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Animals Ask You To Dump Many Republican Senators

by Animals' Election Slate
The worst Senate candidates for animals are Inhofe, Chambliss,
Cornyn, Stevens, Gilmore. McConnell, Coleman, Sununu, Smith, Roberts
THE ANIMALS' ELECTION SLATE: WHOM TO DUMP
The Worst Senators for Animals

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/dis...4346/index.php

Of the 35 Senate seats up for election in 2008, 23 are held by Republicans and 12 by Democrats.

Of the 4 main candidates Obama, Biden, McCain and
Palin, the latter 2 have the worse record. McCain
has bombed not only women in lightbulb factories but
water buffalo and many other animals in Vietnam and voted for their
bombing in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has had a poor
animal rights record in Arizona.

Pictures of dead victims of Sarah Palin
http://www.animalsuffering.com/forum...pic.php?t=6527


The worst Senate candidates for animals are Inhofe, Chambliss,
Cornyn, Stevens, Gilmore. McConnell, Coleman, Sununu, Smith, Roberts

The class of 2002 included at least 5 Republicans installed
by Diebold fraud though their opponents were elected. Talent and
Allard are gone, and the other 3 in MN, NH, and GA
are behind in the polls.

Diebold installed Saxby Chambliss will lose his Senate seat
stolen from the victor Max Cleland in 2002 by Diebold.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html
Chambliss cosponsored Inhofe's legislation which criminalized
peaceful protests at slaughterhouses and laboratories. He
has worked with the CDC, Emory Univ. network of vivisectors.
http://www.emorylies.com Please vote for Jim Martin
or your 3rd party candidate.

Inhofe, senator from Oklahoma, has temporarily killed
the 1st amendment, as he authored legislation to criminalize
peaceful protest at slaughterhouses, laboratories, and
factory farms. He has promoted the illegal wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Please vote for Andrew Rice
http://www.andrewforoklahoma.com/ or your 3rd party
candidate.

John Cornyn, Republican war voter in Texas, with Dick
Cheney in Rolling Rock Pennsylvania at a posh country club
killed over 400 birds in 1 day, birds raised in cages and
released directly in front of them. Please vote for Noriega
in Texas.

Ted Stevens voted to club the Pribilof Island seals in the
early 70's. He has been a strong supporter of aerial hunting
of wolves and bears, as well as an advocate of oil
industry destruction of the ANWR. Please vote for Mark Begich
or your own 3rd party candidate.

Vote against Jim Gilmore in Virginia.
Animal rights activists will vote for Mark Warner over Jim Gilmore, the Republican who helped Smithfield build pig concentration camps in VA and NC and allowed Smithfield to pollute the Atlantic with pig waste and its pfiesteria, ecoli, and anaphylactic shock effects.

Jim Gilmore also committed acts of governmental murder as he executed prisoners.

Wojc:
"Smithfield has also a farm in Poland. The Polish government sold them collective farming land. The EU doesn’t act on ecological disasters because Smithfield is a Western company."

Norm Coleman needed both the death of Paul Wellstone in
a plane crash and Diebold fraud to become senator from
Minnesota. The neocon who has voted to bomb animals
is also a supporter of the brutal dairy industry. http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.alfranken.com

Mitch McConnell in Kentucky has been the voice of
Kentucky cattle butchers and of Yum Foods, the world's
largest meat advertising restaurant conglomerate. Bruce Lunsford
is the Democratic candidate.
http://www.kfccruelty.com http://www.meat.org
http://www.kydemocrat.com/content/24years
http://senate.ontheissues.org/Senate/Bruce_Lunsford.htm

Sununu voted zero 0% of the time with the Humane Society
of the US. While the head of the New Hampshire Republican
Party went to jail for election fraud in 2002, Karl Rove and
John Sununu remain out of jail. The Libertarian candidate
will take away some of his votes. Jeanne Shaheen was elected
in 2002 by the people of New Hampshire and she will win this year. It's rare for incumbents to poll consistently under 45%
but New Hampshire residents are well aware of Sununu's fraud.
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_ratin...php?can_id=617

Mark Pryor, Democrat, has been bad for chickens.

Pat Roberts of Kansas has been a pawn of those who operate
animal concentration camps. He has also consistently voted for war.

In North Carolina, Kay Hagan, Democrat, is running against Elizabeth Dole
who voted only 40% of the time for issues of the American
Humane Assoc. http://www.kayhagan.com

In Oregon, animal habitat destroyer Smith got a 12 million
dollar subsidy for wooden arrows in the big bankers' robbery
bill of 2008... both helping the Oregon lumber industry and
promoting bowhunting to children.
http://www.votesmart.org/election_co...x=14&go33.y=15


Both candidates in Colorado have been bad for animals.

In Alabama, Democrat Figures is running against war voter
Sessions.

Any candidate who supports the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,
is an enemy of anmals.


19 ways McCain's current wars are harming animals

War is war on animals too.
1 People animals birds are killed by bombs and rockets.
2 People animals birds are blown apart by mines of war profiteers .
3 Animals die on livetransport ships in wartorn ports after standing in their own waste, dying of hunger and thirst
4 Whales, dolphins, fishes, turtles, sea birds are killed in oil spills from bombing power plants. 15,000 tons of oil
have been dumped into the Mediterranean by the Israeli
bombing of a Lebanese power plant.
5 Animals die in military weapons research labs.
6 Animals die in military contract 'vaccine' research.
7 Animals are bulldozed (killed or backs broken) in zoos in wartorn areas.*
8
Animals are made minesniffers.. porpoises are electroshocked into being device carriers.
9 Animals are seized, slaughtered and eaten by armies.
10 Animals disoriented by bombs run away from their homes.
11 Animals are abandoned by refugees.
12 Animals are not allowed in to all refugee camps. The US Red Cross
after a worldwide outcry re its gunbacked separation of people
from animals has begun to change its rules on this.
13 Animal habitat (trees, orchards, vines, plants, watersheds) are destroyed by daisy cutter, bunker
buster and other bombs
14 Depleted uranium is giving animals as well as people
cancer, 81 times the average in Baghdad.
15 Animals as well as people have died as supply convoys
were foiled by bombed roads and bridges, and as
convoys have been fired upon.
16. Some abandoned animals are left tied up without war
and are dying of thirst.
17. Motorists racing to get out of bombing areas are
mowing down goats, cats, dogs, chickens, sheep on the roads.
18. US soldiers at Dugway Proving Ground and elsewhere
are told to hunt kill and eat rabbits and other creatures.
19. American soldiers drinking have shot
tigers and lions in the Baghdad Zoo.

Third Party Candidates

RALPH NADER

Ralph Nader did not oppose the Inuit whale slaughter.. he believes
the right of Inuit to slaughter is greater than the right of
whales not to be slaughtered.

RON PAUL
is on the ballot in 2 states. He has opposed war. Animal
rights lobbyists cite his ethical opposition to supporting
animal rights bills.

LIBERTARIANS

Bob Barr has the support of many hunters.

http://votesmart.org/issue_rating_de...sig_id=002847M

Poster welcomes your additions and corrections.. this is only
an infinitesimal fraction of the data on this subject.


Retirements .. all Republican
Wayne Allard (R) of Colorado
Larry Craig (R) of Idaho
Chuck Hagel (R) of Nebraska
Pete Domenici (R) of New Mexico
John Warner (R) of Virginia
Opposed by Democrats and third parties
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Ted Stevens of Alaska
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
Pat Roberts of Kansas
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Susan Collins of Maine
Norm Coleman of Minnesota Diebold installed warmonger
Thad Cochran of Mississippi
Roger Wicker of Mississippi took Trent Lott's seat
John Sununu of New Hampshire Diebold installed
Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina 9 points behind Hagan
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma the worst of all
Gordon Smith of Oregon a forest destroying and warmonger
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina McCain's lapdog
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
John Cornyn of Texas mechanized killing of birds, warmonger
Michael Enzi of Wyoming cattle ranch pawn
John Barrasso of Wyoming
Democratic incumbent races
Mark Pryor of Arkansas
Joe Biden of Delaware
Dick Durbin of Illinois
Tom Harkin of Iowa bad for animals
Mary Landrieu of Louisiana bad for the environment
John Kerry of Massachusetts please end support of vivisection
Carl Levin of Michigan warmonger
Max Baucus of Montana livestock animal abuser
Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey bad for lab animals
Jack Reed of Rhode Island
Tim Johnson of South Dakota bad for livestock animals
Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia voted for war
§Palin violated federal law making loopholes for aerial hunting
by Animals' Election Slate
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Palin was supported not only by BP and Chevron
but by idle rich hunters, some with machine
guns, shooting bears and their cubs, wolves,
from helicopters
§defenders.org
by Animals' Election Slate
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There are responsible hunters, but Palin is not
one of them. See http://www.defenders.org
for an aerial hunting video
§Palin wants beluga whales removed from endangered species list
by Animals' Election Slate
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Palin tripled the pollution Chevron could cause in Beluga waters
§Palin supports the brutal Iditarod
by Animals' Election Slate
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If the picture were bigger you could see
that 1 dog is unconscious or dead as he is
dragged on the ice. Many dogs are drowned,
smashed, frozen, strangled in ropes
§Commercial fishery owners like Palin see seals as competitors
by Animals' Election Slate
1sppalinownscommercialfishery.jpg
Because they see seals as competitors for
suffocated fishes, Norwegians murder whales,
Japanese knife dolphins, Canadians club seals.
§Cheney and Scalia in duck blind
by Animals' Election Slate
cheneyduckblind.jpg
by Inge
Dude, who wrote this? Nader is a *vegetarian*, and they're criticizing him because he says that Inuit should be able to do traditional hunting? What local plants would you have them eat? reference http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2000/07/nader.html

Has the thought ever occurred to you all that the transition to agriculture in europe (wheat) and east asia (rice), and central america (corn 800 yrs ago) caused a lot of environmental destruction, not to mention being the root of the system of property rights, the highly hierarchical forms of government, and weapons development? Agriculture doesn't just displace the natural landscape, but even pesticide free methods typically involve lots of direct animal mortality.
by say huh
Not nearly as direct as actual hunting, guy. Sure, everything we take from this earth to survive is a detriment to it, but that does not mean there is an equivalency to every taking. Some things are clearly more harmful than others. The Union of Concerned Scientists, which is not some big AR group, pegged meat-eating as one of the two most harmful things citizens of this planet do as individuals (the other being driving personal combustion engine automobiles).

And as for weapons development, well that one is almost laughable. Didn't people first develop weapons for hunting? Aren't there territorial concerns/conflicts over hunting grounds?

It almost sounds as if you are arguing for a pre-agricultural society. Hard to imagine 6 billion people ever going back to that early state of humankind. Really hard. And how long would it take for every last wild animal to be eaten if those 6 billion folks all went hunting for their food?

Don't forget that animal domestication was a huge part of the agricultural shift in human societies. That's where most people get their meat as hunting is just not a sustainable source of animal flesh. Hunting for folks like Palin is a sport, not a necessity. Most of her meat comes wrapped in plastic at the grocery store.

Lastly, supposedly sticking up for Inuit hunting rights is about the weakest, and most disingenuous, ways to defend meat-eating, hunting, whatever, in a western industrialized country like our own.
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