Jun 10 2010
Humane Bites #79: HSUS Puts in an Ounce of Help, Takes a Ton of Credit
Daily clippings culled from all over the electronic news world. (E-mail with submissions for tomorrow.)
- Blogger: Mars Petfood and local workers are the real Gulf heroes, not HSUS
- Name confusion at work: the "Humane Society of the United States of America"?
- Ohio Care Standards Board is taking care of business without HSUS's help, and they have their own petition too
- Iowa woman puts on an event to educate the public about HSUS’s illegal searches and seizures
- Your Daily Shelter: Delaware’s Dumpster Cat Rescue League (Donate. Volunteer. Adopt.)
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Everyone should be aware that HSUS has consistently engaged in search/seizure by using the local SPCA+District Attys.
HSUS encourages snitch lines to report people, monetary rewards, and using children as lookouts in the street. In CA, a proposed bill re Humane Officers is pushed by HSUS, among others.
27 pg of the law/proposed changes indicates that it will just amount to a secret police force with no oversight. No joke. Reason it’s really bad, is due to the economic reality of no $$ in CA to run all the shelters.
IF Humane Officers are allowed to take over the animal control function, with govt permission, essentially there is an unregulated, non govt humane officers acting in the place of govt animal control officers, and they might carry weapons.
The legal liability to the government itself, via state actor 1983 culpability is just waiting to happen, and it will. The dumb govt will end up getting exactly what they do not want—lawsuits due to errant animal control, non regulated, performing seizures, and doing raids.
NOW if you can imagine HSUS getting *those* humane officers in there (as J Fearing in Sacto is leading the charge at the county animal shelter) then you can see the potential for harm.
Unregulated humane officers going out to seize the day. and possibly some animals. That will essentially lead to more killing, more impoundments, more cost, more fines that can’t be paid. It will not lead to more saving.