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Posted on 08/06/2009 1:51:27 PM PDT by neverdem
| North Carolina Senate Passes Anti-Hunting Bill! |
| Thursday, August 06, 2009 |
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Please Contact Your State Representative Today! Senate Bill 460 — the anti-dog breeder, anti-hunting bill promoted by the radical Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) — passed the Senate on Wednesday, by a narrow 23-22 vote. The legislation is now in the House, where it has been referred to the Committee on Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship. Please contact members of that committee and urge them to oppose S 460. Please click here to contact the members of the House Committee on Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship. The Senate vote was close thanks to a strong coalition of NRA members, responsible dog owners and breeders, and numerous groups representing their interests, all opposing this onerous bill. Even the prestigious American Kennel Club (AKC) — a group synonymous with representing the interests of dogs, dog owners, and dog breeders for 125 years — weighed in against the legislation. Unfortunately, Senate Democratic Leadership chose to side with the anti-hunting extremists at the HSUS, and worked to force the legislation through the chamber. Numerous Democrat Senators who had previously supported the rights of hunters with their votes or during their campaigns sided with HSUS on this vote. While the language has been watered down along the way, its true intent remains. HSUS will use this bill, should it pass, as a template for future legislative efforts in order to achieve its true goal — eliminating ALL commercial dog breeders. HSUS as much as admits this is its goal through its own words. The group has publicly stated, “There’s no reason for anyone to patronize a pet store or a breeder.” Clearly, if there is “no reason for anyone to patronize…a breeder,” there must be no reason for there to be any breeders, in the world HSUS would like to see. The group further paints ALL commercial breeders with the same broad brush it uses to condemn so-called “puppy mills,” when it states it has been working to expose “the cruel realities of the commercial dog breeding business.” That’s not a condemnation of just “puppy mills,” but EVERYONE in the “commercial dog breeding business.” HSUS also claims that “good breeders don’t breed to make money.” In other words, HSUS is not solely concerned with the cruel treatment of dogs by a few unscrupulous breeders. Instead, it condemns any commercial dog breeder as being “cruel,” and anyone who breeds dogs for money cannot, in the eyes of HSUS, be a “good breeder.” But for the best indication of what are the true goals of HSUS, one must simply read the words of its President, Wayne Pacelle. From the book Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt, when asked if he can foresee a future with no pets, Pacelle stated, “If I had my personal view, perhaps that might take hold. In fact, I don’t want to see another dog or cat born.” In the May 1993 edition of the publication Animal People, Pacelle is quoted as stating, “One generation and out. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.” Eliminating dog breeding would, of course, help Pacelle’s anti-hunting agenda, by eliminating that segment of the hunting population that uses dogs. He has stated, “We are going to use the ballot box and the democratic process to stop all hunting in the United States…. We will take it species by species until all hunting is stopped….” Replace “species” with “practice” and it is easy to see why Pacelle and HSUS are so eager to drive dog breeders out of business. And while the true intent of HSUS is at the heart of NRA’s opposition to S 460, there remain numerous immediate concerns with the bill, in spite of efforts to water it down to misdirect the public and gain support. AKC points out the bill contains a vague definition of what constitutes a “commercial breeder,” as well as contradictory, unclear enforcement provisions. Furthermore, the standards for care at a “commercial breeder” facility are not specifically spelled out. They are left open to interpretation that could lead to standards that are designed not to ensure healthy, happy animals, but to ensure many (if not most) “commercial breeders” would not be able to meet the standards that are set. The battle in the Senate is over, for now, and NRA would like to thank all Senators who voted against S 460. Several Senators deserve a special thanks for their votes. There were rumors circulating that Senators Tom Apodaca (R-48), Peter Brunstetter (R-31), Debbie Clary (R-46), Fletcher Hartsell (R-36), and Bob Rucho (R-39) intended to support S 460. All five senators have histories of supporting hunters, and they assured NRA directly that the rumors were not true. All five senators stuck with NRA members by voting against this bill, and they deserve our thanks. Our special thanks also go out to those Democrats who voted with NRA and against HSUS and S 460, and would not give in to pressure from Senate Democrat Leadership. They are Senators Doug Berger (D-7), Steve Goss (D-45), Joe Sam Queen (D-47), John Snow (D-50), and A.B. Swindell (D-11). NRA will continue to work to oppose the HSUS agenda, and will continue to oppose S 460 in the House. Please contact your State Representative, especially if he or she is a member of the Committee on Commerce, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, and respectfully urge him or her to oppose S 460. To contact your State Representative, please click here. |
Elections have consequences don’t they?
HSUS ping!
This type of back door gun control quickens one’s desire for a hunt for a completely different “species”...
And to all the Fudds who think their Rights are safe and they don’t need to join the NRA. This legislation is for you.
The HSUS is a fraud and many of its members out and out lie.
Thanks for the ping, Fly.
7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS
1) The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.
2) Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s 2007 dogfighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch.
3) HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.”
4) According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work.
5) Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.”
6) HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.
7) After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/184
Without Helms around to explain things to them, NC people have proved as slow as molasses on the mental scale.
Is Rush a HSUS member ?
I sure hope not but it seems I read something quite a while back he’s given money to them, if he has he should do some research on them.
Good summary.
People need to be aware that HSUS is not your local humane society that cares for animals. HSUS is the exact opposite. The name was picked by these radicals to hide its extreme anti-human agenda. HSUS is part of the neo-Nazi movement in the deep ecology cult. Among its insane misanthropic statements is included a call to eradicate the human race. As far as I’m concerned, HSUS has forfeited its right to live freely amongst mankind. At the least, they should be locked away forever. And legislators that vote for this HSUS garbage should be charged with crimes against humanity.
I don’t get it - what does hunting have to do with breeding??? The title mentions hunting, yet the articles only talks about breeding? What am I missing???
Never mind - I re-read the article a little closer. It does mention hunting.
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