Will AKC fight domestic terrorists to protect the wellbred purebred?  Why are dog owners so disjointed, so disorganized, and so LEADERLESS?   A logical person must admit the loonies, humaniacs, and political activists virtually control the courts. 

This is not an animal rights issue.  It is a political war wherein we give up human rights under the guise of protecting animal rights. 

How can this happen?   The answers are unflattering and indisputable.  “They” have better leaders than dog people.  Their leaders have led the AR troops from victory to victory, county by county, from coast to coast.   

They are better organized, better funded, and apparently, more motivated!   As preposterous as it sounds, anti-pet, political terrorists now dominate an entire nation of pet lovers.   The FBI ranks ELF as the #1 domestic terrorist threat.  We're losing the war right here, on the home front  Right behind the Environmental Liberation Front marches ALF, the Animal Liberation Front, also on the FBI list. 

Where do they get funding and leadership?  From PeTA.  It's a matter of federal record even though the money moves deviously and management is cloaked in several layers of corporate secrecy.

Ah, but we dog people can sniff out a money trail on a rainy day in the Everglades.  So why haven’t we identified the enemy by following him to his lair?

 We need to know “Why?” and “Who.”  One of the major contributors to PETA is the Tides Foundation, characterized on ActivistCash.com as “one that strains the boundaries of U.S. tax law in the pursuit of its leftist, activist goals.” The money trail is further described “Tides behaves less like a philanthropy than a money-laundering enterprise (apologies to Procter & Gamble), taking money from other foundations and spending it as the donor requires. Called donor-advised giving, this pass-through funding vehicle provides public-relations insulation for the money’s original donors.”

Other “activist” groups read like a Who’s Who list of organizations known to be in opposition to animal owner rights.  Doris Day Animal League (DDAL), Humane Society Of  The U.S., (HSUS) Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), and interestingly, Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, etc.

 PETA seems to have begun in the early eighties, mailing postage-free flyers showing monkeys with the top of their skull removed and electrodes coming out of their brains.  I donated too until, as a wordsmith, I read the promotional material with new eyes.  Wondering, who besides me paid for this material?  I asked around.  No one knew.  Who were the donors?  I went on to other concerns but PETA kept popping up. 

 Some years later I asked again - Where did they get the money with which to effectively infiltrate the educational system, actually providing teaching materials for the next generation?  How did they get in the encyclopedias?  Could public donations have materialized so quickly, so early in the campaign? 

 By then, PETA was regularly achieving network news coverage as a result of outrageous acts but wait, where did they get the money to recruit weak-minded soldiers willing to perform such acts?  How could public donations fund such an agenda? 

By now, animal lovers had them pegged as loonies and humaniacs but we still failed to identify it as an outright political war designed to test the weakness of the American people! 

 Today they don’t need mindless loonies to throw buckets of blood on fur-clad ladies.  TV News no longer promotes PeTA's stunts but it doesn’t matter, now they have billboards, school boards and county boards!!! 

They are not busy earning a living to support their Agenda – the domestic terrorist groups (so defined by congressional testimony) are supported by our tax-free dollars and grants from the foundations we support and by donations from movie stars we pay to see and….

 “They” are well organized and much more obsessed than we are.  Even news of impending doom fails to motivate us because we have no national unity.  We don’t know who we are fighting and we have no effective leadership at the national level. 

We must look back in order to see ahead if we are to successfully defend our right to own dogs.  

 Wimps or Warriors?  When it comes to discriminatory animal legislation, do we fight or do we roll over?   A warrior does not draw a bow armed with a twig.   Which are you?  Wimp or Warrior?  If that doesn't get your ruff up, what will?  

 If we have less determination than those who threaten our sovereign rights and the soil upon which we tread, we deserve defeat. 

Barbara J. Andrews

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