Gotta keep the money train rollin'!
Posted on 04/25/2006 7:01:14 AM PDT by Millee
So animal breeders = animal racers? :P
Animal rights people have a network of grants to tap into. So yes.
You can be sure of it...have you ever seen another creature with a bigger sense of entitlement?
Following is an excerpt from Ownership VS. Guardianship - Keep Your Paws Off My Property...
Those animal rights groups are sophisticated marketers that complain loudly about the exploitation of animals, but have absolutely no qualms about exploiting the very humans who want to help animals - their members and volunteers.These animal rights groups victimize animals as pawns - with big sad brown eyes - to build big membership rolls and big bank accounts through tons of donations by sappy-eyed 15-year olds who want to save Fluffy.
To facilitate their agenda they also victimize the good people - making pawns of the animal lovers who genuinely want to help animals.
Animal rights groups that push the term "guardianship" as an "addition" to the term "owner" , or as a replacement word for the word "owner - have an agenda - theirs.
The Not-So-Secret Agenda
What is the agenda? The agenda, my friends, is to gain control of the people, the policies and the politicians as it relates to animals and animal laws.
They want control - and they want you out of the way. You are a barrier.
To fulfill their mission - they first need to remove any barriers - animal owners. Ownership denotes property. That also means that property rights are a barrier.
To legally change property rights granted to citizens under the Constitution would be an enormous challenge, so to overcome that challenge - their strategy is to change the definition of what is considered legal property.
Which is why HSUS and PETA are working to change the legal definition of animals as property - and shift animals out from under the legal definition of ownership to guardianship. Because if your animals are no longer your property, then you no longer have inherent property rights to that animal, do you?
To accomplish all of that - they'll need to convince the public and lawmakers of the necessity of that change, and of its "reasonableness.
So they need to "sell it" first. That means they're gonna run the operation pretty much like the roll out of any strategic marketing campaign. They'll build, in what's known in the ad agency biz, a "killer" campaign. A campaign so strategic - so finely crafted - and so flawlessly executed that it'll knock 'em dead.
How To Build A Killer Campaign
To build their killer campaign, first they figure out the demographic profile of their target audiences -which groups of people are receptive to the message and why.
Then they'll "craft" the message to sound reasonable, plausible, as not to raise any alarms within the general population or the municipal governments.
Then they'll hone the message - refining it 'till it hits the sweet spot with the target audience.
They'll sugar coat it by pitching it as being "kind" so that you - the animal lover, you the dog owner will be more receptive to the message.
Then - they'll go in for the kill by adding a "goodness" factor, so that when people resist the message, they'll look like evil, Grinches
Then they'll broadcast it out through any number of communication channels to make sure it reaches the most people who are the most receptive. But there is another "target audience" - your local elected officials. They need to "sell it" to them too.
Positioning Ownership As Evil
Allow me to deconstruct the messaging surrounding guardianship, since this is a marketing concept.
In the animal rights agenda - animals are victims - and there must be an evildoer. That would be you.
They want the public, especially animal lovers, to associate ownership with something wrong, something bad, something evil.
They are inferring that ownership - and pet owners are evil - or bad by positioning guardianship as kinder and gentler, contrasted against irresponsible or cruel owners, then incorporating this positioning into all of their messaging.
Here's the mental association that these groups want you to experience when you hear these words: Ownership - Bad, Cruel, Slavery and Guardianship, Good, Kind Nice.
Here is the process they used to get you to make those mental associations:
Step 1 - Create Position Attributes
Ownership = bad, slavery, cruel
Guardianship = good, kind, niceStep 2 - Communicate Position
Animal lover = good, kind, nice
Animal abuser = bad, slave owner, cruelStep 3 - Repeat Position To Reach Market Saturation
Animal guardian = good, kind, nice
Animal owner = bad, slave owner, cruelStep 4 - Target Audience Self Selects New Position
You - Animal guardian = good, kind, nice
Others - Animal owners= bad, slave owner, cruelThey create this positioning, and repeat the positioning because they want you to self identify with the "good", thereby buying into the concept of guardianship.
This is a sophisitcated, slick marketing strategy - positioning "owners" as people who are careless, cruel or irresponsible.
What's really insidious is linking ownership to "slavery" with use of the concept that "one cannot own another living creature".
Think guardianship is a good thing? You've just been sold a bill of goods - a load of crap - and it made you feel good too.
And yet, not a word about the animal rights groups running the LARGEST international puppy mill.
Save a Sato.
As much as I try to post on that, it still seems to be the best kept secret.
Wait! What about the music cue .... " ... BORN FREE ..."
Gotta keep the money train rollin'!
Ah, I knew it. I'm the guardian. My dog's the owner! :)
ping
Thanks for the ping. Kind of disturbing on one hand "Pets are people, too!" Yipes.) On the other hand, reading it got my mouth watering for rabbit, in particular my mom's superb rabbit with green grape sauce. Sounds strange, but man o manischevitz, is it good. I love rabbit ... to eat and to wear!!
Aaawwww, but I love bunnies! To cuddle, not eat - although I would try it (I think I did when young and didn't like it, but not sure).
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I understand that you are a man on a mission but this thread really isn't about pit bulls.
To suppose that someone opposed to breed bans is neccesarily involved in "blood sport" is unwarranted.
I also have a hard time seeing the neighborhood crew involved in the 'blood sport'-
really giving a flying fig whether the breed is banned or not.
They're uncaring criminals, they'll keep doing what they're doing and will stay underground.
The ones who get dinged by the ban, as usual, will be the above-board, responsible, law-abiding citizens.
Do you have a link that exposes them?
Ah, JEEZE, not this dog doo AGAIN!!!
This situation has nothing, nada, zip, zero to do with your (pardon the pun) pet obsession. Put aside your illogical pre-occupation with "that breed" for this thread.
This has to do with animal rightists, read that animal nazis, sneaking in the back door to eventually do away with pet ownership, with man's centuries-old relationship with companion animals.
Once the concept of property rights is done away with, there's nothing to give you a right of any kind to permanently keep an animal as a pet. Your ability to make decisions concerning a pet animal could be drastically changed.
For example, if the animal ward gets sick, and you, guardian, decide you want to put it to sleep, as opposed to facing financial hardship for some sort of expensive surgery, you will not be allowed to do so, and could conceivably be forced to foot the Vet bill.
http://www.breederville.info/petnews/humane-insane.htm
http://www.breederville.info/petnews/redefining.htm
There is more too. But that is what I have marked.
Just google save a sato.
Ladies and gentlemen ---we have a winner!!!
Do you have a link for this info? I work dog rescue and I am an animal trainer. I despise the HSUS and PETA. I am constantly exposing them to people and could really use any info you may have on this.
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