Posted on 11/03/2009 3:07:57 PM PST by Still Thinking
Last night in Los Angeles, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle showed why he’s been able to turn a group that sounds as if it’s all about protecting puppies and kittens into an animal-rights lobbying force with talons. He’s looking to sink those talons into people who have the audacity to eat or sell meat, wear leather, go to circuses, or enjoy hunting and fishing – in other words, 99 percent of America.
In front of a hand-picked crowd of HSUS supporters who attended last night’s “town hall meeting” at the Ebell of Los Angeles, Pacelle rallied the troops with a fight song:
"We have to create a clamor for change ... You can get further with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone."
He attributed the latter quote to notorious gangster Al Capone, who seems like an odd inspiration for a supposedly peaceful movement. But animal-rights extremists are far from peaceful. One of Pacelle’s own staffers, Josh Balk, told the HSUS-sponsored “Taking Action For Animals” that “there are very few instances that companies just refuse to move with a friendly conversation … The animals can’t wait for people to come to a revelation themselves. Sometimes it does take force.”
HSUS sounds more and more like PETA and the terrorist Animal Liberation Front every day.
It’s been well documented that HSUS spends only a tiny fraction – less than four percent – of its budget directly funding animal shelters. If you’re wondering how it spends the other roughly $100 million in its budget every year, you might consider the cost of renting out the posh Wilshire Ebell Theatre, providing the supporters-only crowd with a catered coffee service, and hiring four burly security guards to keep out the riff-raff.
Man, it's a good thing there's Mao and Al Capone. If it weren't for them, I don't know what the leftards would do for transformational philosophies.
Bet these asshats have killed more critters than anyone for money.
HSUS: “At least we’re not PeTA.”
Are these the same people who run those pathetic pictures on TV showing abused animals wanting you to subscribe to their magazine?
HSUS is a scam organization and not much different than PETA, here’s an interesting article:
7 Things You Didn’t Know About HSUS
1) The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only, since it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere in the United States. During 2006, HSUS contributed only 4.2 percent of its budget to organizations that operate hands-on dog and cat shelters. In reality, HSUS is a wealthy animal-rights lobbying organization (the largest and richest on earth) that agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups.
2) Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s 2007 dogfighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS president Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group recommended that government officials “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch.
3) HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage. And in 1998, Goodwin described himself publicly as a “former member of ALF.”
4) According to a 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation, less than 12 percent of money raised for HSUS by California telemarketers actually ends up in HSUS’s bank account. The rest is kept by professional fundraisers. And if you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Build-a-Bear Workshop” retail chain, which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”), HSUS’s yield number shrinks to just 3 percent. Sadly, this appears typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised to return a minimum of zero percent of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did absolutely none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work.
5) Research shows that HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.”
6) HSUS raised a reported $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. Public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations add up to less than $7 million.
7) After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger testified before Congress that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” But the District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, even declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present at those meetings. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a more politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/184
Oh, yeah. There’s money in activism. BTT.
HSUS, is the Animal Liberation Front. Bunch of radical perverts that think animals are better than humans.They need to be fought at every turn and eradicated from the blood line of man kind.
Watching tv with my little grand daughter when that came on, I didn't know what was coming, and it made her cry. Pathetic excuses for human beings who put that commercial on the air.
Well, Wayne, I’ve been a vegetarian more than half again as long as you’ve been a vegan. And I’m probably a lot better shot than you and your crew.
That's who they are, if you find one use a ball bat on it and I'm not talking about the abused animals.
LOL
So how, exactly, does this work?
Can I or anyone else set up a charity for some obviously “worthy” cause, advertise, collect millions, and merely pocket it for our salaries and perks, and a few meetings in posh venues every year?
Do I even need to legitimize it with a few percent of the take thrown like bones to the actual cause we’re supposed to support, or is that just an superfluous legal or moral smokescreen as well?
As long as the "cause" is lefty, yeah, pretty much. Eventually someone finds out and outs you, like in this instance, but you'll probably weather it with the help of your friends in the media, and if not, just start up a new one.
Whenever I see overly emotional ads on kids and animals I become suspect right away - and I always check out groups like that ...
But, but, but......it’s for the CHILRUNNNNNNNN! [/ lower lip sticking out]
That’s what I mean!
Would someone with so little conscience as to start something like this have any reason to care whether they were outed? Just bank the cash and start another!
Probably in the wrong profession, we principled people are.
Why don’t the links in the article work?
Anyone want to start one or more of these things with me?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Anarchists?
National Alliance for Man Horse Love Association?
National Green Power Save the Dolts Foundation?
My bad. The fourth and fifth links are to articles at the same site, so the site name is omitted from the links, and I forgot to fix it when posting here. Go to the article, and the ones there will work. You’ll notice the other links all work because they’re to different sites, so they all have fully qualified URL’s.
From a moral perspective??? You're killing me. And from a sheerly practical perspective it's not necessarily all that bad with the media running interference for you 24/7. You might survive intact, and if that fails, like you said, just start up scam #2.
“Bet these asshats have killed more critters than anyone for money.”
Whereas a lot of us pay good money to kill critters, and eat them. It’s what God told us to do.
I bet they don’t eat the ones THEY kill.
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