Those who Fail to Study History are Doomed to Repeat It

The Virginia legislature is currently debating a retread bill from years past.  A so-called "animal abuser" registry. Sounds like a good idea, right? Well not so fast. This legislation has been around for years all across this nation. It was written and promoted in each state by a California vegan animal rights lawyers group. This is Virginia. Surely we don’t need some Californians to tell us what to do? But it gets better. This year's bill is very limited in scope because legislators in the past have been fooled into throwing everything but the kitchens sink into a bill of this kind. In the past, these bills have included clauses where the Sheriff has to stalk every person on the registry for 15 years. The Sheriff was to personally notify all neighbors in a grid around the offender's home. The Sheriff was to personally notify the employer of the offender that they are employing an offender. So called offenders had to report to the Sheriff regularly or if not, that was another separate crime with jail time. Some might say that still sounds pretty good, after all most people think these are vicious people who have harmed animals.

But have they? Currently Virginia animal control officers (ACO) receive just 84 hours of instruction in both animals and the law sometime in their first two years on the job. They are out there enforcing laws before they are even being trained in what is the law. They also receive almost no valid training on animal care. You'd think that local law enforcement would look to hire people with a proven educational background in animals but they don't. ACO's aren't paid every well and most people do not want the job. As a result we have untrained officers enforcing laws they don't understand, prosecuting people for fraudulent standards of care, and convicting them of "animal abuse." Some might say that's still okay. They might say most people understand what is "abuse."

Actually most law enforcement officers (LEO) have no idea. Do you know who offers free training to law enforcement and ACO's nationwide? Animal rights extremists do using false science, propaganda, and outright lies in their training sessions. I covered this in a 2013 article titled, Virginia is for No Animals Left. In that article and others I have written on this subject, I revealed that most LEO training on animals is conducted by convicted criminals, terrorists, exposed quacks, and sex perverts with no valid education in animals. There is almost no valid training conducted from actual animal experts. Take for example Frederick County, Virginia. There the Sheriff fraudulently used the Henneke Body Condition Scoring System for Horses (BCS) to charge an equine veterinarian with animal abuse.

"Over the past decade, the Body Condition Scoring System for Horses (BCS) has become, in many if not most cases, the sole reason for seizure for neglect or abuse. The problem with this is that the BCS was not designed to reflect the health or well-being of the horse." Dr. Henneke.

You may wonder why the Sheriff used a system that the owner of which has publicly stated is NOT to be used for animal cruelty cases but that traces right back to the fraudulent training that ACO's and other LEO's receive from the animal rights front. Unfortunately even though this victim was a certified horse expert, the animal rights indoctrinated bureaucrats won and she was convicted of Animal Cruelty. 

To animal rights extremists, every animal owner is an animal abuser and that's who they really want to see on these lists. All of us. It is no surprise that today's modern animal rights movement has its origins in Hitler's Third Reich. We all know how he used "lists" right?

Sunshine Patriot David Ramadan Answers to Leftist Masters

I had an interesting run in with a Sunshine Patriot the other day, David Ramadan. I met him for the first time at the 2014 Boots on the Ground political event sponsored by the Virginia Federation of Republican Women held at the historic Liberty Farm owned by Martha Boneta. Martha was kind enough to give Ramadan the opportunity to be a speaker at her event. I spoke to him privately afterwards about the corruption of the Virginia Judicial System in particular those laws involving animals. Ramadan had no interest in what I was saying. He was looking to charm and shake hands. He was looking to impress the voters with the magnificence of his soothing words promising everything this audience wanted to hear. In other words, Ramadan was all about himself. A typical politician. 

To my stunned surprise I found a bill introduced into the 2015 legislature sponsored by Ramadan and written by a vegan animal rights lawyers group out of California with mirrored bills in both the House and Senate. These activists have been trying to get this legislation passed all over this nation for a so-called "animal abusers registry" and it's failed in every state except New York. It's a horrible piece of legislation that will do nothing to prevent animal cruelty but will instead increase crime as these terrorists stalk and kill whatever victim is on the registry. This legislation has been introduced in the Virginia legislature before and has always failed to pass. I sent Ramadan a letter detailing what was wrong with his bill and asked him to withdraw it. No answer. I then gave him ample time to get a form letter response back out to me and still no answer. I then asked him on his Facebook page about my letter, his lack of response, and asked him who he was sponsoring this bill for. He responded that he came up with this legislation all on his own, a statement I know to be a lie. Then he deflected the conversation into non-issues, belittled me as someone of no consequence and then banned me from his page. Very professional.

Since that time I've talked to a number of liberty advocates about Ramadan's typical politician two-facedness and I've reflected upon the old Republican blind spot of being "harsh on crime." I reflected upon the fact that Ramadan's host, Martha Boneta herself has been a target of vegan animal rights activists. On several occasions the vicious stalkers who have instituted an eight year campaign of horror against her have tried to frame her for the crime of animal cruelty.  A crime she is completely innocent of. Fortunately for Martha, they were not successful. But what if she didn't have as many supporters as she did? What if she was someone more vulnerable? Wouldn't it be ironic if the very first victim of Ramadan's terrible legislation was Martha, the very host that allowed this windbag to speak at her farm? Ramadan reminds me of a bad Republican politician from Tennessee who I named and shamed in my recent book, The Art of Terror: Inside the Animal Rights Movement.

William Lamberth, a former prosecutor ran on a platform of low taxes and small government. He talked of God, Country, and Farmers. He talked about how he was tough on crime and said that he worked to "punish wrongdoing in a way that will ensure it doesn't happen again." What he didn't say was, he padded his prosecution resume by prosecuting the elderly for animal abuse crimes they had not committed. They were just soft targets to pad his resume for higher office. He didn't care less how many lives he ruined, just like Ramadan who seems to refuse to believe that the Judicial System has never made an error. In an interesting co-incidence, that same vegan animal rights lawyers group out of California behind Ramadan's bill also issued public congratulations to Lamberth for his destruction of the elderly.

It is no secret that the judicial system in this country is so corrupt that it frequently allows the guilty to walk free while at the same time, the innocent are sent away for long sentences. If Sunshine Patriots like Ramadan refuse to acknowledge that fact then they are not fit to serve office. His bill deserves to die a quick death before more Virginians are harmed by his outdated ideas.

Update:  The mirror bill in the Senate passed by until next year, but Ramadan's pal in constitutional violations, Senator Stanley, is consorting with known racketeers at the worlds largest animal rights organization, HSUS.   

"Research shows a link between the treatment of animals and the early identification of violent criminals," added Stanley, who is an attorney. "History shows that people who commit crimes against animals often do the same to people." Senator Stanley

This information is 100% false and comes from the pseudo science that the animal rights front publishes. There is no connection between human and animal abuse; and in fact, most people who commit violent crimes have ZERO history of cruelty to animals. In 2011, the Virginia State Crime Commission studied the issue and voted to oppose animal abuser registries, a fact that was missing from the 2015 fight.

Update: The House bill has been tabled after the Senate bill failed to advance. Ramadan still refuses to acknowledge that California vegan animal rights puppet masters are behind this bill and vows to introduce the bill again as soon as Virginia's financial situation looks better.