I just opened the response to my inquiry about the bill AB197, introduced by the terrorist Rep. Scott Suder (R-Abbottsford) that permits the bear "hunters" to "train" their dogs on captive wildlife - bobcats, foxes and coyotes. Since he managed amend the Wisconsin Constitution to make hunting, trapping and fishing a constitutional right, he has moved on to expand state sanctioned torture of animals.

Vice President Cheney said in a C-Span televised speech at the Heritage Foundation, that Kaye brought a video back from Iraq, of Saddam H watching his two Doberman eating, while he was alive, a "disloyal" general.

And in Wisconsin: a bill just out of Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, to allow bear hunters to "train" their dogs packs on captive wild animals -just like Saddam and his dogs, i.e. TEAR THEM APART while they are alive, screaming and trying to fight back.

I saw a video of these filthy men doing this to a panther. They bought it from a zoo. The terrified panther could see, hear and smell the dogs. It knew. It cowered in a cage refusing to come out till they poked it with cattle prods. Shaking, it stepped out the door and immediately about 15 dogs were on it and tore it apart while it screamed. Training my ass. The boys were having a good time.

Why doesn't the media televise this "training" instead of ignoring what our legislature does in our names. We have savages roaming these Wisconsin woods and it is not the animals. These "trainers" should be shipped to Iraq where they can pick on prey like themselves instead of "captive" animals.

In her response to me, Senator Robson said, "as you know" they already train them (the dogs) on captive black bears, rabbits and raccoons. Shit no, I didn't know. Who can imagine this level of cruelty?

And as a person who had her cats tortured, and killed by my next door neighbors (avid hunters) and 2 stole from my new home after I moved and the legal system gave them my new address; I am twisted inside as I believe the kind of people who do this, steal our pets to use in this way.

The legal system does not protect us. It protects them, as the system is made from their kind.

Urgent Alert- Please contact your WI state representatives today to oppose the "Training Expansion Act." (09/25/2003) Or you can just watch this pass like the killing of our state symbol, the mourning dove, at the Wis Leg Website.

Too bad Bush, who is doing the correct thing in the middle east, is trying to install a theocracy in the United States.

Three Wisconsin State Representatives have re-introduced the
(nearly) original Pet Facilities Law!

Please take a moment to CALL or E-mail the following
Representatives to THANK THEM for their support of Pet Facilities
Law!

Rep Larry Balow (D) Eau Claire
rep.balow@legis.state.wi.us
(608) 266-9172

Rep Jeff Wood (R) Chippewa Falls
rep.woodj@legis.state.wi.us
(608) 266-1194

Rep Tom Lothian (R) Walworth County
rep.lothian@legis.state.wi.us
(608) 266-1190

These forward thinking, humane minded Representatives deserve
high marks (and our votes!) for hearing the public outcry for the
reinstatement of the Pet Facilities Law. Representatives Balow,
Lothian and J. Wood understand the need for humane care
standards for the pet industry AND understand the protection this
law will help to provide to animals AND people in Wisconsin.

Additional URGENT action needed NOW!

The three original authoring Representatives need our help to get
other legislators to cosponsor the bill.

PLEASE call or e-mail you State Representative and Senator ask
them to support The Pet Facilities Law (LRB-03-2878).

To find out who represents you, call: 1-800-362-9472.

Urgent Alert- Please contact your WI state representatives today to oppose the "Training Expansion Act."

(09/25/2003) The Suder bill that will allow hunters to train their dogs on captive bobcat, coyote, and fox made it out of committee. Bear hunters put a great deal of pressure on Rep. Johnsrud to move it forward. AFA had attended the hearing on this bill which is AB 197. We were hoping, along with the DNR and a retired DNR warden, to get this bill killed. The votes were 9-2 (against). This is incredibly urgent. Please contact your legislator today and ask him or her to not sponsor this bill. Contact both your Rep. and your Senator.
www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/

PLEASE everyone...write your legislators a snail mail, e-mail or make a phone call telling them you oppose the Dog training on Captive Wildlife bill (sponsored by Rep. Suder) and that you expect them to vote NO on the bill when it comes to the floor. PLEASE forward and cross post to other humane minded people.

Germany's Unification & the End of the Cold War.

C-Span is showing it. Fascinating, 13 years after reunification, I see former president G Bush Senior and the former West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (1982-90) (Chancellor Reunified Germany 1990-98) and Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR 1885-91) all together describing their roles at a remembrance of the falling of the Berlin Wall, Nov. 9, 1989.

I think Gorbachev is a great under appreciated hero. I think of him and his wife fondly as a good team. I remember them in their visits to the White House, one sparkling evening of music and culture at a televised white house social. The two presidential couples singing an old Russian folk song,their eyes all moist, their earnestness, all of them conscious of the preciousness of the new friendship between our countries. I felt the west was trying to support and comfort Gorbachev as he let go of power for the good of the world. So they sang the folk songs to remind each other that it was the people who they served by the actions they were taking.

I learned from the moderator Tom Broshaw's introduction that "his beloved Raeisa(sic)" died. I didn't know this - do not remember hearing about it.

Kohl said that without Bush and Gorbachev, the east and west would not have been united. He said they needed the airlift's food from America. He said it was about time someone thanked the US of America for helping Germany through the Marshall Plan.

And he said what I feel toward Gorbachev, no one knows what you wrestled with and what you contributed, and how you stood on the square with us. Your policy of opening doors that made it possible for movement in the Warsaw Pact, especially at the Paris Troika.

On the day after the wall fell the KGB tried to persuade Gorbachev to quell the people and send tanks into the crowd. Gorbachev trusted the masses to not hurt the soviet troops in east Germany and said to let the people be.

But the ex-chancellor also said east & west Germany did it peacefully, implying Iraq could have been likewise freed without force. WAKE UP - Syria is on the security council - the UN sat through 5 genocides since the holocaust (read A Problem From Hell by Samantha Powers).

With two members of the U N Security Council having loaned Saddam money, having conflicting interest in debt repayment and having trading interests with an otherwise isolated Iraq and having been promised a share in the oil fields when sanctions were lifted, the U N was not going to help with regime change in Iraq. That whole effort was/is proposed by the ignorant and those who support the aims of the Islamic Brotherhood.

The Germans have all ready forgot how good liberation felt when the East Germans were freed. They turned their backs when we needed them to help free another people simply to protect their financial relations (loans) with the dictator. I am glad we are reminding them about democracy today. Someone should confront them about the duty to pass on the good that was done for you.

Oh good - they are starting talking about the invasion now and it is really a good dialogue. Bush is reminding them about how the UN can never be moved to action, sat through 5 genocides, has Syria on the security council. The UN will never agree to fight terror as the economic interests of the majority of the nation states are tied to the terror producing states.

Should we do nothing in the face of terror and oppression? Where would France and Germany be today, if we had that attitude during WWII or afterward? Bush Senior is taking on the European arguments and speaking more frankly then I ever thought he was capable of doing. Of course, he didn't mentioned how he urged the Iraq people to rise up against Saddam after the Gulf War and then abandoned them when Saddam took revenge.