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San Diego | Santa Cruz Indymedia | U.S. | Animal Liberation | Government & ElectionsAppalling Animal Rights Records of Romney, Clinton, Huckabee, McCain
When Clinton was forced to divest her portfolio for the election, ![]() beagleinlab.jpg US CANDIDATES AND OTHERS' RECORDS ON ANIMAL RIGHTS
We have no right to judge the motives of anyone. All we can assess is the effect of their actions on the voiceless and vulnerable animals. No matter what any of us have done, we are all temples of the Indwelling God who answers to all names by which called. Every Republican but Ron Paul wants to continue the bombing of Iraqi and Afghan animals, and in some cases of Iranian ones as well. Clinton and Obama want to continue the bombing of Afghan animals. ROMNEY'S VIOLENCE TO ANIMALS Mitt Romney's Bain Capital has heavily invested in the animal genocide and global devastation of the cattle industry, from steakhouses to slaughterhouses. His quarter billion dollar fortune is made from the blood of innocent animals and the the oppression of sweatshops as well as the felling of earth's trees. He is also invested in vivisection. Why was Romney selected by the CIA to be the governor of Massachusetts? To consolidate the hold of the pharma military industrial complex on the state, which receives more vivisection dollars than any other. Romney's Bain Capital is scheduled to buy Clear Channel, which set new records for animal torture. http://www.petitiononline.com/lovepigs The news has carried the story of Romney's sons' dog being put on the roof of his car for an 8 hour trip from Massachusetts to Michigan, during which time the perhaps terrorized dog defecated. Romney hosed him off within his cage. http://wbztv.com/local/local_story_180132351.html The Mormon church owns the biggest cattle ranch in the US with its consequent animal agony, correlation to heart disease, cancer, food poisoning, global heating, energy waste. Utah is a haven for concentration camps for captive animals.. called factory farms. The virtually compulsory tithing of Mormons has caused the Mormon church to be one of the biggest investors in corporate terrorism. Romney has been willing to kill animals in order to appeal to hunters, whose numbers decline every year. He participated in a canned hunt in 2006 in Georgia. A canned hunt is one in which the animals have no means of escape, confined behind high chain link fences. Romney's promotion of expanded war in Iraq and Afghanistan has bombed and burned and maimed animals as well as people. ** CLINTON Hillary Clinton was invested in slaughterhouse and vivisection stocks when forced to put them in a 'blind' trust last year. She had invested in cattle futures, (the cattle she invested in have no future), helped Don Tyson become the nation's biggest butcher of animals, one whose Washington slaughterhouse says the Washington Post has skinned animals alive. He was her client at the Rose Law Firm of which she was a partner. Walmart, killer of billions of little gold fish, seller of whale meat in Japan, living ducks in China, was her client. She wants to double the vivisection budget of NIH. (It is interesting that she was on the board of Walmart, the company which had a glass ceiling for millions of women employees, 1.6 million of whom sued). Clinton is a sponsor of Heifer International, the brutal cattle industry program disguised as charity which kidnaps baby animals terrorized and sends them aboard ships to lives of slavery and slaughter, the effects of which advance deforestation and global warming. Her husband allowed Dan Glickman and Espy to muzzle the truth about Mad Cow, Mad Pig, Mad Chicken, Mad Deer, Mad Fish, Mad Sheep and other spongiform encephalopathy diseases. She has consistently voted to bomb the animals of Iraq and Afghanistan. * OBAMA Obama's wife has been the spokesperson for vivisecting Univ of Chicago * HUCKABEE Huckabee shot a bird in front of reporters the other day and like Hillary helped Don Tyson with his mechanized slaughter. Huckabee's son hanged a a stray dog when he, the son, was 17. Huckabee's promotion of expanded war in Iraq and Afghanistan has bombed and burned and maimed animals as well as people. Huckabee's metaphors are violent and include "better to kill a snake than treat a lot of snakebites". While Michael Vick is going to jail for dogfighting, Huckabee says 'don't ask how big is the dog in the fight but how big is the fight in the dog'. After executing 19 Arkansas prisoners Huckabee called his band "Capital Offense". Huckabee says he is the Christian candidate but Jesus prevented the execution of someone in John 8:7 and prevented the murder of animals in the temple. * Ron Paul has been opposed by HSUS because he has a philosophical opposition to legislation about treatment of animals. However, Ron Paul wants to end all the wars.. to shut down the animal harming USDA, NIH, HHS, FDA, CDC, etc. Mikw Gravel opposed all wars, but his record with animals in Alaska as senator is not known by this poster. May your conscience be the guide. Poster welcomes your additions and corrections.. this is only an infinitesimal fraction of the data on this subject. MCCAIN John McCain was bombing women in a light bulb factory and animals in its surroundings when shot down, has a 0% animal rights voting record. Water buffalo, birds and countless other animals were burned bombed and maimed by the napalm, by machine gun fire, etc. He wants to continue his 41 year history of supporting the murder of people and animals in illegal and violent wars. Bomber pilots are the most removed from the beings they kill maim and burn since they rarely come face to face with their victims. McCain is endorsed by neocon Sulzberger family Boston Globe, neocon Murdoch's Boston Herald as well as by indicted war criminal Henry Kissinger and warmonger Joe Lieberman. MILITARY All Republican candidates but Paul want illegal violent war continued against Iraqis and Afghans. Dogs are used as minesniffers. Recently WGBH and the BBC interviewed a Dutch woman traveling the world on a tractor. She is promoting the scam of using rats a minesniffing victims. Giuliani's wife Judy was employed by US Surgical, a dog vivisecting company which has a history of jailing animal rights protesters. RACCOONS SQUIRRELS CHIPMUNKS The Bush regime's rollback of environmental protection has destroyed millions of acres of animal habitat. Squirrels, chipmunks and thousands of other species have been burned alive as the USDA's and DOI's controlled burn policy has caused even more fires with windchanges. BIRDS The Bush regime has polluted even the Peace Corps. College students are encouraged to take poultry science and other animal agriculture slavery courses. Antonin Scalia who has serially killed prisoners with his pen as weapon went hunting with Dick Cheney where besides killing birds they illegally discussed cases before the court. Chuck Grassley (as well as Feingold and Harkin) changed the way baby chicks are shipped. Their humane legislation protections have been removed. They are shipped often in flimsy cardboard containers .. they can be smashed or die of heat or thirst or cold sitting on loading docks. These baby chick females and males have been classified as commercial mail. George Voinovich introduced legislation to allow the hunting of federally protected migrating birds John Cornyn, senator from Texas, helped Dick Cheney kill over 400 birds in 1 day in Rolling Rock Pennsylvania where cage raised birds were released in nets directly in front of Cheney's hunting party. "Shooting fish in a barrel" does not describe this action. PRIMATES Anthrax bioterror weapon research (and in some cases development) is occurring at over 300 sites in the US funded by your tax dollars. Primates have been irradiated at the CDC, Barnes Air Force Base, have been killed in the thousands for anthrax weapons testing at Ft Detrick. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index....ext=va&aid=6131 http://www.primatefreedom.com BEARS Maryland's Diebold installed governor Ehrlich tried to pass bear hunting in the state and was defeated. The slaughter of bears is allowed in several states. Please ask Gov. Spitzer of NY to end the bear hunting which Pataki promoted. http://161.11.121.121/govemail WOLVES Republican senators Stevens and Murkowski of Alaska facilitated the shooting of wolves from helicopters by hunters. Update on US candidates' positions on animals (When Republican candidates are noted, may it be remembered that they represent a tiny segment of the population. 55% are unregistered. 60% of the remaining 45% are 3rd party or independent. Of the remaining 18% over 2/3 are Democrats. Registered Republicans are a single digit percentage of the US populatio n. CANDIDATE POSITIONS ON ANIMALS Romney and Huckabee, but not McCain and Paul are in favor of 'exhanced interrogation techniques' a code word for torture. All but 1 of the 10 announced Republican candidates define themselves as prolife, by which they mean only human fetal life, not support of prisoners' right not to be deprived of life through execution. . In the area of humans many Republicans exempt prisoners from their prolife positions. CLINTON Her husband allowed Dan Glickman and Espy to muzzle the truth about Mad Cow, Mad Pig, Mad Chicken, Mad Deer, Mad Fish, Mad Sheep and other spongiform encephalopathy diseases. She has voted for vivisector money and for campaigns in which people and animals were bombed Her position is that the US should keep some troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She announced in Iowa in late august 2007 that she wanted to double NIH's animal torture research, research designed to give new pricegouging ineffective products to multinational pharmaceuticals. BARACK OBAMA Barack Obama like Clinton supports an escalation of the war in Afghanistan, for which purpose Tom Hanks' neocon film was released. Like most Illinois politicians he has a cozy relationship with unionbuster McDonald's which he has praised. His wife is a spokesperson for vivisection as a VP of Univ of Chicago Hospitals. He has said the bombing of Aghanistan was not off the table. Like Clinton he favors state murder (capital punishment) which is banned in 2/3 of the world's countries. MCCAIN bombed animals in Vietnam, has a 0% environment voting record, is in favor of continued bombing of animals in Iraq and Afghanistan. HUCKABEE Huckabee is a hunter and murdered in the name of the state several Arkansans. WIVES: Mrs Obama, Mrs Giuliani, and Mrs Romney have all been employed by vivisectors or fundraise for vivisectors. Mrs Obama has worked for Univ of Chicago Hospitals as a spokesperson. Mrs Giuliani worked for US Surgical, and Mrs Romney campaigns for animal killing multiple sclerosis researchers. Mrs Obama has purchased ant traps. What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me. * Senators' animal rights, peace and other positions GIULIANI HAS WITHDRAWN Judy Giuliani worked for US Surgical which carves up dogs, a company which cooperated in the framing of animal rights activists. Her husband ridiculed animal rights activists on a New York talk show. Type in 'ferrett and Giuliani' in search. Giuliani is a 911 profiteer who wants to continue the bombing of Afghan and Iraqi animals Senators' animal rights, peace and other positions please multipost any part of this.. and please suggest additions or corrections http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_d...?sig_id=002847M DEFEAT ALL 21 REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE.. EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS VOTED MONEY FOR THE BOMBING OF PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AND BIRDS REPTILES TREES AND PLANTS THE WORST: ALASKA: Is there any senator who has killed more animals in his own state than Ted Stevens who has promoted the aerial shooting of wolves etc. etc. etc. Ted Stevens was in the Senate when it voted 94 to 0 to club the Pribilof Island seals. TEXAS John Cornyn.. this warmonger senator helped Dick Cheney kill over 400 birds in 1 day.. cage raised birds released directly in front of the 2 shooting fish in a barrel avicidal maniacs. KENTUCKY Soldiers at Ft Campbell have had FOUR tours of duty. Mitch McConnell is on the way out. Ft Campbell was the site in which the Army sprayed tens of thousands of blackbirds with detergent so that they would freeze to death in winter... the heat from their bodies rose into the air.. as their souls arose above their dying forms. Ann Free publicized the slaughter. McConnell has promoted Kentucky cow slaughter. VIRGINIA Hopefully, John Warner will not run again. When he was Secretary of the Navy hideous things were done to animals at Bethesda Naval and elsewhere. Primates were stuck in restraining chairs for months. Their legs cramped or atrophied. They had to sleep sitting up. They could not defecate except in Navy provided bags. Dolphins were used as minecarriers, etc. etc. Warner became a senator when his primary opponent died in a plane crash. NEBRASKA Chuck Hagel like virtually every senator in Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Texas etc. has promoted the slaughter of mammals and the cattle concentration camps of Nebraska. He was CEO of ESS, a Republican owned vote manipulation company, before he became senator from Nebraska. His company helped in the fraudulent installation of the unelected Bush and in other races. KANSAS: Pat Roberts, operative for Kansas cattle concentration camps. TENNESSEE Lamar Alexander has facilitated Battelle of Tennessee which received 1 billion from the CIA to develop weaponized anthrax and primates from Ft Detrick which had already sacrificed over 4000 primates in just 1 anthrax experiment. Alexander has been helped by vivisector Bill Frist, the senator who shielded vivisectors from liability lawsuits and carved up cats at Harvard. Lamar Alexander's voting record http://www.vote-smart.org/voting_ca...can_id=BZZ57901 OKLAHOMA Jim Inhofe, pawn of cattle concentration camp operators, introduced a bill with Coburn to criminalize economic boycotts of animal butchers. The Senate and House passed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. ALABAMA Jeff Sessions of the FBI harrassed and criminalized the activity of nonviolent animal rights activists NORTH CAROLINA: Elizabeth Dole has been silent about the hideous Smithfield and other pig and chicken concentration camps in her state, as well as silent about the war in Iraq. Though one of her first lawsuits was on behalf of a lion at the Washington Zoo, she has let down the animals since. OTHERS: OREGON Mormon Gordon Smith will do better for the world going back to his vegetable frozen food business than continuing to vote war appropriations. WYOMING: Michael Enzi has advanced the murder of cows in Wyoming. That's the job he was elected to do. NEW HAMPSHIRE Katrina Swett has been forced to withdraw her support for Joe Lieberman but New Hampshire Democrats want someone else to run against Diebold installed Sununu. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html ALABAMA FBI chief Jeff Sessions while another Alabama senator Richard Shelby ran as a Democrat and then immeidately after the election switched to the Republican Party and was immediately awarded with powerful Senate committees. ARIZONA: Pete Domenici sought to obscure rampant Bush violations in the 2006 and 2004 elections by asking US attorneys to come up with hard to find Democratic vote fraud. http://www.blackboxvoting.org COLORADO: Allard was installed by Diebold fraud though Strickland was elected. GEORGIA has 2 Diebold installed senators. One is Saxbe Chambliss. MINNESOTA Diebold installed Coleman in Minnesota though the highly popular Vice President Walter Mondale was ahead 9 points 2 days before the election. OTHERS: Retiring? Thad Cochran (R) of Mississippi Retiring? Larry Craig (R) of Idaho Lindsey Graham of South Carolina UP TO YOUR OWN CONSCIENCE AS ARE ALL OF THESE MAINE http://www.jeanhaybright.us/ Susan Collins is a henhawk Republican who faces defeat. Poster does not know if Jean Hay Bright will run against her. Collins has a good record in terms of humane legislation, but has not used her influence to end bear hunting nor lobsters being boiled alive in Maine nor the burial of bears in Afghani caves created by US regime bombs. http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_c....php?can_id=379 Father Mother God we pray for all those listed above... that they receive your grace as You simultaneously cause the Republican Party to disappear in 2008 or before, to be replaced by strong Green, Socialist, Libertarian and other parties. God destroy the Rove votefraud quiver of 1000 varieties of crime. * Defeat 21 Republicans senators, elected and unelected, whose terms expire in 2008. At least 4 of them (Coleman, Sununu, Allard and Chambliss) were installed by Diebold despite the fact that VP Walter Mondale, Governor Shaheen, Strickland etc. got more votes). Impeach them earlier if possible. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html They see the numbers.. and know the Bush war is hurting their chances. CNN poll July 9, 07: 89% want US out of Iraq now. ************ Senator Larry Craig of Idaho voted to bomb the animals of Iraq and Afghanistan, has tried to gut the endangered species act, and has promoted cow and sheep genocide in Idaho. So has Senator Crapo. HOW HAVE CATS BEEN TREATED BY REPUBLICAN LEADERS? President McKinley's wife drowned 2 angora cats (MSNBC Keith Olbermann show) Eisenhower ordered cats on the White House grounds shot Former Republican Senate majority (because of Diebold) leader Bill Frist obtained cats by lying to Boston animal shelters and then carved them up at Harvard med school before becoming a billionaire by stealing from Medicare and Medicaid. Frist is a Thompson supporter. He also exempted vivisecting drug companies from lawsuits generated by their causation of death or injury. Republican appointees such as Julie Gerberding at CDC, who supervises primate torture at the CDC before going to her Emory job. At Emory, cats are tortured. http://www.emorylies.com HORSES The two biggest horse slaughterhouses in the US are in Republican run Texas Republicans have engineered the rounding up of wild mustangs (not an endorsement of the Democratic Senate and House) COWS Romney, Tancredo, Brownback are linked to animal agribusiness and cattle concentration camps financially and politically. They support the cowboys, not the cows. Henry Paulson is now Secretary of the Treasury. The former CEO of Goldman Sachs and president of Nature Conservancy used his power to turn NC's wilderness shrines into cattle ranches. This has helped Texas Pacific and other Goldman Sachs investments to have a supply of murdered animals' cadavers for their fast food outlets. Goldman Sachs meat investments are subtly managed still by Josh Bolten, GS former employee and present Bush chief of staff. John Bolton, former meat lobbyist, has been moved out by universal opposition. Richard Nixon was given 1 million by Ray Kroc of McDonald's and in return exempted McDonald's from minimum wage. The Congress overturned his legislation. http://www.mcspotlight.org Inhofe and Coburn, Oklahoma senators, began a campaign to criminalize economic boycotts of butchers and vivisectors and to add further penalties to public protests. This legislation was passed by a majority of the Senate pawns of abbatoir owners. Giuliani promoted milk in milk moustache ads.. and contracted prostate cancer. Many physicians see a link between the 2 because of the carcinogenic hormones allowed in the US, banned by the EU. http://www.satyamag.com/novdec00/newkirk.html MICE All Republican candidates support lab torture (vivisection) of animals paid for with stolen tax dollars. . MUELLER The FBI has made it a priority to attack animal rights activists. DEER Republican governors Pataki, Taft, Bush of Florida, Bush of Texas, Perry, Keating and others increased canned hunting in their states, hunting in which animals huddle behind 9 ft. chain link fences and are shot by trophy seeking game hunters. The Safari Club, rich trophy seeking hunters who have shot endangered species around the world, is a group which gave awards to both George H W Bush and George W Bush. Romney participated in a canned hunt in Georgia in 2006 in which all Republican governors were invited to blast away at trapped quail. Mike Huckabee, Baptist minister, and Sam Brownback, Catholic both are proud of their prolife endorsements. Neither sees a dichotomy between that and their frequent mentions that they are hunters and fishermen. Both support the bombing of Baghdad babies and Afghan people and animals. Norman Schwarzkopf, in charge of the bombing of Desert Storm which carpet bombed 250,000 Iraqi refugees fleeing in donkey carts as well as whiteflagged surrendering Iraqi soldiers, and then bulldozed them into graves, is a member of the Safari Club which signifies he has killed 300 KINDS of animals. Matthew Scully, former Bush speechwriter, left over animal treatment by the White House. http://www.matthewscully.com PIGS Former Governor Gilmore helped Smithfield become the worst factory farm in the nation, a pig concentration camp, an Abu Ghraib for animals, which has filled the Atlantic with pig waste Sam Alito, nominated for an unelected position on the Supreme Court (one of last unelected high courts in the world) bought much stock in slaughterhouse invested Vanguard and twice broke his promise to recuse himself in Vanguard cases before the court. FERRETS A tape of a Giuliani talk show in which he is abusing a ferret pet companion was played several times on network tv. It is available many places on the internet. Giuliani stings and stings and stings again. http://www.rudygiulianivideos.com/v...iuliani&index=8 http://www.peta.net/feat/military (one paragraph in the PETA report is disputed). RACCOONS SQUIRRELS CHIPMUNKS The Bush regime's rollback of environmental protection has destroyed millions of acres of animal habitat. Squirrels, chipmunks and thousands of other species have been burned alive as the USDA's and DOI's controlled burn policy has caused even more fires with windchanges. there are at least 150 million Americans who live with cats and dogs .. we have political power! please spread the word! how many millions have horses? birds? fishes? ANIMAL AGONY DECADENCE AND DISEASE College Republicans: http://murepublicans.com/node/9 http://www.thenation.com/doc/200611..._gop_flames_out wbzt.com and AP excerpts Romney's 'Dog On Roof' Story Sparks Outcry (AP) BOSTON An example of Mitt Romney's crisis management skills has turned into something of a political problem for the Republican presidential contender. Romney placed his family dog, an Irish setter named Seamus, into a kennel lashed to the top of his station wagon for a 12-hour family trip from Boston to Ontario in 1983. Despite being shielded by a wind screen the former Massachusetts governor erected, Seamus expressed his discomfort with a diarrhea attack. Now the story, recounted this week in a Boston Globe profile of Romney, has touched off ..outrage from bloggers and animal rights activists. When Romney's eldest son, Tagg, and his four brothers complained about the brown runoff down the back windshield, their father quietly pulled the car over, borrowed a gas station hose and sprayed down both the dog and the kennel before returning to the road. "Massachusetts animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone from carrying an animal `in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon,"' wrote Steve Benen in a post on the blog "Crooks and Liars." Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, told Time magazine's "Swampland" blog: "If you wouldn't strap your child to the roof of your car, you have no business doing that to the family dog!" http://www.freedomisforeverybody.or...tatebystate.php Dump Senator Graham, enemy of animals Animal Rights and Wildlife Issues (hard these days to navigate the following link http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rat...hp?can_id=21992) 2005-2006 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 40 percent in 2005-2006. 2005 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 20 percent in 2005. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 0 percent in 2004. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Fund for Animals 0 percent in 2004. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation 0 percent in 2004. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Humane Association 0 percent in 2004. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 0 percent in 2004. 2004 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Animal Protection Institute 0 percent in 2004. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Fund for Animals 0 percent in 2003. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 0 percent in 2003. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Humane Association 0 percent in 2003. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Animal Protection Institute 0 percent in 2003. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 0 percent in 2003. 2003 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation 0 percent in 2003. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Fund for Animals 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Humane Association 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Animal Protection Institute 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the Society for Animal Protective Legislation 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2001-2002 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 0 percent in 2001-2002. 2000 Senator Graham supported the interests of the The Humane Society of the United States 0 percent in 2000. 2000 On the votes that the Society for Animal Protective Legislation considered to be the most important in 2000, Senator Graham voted their preferred position 0 percent of the time. frugivore writes: "Animal rights was excluded entirely from virtually every debate hosted by Time Warner's Wolf Blitzer, GE's Tim Russert and Chris Matthews, Kevin Klose's NPR employees. Yet as genocide it dwarfs every human catastrophe. http://www.worldanimalnet.org" Romney's connection to the Chinese Army through his Bain Capital and Huawei, a Chinese computer company, is illegal. It has been brought up but not answered by Romney in televized debates and on the Loud Dobbs Show. http://www.gohunter08.com/showpress.asp?artid=178 |
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