Dallas Animal Cruelty Presentation

Beating Us into Submission

The Relationship between Animal Rights Cruelty Dogma and Ever Restrictive Legislation

Slowly, ever so slowly, the public has been led to a steady stream of misinformation and propaganda that has trickled down from the annals of the animal rights movement's leadership. However, the original good intentions have became polluted over time as they made their way through the ranks of all-too-human agendas and motivations. The resulting ground level reality is anything but ideal and has caused pain and grief to countless animal lovers. Yet, the masses still drink the toxic waters that cloud their minds and impair their judgment, and still the indoctrination continues.

One more example of this ongoing lockstep march to trample the Constitution and "we the people" is a presentation to the City of Dallas by Yolanda Eisenstein , the chair and CLE director of the Animal Law Section of the state Bar of Texas, member of the Dallas Animal Cruelty Alliance and board member of the infamous Texas Humane Legislation Network. (See November and December 2009 posts in this web's archive) Fellow ALS council members include Skip Trimble and Donald Feare. In the name of education, animal rights propaganda is being furthered in Dallas and numerous other cities and states across America.

The animal rights' social engineers have coined hot- button phrases such as “animal hoarder”, “pit bull”, “puppy mill”,  “meat is murder”, “save lives - spay and neuter” and “better dead than bred” to name only a few. They bank on these catch phrases to capture the attention of a gullible public, create fear, mold public opinion and cash in on guilt-induced donations. The animal rights movement has invested a great storehouse of time and wealth into their political machine.

When the public reads and hears these slogans over and over and over again, they consciously and subconsciously incorporate that information until it is deeply rooted into their own belief system. No one in the history of mankind has ever believed they were brainwashed and none of us are completely immune, but in reality, a politically correct infrastructure of such beliefs has been erected to imprison us.

Is a person with X number of pets an animal hoarder? Is there such a breed as a pit bull? Is every commercial breeding operation with more than 15 animals considered a mill? Are animals better dead than bred? No, no, no, no and no. The focus of the today's presentation at the Dallas city hall will focus on the black umbrella catch phrase - "animal cruelty."

What exactly is animal cruelty?  Common sense tells us what it is, but common sense is not always employed in the animal rights' ventures. You might be surprised to learn that ARs believe that "Abuse occurs whenever the animal's basic needs are not met, regardless of whether the abuse is inflicted intentionally or out of ignorance...." This is a very broad definition and could be, and often is, construed to mean whatever the powers that be want it to mean.  The presentation today was put together by the American Humane organization  based in Englewood Colorado.

The ideas being presented are not new. They originated years ago and since then, reams of articles of pseudo scientific studies have been bought and paid for by the AR movement (via government grants of your taxpayer dollars and donations from a well meaning public) in order to further their ultimate agenda which is  NO more animal ownership - period. They have made great strides in their goals by using kind hearted, but unsuspecting people to do their dirty work.
Consider just two of these highly emotional arguments - Violent criminals were nearly three times more likely than nonviolent criminals to have abused animals as children and nearly four times more likely to abuse their own pets. Perhaps.... Perhaps not.

Though Animal Therapy net  and other like-minded organizations recognize that there can be a link between animal abuse, violent behavior, child and spousal abuse, they also include this statement on their homepage: "A wide range of human health professionals and practitioners recognize what many people in the animal caregiving fields and everyday pet owners have known for years: that pets can be good for our health and well-being. Companion animals are being introduced into the therapeutic regimens of many health care institutions: nursing homes, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric institutions and others. Therapeutic riding programs improve the motor skills and coordination of the physically challenged. Pets help inmates in correctional facilities and juvenile offenders to learn empathy and compassion. Autistic children swim with dolphins. In short, wherever people have special needs, someone with creativity and an animal with the proper temperament can probably create an imaginative way to being pets and people together for mutual benefit."

The picture is not as bleak or black and white as some would have us believe. Many many people who have been cruelly treated and abused as children often find they are able to express the love and compassion they never received by caring for and loving an animal. In other words, the opposite of what the ARs preach, is often true.

The Roots of Deception - PeTA
Do any of you remember the non-profit propaganda press of Psyeta - Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals? They have cranked out reams of questionable literature and pulp fiction over the years

The new Animals and Society Institute (ASI)  was formed in 2005 as a result of a merger of the Institute for Animals and Society and the Society and Animals Forum where a mountain of this type of information is cited and provided. IAS was the former Animal Rights Network (The Animals’ Agenda magazine) and SAF was originally called PYETA. ARN and PSYETA were originally incorporated in respectively the State of Connecticut and the State of New York. ASI operates under PSYETA’s original 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt, not-for-profit status (tax ID#: 22-2527462 ).

Their objective? According to the website: "In order to transform these commercial, religious, academic, and other interests, the movement must put forward credible economic, political, legal, philosophical, and scientific arguments. A major player in this new stage of development is the Animals and Society Institute."

Ranking members include Jane Goodall , Peter Singer  and  Ken Shapiro PhD who is the executive director and co-founder. Shapiro was also the co- editor of The Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS)  You can find out more about him and the others on a google search. The arguments are compelling and may contain a grain of truth - but are mostly written with a definite prejudice. 

Read what Skip Trimble (see picture#25 and others) ALDF , THLN animal rights attorney and a Texas lawmaker describes as animal cruelty:

    "I'm a former animal abuser. I used to own racehorses, raise roping steers, hunt and eat meat."

WHAT!?!?! In the article found on page 5 of the Winter 2002 issue of the ALDF's Animals' Advocate, he further writes that ". . . one evening friends in Ruidoso, NM (Trimble owns a $5 million dollar ranch in nearby Glencoe) told him about a new town ordinance that encouraged spaying and neutering . . . " So he began his animal law career" by actively supporting the same measures in Dallas. His NM friends "started telling [him] about vivisection and circuses and farming abuses and everything else . . . the more I learned, the more I wanted to do something. . . The laws need to change if animals are going to be given the respect they're due on this earth and there's nobody better equipped to change laws than lawyers."

God help us all! This is right out of the radical animal rights agenda! Certainly animal abuse does exist, but to include farming practices, hunting, animal research, racing, rodeos and eating meat is subjective (based on emotions) at best and unjustified at worst.  There is little room for common sense in such an agenda.

Page 41 of the AHA slide show is entitled "Strategies" and these include training police, prosecutors, animal control, lawyers and judges. Note that these groups of people, organizations and infrastructures often have financial and political reasons for being influenced and led by AR forces. Animal control officers, along with certain types of rescue organizations, justify their very jobs, future promotions and raises on the number of animals they can collect and the number of charges they can bring against animal owners. To put it as mildly as possible, the conflict of interest is out of balance and sets up an unfair playing field that creates many victims.

Page 42 stresses the need to pass stronger laws including animal protective orders. There are numerous laws already on the books -- federal , state and local.  Page 43 states that there needs to be greater enforcement of existing laws. However, what is actually needed is fair and impartial enforcement of the laws that already exist. Therein lies the problem and controversy at issue.

Attendees of the presentation will be told that "veterinarian reporting" needs to be mandatory and receive the benefit of immunity. But reporting of what? That is a large gray area that could include nearly anything from an owner's request to have their dog's tail docked and ears cropped to refusing to have them spayed and neutered or wanting to use a three year vaccination protocol.  The reporting is once again subjective and based on the opinion of the vet.

"They" want to streamline and expedite the processes. What processes? The processes of warrantless searches? Undercover and biased investigations? Unconstitutional bonding requirements? Declaring people's guilt before they have the opportunity to be proved innocent in a court of law? Distributing a person's pets and animals at a kangaroo court hearing - before the matter even goes to trial? These processes, already in place, need to be dismantled and reworked in order to protect the innocent who have been, and will continue to be victimized by them.

In the meantime, the witch hunts will continue. Many animal owners will turn against each other in the confusion that the AR movement has deliberately created and so the already toxic waters will be further muddied.  Take a closer look and test the waters before you blindly drink from them. Animal welfare is strictly about protecting animals - not punishing people. Animal rights is about taking animals away from people who care about them.