Comments Re: Skip Trimble and THLN

Spidey received this email.  It is worth posting and pretty much summarizes just how involved Trimble is in all things AR related in Texas.
Sent: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 11:21 pm
Subject: THLN/TXMVA join hands? Fair Use Act

Folks,
The TX Medical Veterinary Association joining hands with self-professed "mainstream" THLN has irritated me.

You probably already know most of this info but maybe some new info is here. Use this search engine, enter Robert Skip Trimble, and information will arrive.

I apologize in advance for grammatical/structural errors, but I am trying to compile quickly! I use the disclaimer Fair Use Act.
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1.Source:  The Animals' Advocate, The Quarterly Newsletter of The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Winter 2002, Volume 21 (Page 5)

"Old Dog, New Tricks, from 'Abuser' to Animal Champion" article on ALDF Board Chair Robert "Skip" Trimble

"I'm a former animal abuser. I used to own racehorses, raise roping steers, hunt and eat meat," Trimble says. "I've probably
done it all. But that's changed."

"They started telling me about vivisection and circuses and farming abuses and everything else," Trimble says. "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."


2. Source: The Animals' Advocate, The Quarterly Newsletter of The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Winter 2002, Volume 21

a. Harvard Law School ..most active chapters of the Student Animals Legal Defense Fund in the nation.

With his fellow legal scholars...and Cass Sunstein (who did appear), Dershowitz is helping to put animal law on the map. (Page 1)

b. But Sunstein, ..teaches at University of Chicago, suggested that "property may not be as important as we think," and said animals regarded as property can still have rights under the law. (Page 4)

Article about where Cass Sunstein has ended up in President Obama's administration and what he proposes for America:
c. David Favre, ... a member of ALDF's board of directors, who urged a more incremental approach to winning recognition of animals' rights.

Perhaps, he said, animal lawyers should "find a shallower place to cross the river," shepherding chimpanzees and other non-human animals into the frontier of legal rights via "a series of stepping stones," rather than trying to break down the property status wall. (Page 4)  [Note:  Boiling the Frog - er Dog, Slowly....]

3. Source: The Animals' Advocate, The Quarterly Newsletter of The Animal Legal Defense Fund, Winter 2002, Volume 21
"Spotlight on Enforcement" (Page 4)

Steve Wells, director of ALDF's Law Professional Volunteer Program ..."You can get involved as an attorney by forming a bar association committee on animal rights or using environmental laws to protect animals. Or, if you're not a lawyer, you can testify before legislators considering new animal laws or use the Freedom of Information Act...."

4. Source: Skip Trimble Bio

* 1997 HSUS Legislative Achievement Award

* 1997 PAWS Volunteer of the Year Award

* 1999 Sarah M and Charles E. Seay Kindness to Animals Award, Operation Kindness

* 2006 Secretary and Treasurer of Metroplex Animal Coalition

* Animal Protection of New Mexico's 2000 Award for lifelong commitment to animal rights

5. * Elected Board Chair of ALDF in 2001, after 6 years as an active board member. (Source Animals' Advocate, Winter 2002, #21)

* PETA Activist Award. (Source Animals' Advocate, Winter 2002, #21)

6. * Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) 2010 Art of Compassion Award Recipient, Robert L. "Skip" Trimble

7. "Skip Trimble: Intact animals are the root of Dallas' animal woes"
3:40 PM Wed, Jun 18, 2008 Dave Levinthal/Reporter

"We've compromised in every way we think possible," said Animal Shelter Commission Chairman Skip Trimble, who months ago began advocating the animal control ordinance now in front of the Dallas City Council.

"An unborn dog will never stray," Mr. Trimble said in advocating a mandatory spay/neuter law that would allow owners to keep their pets intact by purchasing a $70 permit. "An intact dog is part of the problem, and a fixed dog is not."

8. The DAS manager has now been charged with felony animal cruelty. You can read the full story and see an affadavit with more details on the case here on the Animals blog.

Targeting: Robert "Skip" Trimble (Chairman, Dallas Animal Shelter Commission)
Started by: Stephanie Feldstein

Dallas Animal Services is being investigated for the death of a cat in the shelter's walls. After escaping from his cage, the cat ended up trapped in the wall. Sources say that employees heard the cat trying to escape and reported it to management, yet the cat wasn't removed until after he had died and his carcass started to smell.

This is not the first time that Dallas Animal Services has made questionable decisions when it comes to animals in their care.

Jonnie England (Operation Kindness), a member of the Dallas Animal Shelter Commission, said "If these allegations are true, these are the people who are charged with protecting and caring for animals in the city of Dallas. This is a level of callousness and unconcern and incompetence that is just stunning."

Tell the Chairman of the Animal Services Commission to hold any shelter managers who knew about the suffering cat fully responsible for their negligence and to replace them with compassionate leaders.

Skippy On Board

1. City of Dallas Board and Commission Chairs, 2005-2007, Appointed by Councilmember Natinsky
Robert "Skip" Trimble, Animal Shelter Commission member since 11/13/2003, reappointed 10/19/05, Appointed by Natinsky, Terms served: 1

2. Re-appointedment by Councilmember Natinsky

ASC 12 Skip Trimble reappointed 09/12/2007, general public, Chair, served 2 terms, member since 11/13/2003.

Captive Wild Animal Protection Coalition, July 13, 2004,
Coalition Participants:
...Skip Trimble...Born Free (Trimble's wife), ASPCA, SPCA of Houston, PETA, HSUS and more

State Bar of Texas Animal Law Section, Skip was also instrumental in the formation of the Animal Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.
Note the BOD and Members: Skip Trimble, Yolanda Eisenstein, Randy Turner, Cassie Evans, Bill Davis, Susan Hightower, Don Feare, etc.

Remember the Gideon Case in Dallas...Yolanda Eisenstein recently met with Dallas City Council Committee members on Animal/Human Abuse.

Skip Trimble, TX Attorney General, primate 'transfer'

Lots of vegan friends

Note the listing of lawyers for Texas; self-created new market, (who not to use?) Gee, how many of these used to be in THLN and are now on the Texas State Bar of Animal Law, founded by Skip Trimble?

AZ - Chris Wencker/520-623-1461

AZ - Stephanie Nichols-Young/ 602-257-9739

FL - Marcy LaHart/561-655-9537

KY - Katie Brophy/502-561-3486

NJ - Linda Sinuk/732-296-1771

TX - Donald Feare/817-543-2202

TX - Joel Hailey/210-333-3310

TX - Randy Turner/ randy@randallturner.us

TX - Skip Trimble/214-855-2960

THLN is on the HSUS bandwagon and is now feeding the press the line that "Texas is the Puppy Mill Capital of the U.S."  Sound familiar??!!!!   (Google "puppy mill capital" to see just how many states turn up)  State by state, the ARs are targeting animal owners.  Remember when they fought so hard, state to state, to make animal cruelty a felony?  Responsible animal owners never thought those laws would be used against them either.  

Texas, you must continue the good fight and defeat this legislation NOW.

  

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.

The Texas Web

  THE TEXAS WEB

Spidey hasn't had much time to blog and has been busy with many other projects, and has also spent a lot of time reading other blogs, written by some awesome two-legged writers. Your little web crawler decided to spend some time in a warmer clime this winter and took a spin to the Big D in the heart of Texas.

I got down here to this big ole' state and thought how wonderful it was to be in God's country - a place where you can raise dogs and cats; pasture your livestock and keep all kinds of animals.

My oh my, - no sooner was I there, than I ran smack into the biggest, stickiest, black web you've ever seen. I can see I won't be able to rest until I tell you guys all about this mess. I don't know what I expected, but this sure wasn't it.

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and sad to say, I guess that includes the people who want to control everyone and make gobs of money doing it. Something stinks real bad in the state. I guess that is what happens When Vultures Rule. We'll also be looking at some of the rascally polecats (no offense to four legged polecats) that continually stick their noses into the business of honest animal owners.

I'm not even sure where to begin, but y'all know HSUS by now, don't you? They usually head up a grassroots network of "federated" humane societies and rescues." In Texas, it's called the Texas Federation of Animal Care Societies. [Texas Tax I.D. 30002745534. Based out of Austin]

One of the BOD members is Stan Parker of the Big Spring Police Department. He supervises the animal control department there. He also owns a small business and is now Sheriff of Howard County. He had a drinking problem a while back and was arrested for DWI. He lost his job with the police department but told the press he hasn't drank a drop since then, and has turned his life around. I'll have to tell you more about the other directors and board members later on as I try to find my way through this enormous web.

The head honcho in control of this posse; however, is the Texas Humane Legislation Network (THLN) based in Dallas. [TX Corporation No. 62419801). Robert L. "Skip" Trimble is the registered agent, and as I soon discovered, is so much more than that. More about their web of directors in another post.

This man wears a mighty big ten gallon hat, in fact, he has quite a few of them as we shall see. He's a long time licensed attorney; once worked for the U.S. Department of Justice; he's been Chairman of the Animal Shelter Commission, has been treasurer of the Metroplex Animal Coalition and is a member of the Texas State Bar Animal Laws (ALS) division and, well, the entire Texas animal control shebang!

He does pro bono legal work for animal groups and helps them obtain tax exempt status. He is an active lobbyist and all round stirrer upper. But his most interesting connection is with the California based Animal Legal Defense Fund.

You know who the ALDF is, don't you? They are the organization that created the Animal Abuse Registry Database Administration System, or AARDAS, better known as Pet-Abuse.com. Here's a direct quote from the website, "The main function of the AARDAS project is to enable delegated administrators to enter, edit, and update animal abuse crimes and their corresponding abusers in the hopes of compiling the most comprehensive searchable abuse database available."

Trimble also owns a REIT - a real estate investment trust. This is a corporation that invests in real estate and that pays little or no corporate income taxes. REIT's are required to distribute 90% of their income, which may be taxable, into the hands of investors. His is called Catlyn Capital Corp.

Trimble is a supporter of the Humane USA PAC. He donates $5,000 to them regularly - at least twice a year that we know of. His wife, Mary Mitchell Trimble, makes duplicate donations to them for the same amount. Not surprising when you consider his active involvement and contact with a ****load of animal related organizations. The overpowering smell is so bad down here that my eyes are burning and I can scarcely breathe. It's the worst I've ever seen.

Yep, he is smack dab in the middle of the Texas barrel of AR alphabet soup.

I'll be back with another heaping bowl of news next time.

The Eyes of Texas are Upon You