AKC vs BOULTON -
Part III
(see
Handy Links below to Trial
Board and Parts I & II)
MYTHICAL BANANA REPUBLIC KENNEL
CLUB
Are You A Member?
by
Louis A. Fallon, Legal
Analyst/Reporter
Summary: BIS dog show judge George
Boulton appeared in the Spring 2005 mini TV series Showdog Moms &
Dads. During the filming he answered the TV producers’ leading but
casual questions about hypothetical dog show judges. His off-handed
replies were cut-and-pasted out of context into the actual TV
program which aired in March
and
April of 2005 and made to appear as if he was talking about specific
dog show judges – which he was not.
The AKC filed charges against George
Boulton which were heard by the AKC South West Trial Board on March
29-30, 2006 in Fullerton, CA. The Trial Board court spent 16 hours
over 2 days listening to testimony, reviewing evidence and issued a
written ruling that the burden of proof was not met and the AKC
charges were not sustained. The AKC charges were ordered dismissed
by the Trial Board court. By certified letter dated April 20, 2006
the AKC sent George Boulton the Trial Board court’s written decision
and dismissal of charges.
Then in violation of the Double Jeopardy
Clause of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United
States of America, the AKC brought the identical charges up at the
May 8-9, 2006 AKC Board of Directors meeting and the AKC Board
revoked George Boulton's judging approval license privileges for one
year. George Boulton had spent $20,000.00 for a defense lawyer and
brought in two witnesses from Florida to appear in southern
California before the Trial Board. Then the AKC ignored the rule of
law and revoked his judging approval for one year, on the same
charges that the AKC Trial Board had examined and dismissed. For the
AKC Board to revoke George Boulton's judging privileges for one year
is shameful, an action that usually only happens in a Banana
Republic.
What is a Banana Republic? Today many people hear the words
banana republic and think of the large chain clothing stores which
features apparel and accessories for men and women. People think of
a banana republic clothing store as a place where you can outfit
yourself for an African safari or a day at the local beachfront.
A Banana Republic is a bad place to be in. The expression banana
republic started out as a slang pejorative term for a small, often
Latin American or Caribbean country, which is ruled by a small and
corrupt clique of people. Over time the expression has been expanded
to include a backward dictatorial, generally unstable regime where
corruption is rife, elections are often fraudulent, and the concept
of the rule of law is ignored or trampled.
The phrase banana republic was coined by American humorist
and short story writer O. Henry, (1862-1910) in reference to the
country of Honduras. ‘Republic’ in his time was often a code word
for a dictatorship, while ‘banana’ implied a reliance on basic
agriculture and backwardness in the development of industrial
technology. As you know, animal husbandry, the breeding of animals
and related matters are extensions of agriculture. The Banana
Republic Kennel Club is run by a dictatorial junta that struts
around exaggerating its own power and importance, often at its
winter dog show in a warm climate. The Banana Republic Kennel Club
people, staff and field representatives wear the epaulettes of a
banana republic generalissimo which are of considerable size,
usually portrayed in satire with a pair of mops.
In modern usage the term banana republic is used to describe a
dictatorial regime where the rule of law and human rights are
disregarded in favor of other more important pressures. The
influence may be political or economic or both, but the point is
that a banana republic is controlled or heavily influenced by a
foreign corporation, either directly or through their government.
The same way that the Banana Republic Kennel Club would tell its
5,000 affiliated dog clubs and 3,300 dog show judges what to do and
when to do it.
It was in the Latin American country of Honduras that the United
Fruit Company (1899–1970) and the Standard Fruit Company (now
re-named Dole Food Company) traded tropical fruit, bananas and
pineapples grown in third world plantations and sold in the United
States and Europe. Historians often accused the companies of
exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the classic example
of the influence of a large corporation involved in the internal
politics of a country it had turned into a banana republic. The
historians and critics correctly point out that the countries were
getting along just fine until the big corporation decided to change
a happy little country into one of their banana republics. One might
compare them to the Banana Republic Kennel Club affiliated dog
clubs. They are influenced by the big banana, who sends out a hack,
a tired worn out former professional dog handler that has probably
never been a member of a dog club and has no idea how a real dog
club operates but whose job is to oversee dog shows with the title
of field representative generalissimoto.
The field generals and their equivalent in-house staff
wearing the big Banana Republic Kennel Club generalissimoto
epaulettes tell long term experienced dog show chairman and dog show
judges what to do and when to do it. Dog show judges with twenty,
thirty or more years of experience are now second guessed, outranked
by the field representative and in-house staff generalissimoto
strutting around with their staff titles and field representative
powers. Dog show judges can have their dog show judging license
approval revoked; they can be placed on probation or terminated
without any notice or judicial hearing. Suddenly you “got no legal
rights” as an American citizen, you only got what the big Banana
Republic Kennel Club says you got, what it wants to give you.
The Octopus was the nickname of the United Fruit Company, so named
for its willingness to involve itself in banana republic politics,
sometimes violently. In 1910 one of their United Fruit Company field
representatives Mr. Sam Zemurray hired a gang of armed roughnecks
from New Orleans to help stage a political coup in Honduras in order
to obtain beneficial treatment from the new government for his own
banana trading company. The big Banana Republic Kennel Club Board of
Directors thought that was a good idea and filed it away into its
corporate culture.
Banana Republic Kennel Club - By extension, the word banana
republic can be applied to governments or organizations where a
group with power hands out appointments and advantages to henchmen
and supporters, without any consideration for American concepts. If
hardworking attorneys in the South West Trial Board spend 16 hours
over 2 days time hearing a trial board court case against a BIS dog
show judge named George Boulton and determined that the charges are
not sustained and dismissed the charges - so what. The big Banana
Republic Kennel Club fondly remembers Chicago gangster Al Capone
(1899-1947) who is quoted as saying “I am above the law” and “You
can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
kind word alone”.
Let’s take dem guys for a one way ride. Quoting from the May 8-9,
2006 AKC Board of Directors meeting, regarding:
“Trial Board Structure and Procedures.
The Board discussed a staff proposal for changes to the current
Trial Board Structure. It involved reducing the number of regional
Trial Boards from six to four, having regional alternates rather
than an At-Large Pool, and having a separate performance Event Trial
Board. This, in addition to Trial Board appointments, will be
discussed further in July.”
Translation: the AKC South West Trial Board members who voted to
dismiss the charges against George Boulton are to be terminated with
extreme prejudice, given a one-way swimming lesson in the Pacific
Ocean with cement overshoes.
To paraphrase the words of the big Banana Republic Kennel Club
generalissimoto staff; Hey, anybody what don’t agree with what I
say, when I say it, will be privileged to get a big fat banana
shoved you know where by the big Banana Republic Kennel Club, uh,
delivered by dat gangster Tony Soprano and his crew.
Handy links:
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Lady Bites AKC Canine Health Foundation
The title says it
all.
AKC vs Boulton 1 - Trial
How
the nightmare began and the charges.
Trial Board Report and Findings
The
first (only?) copy made public.
AKC vs Boulton
2 - Defendant
So what happened? You won't
believe it!
AKC vs Boulton 3 - Banana
Where are we now?
Depends on where you sit.
AKC 100 Years Ago
April 2006
A look back to "the good old days" by Fallon (History
Series)
Dog Show Judge Bites Back
Part I - Martin Files Civil Lawsuit
Against Teague.
Dog Show Judge Bites Back
Part II - Synopsis of Civil
Lawsuit.
Dog Show Judge Bites Back
Sandy Teague's Apology to Judge Martin provided by Cheri
McNealy.
FCI Divorces CKC Federation Cynologique Internationale
ceased to recognize Canadian KC
American Dog Show History Began June 4, 1874 read to find
out more
Author Louis A.
Fallon has been a pooper-scooper and dog club volunteer since 1970.
One of his great-grandfathers, Charles J. Peshall, Esq. of Jersey
City NJ was a founding father of the AKC, the first chairman of the
AKC Stud Book Committee, the lawyer that wrote the first set of AKC
bylaws, a Field Trial and Bench Show exhibitor and Pointer breeder.
louis.fallon@gmail.com
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