership decided to cancel his performance on the installation," it's Facebook posting says.

Gee, the military is not comfortable having a confessed pedophile, who threatens their Commander-in-Chief, play really bad music for the troops? Who could have guessed?