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want of a more descriptive term, let's call it AA Legislation
because that's exactly what it is. Anti-animal,
Anti-America. It goes by other names such as animal
rights, animal control and more accurately spay/neuter.
But don't think for one minute that it hasn't always been
anti-America!
The cleverly subversive laws began to erode your rights 25 years
ago. You were too busy to notice that your kids were
taught to disrespect your family values and customs by PETA-supplied
materials. There were other signals but you had a litter
to plan, dog shows to enter, and your job and family to worry about.
That pretty well filled your plate and you pushed "bad news" to
the back burner. Even as your awareness grew, you left it
to others to stir the pot.
Start a list of things of rights you gave up. It will be a
long list. Let's take just one example. Smoking.
I was a smoker but it wasn't the tobacco I gave up, it was the
ever-increasing chemicals and addictive substances that I
finally rejected. My grandfathers smoked for a thousand
years. It did them no harm. Tobacco was clean, a
religious and ceremonial tool.
So you smoke or you don't but now you can't smoke in public.
If you live next to a righteous non-smoker in Florida you can't
light up in your own home! You gave up that right long
before you were made to feel guilty for poisoning others with
second hand smoke. Now you pay more for a pack of
cigarettes than the alcoholic pays for a bottle of booze!
But who's counting?
Here's an interesting fact for pot smokers or those who remember
when Coke contained cocain. Over 300,000 deaths per
year from prescription drugs rivals stats on those who die from
"illegal" (non-taxed, non-regulated, non-doctor dispensed)
drugs. But who's reporting that?
While you're mulling over the loss of your constitutional right
to bear arms to protect your family from an oppressive
government that can't protect them.... well, think about how
personal and how warped laws and regulations have become.
My new car insists on locking me in. At
least the windows roll all the way down... But I don't
have kids and when I did have small children, I never lost one
out the window! I can't open a pill bottle but I don't
even know anyone who's kid got sick from eating a pain reliever
much less Advil!
Now "they" are telling you to castrate your stud dog or shell
over the bucks to keep him whole. The show bitch you
raised from a promising whelp to become the future of your bitch
line has to be spayed - or else. And these are not
"dangerous dogs" we're talking about. It is your Cocker,
your Newfie, or your toy Poodle. You start counting heads,
and the yearly bribe to your county or city is can be more than
the "rent" you pay them to live in the house you "own." Sobering
thought. So it isn't a fee, it is blackmail!
Extortion.
Lay your list aside. You get the point. You can no
longer have an intact dog behind the expensive fencing you installed
because you are a responsible owner. You live in a penthouse
with a toy dog that uses pee pee pads? Doesn't matter, they
will know you have him, microchips and vet records are a dead
giveaway.... So pay the surgical fee or pay off the
racketeers, i.e. politicians.
Make no mistake. The current legislation mania is
but one more step in a concerted, well organized plan to
destroy all that Americans hold dear. Communist
plot? Who knows? There are some who catalog the first assault
as an
obscure group calling itself "People For The Ethical Treatment Of
Animals."
Where did PETA get millions of start up funding with which to send
out those solicitations? What about ALF and ELF? Good questions
but what matters is that you recognize the threat and rise up
to defeat it. Our forefathers left Europe because of
oppression. They came to a new land and carved out a place to
call home. They dumped some tea in Boston Harbor to symbolize
freedom from unfair taxation.
For over a
century, our soldiers have given their lives to protect the
hallmark of American beliefs - freedom from oppression and undue
taxation.
Freedom from illegal search and seizure. Sure. Tell it to Denver dog
owners!
We
protected our homes from "savages" and now we open the door to
inspectors.
We stood
up to the King Of England. Now we bow down to a dog warden.
We wrote
a Constitution. Now we are afraid to invoke our rights.
Brave men
died so we could remain Americans, but who remembers the Alamo?
We are way too civilized now. We "talk out" our problems.
We "come together" and by committee, we hand over our rights.
Where once we elected Leaders to represent us, we now send political
lackeys out to collect bribes and perks and we're so used to it, we
shrug off the latest scandal on nightly news. Or do we?
Dog owners gave a solidly
entrenched California senator the boot. Kicked her out in the
primaries. We're not rid of Santorum but he saw defeat and
tabled PAWS. Now we have a NY Assemblywoman who says you can't
crop or dock your dog. If I were to do my own tails (it
would take one minute per pup, no stressful trip to the vet for mom,
and the pups would be back to sleep before they could be put back on
the nipple) I'd probably be fined a grand per pup instead of the
$500 per violation that publicity-seeking twit wants!
I hope New Yorkers do to her what
Californians did to Speier. Are we strong enough to send a
message, loud and clear?
We are Americans! We come
from fighting stock and we have seen the enemy. Black, white,
red, and yellow; we are mad Americans and we ain't
gonna take it any more. Democrat, Republican, Independent, it
does not matter. We are going to fight for the few rights we
have left and our companion animals are at the top of
the list.
There has never been progress
without revolt. That is the foundation upon which America was
built. Our forefathers brought their dreams and their
pets to America. Dog owners are nearly half the population.
We hold the power. And we use it to defeat every
politician who tries to take away our God-given right to own
dogs! There's a new kid on the block and he's a dog owner.
In fact, he probably has a bumper sticker that says "My Dog Votes"
and he means it!
Barbara J.
Andrews
Managing Editor
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