Thanks for posting this, Elizabeth. Thanks to Consumer Freedom, as usual, for their very good work, and for not shrinking from controversy.
I tried and tried over the years to tell people that the animal rights movement is a front for socialism and progressivism (i.e. Marxism), but of course, "everyone knows" that people who talks excessively about Marxism, communism and the like is a "nut-case", paranoid, etc.
I did say that the Democrat party is controlled by socialists and global socialists, no less..
And we can NEVER think for a moment that animals could be a political pawn, or that politics and power are not about economics, distribution, and the control of it. No, nothing like that.. Why would people want to control economics, distribution and trade? That's just silly, isn't it?
Prediction: Someone will be selling pets.
Second prediction: It won't be most of you who are reading this.
Third prediction: You won't get to choose what kind of dog or cat, how old, etc. and in fact, you will be lucky if you are approved by the gov't appointed agencies selected for the purpose of screening you.
Fourth prediction: Yes, animals will have interests which can be decided in courts, much like family law courts, and there will be foster homes, non-profits, of course.. These will house relinquished and forfeited pets, and the owner will pay for every expense, just as parents must pay for children in foster care, now (This one I made a long time ago).
Fooled you, again! You got angry at the Republicans, and you wanted to punish them, but the blowback is going to be wicked.
By the way, I hope I am wrong. So far, I haven't been. BUT, that's the advantage of being a raid victim. You see a lot of things that others don't want to see, or are too busy to pay attention to.
--- On Sun, 1/18/09, Elizabeth Brinkley <elizabeth@dantekennels.com> wrote:
From: Elizabeth Brinkley <elizabeth@dantekennels.com>
Subject: dog_anti-rescue_anti-peta_new The Time for Denial is Over
To: "Sheltie old lines" <sheltieoldlines@yahoogroups.com>, americanssa@yahoogroups.com, breederlawsandethics@yahoogroups.com, BreederOwnerHandler@yahoogroups.com, "W. PA Dog Breeders" <WPaDogBreeders@yahoogroups.com>, dog_anti-rescue_anti-peta_new@yahoogroups.com, dogbehaviorscience@yahoogroups.com, "Dog Legislation" <doglegislation@yahoogroups.com>, "Real Dog Show Talk" <RealDogShowTalk@yahoogroups.com>, "show dogs list" <showdogs-plus@yahoogroups.com>, ownerhandlers@yahoogroups.com, akc-legislative-liaisons@yahoogroups.c "nhdogs@yahoogroups.com" <nhdogs@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 2:55 PM
THE TIME FOR DENIAL IS OVER
Dateline 17 January 2009
I. From Fox News: WASHINGTON -- Carol Browner, President-elect Barack
Obama's choice to be his climate czarina, served until last summer as a
member of a socialist organization whose mission is to enact progressive
government policies, including toward environmental concerns like
climate change. Browner's name and biography have been scrubbed from the
Web site of socialist International, the umbrella group for 170 "social
democratic, socialist and labor parties" in 55 countries. But a photo of
Browner speaking in Greece to the group's Congress on June 30 remained
in the site's archives. II. From The Center for Consumer Freedom:
II. Forget about the income tax-challenged Treasury Secretary nominee
or the conflict of interest controversy at the State Department. The
most outrageous Obama appointee just might be Cass Sunstein, a Harvard
Law School professor who's flying under everyone's radar and into a job
that hardly anyone has ever heard of.
Cass Sunstein is slated to run the White House's Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs. He's going to be America's chief
"regulatory czar".
How radical? Sunstein supports making sport hunting illegal, and
completely phasing out the consumption of meat. He's also in favor of
giving animals the legal right to sue people.
Here's what Sunstein wrote in his 2004 book, Animal Rights: Current
Debates and New Directions:
"[A]nimals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their
representatives ... Any animals that are entitled to bring suit would be
represented by (human) counsel, who would owe guardian-like obligations
and make decisions, subject to those obligations, on their clients'
behalf."
III. From the Humane Society Legislative Fund (the Lobbying arm of HSUS):
A. "Senate confirmation hearings are in full swing this week for
President-elect Obama's Cabinet choices." "Obama's nominees
will almost
certainly be confirmed by the Senate, and will assume their new posts
shortly after the inauguration. "
B. "The Agriculture Department must improve enforcement at slaughter
plants, puppy mills, research laboratories, and wild animal exhibits,
and crack down on abusive practices such as animal fighting, horse
soring, and puppy imports. It should apply basic humane slaughter
protections to poultry so that nine billion birds per year have a
merciful death, and finalize its pending rule to prohibit the slaughter
of downed cows who (Author Note-"that") are too sick or injured to
stand
up. The agency should work to stop the export of horses for slaughter in
other countries, and should shift the focus of its Wildlife Services
program to effective nonlethal methods rather than the use of aerial
gunning, cruel traps, and toxic poisons."
(Comments - Why does" enforcement at slaughter plants, puppy mills,
research laboratories, and wild animal exhibits" need improvement? Where
will "more" funding come from in these times, AIG? Raise your hand
if
you want to pay more for chicken so that they can have a death that HSUS
defines as "merciful"? Animals in and from dog raising businesses
and
research laboratories are private property, there is not nor should
there be any Federal role in their operation. Like "wild animal
exhibits" jurisdiction and regulation lies Constitutionally with State
and Local governments employing and protecting COMMUNITY STANDARDS.
Similarly, animal fighting and horse "soring" are matters of private
property and community standards under the regulatory jurisprudence of
State and Local governments, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. There is NO
GOOD REASON for the Federal government to entertain a ban on horse
exports. Other than health reasons that should be perfectly amenable to
quarantine and veterinary medicine, importing puppies should not be a
matter for Federal concern. So "Wildlife Services" should employ
"nonlethal methods rather than the use of aerial gunning, cruel traps,
and toxic poisons": those means are ineffective and would be strongly
disagreed with by New Yorkers and passengers in and near that recent
airline crash in the Hudson River thanks to unmanaged Canada geese. We
need "more" and persistent "lethal animal controls", not
less, if we are
to live and prosper in these United States.)
C. "The Interior Department must renew and restore its commitment to
the Endangered Species Act, and work to protect listed species and their
habitat. It should reject attempts by trophy hunters to reopen the
import of heads and hides from threatened polar bears, and should list
the entire species of chimpanzees as endangered, bringing an end to
their use in research. The agency should also revamp its Wild Horse and
Burro Program, and broader use of immunocontraception and other
alternatives to rounding up wild horses and holding them in pens at
taxpayer expense."
(Comments - If the Department of the Interior does any more with the
ESA, we might as well all move to Canada. Polar bears are no more
"threatened" than whitetail deer: they would benefit from managed
hunting and Northern indigenous people would benefit economically from
such hunting and the trophies should have never been stopped.
Chimpanzee "retirement" at Federal expense and "ending their use
in
research" (an important medical necessity) are imaginings of radical
animal rights factions that should have never been given consideration
and such authorization by Federal lawmaking particularly in these
economically depressed times. Chimpanzees are neither endangered nor
threatened. "Immunocontraceptio n" is useless, a waste of government
money, ineffective, and merely a smokescreen to stop the absolutely
necessary lethal control of such animals as wild horses, deer, elk,
burros, geese, etc. that otherwise denude both wild and domestic plant
communities and compete for forage and space with other human needs.
Wild horses, like wild burros, California bighorn sheep, wolves, and
other such species should have never been taken from State jurisdiction
and management to be placed under Federal auspices and non-management. )
D. "The Environmental Protection Agency must ensure that factory farm
emissions are not exempt from federal environmental laws, including new
laws addressing climate change. It must also invest in promising
alternatives to animal testing that offer more rapid, efficient
screening of pesticides and other chemicals."
(Note: "Factory farms", like ""puppy mills",
"horse-soring" , and "trophy
hunting" are emotional descriptions of "farms", "dog
breeders", "horse
owners" and "hunters" intended to tingle the emotions of those
who do
not enjoy these pastimes, know few others if any that do, and would like
to see them done away with AS LONG AS IT NEVER DIRECTLY AFFECTS THEM.
This last point is a foolish assumption that, like pacifists assurances
in 1930's Europe concerning Hitler's benign intentions proved to be
disastrously wrong. There are no reliable alternatives to animal
testing, much less some "silver bullet" that is "more
rapid" and
"efficient". )
E. "The Commerce and State Departments must make the protection of
marine mammals and ocean life a priority both domestically and
internationally, working to stop commercial whaling, seal hunts, shark
finning, dolphin drive fisheries, and other abusive practices."
(Note: Why "must" we "protect" marine mammals like whales
and seals that
compete with us for the salmon and cod and other prized commercial fish
that these same people want to "protect" from fishermen by declaring
"Marine Sanctuaries" and fishing season closures that they blame on
"over fishing"? Managing their numbers and distribution is simply
common
sense. Seals (that decimate commercial fisheries and lobsters like sea
otters decimate conch fisheries) like whales benefit from management,
harvest, and use: it gives them value, collects data, and creates a
fishery that is far more invested in their future than Central Park
"mavens" providing "feel-good" support to such agendas and
organizations. Why is a "dolphin drive" "abusive? UN
enforcement of
prohibitions against "shark-finning" on the High Seas should be
sufficient. Federal enforcement against "shark finning" in OUR
International Waters is a minor matter and inshore waters should be
under the jurisdiction of concerned States.)
F. The Health and Human Services Department must expedite the
retirement of all federally-owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries, honor and
maintain its moratorium on breeding chimps for research, and work to
phase out use of chimps in invasive experiments. "
(See comments above under C. Using chimps saves lives and expedites
drug availability by using the species most closely related to Homo
sapiens, otherwise known as you and me.)
G. "The Justice Department must begin collecting data on animal cruelty
crimes as a separate offense category in federal databases, so that law
enforcement officials can analyze the trends and connections with other
violence. The agency should also enforce the longstanding federal law
limiting long-distance transport of farm animals to 28 hours or less,
and create a new Animal Protection Division to ensure strong enforcement
of animal protection laws."
(Comment - Interstate commerce aspects of animal transport should not be
conducted by Federal officials based solely on the animals but primarily
on the effects of such regulation on state commerce and the welfare of
rural economies, farms, and the national interest; these all being the
reason for a Constitution that authorized limited Federal powers over
interstate commerce. Animal cruelty "crimes" lie in the eye of the
beholder. Any regulation in this area should remain limited to Local
enforcement of community standards and State protection of that right
from Federal intrusions and meddling by members of certain urban
communities in the affairs of their neighbors. Animal use is NOT, I
REPEAT NOT, related to other violence anymore than urban kids that never
hunted or grew up with guns killing other urban kids is due to guns.
This is a waste of Federal funding but even more disturbing, a growing
intrusion of Federal power over private property, State government,
Local control, Community Standards, and the rights of all citizens
eventually.)
H. "The White House should appoint an Animal Protection Liaison to help
coordinate animal welfare concerns (policy issues, regulations, and
positions on legislation) that cut across many different federal
agencies." (See Item II. Above. His name is Cass Sunstein.)
Maybe the Supreme Court will stand for awhile but given a retirement
or two the Senate and President will put on new Justice's that will make
Justice Ginsburg seem like a conservative and tip the Court from Court
to rubber stamp.
This animal "rights" tsunami is in reality a forced (by government)
imposition of religious beliefs on all non-believers. I could compare
it to Sharia law in Moslem countries but it compares equally well with
the history of pacifism over the last 100 years. Pacifism describes war
as always wrong, like animal ownership, use and management. All those
making war, like all those owning and using animals, must be shown to be
wrong without exception and this is accomplished by making "war
crimes"
far worse than the crimes of those doing evil and ends in the logic of
pacifism serving evil rather than good. In this milieu of lies and
distortions found in both pacifism and animal "rights" we would do
well
to heed the observation of GK Chesterton regarding pacifists in the
midst of WWI. "One of life's unfortunate realities is that those who
know the truth are often less inclined to make sure it triumphs than
those whose entire world view will collapse if the lies they believe are
discredited. "
The time for denying that things are about to get bad is past. It seems
trite but true to say that at no time in my life has the domestic peril
been as great and therefore at no time have we ever needed as much to
pull together and fight to make "sure" that "truth"
triumphs. For at
least the next two years we will need all the cooperation and help we
can get. This last means looking to trappers and gamefowl breeders as
well as hunters and ranchers and dog breeders if we are to survive.
Jim Beers
17 January 2009
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- Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist,
Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional
Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York
City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in
the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has
worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a
Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before
Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of
$45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in
opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides
in Eagan, Minnesota with his wife of many decades.
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