From Cherie Graves:
I want to say THANK YOU to everyone person and every organization who has been engaged in the battle against AB 1634. Every one of you is important, and every one of you should be proud of what you have accomplished. TEN THOUSAND of you wrote letters to the Local Government committee - that is awesome !!!!! Hundreds of you took the time out of your lives to attend today's hearing. My animals and I are eternally grateful to you all for your hard work on our behalf.
AB 1643 isn't dead yet
AB 1634 is not dead yet, but it is seriously wounded. We still have work to do if we want to kill and bury it. Lloyd Levine says he will be back with the bill, and he will. Today's action by Levine, to pull the bill, was just a procedural maneuver. Levine had to make a choice today. He could have let the Senate Local Government committee vote on the bill, but he could see that he did not have 3 out of the 5 votes on that committee needed to pass the bill, so he took his other option, which was to pull the bill, so that it will remain alive and be back in January 2008. Had the Local Government committee voted the bill down today, that would have killed it. So for now, AB 1634 remains with the Senate Local Government commitee, tucked away but not dead.
Listen to Lloyd Levine being interviewed this morning by a Sacramento tv station - he says the bill will be back: http://www.kcra.com/video/index.html
BTW, for those of you old enough to remember them, Lassie & Timmy lobbied for our side :) The legislators in the Capitol were stumbling over themselves on Tuesday to get their pictures taken with Lassie.
AB 1634 will be back - so take a vacation and gear up for the next battle.
On a more serious note - we need to remain alert to the resurrection of this bill, and remain prepared to fight it, and all of its spawn. We can take a vacation for now and come back refreshed. Also, now would be a good time to thank all of those many individuals and organizations who fought so hard to defeat this bill, and to encourage them to keep up the fight. There will be posts later on how you can all do that. The proponents will not stop their lobbying, and neither should we.
Remember what Lloyd Levine and his "animal rights" compatriots stand for.
Remember who and what Lloyd Levine really is - he is a dyed in the wool "animal rights" extremist who doesn't own any animals himself, and who doesn't believe we should own, use in science, keep or eat animals. He disclosed this belief in a 2006 letter he sent to Fabian Nunez, Assembly Speaker, asking to be appointed chair of an assembly "select committee on animal welfare". His letter is posted on the California democratic assembly website. He stated in
that letter emphasis mine):
"We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them" exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food."
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a40/press/a40p2006025.htm
AB 1634 has been a wake up call - It is not the end of the battle
Remember, the "animal rights" mantra is NO USE OF ANIMALS BY MAN, NOT FOR FOOD, FIBER, RESEARCH, ENTERTAINMENT, OR AS PETS.
Remember that slogan? Some of us have been beating that drum for years, but many of you said hogwash - that's not what "animal rights" is about. Did AB 1634 slap you into consciousness?.
Prior to AB 1634, the 'animal rights" extremists had become so emboldened by the inattention and inactivity of the animal owning public that they thought they could force this bill down our throats and cut dog and cat breeders off at the knees. Prior to AB 1634 relatively few people believed that the "animal rights" extremists really want to end all ownership and use of animals or the keeping of pets.
AB 1634 was brought about because the "animal rights" extremists have long recognized the complacency of the animal owning public who don't believe, or don't want to believe, that the "animal rights" extremists want to bring us to their brave new world. The "animal rights" extremists use that complacency and disbelief against animal owners as just another weapon in their arsenal.
AB 1634 has been a wake up call for many. But still others who own and keep animals remain asleep. We need to gently prod them, or shake them, or douse them with cold water, or do whatever it takes, to wake the rest of them up.
When will YOU get off the fence, and join us in the real world battle to keep our animals?
There's a saying that goes (politely paraphrased) - Those who sit on the fence get nothing except splinters in the posterior.
It's time to decide which side of the fence you are on. If you really want to live in the "brave new world" envisioned by Lloyd Levine and his "animal rights" compatriots, where animals are not kept, used, experimented on, hunted, kept as pets, or eaten, then continue to stay silent, continue to discount what we have to say about the real threat "animal rights" extremists pose to your
continued keeping of your animals, and continue to stay out of that
"distasteful" arena of animal politics. Continue to just talk about the cute things your pets do, and don't even think about all those nasty political things that those nasty political people keep putting in front of you. See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil - that really works, doesn't it? The "animal rights" extremists will thank you for your kind and loving and gentle attitudes, and for your inactivity and complacency, and they will do the work for you to bring that "brave new world" about.
But if you don't want to live in that world envisioned by the "animal rights" extremists, then get off the fence and join us in the battle against those who want to force the "animal rights" religion upon all of the rest of us non-believers. Your animals will thank you for it.
Remember that song - I get knocked down, but I get up again, ain't never gonna keep me down
The fight agains AB 1634 is just one of the many battles in the war being waged by "animal rights" extremists to reach that ultimate goal of NO USE OF ANIMALS BY MAN, NOT FOR FOOD, FIBER, RESEARCH, ENTERTAINMENT, OR AS PETS. It
won't be the last. We will have successes and we will have defeats. But if we want to continue to be able to keep our animals, we have to stay engaged in the battle.
If you are new to the arena of animal politics, and want to learn more, you can join some of the yahoogroups lists that are active in the battle - get to know who is working for your and your animals best interests. Join them. They are good people, and I am honored to be involved with them. I am grateful to all of them for their work. I am happy to get my hands dirty working with them.
Some Organizations websites you can check out:
www.naiaonline.org
www.saveourdogs.net
www.petpac.org
www.akc.org
www.cfainc.org
Some of the Yahoolists active in the fight against anti-animal legislation:
Pet-law@yahoogroups.com
CAPLA@yahoogroups.com
CApetlaw@yahoogroups.com_
See you in the trenches.
Genny Wall
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