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.
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Animal ping. Better to support your local agencies, or rescue group.
You got it! I support local rescue organizations myself.
Somebody must have run $19 per month by a focus group!
My favorite...
“For less then the price of a cup of coffee”
ONLY donate to local animal charity and rescue groups. As a matter of course, I ONLY donate to local charities. I can hold them accountable and if they do stuff I don’t approve of I can march in to their office and talk to someone about it.
And with all the tear jerking, if you offered to support THEIR mission if they on turn would join YOU in opposing the abortion of innocent human infants, my guess is that they’d spit in your face.
We have had the “Humane” Society of the United State’s number for many years.
Two shelters get our monthly donations, a no-kill shelter and the Humane Society of our county (unaffiliated with HSUS).
They’re local, and we get nice thank you notes from time to time along with their monthly newsletters.
When my Rocket died, they published his passing in their “In Memoriam” column on the front page.
That was very sweet of them...and you.
But before going forward with volunteering I specifically checked whether the shelter had any ties to HSUS.
The shelter's website very pointedly (albeit in small print) distanced itself from HSUS.
HSSV’s mission is to save and enhance lives. As an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, we do not receive funding from HSUS, ASPCA, or local, state or federal government entities. Your support of HSSV directly helps animals in your community!
Congratulations!
The ASPAC is the same way, Big charities except for Salvation Army are lucky if 10 cents on every dollar go to the actual cause.
The Salvation Army is a good one. They have always been wise with their money. St. Vincent de Paul is another.
Every year my father gave quite a bit to the SA. I finally asked him why. He told me that when he was in the service during the Korean war that when he came off the line the SA gave them coffee and doughnuts for free. The red Cross made them sign a chit that the soldiers would pay them XX.XX on pay day.
He said he always gave them SA as much as he could afford to make up for all the free coffee he an his buddies got. He never gave a dime to the Red Cross and I never did after that.
Red Cross hasn't got a cent out of me since I got out of the Aermy.
“Soldier, you WILL donate to the Red Cross.”
Then it was not a donation, it was extortion. I would have said so, and maybe you did. When someone says I *WILL* do something, you can bet I probably WON’T.
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