Animal Rights -- NOT ! !

Appeasement of the animal rightists will not work.  NOTHING will ever be 'good enough' and the more we 'come to the middle' the more the middle shifts in their direction.

First they came for the puppy mills, and I did not speak out -
because I was a commercial breeder.

Then they came for the commercial breeders, and I did not speak out -
because I was a hobby breeder.

Then they came for the hobby breeders, and I did not speak out -
because I was a pet owner.

Then they came for the pet owners -
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Wayne Pacelle directs HSUS now and he supports the notion that all domestic animals should be extinct.  He has said, "We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding ...One generation and out.  We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals.  They are creations of human selective breeding."

Animal People News, May 1993
http://www.activistcash.com/biography_quotes.cfm/bid/3366

Ingrid Newkirk of PeTA supports the notion that all domestic animals should be free and people should not own them.

http://www.activistcash.com/biography_quotes.cfm/bid/456

"Of all tyrannies,
a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end,
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

        -- C.S. Lewis

"The righteous man hath regard for the life of his beast;
But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel".
Proverbs, 12:10

Lord Emmerich Edward Dalberg Acton,
a celebrated late 19th- century British historian,
who held the Regius Chair of Modern History
at Cambridge University was the one who wrote:
"Power tends to corrupt.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely."