Exactly.

From Thomas Kirby

  Sometimes I want to rant about people who say "as long as we do it responsibly."  You've heard those thick-tongued voices of male animal control officers, or the harsh whip-crack tones of the female of the species.  Do you think that they have the intellectual endowment or the intent to treat their victims fairly vis-a-vis "responsible"?  I certainly don't.

I remember reading about one of the times that predatory animal control laws were reformed.  They rolled it back so that abuse had to be "egregious."  This did make it more difficult to lie about their alleged suspects.  It was difficult but not impossible. 

Knowing what kind of people enforce animal control laws, and knowing that they are handpicked for their less than sterling personality traits, that's enough to see the need to prevent them from being able to search people's homes and otherwise cause trouble. 

I don't approve of the counteroffer.  When you offer to be better citizens that acknowledges the validity of their methods and their so-called authority.  When you know that such people thrive on tricky-dicky ways of getting people to validate them, you know that there is something that is way too wrong with them.  We do not need the abuse in spite of Shabbeti Zvi's ideas, or those of John Calvin, who had to be another sociopath.  I for one can live without a sociopath to throw at other people.

My counter-offer is that they be shut down for all kinds of charities fraud, such as political manipulation and use of money for other than charitable purposes.  Another counteroffer is that any "inspection" be done in a civil manner after giving the victim of the inspection a chance to have a fair hearing in court as to whether legally obtained evidence exists.  The whole idea is not only to put a cramp in their style but to eliminate it.

The writer of that essay makes a big mistake if she assumes that mandatory sterilization will go away if owners will just "be good." 

From now on let's call the Green party what it is.  It is the "Screw Humanity Because We Hate Ourselves and Everyone Else" party.
My blog: www.animalculture.org

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