Dog Fighters; Helped By Police And Animal Organizations

      A teenager that fought dogs, and that is now a man that fights dogs, said that before there may have been a few that could stop him, but now there are none.
      By virtue of the poor law enforcement response and the animal organization exploitation response, dog fighting remains the common crime that is uncommonly enforced.
 

Riding The Coattails Of Michael Vick Dog Fighting Publicity And A Nowhere Meeting About Animal Cruelty

       A number of years ago a meeting was arranged with the man that had just become the head of a major animal organization. We explained how police were not responding appropriately to calls of animal cruelty, if they were responding at all (with few and rare exceptions, which continues to this day). We explained why animal organizations should not be doing the job of the police, and why their efforts to do so were not only self serving, but were harmful to both people and animals. They also give the police an excuse to continue to do little to nothing.

       We were told things would be different, and that he would get get back in touch with us soon. 

       This was not the only animal organization we had reached out to. Surely, we thought, they would want what is best for animals.

       We never heard back from the then new president, who remains at that high paying, lucrative job many years later. He is probably considered a success because of the marketing, money and publicity he has generated. Success for these nonprofits has nothing to do, unfortunately, about efficacy.

         Later, the events concerning Michael Vick and dogfighting generated enormous publicity for that organization and others. They were the experts, even though they were not, that could show the world they were on top of the situation. By sending them money, things would be better.  

         Things will be different, we were told, so many years back. We never heard back, and nothing ever changed for the better.
          If a celebrity ever gets arrested for dog fighting again, it will be another windfall for certain animal organizations.
       

         

        

Whale Hunting At St. Vincent Island In the Caribbean, Dogfighting, And What Will The President Of the Humane Society Do Next?

     Passengers from a cruise ship that made St. Vincent island in the Caribbean a port of call went on a whale watching excursion. They observed a pod of 4 orcas (killer whales), at which time whalers from St. Vincent island proceeded to harpoon two of the orcas and kill them. Tourists on the whale watching excursion were in tears, according to news reports about the incident.

      The cruise ship company, according to one news report, said that St.Vincent would no longer be a port of call. Facing the harsh reality that the hunting of whales and dolphins does occur should not be a reason to stop making St.Vincent a port of call. Tourists can be a mixed blessing, and tourists visiting coral reefs can be the death of the reefs. But tourists can also be the reason some Caribbean islands and other locations in the world stop whaling and dolphin hunting. There is a lot of money that can be made in whale and dolphin watching, and having people invested in keeping whales and dolphins alive, instead of hunted, will help save those cetaceans. 

         Hopefully St. Vincent will remain a port of call, and whale watchers will help in the preservation of cetaceans by supporting whale watching tourism, and not by running away because some of the people hunt cetaceans. Whale watching tourism will disincentivize whale hunting. There are already successful examples of places were cetaceans and whale sharks have been hunted, and where hunting no longer takes place because it has been replaced by more lucrative tourism.

           The president and chief executive of one of the wealthiest charities in the world, the Humane Society, wrote that whaling is on the decline in St. Vincent, according to one news article. Unless it can be clearly ascertained as to how it is he reached this conclusion, it should not be taken at face value. Too often people blindly accept information that may be incorrect because of the prestige that they attach to the source of the information. Incorrect information can lead to a poor outcome.

             Whale hunting must not become what dog fighting became - namely an opportunity to receive a lot of free publicity without having to do much of anything except make it incredibly easy for dog fighters to continue fighting dogs with rarely any consequence.

                  The vast resources of the Humane Society, if put to good use, can help ensure that cetacean hunting ends in the Caribbean, and that coral reefs and marine reserves are adequately protected and patrolled. They can also help keep the huge amount of plastics that presently enters the oceans daily out of the waters. That will help save cetaceans and other marine life.

                   I hope that no animal organization does for whale hunting what I experienced they did for dog fighting-  which was exploit dog fighting and animal cruelty in order to promote and market themselves, while doing nothing substantive or in the way of true advocacy.

                  

Putin Is Now a Forensic Scientist - His Conclusions About Assad And Chemical Weapons

     Putin states chemical attacks by Assad are fake news. Are over half a million dead fake news? Are millions of refugees fake news? Are barrel bombs fake news? Are the testimony of thousands about torture and murder by the Assad regime fake news? If not for Assad, Syria would not be crawling with murderous Islamists. Hezbollah and Iranian Islamists on the Shia side, and ISIS and other deranged Islamists on the Sunni side. Assad and ISIS have given to Syria nothing but death and misery. The Putin/ Russian television (RT) defense for anything unfavorable to Putin - it is fake news.

Minimally Taxing The Rich So The U.S. Can Become A Third World Country

     Note to the United States: It is not possible to remain the world's leading superpower and continue to think it can be done on the cheap and by printing money. The United States needs to stop pandering to its wealthy citizens, who already receive the best of everything society has to offer, and raise their taxes. Certain conservative pundits like to be melodramatic, insisting raising taxes on the rich is class warfare. But not having an equitable tax structure is already class warfare.
      The rich in many third world countries, just like in the United States, have almost all of the wealth. They pay minimal taxes, just like in the United States, which some still complain about, neglecting to mention that they own, and receive, almost all of the country's wealth and benefits.
       People work all kinds of jobs where the risk is great and the pay is low. People risk health, safety and limb, while the rich complain about their money being taxed. Societies do not succeed in the long run that fail their workers and reward only their wealthy.
      Democracies survive by having strong middle classes, not by catering to a wealthy few. The failure to tax the wealthy leads to failures in the third world, as it will in the states.

Coptic Christians Slaughtered In Their Churches; The Islamists That Want This Blood

      Islamic terrorists want this world washed in blood. And so they slaughter Coptic Christians praying in their church. Or drive vehicles into crowds of people. Or commit some other cowardly act of terror deliberately targeting defenseless people. Is there something in Islam or in the way Islam is being taught that opens the door to terror and murder? It is not enough to declare Islam is a religion of peace and then shut down the conversation. There are a number of Islamic terror groups operating across the world that insist in their words and actions that terror and violent jihad are an integral part of Islam. It is not enough to pretend that they are an aberration. No matter how many people in the world, including Muslims, hope and pray Islam is a religion of peace in which there is no place for terror, simply wishing is not enough. A number of Islamic regimes continue to spread the most virulent, terrorism condoning and promoting, intolerant, bigoted, supremacist interpretations of Islam across the world.
     

When Religion Grants Legitimacy To Terror; Making Murdering Psychopaths Into Martyrs

     Terrorism is not a legitimate response to oppression or anything. Yet there are those that condone, justify, encourage or promote terrorism. Despite what the apologists for terror want people to believe, terrorism is a cause of oppression, rather than a legitimate response to it. Terrorism forces societies to become more restrictive and less free. When religion grants legitimacy to terrorism, every murdering psychopath on the planet gets drawn in, and the bloodbath never ends.