Posted on 02/21/2014 10:02:50 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Hispanic promoters of cruel, cock-fighting extravaganzas were arrested in a massive, February 9th raid at a Plattekill, New York farm about 90 minutes from New York City, the liberal bastion of freedom and amnesty for illegals! (1) The very large cock-fighting ring was headed up by Manuel and Jesus Cruz.
According to the Ulster County Sheriffs office which organized the raid, the enormous operation involved some 6,000 birds, all bred to kill for money! According to media reports, this cock fighting ring had operated for years under the guise of a live poultry farm, yet nothing was done until recently to expose the horrific abuse of animals. (2) ASPCA response team spokesman Tim Rickey believes this may be the LARGEST cock-fighting arrest in American history, adding it was the largest operation of this type weve been involved in!
A CiR informant said the suspects taken in the arrest staged events in three other locations, entertaining cock-fighting enthusiasts...
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All bred to act like uber roosters. Cock fighting is adding an arms race component to an act of nature.
My kinfolk from southeast Oklahoma were into chicken-fighting big time. The small town, from my memory in the fifties through the seventies at least, every other house had its cages in the back with fighting chickens, it was a big deal. There were no Mexicans around in those days. As of the seventies the sheriff would still look the other way.
Since then they’ve tightened the law there and while they may still raise them for fighting, they have to go over to Louisiana to fight them.
Cock fighting has been part of this country since Europeans first arrived here.
While I’m all for protecting American culture from the multiculturalist hoards, cock fighting is as American as apple pie.
How is this substantially different than Ice Hockey?
... apart from feathers, pucks and claws of course.
Wake me up when someone tries to have a bullfight
Not really...cock fighting has been around for at least three hundred years, and it is still popular in Appalachia and the rural South.
“Hispanic promoters of cruel, cock-fighting extravaganzas were arrested...”
There’s something racist in there. Has to be....
The author has obviously never been to Eastern Kentucky or South Louisiana.
The thing I don’t understand is why this disturbs activists when the 18 wheelers on the highway with 20,000 chickens in boxes doesn’t.
Thank goodness....All we do is suck humans out of the womb.
Worried over chickens...the loser gets eaten.
Ya starting to see a pattern of total ignorance and stupidity?
Mexicans also love bull fighting...Ya see how the Mexican audiences down there react to the brutal cruelty of these animals?
“all bred to kill for money!
All bred to act like uber roosters. Cock fighting is adding an arms race component to an act of nature.”
Not only that, rooster eggs don’t make a very good omelet.
Can’t eat a dead fighting cock...too lean and tough—it’s like gnawing on hard rubber.
Remember Chicken George from Roots?
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