Written by Steve Barker on May 22nd, 2007
In a previous article, I mentioned the concept of dogs just being property, so Clinton Portis and Chris Samuels seem to think it’s okay to do what you want with them. I want to make sure that readers are perfectly clear where I stand on the issue of property, so that I don’t get lumped [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on May 22nd, 2007
It’s not enough that Michael Vick is being investigated for dogfighting. Now two of his NFL co-Neanderthals are defending him.Now, considering the concept of “innocent until proven guilty”, I could understand comments like “I don’t believe that Vick would do that” or “He didn’t know what was going on”, etc. But, no, in an MSN [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on March 30th, 2007
Hewitt A. Grant, subject of the St. Petersburg Times story “Kennel Trash”, has been convicted of 80 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty and has been sentenced to 364 days in jail, 5 years of probation and 500 hours of community service at the animal shelter that cared for his abused dogs.Below are two articles from [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on December 11th, 2006
I received a comment from Anonymous about my previous post, PETA Kills Animals!, stating that “the Center for Consumer Freedom is a front organization…(with) almost zero credibility”.I do not dispute this. Everyone has an agenda and CCF definitely has one. The following quote is from their “About Us” section: “The Center for Consumer Freedom is [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on December 7th, 2006
It’s been almost a month since my last post. To make up for that, I’ll quote an article that’s over nine months old.The Center for Consumer Freedom has been a consistent critic of extremist animal rights organizations and has been a valuable source of information regarding not only the terrorist measures to which these groups [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on November 16th, 2006
I had started to put this together back in September and then decided to re-read bill S-213 before posting here. Since that time, Mark Holland, a Liberal from Ajax-Pickering in Ontario, introduced private member’s bill C-373 which is identical to the former C-50. Without a doubt, I would be much more willing to support C-373 [...]
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Written by Steve Barker on September 29th, 2006
As anyone who has read some of my articles knows, I have an aversion to the term “euthanasia” when referring to the killing of dogs that fit a certain physical profile.Michael Bryant (Attorney General of Ontario), with the support of various Animal Rights groups, has repeatedly used the word to soften the impact of the [...]
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