H$U$. I gave some brief information about this group and offered some realities about it. Now, while trying to understand the ramifications of Alan C. Davis coming to Onslow County, let’s take a more detailed look at the H$U$.
To reiterate what I on the Onslow County animal control page:
The H$U$ is by far the wealthiest Animal Rights organization in the USA. In fact, it is the wealthiest Animal Rights organization in the world. So, you would think with that kind of money it would do a lot to help critters. You would be wrong. I choose to speak of this organization first because they have invaded Onslow County and are trying to “sway” the uninformed to their way of thinking. AR groups, not just the H$U$, and individual AR ”Advocates” do this by a modality of tactics like emotional diatribes and just right/just timed “busts” on breeders and alleged dog fights and then riding in to the “rescue.” (By the way, something to consider: in all these busts the alleged perpetrator had been under investigation for some time. Knowing animals are suffering, why are the various local law enforcement agencies ….. WAITING to go into the environment and help the animals??) They do this by advertising with those sad faced little TV ads and by coming into an area and talking about the problems with animals in that area. Pet Overpopulation? Too many dog breeders? To many chicken or pig farmers with farms they believe are substandard? People are eager to help needy critters. They come in with statically one-sided data that they CANNOT substantiate. Uninformed people believe them. They come in with the smoothest talking people that have Never run for a political office.
The H$U$ is by far the wealthiest Animal Rights organization in the USA. In fact, it is the wealthiest Animal Rights organization in the world. So, you would think with that kind of money it would do a lot to help critters. You would be wrong. I choose to speak of this organization first because they have invaded Onslow County and are trying to “sway” the uninformed to their way of thinking. AR groups, not just the H$U$, and individual AR ”Advocates” do this by a modality of tactics like emotional diatribes and just right/just timed “busts” on breeders and alleged dog fights and then riding in to the “rescue.” (By the way, something to consider: in all these busts the alleged perpetrator had been under investigation for some time. Knowing animals are suffering, why are the various local law enforcement agencies ….. WAITING to go into the environment and help the animals??) They do this by advertising with those sad faced little TV ads and by coming into an area and talking about the problems with animals in that area. Pet Overpopulation? Too many dog breeders? To many chicken or pig farmers with farms they believe are substandard? People are eager to help needy critters. They come in with statically one-sided data that they CANNOT substantiate. Uninformed people believe them. They come in with the smoothest talking people that have Never run for a political office.
With the uninformed hooked, the requests for money begin. The requests to report neighbors and family and friends who they believe might be mistreating animals, according to the AR “bible” begins. Politicians begin thinking about changing laws that have been working because the AR group says the law really isn’t working. People begin pushing lawmakers for changes for the “betterment” of the animals, NO matter the costs to humans. The AR groups continue to push for more changes and more advancements of their beliefs. NO matter the costs to humans. The AR group doesn’t have to worry about paying for the costs. It just keeps raking in the money.
There you have it in a nutshell: H$U$.
The SEVEN (7) Things You Didn’t Know About the H$U$ (http://www.consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/a/184-7-things-you-didnt-know-about-hsus )
1. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is a “humane society” in name only. It isn’t affiliated with any hands-on “humane society” organizations, and it doesn’t operate a single pet shelter or pet adoption facility anywhere. During 2008, HSUS contributed barely $450,000— less than one-half of one percent of its budget—in grants to dog and cat shelters. By comparison, that same year it gave $2.25 million to a political campaign committee behind an anti-meat ballot initiative in California, and put $2.5 million into HSUS’s executive pension plan. HSUS is the wealthiest animal-rights lobbying organization on earth. It agitates for the same goals as PETA and other radical groups, but uses fewer naked interns.
2. Beginning on the day of NFL quarterback Michael Vick’s 2007 dogfighting indictment, HSUS raised money online with the false promise that it would “care for the dogs seized in the Michael Vick case.” The New York Times later reported that HSUS wasn’t caring for Vick’s dogs at all. And HSUS President Wayne Pacelle told the Times that his group urged government officials to “put down” (that is, kill) the dogs rather than adopt them out to suitable homes. HSUS later quietly altered its Internet fundraising pitch. Vick now gives HSUS “sponsored” speeches. And most of his dogs have been rehabilitated—WITHOUT any help from HSUS.
3. HSUS’s senior management includes a former spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a criminal group designated as “terrorists” by the FBI. HSUS president Wayne Pacelle hired John “J.P.” Goodwin in 1997, the same year Goodwin described himself as “spokesperson for the ALF” while he fielded media calls in the wake of an ALF arson attack at a California veal processing plant. In 1997, when asked by reporters for a reaction to an ALF arson fire at a farmer’s feed co-op in Utah (which nearly killed a family sleeping on the premises), Goodwin replied, “We’re ecstatic.” That same year, Goodwin was arrested at a UC Davis protest celebrating the 10-year anniversary of an ALF arson at the university that caused $5 million in damage.
4. A 2008 Los Angeles Times investigation found that HSUS receives less than 12 percent of the money raised on its behalf by California telemarketers. Professional fundraisers keep the rest. If you exclude two campaigns run for HSUS by the “Builda-Bear Workshop” retail chain—which consisted of the sale of surplus stuffed animals (not really “fundraising”)—HSUS’s yield shrinks to just three percent. This is typical. In 2004, HSUS ran a telemarketing campaign in Connecticut with fundraisers who promised a return of “zero percent” of the proceeds. The campaign raised over $1.4 million. Not only did none of that money go to HSUS, but the group paid $175,000 for the telemarketing work. Similar filings exist in Massachusetts, New York, and other states. In 2008 HSUS collected more than $86 million in contributions, but spent more than $24 million on fundraising.
5. HSUS’s heavily promoted U.S. “boycott” of Canadian seafood—announced in 2005 as a protest against Canada’s annual seal hunt—is a phony exercise in media manipulation. A 2006 investigation found that 78 percent of the restaurants and seafood distributors described by HSUS as “boycotters” weren’t participating at all. Nearly two-thirds of them told surveyors they were completely unaware HSUS was using their names in connection with an international boycott campaign. Canada’s federal government is on record about this deception, saying: “Some animal rights groups have been misleading the public for years … it’s no surprise at all that the richest of them would mislead the public with a phony seafood boycott.” A documentary director also caught an HSUS film crew abusing a dying seal while they shot a 2007 fundraising video on the ice floes of Atlantic Canada.
6. HSUS raised $34 million in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, supposedly to help reunite lost pets with their owners. But comparatively little of that money was spent for its intended purpose. Louisiana’s Attorney General shuttered his 18-month-long investigation into where most of these millions went, shortly after HSUS announced its plan to contribute $600,000 toward the construction of an animal shelter on the grounds of a state prison. In 2009, Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB-TV reported that public disclosures of the disposition of the $34 million in Katrina-related donations added up to less than $7 million.
7. After gathering undercover video footage of improper animal handling at a Chino, CA slaughterhouse during November of 2007, HSUS sat on its video evidence for three months, even refusing to share it with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HSUS’s Dr. Michael Greger may have perjured himself before Congress, testifying that the San Bernardino County (CA) District Attorney’s office asked the group “to hold on to the information while they completed their investigation.” The District Attorney’s office quickly denied that account, declaring that HSUS refused to make its undercover spy available to investigators if the USDA were present. Ultimately, HSUS chose to release its video footage at a politically opportune time, as it prepared to launch a livestock-related ballot campaign in California. Meanwhile, meat from the slaughterhouse continued to flow into the U.S. food supply for months.
Money. Money where is the H$U$ money?
According to HumaneWatch.com: We studied HSUS’s IRS Form 990 for 2010, and found that just two-fifths of one percent (0.42%) of HSUS’s $126 million budget was spent on grants to support pet sheltering. This “Humane Society” spent a whopping $47 million on fundraising—almost 90 times what it spent on these shelter grants. HSUS also stuffed $32 million away in hedge funds and put over $2.5 million in its executive pension plan.What’s another HSUS priority? Supporting lobbyists. We found that HSUS spent 86 times more on its Ohio political front group attacking farming in 2009 than it did on Ohio pet shelters. In Missouri, HSUS spent 32 times more on its political front group in 2010 than it did on shelter-support in that state.
The Humane Society of the United States would like Americans to believe it provides significant monetary support to local hands-on shelters, but their financial records tell an inconvenient truth. As local shelters struggle to keep their doors open, HSUS is raising millions of dollars a month from unwitting donors to bankroll an animal rights agenda and fund a huge staff of lawyers and lobbyists, a bloated executive pension plan, and exorbitant fundraising expenses. Meanwhile, HSUS doesn't run a single shelter for the abandoned dogs and cats that are so plentiful in its ads. http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4545-hsus-still-not-a-real-humane-society
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Continuing with H$U$ 101: The concerns over the H$U$ and its international need for money and power had made it to Washington, DC with Senator Moran calling for an investigation into the H$U$: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nodVyu0vIRk&feature=share AND http://moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/speeches?ID=caf22968-d7fe-41f3-9244-5a9ed4632b34
The Center for Consumer Freedom discusses a bit of the H$U$ agenda to end pet ownership and agricultural pursuits as we know it. http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4551-hsus-knows-theres-a-pet-shelter-problem-but-would-rather-harass-farmers-- Animal shelters agree that the H$U$ doesn’t support them: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/r/355-local-shelters-agree-humane-society-of-the-united-states-shortchanging-nations-pet-shelters
The Center for Consumer Freedom discusses a bit of the H$U$ agenda to end pet ownership and agricultural pursuits as we know it. http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4551-hsus-knows-theres-a-pet-shelter-problem-but-would-rather-harass-farmers-- Animal shelters agree that the H$U$ doesn’t support them: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/r/355-local-shelters-agree-humane-society-of-the-united-states-shortchanging-nations-pet-shelters
Ok Students. Rather than a long lecture, Pictures are worth more than 1,000 words. I give you: The Visual H$U$:
The Visual H$U$: H$U$ By the Numbers. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 2: Wayne Pacelle, The Bond and his “bond” with animals. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 3: Questionable Fundraising Tactics. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_3/ (As with the A$PCA, those ads with dogs and cats are designed as an emotional tool. )
The Visual H$U$, Part 4: The H$U$, Wayne Pacelle and Michael Vick. http://www.humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_4/
The Visual H$U$, Part 5: Map of the USA and how much money the H$U$ DIDN’T Spend on Shelters. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 4: The H$U$, Wayne Pacelle and Michael Vick. http://www.humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_4/
The Visual H$U$, Part 5: Map of the USA and how much money the H$U$ DIDN’T Spend on Shelters. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 6: The Broader, Radical Agenda of the H$U$, and this is an eye opener! http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_6/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 7: H$U$ and Michael Vick Timeline. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 8: While a lobby fanatic, the original articles of incorporation prevents H$U$ from doing this! http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 9: Money, money where does it go? NOT directly towards helping animal shelters. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_9/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 10: Creative Accounting and Inflating Membership numbers. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
That’s it for today ladies and gentlemen. Oh, before I neglect it, the CEO of H$U$, Wayne Pacelle, had a few comments about something, and here they are, along with the truth of what he is saying/not saying/half-saying. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/hsuss_rabid_reaction_backfires/
The Visual H$U$, Part 7: H$U$ and Michael Vick Timeline. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 8: While a lobby fanatic, the original articles of incorporation prevents H$U$ from doing this! http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_8/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 9: Money, money where does it go? NOT directly towards helping animal shelters. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_9/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
The Visual H$U$, Part 10: Creative Accounting and Inflating Membership numbers. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/the_visual_hsus_part_10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
That’s it for today ladies and gentlemen. Oh, before I neglect it, the CEO of H$U$, Wayne Pacelle, had a few comments about something, and here they are, along with the truth of what he is saying/not saying/half-saying. http://humanewatch.org/index.php/site/post/hsuss_rabid_reaction_backfires/
