Posted on 04/15/2010 8:29:20 PM PDT by FangFang
Let's get controversial.
Actually, let's get one thing straight first: It's not "red-baiting" when you're talking about a real-life communist. I'm not one for language taboos, especially concerning the history of our country. Sometimes it is what it is.
Our memory of American politics in the middle third of the 20th Century is typically dominated by accounts of Hollywood blacklists, an out-of-control Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the cantankerous House Un-American Activities Committee.
But the United States did have its share of actual communists in those days—people who would have preferred to see America go the way of Stalin. I believe one of them was a man name Fred Myers, who co-founded the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and provided what HSUS's own in-house historian describes as the "vision and spirit that shaped the organization's early agenda."
Just so no one gets the wrong idea, I'm not suggesting that the leaders of today's HSUS are communists, socialists, collectivists, fascists, or anarchists (although "narcissists" might apply to a few). But there's a part of HSUS's early history has never been honestly explored. And it's not pretty.
As with everything here at HumaneWatch, there's evidence. A few weeks ago, I received 273 pages of declassified documents from Fred Myers's official FBI file; they were provided in response to a request made under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Most of the documents are mundane and repetitive, but I'll post the entire collection in the document library soon anyway.
For now, however, I'd like to focus your attention on nine pages.
Click here to read a four-page letter (with five pages of attachments) sent in 1958 to the chief lawyer working for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanewatch.org ...
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=
HSUS is also a knock off of the much older ASPCA.
So was the ACLU, IIRC. And Planned Parenthood was formed to kill as many black babies as possible.
No joke about Margaret Sanger’s eugenics and PP. Blacks have been punked by ole Maggie.
Is that the same Fred Meyer of grocery stores in the NW?
I'd say that's an accurate description of HSUS today. They are a scam backed by government fascists.
HSUS is only a skosh less anti-pet than the notorious PETA. My two well fed and well kept tomcats would gladly scratch out the eyes of both.
They are spelled differently, so, I’m going to guess not the same.
Actually, that's only the leftist wish to remember things.
IIRC, the founder of the ACLU retired, then moved to Russia and lived there until her death.
And now, class, let’s list the things that Senator Joseph McCarthy asserted that were later proven to be false...................................class? Anyone? Anyone?...............Bueller?
Verona papers, anyone?
The State Department of the time balked at following up any of McCarthy’s leads.
“HSUS is also a knock off of the much older ASPCA.”
No. HSUS is a fund-raising fraud that does absolutely zilch for animals. It operates not a single shelter, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the ASPCA or the many local “Humane Societies” that do.
HSUS serves two purposes - making itself rich, and funding eco-terrorists like PETA and ELF.
McCarthy wasn’t claiming that he had discovered Communists in the State Department. Everyone knew there were Communists in the State Department. He was just trying to force the State Department to actually do something about them.
Wanna really tick ‘em off?
Call their 800 number and tell them you want to adopt an animal they’ve rescued from one of “their shelters”.
[and then keep asking *why* they have no animals to adopt since *they* rescue so many]
HSUS is not a group to donate to. They have ties to PETA, which has spent lots of their money defending known animal rights terrorists (think ALF) from blowing up buildings.
HSUS comes across as being this great animal welfare group, they are an animal RIGHTS group. The difference cannot be stressed enough. Animal welfare people are not the ones pushing to give animals legal rights. Animal welfare folks love animals, know they do best as property and pets (for the ones we’ve domesticated) and support local rescue groups and humane societies. Animal rights folks are the nuts that want people to stop having pets, or owning animals at all, think the best thing for domesticated animals with no instinctual survival skills is to let them free into the wild, wnat to be able to sue on behalf of animals. In other words, animal welfare people are what you’d call ‘biblical stewardship’ type folks, the animal rights folks are just extremist liberals who want to make animals equal to humans in every way they possibly can.
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i mean they try to superficially look like the other societies that do support animal shelters, aspca being the oldest. they apparently even fool some veterinarians. next time i visit my vet if the hsus display is still on the desk i am going to ask why. i am going to tell them that it should be the aspca or some local humane organization.
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