In time, we will understand how much of our joy and passion these organizations have taken away from us. Maybe the people who run them have never known the great heights, brilliant emotional colors and deep feelings that the rest of us know with our animals. Maybe they all live in a bland, polite, Ritalin world. But, time will change them. As people begin waking up, and lawmakers begin to see their mistakes, they will take more than a second look at the corporations that started with our contributions and grew up to bite the hands that feed them. You will see things like Wisconsin passing laws to protect its agricultural industry against interference by animal rights activists. You will see things like Michigan Institute of Technology taking a second look before offering credit courses on how to destroy the Greyhound racing industry instead of improving it. You will see less and less about them in the news, because press releases by animal rights groups will be more carefully evaluated by editors and program directors before being reported as gospel. The circus will be fun again, breeders won't worry about the safety of their animals, and horse races, county fairs and dog shows will be bigger than ever.
  It's summer here. I go outside and look at the lake that I fell in love with the first time I saw this place that has become my home. The place where my horses and dogs live along with Mamie, the wild cat who isn't really so wild. I walk along the lake and imagine it's an ocean. Tossing a stone into the dark water, I pretend the ripples are waves rushing over the sands, then pulling back and leaving behind new things for us to think about, new things to discover. That's how it is at the shore, in your bare feet, as the waves roll a little further out each time. That's how it is when the tide is turning.

Sources:
CCF Knocks Animal Rights Groups Back On Their Paws
5/19/05

  The nation's ultra-wealthy animal rights groups usually get a free pass from the media for being "compassionate." But from New York to Washington and beyond, the Center for Consumer Freedom is exposing those groups for their hypocrisy, and for their support of the movement's terrorist underbelly. Our work is paying off. The most visible animal rights groups are now being forced to turn their attention away from their propaganda and toward defending their indefensible acts.
  Since we launched www.PetaKillsAnimals.com, hundreds of thousands of people have learned People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' dirty little secret. And yesterday, we told a standing-room-only U.S. Senate hearing how groups like PETA, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine offer rhetorical and monetary support for groups like the FBI-designated terrorist Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Agent John Lewis, deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, told the hearing that those groups pose the most serious domestic terror threat, saying: "There is nothing else going on in this country over the last several years that is racking up the high number of violent crimes and terrorist actions."
  Judging from the comments of PETA, HSUS, and a leading ALF supporter in the wake of the Senate hearing, it looks like we've hit a nerve:
  "An HSUS spokesman attempted to label our claims as "outrageous." That's certainly the appropriate word for HSUS's behavior.
  "PETA's attorney said the group "has no involvement with alleged ALF or ELF actions." Yet a sentencing memorandum for convicted ALF arsonist Rodney Coronado indicates PETA president Ingrid Newkirk had advance knowledge of his crime.
  "University of Texas El Paso professor Steven Best -- an ardent defender and press officer for ALF who refused to appear at yesterday's Senate hearing or assist in any way -- said: "I am in the above ground support movement, I do not operate in both worlds such that I am in contact with anyone in the ALF or recruit anyone for it." That's funny, since Best has been caught on camera saying: "It's the same thing with the ALF. We are breaking down doors, breaking into buildings, rescuing animals, and smashing property." [emphasis added] He's also posed on camera posing with Rodney Coronado. The El Paso Times quotes CCF noting: "Dr. Best's academic position affords him a position of regrettable influence within the animal-rights movement."
  Yesterday's Senate hearing received widespread media attention from outlets like the Associated Press, Copley News Service, UPI, and the San Diego Union Tribune. As CNN noted, Sen. James Inhofe "said there was 'a growing network of support for extremists like ELF and ALF,' and he singled out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for giving money to members of both groups." The Des Moines Register also reported:
Inhofe said that although no one has been killed in an eco-terrorist attack, experts believe it is only a matter of time. "It is time to take a look at the culture and climate of support for criminally based activism like ELF and ALF and do something about it," he said.

May 13, 2005
Florida Neuters HSUS Funding

  While leading animal rights groups spend top dollar trying to steal meat off our tables, they spend precious little in the way of directly helping animals. As we've highlighted with our popular new website, PetaKillsAnimals.com, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals spends millions on offensive PR campaigns while it penny-pinches by killing more than 10,000 dogs and cats rather than caring for them or finding them new homes. This week, Florida legislators took funds from the state's "friends of animals" license plate away from the radical Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS) after they discovered the ultra-rich HSUS doesn't operate any spay/neuter programs.
HSUS has over $113 million in assets and an annual operating budget of $69 million. The group's recent merger with The Fund For Animals will likely bump its budget into the $80 million range. HSUS poured more than $175,000 into a 2002 Florida ballot initiative which gave constitutional rights to pregnant pigs.
  Meanwhile, as HSUS itself admits (in a disclosure buried deep within its website): The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is not affiliated with, nor
is it a parent organization for, local humane societies, animal shelters, or animal care and control agencies ... The HSUS does not operate or have direct control over any animal shelter.
  Reporter Mike Jackson poses the obvious question: Since HSUS doesn't administer any spaying or neutering programs, the legislature was quite correct to have blocked their receiving any future funds. The unanswered questions causing the red cheeks are simple: How did HSUS manage to get designated as a recipient of the funds in the first place, and will there be any move to recover any funds they've already
received since they were apparently given to HSUS under false pretenses?

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