To the editor:

The sadness created this summer by the group in the Honeymoon Lake Community that killed the geese just goes on and on.

I am a nine-year resident of this community and a fervent respecter of all life — wild or otherwise.

Accordingly, I am one of those being attacked within our small neighborhood as being “out of line” in going public with the massacre of the geese this summer. One individual even said it had lowered our property values by making this argument known! I guess if we knew of someone in the community killing a human being we should keep it a secret so as not to lower our values?

Whidbey Island, particularly South Whidbey, is a very close-knit community so anything that happens in one little neighborhood affects everyone. The group that advocates the killing of wildlife is going to try to make it “illegal” to share community information by implementing some sort of “data governance Policy” — my goodness … this is a neighborhood of individual, private citizens, not a big money-hungry corporation!

Are they going to change the Bill of Rights?

Should the U.S. government have kept the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan a secret to avoid conflict between those who love peace and those who love war?

How many people would want to move into this community if they thought they would lose their right to speak? Talk about lowering property values!

If people are not ashamed of what they’ve done, they have no reason to keep their actions a secret.

I am deeply saddened to find out how many people in the Honeymoon Lake Community think wildlife has no value at all — and how many are just apathetic.

Thank you for letting me exercise my right of freedom of speech.

CAROLE TYSON

Honeymoon Lake