Hunters that use dogs to hunt with had better look at how this law will deprive them of their ability to take their children hunting with them.

Hello all,

 

Hunters that use dogs to hunt with had better look at how this law will deprive them of their ability to take their children hunting with them.

 

Since gamecock owners started going forward with the honest truth educating legislators that the gamecock industry is an animal agriculture industry like any other the HSUS is losing their hold on the state legislators. TN just drop their felony cockfighting law to a misdemeanor and HI just passed a cultural resolution stating cockfighting was an acknowledged cultural heritage of the native Hawaiian people. The further we go with the truth the more the animal rights extremists of the HSUS lose ground.

 

Gamecock owners, own and harvest our livestock just like any other livestock owner, the method of harvest is different but the economic harvest is the exact same, we're trying to earn a living and provide for our families.

Our livestock is the gamecock, the way gamecocks are harvested is allowing them to fight. (this has been their method of harvest for more than 3,000 years and is being proven in countries around the world today. Therefore the cockfighting laws are actually making it illegal to own and possess our livestock if we intend to harvest our livestock. Can you apply that law to any other animal agriculture industry without violating the constitutional rights of the livestock owners? = NO,,,, And we're all entitled to equal protection of the law according to the 14th amendment.
Now where in our Constitution does it authorize our government to award/grant rights to animals and then send law enforcement officers out to subjugate and point guns at American citizens thereby creating a danger and threat to human lives using the excuse of defending animals.
The Federal "Animal Welfare Act" that drives all of these animal protection laws is unconstitutional. If it is declared unconstitutional then all laws derived from it are also unconstitutional.
No where in our U.S. Constitution does it give the elected officials in our government the authority to award rights to animals. These two Congressmen "Marino and Sutton" are putting animals, fish and fowl above American citizen's lives.
The following talking points should made to every Congressman sitting on the Agriculture and Judiciary committees: http://www.house.gov/representatives/
1. That there has never been a law ever written that hasn't been broken and there never will be.
2. When the parents are placed in prison the state will be forced to take the children away from the parents. The constitution does not give our government the  authority to rip families apart over animals.
3. No where in the Constitution does it give our government the authority to deprive American citizens of our culture, heritage, pursuit of happiness and liberty over animals.
4.  In rural areas of the United States many people still fight chickens and this bill will escalate the fight between law enforcement officers and the rural American citizens involved in this largely rural cultural pastime.
5. Opinions and cultures of the urban and rural people within the United States differ the opinion of the urban majority does not provide an excuse to deprive rural Americans of their culture, heritage, rights and freedoms and trample the U.S. Constitution using the excuse of defending animals.
6. In truth, the Animal Welfare Act "unconstitutionally" places animals above human lives by giving "rights" to our livestock and wild animals violating the constitutional rights of the livestock owners.
Please get rid of these unconstitutional animal rights laws before rural Americans are killed by law enforcement officers sent out to defend animals.
This is Wayne Pacelle and the HSUS's last ditch effort because they see their house of cards crumbling.
The legislation being proposed by the HSUS below is clearly an attempt to: (in Wayne Pacelle's own words) "One generation and out" he is using the statement in a slightly different context but this is his new strategy.
He wants to pass this federal legislation because he's losing at the state level but if these animal rights extremists can deprive us of spending time with our children and stop us from teaching our children of our rural American culture, heritage and animal sports until our children are 16 years old and he knows that at that age teeagers are wanting to spend time with their friends and our rural heritages will be stripped from an entire generation within 16 years. This is his goal with this legislation.
The reality is Hog hunting with dogs, Bear hunting with dogs, Coyote hunting with dogs, Raccoon hunting with dogs, Squirrel Hunting with dogs, Rabbit hunting with dogs all include some form of or the possibility of animal fighting and will all be made illegal under this bill, either immediately or through incremental inclusions later.
Every Hunter should be shouting down this unconstitutional bill.
Thank you,
U.S. Army ret SFC B.L. Cozad Jr