QUOTE (Goldilocks @ Mar 29 2009, 04:30 PM)
I am opposed too animal abuse just as you are. The difference, I believe ALL abusive puppy mills should be closed, where you are fixated on a religion.
Also you are the one that is rigid, beings you can't get beyond religion in order to resolve this problem. I have said it numerous times here that the fixation and focus on religion harms the cause, but you are too rigid to get beyond that fact. If it isn't an attack on religion, than keep it out of the fray, since puppy millers are only a very small percentage of the larger Amish and Mennonites in the area.
As for dishonest tactics, Bill Smith says in the ABC interview, "The Amish and the Mennonites, they pull the heads back and then they hammer sharp instruments down their throats to scar their vocal cords so they can't bark." He says this, but never has any rescue organization featured a dog that had this done. Secondly he insinuates in that statement that only Amish and Mennonites do this. He has no proof of that either. Does he think that people are so stupid that they can't see through biased statements such as those?
Other tactics would be when Main Line Rescue has their Puppy Mill Awareness Day at Strasburg Park (I think that is where they have it) they march down the streets with signs, "Amish get out of the puppy mill business". This past year they surrounded a young Amish couple in a buggy, having no proof they are even millers.
When that farmer shot his 80 something dogs in Berks County, (Something I thought was deplorable, BTW) his wife and children had to be removed from their home for a period of time, at the suggestion of the police, due to all the death threats they received. When that farmer wanted to go from his house to barn to take care of his livestock the police had to escort him, because they feared for his life, again from all the death threats.
I know you are going to ask me for links to prove that there were death threats and police protection. I can't give them, because this information was printed in the plain newspapers that circulate among the plain community.
Than you wonder why township supervisors don't take you seriously: stop acting like a bunch of radical crazies, and to the real issue at hand, abused dogs.
The sad fact is, that there are some very sincere people whose actions concerning puppy mills are decent, rational, and they are working very hard to irradicate this problem without fixating on a religion, but the irrational spoil it for them and the cause.
I give up on you because you are so incredibly rigid in harping on religion. I don't care about religion, just puppy mills and their horrendous abuse. You have been singing your same religion tune for years.
Here's a clue you don't know what you are talking about: Puppy Mill Awareness Day takes place in the Intercourse City Park and it is not organized by Main Line Rescue. Since you obviously weren't there, you are must be writing heresay.
