BOCS To Consider Animal Rights Power Grab Proposal
By Greg L | 15 September 2009 | Prince William County | 25 Comments
The latest request from local liberals is to form an Animal Welfare Committee, which has been promoted in numerous letters to the editor and a constant stream of lobbying before the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, which is scheduled to take this matter up today. It’s all about animal welfare, and who could be against that, right? Plenty of folks are, and with good reason. It’s not about animal welfare.
This idea has been shot down twice already. The original idea was to help find private funding to assist the Animal Shelter. That’s a pretty good idea, and had it just been left as that, I doubt many residents would have a problem. But when you look at the PWSPCA website it doesn’t take long before you realize how they wish to expand the scope of the committee to oversee all animal welfare issues in the county, and establish a forum for the SPCA and all the animal rights allies that they’re trying to bring into this that would turn Board meetings into an animal rights circus. The PWSPCA has even already established a website for this committee that doesn’t exist yet under their own control that they’ve devoted to political activism. This will be another Human Rights Commission, although this time for animals, and no doubt it will turn into the same waste of taxpayer resources, duplication of effort, and useless distraction that the Human Rights Commission has become.
The county has Innovation as a Bio Research Job Center and Animal Research is a federally mandated part of that business. If animal rights activists get a taxpayer-funded forum to pontificate about how federally-mandated programs are inhumane for animals, I can’t imagine a lot of bio research companies are going to be eager to come to the county and provide jobs. We really don’t need to put roadbloacks in front of local job creation, just to make animal rights activists happy.
Had this proposal been strictly constructed to support the animal shelter, we’d have had a committee working with the Police Department that operates it long ago. The reason we don’t have this is because radicals don’t want the half-loaf of a better animal shelter, they want a shot at seizing some political power. So what if they throw laudible animal welfare goals under the bus? That’s the liberal way, to try to hijack something good and decent in order to ram down the electorate’s throats something they would find intolerable.
Let’s hope the Board sees through this power grab.
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Might be worth a trip to the McCoart Bldg just to watch the circus.
LOL! I don’t live in PW, but I would like to recount an incident in Arlington Co. years ago when the animal rights crowd wanted the county board to rewrite all the animal laws and make major changes.
The word “pets” was to be deleted and replaced with “animal companions”. Cats were to be confined at all times or on a leash if
outside. I guess this was to save the lives of mice. A Cat licensing requirement was also on the agenda.
The meeting was hysterical. Somebody (no pun intended) let the cat out of the bag about the meetings agenda early and a rather large group of angry cat owners showed up to protest. The idea was shot down quickly.
Is Stewart really going to support the left wing animal-rights nuts on this one? Kiss his future good-bye….
I noticed that many signatures on the petition are from individuals that do not reside in this state. Many signatures are from people living in other countries.
Interesting.
It also appears that county money (tax dollars) would go to support this committee.
Why would they have a committee already organized when the Board hasn’t approved it? Seems they have already picked Their people.
Amazing - animal rights advocates get a forum before the BOCS while women’s right not to suffer harassment and abuse in County employment are ignored, and senior County staff attack the victims with impunity.
Gone Hunting, why are you saying Stewart is going to support this crap? It is John Jenkins proposal, not Stewarts. Stewart will kill this thing before it has a chance to get anywhere….
It’s what I’ve heard, but it would be so out of step for him. A good guy….
Wouldn’t it be nice, if instead of all these whackjobs supporting animal rights - they actually rose up to protect the rights of human beings - the unborn?
Maybe Gerhardt told them he could make it happen before he up and left.
Sooo…. when are we going to discuss Vegetable rights! Can you just imagine the “horror” associated with what happens to create V8 juice! Fortunately, mineral rights are already established law.
“A Cat licensing requirement was also on the agenda.”
West Arlington already has that.
Ooops. Did I say West Arlington? I meant Manassas Park.
It passed, although watered down. Stewart, Stirrup, Jenkins, Principi, and Caddigan in favor.
Glad it passed! I love cats…..medium well with a twist of lemon.
Hey Now!!
Only good cat is a dead cat
Oh, it is so on, cat haters. If the chickens can get an Empathy Museum, by glory I say the cats desrve one of their own.
Cats drool, dogs rule
I can’t believe this stupid thing passed. What were they thinking?
Kingsley said:
I can’t believe this stupid thing passed. What were they thinking?
“Animal Rights = Human Control
“Animal rights” is just one more diabolic scheme for promoting government control over human lives by destroying our right to private property. It is the logical tactic of those who hate the individual creative ability and wish it replaced by the anti-human jackboots of collectivism.
“Animal rights” activists use the tools of rationality which are uniquely available to the human species in order to deny the distinct nature of their own rational faculties. They raise up animals in an attempt to lower humankind.
They may speak for themselves only, not for me. I know what I am. I know what animals are. And I will name what “animal rights” activists truly are: the Human Defamation League. And making us as oblivious to cruelty as are all other animals, if not the actual agenda of the Human Defamation League, is nonetheless the unintended consequence of their campaign.
http://www.pulpless.com/jneil/aniright.html
Well, I’m disappointed in Stewart for this. Chalk one up for the nanny state…what’s next, a PWC representative to the UN?
An amendment to this proposal was adopted that explicitly restricts the AAC to matters pertaining to the animal shelter. That should handle most of the concerns here, and gives the Board a big stick to beat them with if they decide to start agitating outside of their defined purview.
I dunno Greg. The folks over at “anti” are praising the “progressive” leadership of those that supported this new committee.
The folks over at “anti” are praising the oppressive “leadership” of those that supported this new committee.
Fixed.
Too often progressive is code for oppressive.
So is Mr. Nohe a hero again for voting against it. Soo hard to keep up with the plan here????!!!!
Animal Welfare issues are more complicated than “do experiments or do not do experiments”, or “kill for profit” or “don’t kill for profit”. I think the intention of those who are compassionate toward animals is to spare the more immmoral things we do to animals in the pet, food, and experimentation areas (and for zealots of the animal welfare cause, spare them entirely). I agree with some aspects of animal compassion, but clearly there are better venues for this issue than a tax-funded county organization.