Posted on 10/01/2014 5:50:28 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
A prominent animal-rights charity is not a friend of the furry kingdom.
Americans love animals, even cats. Eight million stray dogs and cats find their way into animal shelters every year, and the lucky ones are adopted into a warm home with a loving family. Shelters are operated by small charities usually called “humane societies,” whose good deeds are funded by private generosity. The Humane Society of the United States trades on the good of others to finance a radical agenda.
In May, the Humane Society and a handful of other radical animal-rights groups had to write a $15.8 million check to the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus for damages done. The circus had filed a racketeering lawsuit against the society to recover damages from a dishonest 14-year campaign the animal-rights groups mounted to bar elephants from the big top. The animal-rights groups found a former circus employee who gave graphic testimony that the elephants he loved were badly treated. His testimony generated big headlines in newspapers.
The groups had paid their star witness $190,000 to put on a courtroom show, but his lurid stories couldn’t hold up under the spotlight. His testimony was undermined by video evidence, and a federal judge concluded that he was “essentially a paid plaintiff and [a] fact witness who is not credible.” The groups had concealed the illegal payments in the accounting ledgers as “media and public education efforts.”
That’s the sort of thing the Humane Society spends much of its $150 million annual budget on, raised from unsuspecting donors. According to the Humane Society’s most recent IRS documents, Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle paid himself $400,000 in 2012, a raise of almost $100,000 from the year before.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
This is also the same group that has the highest KILL to Adoption rate in the world!
Salvation Army is the ONLY charity I will give to, and I give as much as I can every year.
I will always remember what they did for me and my buddies when I was in the Corps. They are the GREATEST and in my opinion the ONLY WORTHY charity out there.
Those ads kill my heart.
But I don’t have enough money to support anything but local.
My hat is off to you! I sincerely hold in high regard anyone that can volunteer at a shelter.
I can, have, do volunteer in various “people” situations.
When I walk into an animal shelter I just want to say...”Load ‘em all up...I’m taking them home with me.”
Remember that this was in the ‘50’s and I was in the army. It would have taken somebody with a ot more guts than I had to call it extorion. - even though that’s what it was.
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