Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:26:15 -0500
Subject: ANIMAL TERRORISTS AIM AT AMERICA! Get Proactive! CONTACT Your Fed Reps! Forward
To: AZPetLaw@yahoogroup s.com; Texas-Pet-Laws@ yahoogroups. com; NVPetLaw@yahoogroup s.com; BSLWorkshop@ yahoogroups. com
Dear Fellow Animal Lovers:
We are under siege! The animal rights terrorists have declared war against
us! HSUS is proposing, funding, and lobbying for anti- animal use laws
nationwide. California, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Washington, and Arizona in
particular have become focus areas for their vicious and unrelenting
assault. HSUS is at the root of most of these proposed anti-breeder and
anti-animal use laws. PETA has been especially sadistic with their recent
attacks using misleading and slanderous PSA’s which blatantly attack hobby
breeders.
The SPCA is enforcing HSUS backed legislation wherever it is enacted often
with the use of firearms as has been demonstrated recently in L.A. When
this story was posted to the list, we were inundated with stories where
similar abuses have been perpetrated upon our citizenry nationwide.
HSUS, as we are all aware, is trying to push forth their mandate for a vegan
nation by enacting legislation that will control how our food animals are
raised and kept. The short term effects of this legislation will be a rise
in our food prices. Long term, they seek to eliminate all animal based food
sources from our diets as well as availability for our pets’ diet.
Most recently, we have learned that HSUS is actively lobbying at the federal
level to have a bill sponsored to mandate spaying and neutering nationwide.
They have even had the unmitigated gall to tell legislators at the federal
level that California’s AB 1634 was warmly embraced by the pet owning
public. Furthermore, Californian’s desire for MSN legislation serves as an
example as to how well this legislation will be accepted and even desired by
all American pet owners according to sources on Capitol Hill.
The writing is on the wall! We need to put aside any and all the differences
we may have and band together now as a unified group to let our U.S.
legislators know that we do not wish to have ANY mandatory spay and neuter
laws. This is also the perfect opportunity to point out to our legislators
the terrorist aspects of HSUS and how they violate their 501 c (3)
not-for-profit tax exempt status with their misrepresentation to garner
donations to fund their political activities. We can show how they are using
our legislative process to create a vegan America. We, as citizens, must
demand that HSUS and PETA be investigated by the FBI for domestic terrorism
and by the IRS for violation of tax code. All animal owners and breeders,
especially those living in the aforementioned states, need to demand
protection from these domestic terrorists under the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism Act (A.E.T.A.) The TIME IS NOW to request this from the
President, Vice President, your U.S. Senator, your U.S. Representative, the
FBI, the Dept. of Justice and the IRS. All relevant contact information and
links are provided below. I hope that you will join us in the effort to
head Wayne Pacelle off at the pass before he can find a sponsor for his
federal MSN bill. Please fax your letters to the contacts provided below.
Traditional snail mail with a request for return receipt is particularly
effective in getting their attention. A standard letter is provided below
which can be used if desired. Please feel free to edit to best suit the
message you wish to send. The important thing is to contact everyone NOW!!!
Apathy and complacency will not secure our freedom & rights. Take the
offensive, stop playing defense to these animal rights terrorists. Ask
yourself – Do you feel terrorized? Do you feel afraid to open the door? That
is terrorism. Our Federal government has an obligation to protect us and our
Constitutional rights. It’s time to call for help from the Federal
government. Do it TODAY!
Thank you for taking the time to do this now.
Sincerely,
Diane Amble
Director
We the People Pets
www.wethepeopleusa. us
160 10th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-2618
(650) 296-2169
SAMPLE LETTER :
SEND THIS TO ALL THE BELOW FEDERAL OFFICES--
Dear Senator:
I am writing to you today about the imminent threat posed to our nation by
the actions of animal rights groups. Large, very well funded and connected,
animal rights organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States
and PETA are engaged in a continuous and monumental effort to influence our
legislative process to further their ultimate agenda of no animal use. They
are achieving their goal at an alarming rate as one “feel good” animal law
after another is passed by our legislators. More often than not, these law
makers believe they are upholding the will of their constituents by passing
laws that will help animals and protect them from cruelty. Sadly, laws
proposed by animal rights organizations are purposefully designed to achieve
the opposite end.
As an example, in order to solve a non existent pet overpopulation claim,
the Humane Society of the United States is now seeking to control and
eventually end all breeding of cats and dogs by proposing and strongly
lobbying for a plethora of mandatory spay and neuter (msn) laws passed at
city, county, and state levels nationwide. California AB1634 and Arizona HB
2516 are state wide msn bills under consideration for passage. Palm Beach in
Florida and Los Angeles, Sacramento and Stockton in California have already
recently passed msn laws. Exemptions that are provided are cleverly written
in a way that no dog or cat breeder will ever qualify for them. Term limits
were upheld recently in California that were voted in by the people to stop
professional martyrs such as Assemblymember Lloyd Levine who serves to
promote the animal rights agenda in the already economically depressed state
of California. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional at both state and
federal levels. HSUS is currently seeking a sponsor for a mandatory spay and
neuter law, based upon California ’s AB 1634, to be enacted at the federal
level. Once enacted, these laws are typically enforced by the SPCA who
illegally assume full police powers to seize pets and terrorize anyone they
feel are not fully compliant with the msn law. These msn laws ultimately
interfere with interstate commerce within the pet industry anywhere they are
enacted by eliminating the sources that produce puppies and kittens.
The Humane Society of the United States, not content with its efforts to
eliminate all dogs and cats, is actively seeking to eliminate animal
agriculture as well and turn the United States into a purely vegan country.
Typically, they do an expose’ that will convince the public that some form
of cruelty exists. They show veterinary approved and widely excepted methods
of animal agriculture, such as use of cages for hens, expose these methods
as cruelty, manipulate the media to broadcast their message, and then seek
to redefine how animals destined for our food shall be raised. The
unfortunate but well intended result is that the cost of meat goes up making
it less affordable to the consumer. This takes meat out of the diets of
those least able to afford food and puts many children at risk for
malnutrition as animal based protein is essential to human development. One
such inspired proposed law in California to regulate the poultry and pork
industry is already causing large farms to plan to leave that state even
before the law is enacted. HSUS is no authority on proper animal husbandry
and has absolutely no business even attempting to regulate our agriculture.
They are endangering our food supply and all American citizens by doing so
as well as interfering with interstate commerce and therefore, the economic
stability of the nation.
HSUS and PETA also blatantly misrepresent themselves for the purpose of
garnering millions of dollars in donations annually from the well meaning
public. They claim that they will save animals while in reality doing just
the opposite. The Humane Society of the United States does not operate any
animal shelters save the defunct Black Beauty Ranch the organization
inherited as they grow more powerful taking over many other once effective
animal welfare organizations. They do not save pets. They sell their
services to pet shelters for $10,000 or more and promote the Asilomar accord
shelter protocol which mandates killing in favor of adoption. PETA kills 97%
of the animals that come into their care. HSUS called for millions of
dollars to be donated to them so they could help save pets and reunite them
with their owners after the Katrina disaster. They did not follow through
with that promise. What happened to all of that donated money? The attorney
general of Louisiana is still investigating HSUS over this blatant fraud.
They also called for the public to send in donations to save Mike Vick’s
dogs even though they did not have them within their custody. This is
another example of donation fraud on the part of HSUS. The laundry list of
examples of garnering donations from the public based on false premise is
indeed very long for both of these organizations
Both HSUS and PETA are effectively terrorizing pet owners, owners of exotic
animals, and those within the animal agricultural community with their
non-stop agenda to end all animal use through the skillful manipulation of
the public, the media, and our elected officials. These organizations are
particularly targeting at this time the following states with their
onslaught of activity: California, Virginia, Texas, Florida, Washington, and
Arizona. As a result, we are now demanding that both HSUS and PETA be
investigated by the FBI and the IRS for fraud and for violation of their
status as not-for-profit organizations, skirting 501c IRS code regulations
that a non-profit shall not be involved in a legislative process or campaign
of any candidate (Lyndon B. Johnson 1954).*
Because of their multi-million dollar budget, private citizens have no
chance for his or her voice to be heard. These organizations lobby using
lies, misrepresentation of animal husbandry policies and HSUS works directly
through our political process to promote their animal rights agenda for
total non animal use. This agenda endangers interstate commerce and our food
supply as well as violates their not- for profit status. Their anti animal
use laws such as mandatory spay and neuter laws and breed specific laws are
blatantly unconstitutional and violate animal owner civil and property
rights. Furthermore, animal rights groups who believe themselves to be in an
enforcement capacity such as the SPCA assuming police powers, are
impersonating police officers, are armed, and are seizing public property
(pets) without due process and are holding illegal hearings in many cases to
determine disposal of seized property. The legal definition of cruelty to
animals is the intentional infliction of injury and pain. It took 20 years
to develop and put into place the Federal Animal Welfare Act. Now private
501 c corporations are employing gun wielding, jack-booted self-appointed
vigilantes who are illegally raiding businesses and individuals homes in
violation of our Constitutions. Private corporations are not peace officers.
These actions violate citizen constitutional rights on both state and
federal levels. We demand immediate protection from these acts committed by
the Humane Society of the United States, PETA, and the SPCA under the Animal
Enterprise Terrorism Act. We are under siege and desperately need your
protection from these domestic terrorist organizations. History is repeating
itself except this time it is on our soil. With the passing of mandatory
spay neuters laws in each community, the once law abiding citizen is made a
criminal, now fearful of that knock on the door.
Thank you so much for your time and prompt action on this matter.
Sincerely,
*The tax law, which prevents so-called direct political intervention by
tax-exempt organizations, known as 501(c)(3)s, was first introduced as a
little-noticed amendment in 1954 by then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson, Dem.
IRS Guide for Measuring
Lobbying Activity: Substantial Part Test
Whether an organization’ s attempts to influence legislation constitute a
substantial part of its overall activities is determined on the basis of all
the pertinent facts and circumstances in each case. The IRS considers a
variety of factors, including the time devoted (by both compensated and
volunteer workers) and the expenditures devoted by the organization to the
activity, when determining whether the lobbying activity is substantial.
Under the substantial part test, an organization that conducts excessive
lobbying activity in any taxable year may lose its tax-exempt status,
resulting in all of its income being subject to tax. In addition, a
religious organization is subject to an excise tax equal to five percent of
its lobbying expenditures for the year in which it ceases to qualify for
exemption.
Further, a tax equal to five percent of the lobbying expenditures for the
year may be imposed against organization managers, jointly and severally,
who agree to the making of such expenditures knowing that the expenditures
would likely result in the loss of tax-exempt status.
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