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Obama Wild Horse Stampede Contractor Rewrites the Truth

Posted: January 30, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, The Force of the Horse, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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(In My most Pissed Off Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ Author/Director HfH Advisory Council

Sue Cattoor Loves that Rogue’s Limelight

Sue Cattor playing to the Cloud Foundation's camera of Ginger Kathrens and Makendra Silverman at the destruction of the Pryor Mt. Herd in 2009 ~ Photo by R.T. Fitch

On January 24th our good friend and college Robert Winkler of The Desert Independent published a guest editorial written by the wife of one of the Bureau of Land Management’s chief helicopter wild horse stampede contractors, Sue Cattoor.  I read it, I gagged, I moved on and did not comment.  There was a moment that I considered posting it, here, and decided against giving this self-ordained queen of wild horse suffering any more publicity to feed her maniacal ego.  But after days of eating at my soul; I just can’t let it go as I sincerely owe it to the tens of thousands of wild horses whose lives have been destroyed, both figuratively and literally, to respond to this trashing of the truth and blatant attempt to further mislead and twist the opinion of the American public.

Now a word of warning about Sue Cattoor, the woman is out of touch with the laws of the land and is seriously attempting to rewrite the First Amendment and quell free speech in the press within our borders.   Last year the Cattoors had their attorney send ugly and shabbily constructed (in my pissed off opinion) threat letters to rescues, foundations, publications and bloggers who publicly questioned the high flying duo for their techniques, tactics and methods of mismanaging the costly and deadly Calico Complex debacle. (You can view our letter by clicking (HERE)) These letters laid out demands for retractions, apologies, deadlines and timelines with threats of what would happen if we did not comply.  Some caved, some did not, others engaged their attorneys who basically told the constitution assailing Cattoor attorneys to stick it.  What ole Sue fails to realize is that she has gone above and beyond the norm to make herself a public “personality” and once that was established we are all welcome to have our own opinions of this very public, controversial, outspoken media Black Hole.  As a writer and blogger I most certainly have my opinion and that is exactly what is expressed within this article.  (Actually, several of us feel that a suit initiated by the Cattors would be a really fun ride for all of us because the discovery of their books and background would be a riot, wouldn’t it?…enough fodder there for the next several decades worth of Op-Eds)

The title of this “look at me” rant is “Helicopter Roundups are the Most Humane Way to Gather Wild Horses”.  That one sentence says a lot, in fact, its double talk.  The BLM and Cattoors refer to their helicopter stampedes as “gathers” and they have cringed when more astute individuals use the term roundup.  Now we have ole Sue using both terms in one sentence, pretty slick.  When we use the term “gather” we are usually using it in regards to flowers, eggs, leaves or maybe something like, “Come children, gather around and we will tell you a fairy tale before you go to bed.”  Images of young girls dancing through meadows of tall lush grass with baskets of flowers on their arms comes to mind when we think of gather, NOT the bloody images of stampeded horses running for their lives before a roaring, mechanized bird of prey.  The images just don’t mix.

And then there is the intent of the headline; ”most humane way to gather wild horses”.  Like there are other ways that are worse or the entire process is inhumane and this is the lesser of the evils?  I for one think the later is the implication.

But enough chatter regarding the title let’s get on to the article which is pretty much, yup you guessed it, a one-sided list of lies that ole Sue’s BLM boss Bob Abbey could be proud of.  The Cattoors have made millions off from the backs of traumatized wild horses so why would anyone think for a single second that they wouldn’t believe it is such a wonderful and noble thing that they are doing.  Sue is pulling all of these starving horses off from the over grazed range so the handful of wild horses that are left can grow fat and sassy.  The Cattoors have been drinking that BLM Kool-Aide for far too long.

I won’t answer sentence by sentence but I will counter Sue’s hurt feelings for the likes of us using the term “Stampede” when we refer to their helicopter chasing horses down.  That’s what it is Sue, it is not a walk, trot, gallop, stride, nada…it is a head long rush to escape the 100+ mile an hour generated winds, noise and terror from a giant metal bird that is swooping down upon these terrified creatures.  Panic, sheer panic is what ensues when your helicopters chase the horses upon our public lands.  There is nothing calm, civilized or humane about it and you have actually run the hooves right off from horses in doing so.  Documented, signed and sealed so don’t attempt to quote a dictionary to me as to what the meaning of the word “stampede” is, you have taught it to me well, in person and it ain’t pretty.

If you have the stomach for it you can read the article by clicking (HERE) but I won’t dignify it on this website…she has a whopping 9 comments on it at the time of this writing and most of them are from family, friends or maybe even manufactured email addresses as all seem to think what she is doing is so wonderful and kind.  Bullshit.

Personally, I believe that the Cattoors, employees of the BLM and DOI should be arrested and tried for thousands of counts of animal cruelty and held to the same standard that the general public is as outlined by very descriptive warning signs on BLM supervised land.  But no, our government allows these private contractors to decide what, when, where and who can watch their destruction of OUR wild horses on OUR public land.  It’s an outrageous travesty.

We said it before and we will say it again, Sue…we live for the day when you and your indicted hubby just go away, dissolve, disappear, never to be seen again over the blue skies of our public lands.  And as we gaze out over the empty plains we will remember that once there were happy bands of wild horses there, living out their lives prior to the cattle and your cruel intervention.  Now those horses are in long and short term holding while the bulk of them have been sold off to slaughter to tantalize the palate of  wealthy foreigners;  our national icons in the bellies of other nations.  Thanks for being great Americans, Dave and Sue, you’ll have a whole lot to talk about come judgment day as you sold your souls to the devil a long, long time ago…and that devil, today, is Obama’s BLM.

Sleep tight.

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Horse Eater Party Turns Into Record FLOP

Posted: January 5, 2011 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Steven Long ~ Author/Publisher of Horseback Magazine

Wallis and Duquette Fail Miserably

After months of hype and frantic email promotion fewer than 200 traveled to snowy Las Vegas the first Monday in January to talk about saving the horse industry by reigniting the contentious issue of horse processing likely for human consumption in foreign markets.

At a kickoff dinner Monday evening less than 70 braved the cold to attend what was billed in advance as a national meeting of the horse industry.

Tuesday, on the very day President Obama signed potent new legislation giving the federal Food and Drug Administration authority over the nation’s meat supply, about 30 speakers quoted disputed numbers of abandoned horses not supported by law enforcement records.

“Never before in the annals of history has so much been misrepresented about so many by so few,” said John Holland, president of the Chicago based Equine Welfare Alliance, who watched the event on a video feed.  One Las Vegas television station described Summit attendance as being in the dozens.

Many in the sparse crowd who traveled to Las Vegas South Point Hotel and Casino for a meeting styled “The Summit of the Horse” were ranchers who last year decried inspections and paperwork required by the USDA’s ill fated NAIS program which was abandoned after massive protests from horse owners and agriculture. The new FDA rules will force horse owners to send chemical free horses to slaughter if the group’s hoped for slaughterhouses are ever built. A question never raised at the Summit was whether the U.S. would move to a meat animal passport system if horse processing were again made legal. In some European countries, horses are required to have a passport that follows them for life showing them to be chemical free. Such is the case for all European horses bound for slaughter. Virtually all domestic American horses would fail the test for dangerous chemical contamination because of the routine administration of bute, wormers, banamine, and other substances which remain in the carcass of an animal for life. Under current FDA rules, bute is strictly prohibited in food animals and there are no provisions under FDA rules for a decontamination period as was repeatedly suggested by speakers at the summit.

Even the once protected Mustangs under the management of the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are not chemical free. Mares returned the range are administered birth control and the horses moved to holding are wormed and treated with bute for their injuries. In addition, the European Union prohibits all wild equidae meat except zebra. BLM’s director, Bob Abbey was a keynote speaker at the summit which stated its primary purpose was to make horse slaughter for human consumption legal in the United States. Abbey stated in no uncertain terms that the slaughter of wild horses is off the table, a direct slap in the face to summit organizers.

The BLM holds tens of thousands of wild horses in captivity. These horses, frequently acclaimed as symbols of the freedom of America, were protected under the 1971 Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. But in an 11th hour bit of politics immediately before the congress took its Christmas break a rider attached to the 2005 appropriations bill by former Montana Sen. Conrad Burns, with the help of Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, removed those protections. BLM promptly enacted a rule stating that older, unadoptable horses, could be sold without limitation to the public. Wild horse advocates charge that the likely market is the “killer buyers” of the slaughter industry which is now located in Mexico and Canada.

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BLM Helicopter Stampede Contractor Sues Citizen Journalist

Posted: December 31, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Steven Long ~ Author/Publisher of Horseback Magazine

Cattoors Attempt to Rewrite the Constitution

Wild Horse Stampede Contractors, Dave and Sue Cattoor give the U.S. Constitution the finger

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A citizen journalist working for The Examiner.com has been sued by the government’s largest BLM “gather” contractor. The suit filed in a rural Juab County, Utah district court charges Maureen Harmonay routinely misrepresented the facts in a series of stories on wild horse roundups in several western states.

Harmonay has filed a denial with the court.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are David and Sue Cattoor, owners of Cattoor Livestock Roundup, Inc. of Nephi, Utah.

Citizen journalists are recent phenomena, an outgrowth of Internet publishing. Under press freedoms afforded by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, virtually anybody can be a journalist. Unlike in other countries, in the United States no license to practice the craft is required. Such journalists, like their professional brethren, are afforded broad protections under a landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling, New York Times vs. Sullivan. Since the ruling the legal doctrine has provided safe refuge for a generation of journalists who write about the rich and powerful, often to their subject’s discomfort. The ruling sets very high standards a plaintiff must meet to prevail in a lawsuit. Journalists are largely protected by the doctrine when writing about public officials and public figures such as someone in the news. The plaintiff must prove malice.  Both Cattoors, because of their high profile in the BLM wild horse and slaughter controversies, would likely be considered public figures by the courts.

Harmonay is a Sterling, Massachusetts real estate agent and freelance writer.

“I am a former Thoroughbred bloodstock agent and am passionately interested in the welfare of horses,” she told Horseback Magazine. “I write about equine advocacy and rescue topics, as well as about Thoroughbred pedigree issues.”

Examiner.com is a website that publishes the freelance contributions of local and national writers on a variety of newsworthy topics, including arts, culture, education, food, pets, politics, sport, and travel.

The Cattoors have been fiercely protective of their turf closing off their roundups to journalists. The couple has also threatened other publications and reporters with lawsuits.

The Cattoor’s attorney, Stephen Queensenberry of a Provo, Utah, law firm has written several extremely threatening letters to journalists, publications, and websites, covering the Cattoor’s BLM roundups including one to Harmonay stating, “I want to remind you that you will be litigating pro se in a rural county of a conservative state. Our clients have lived in Juab County for a very long time. It is likely, from our prospective, that a jury might award anywhere from six figures to the low seven figures. Our case is defamation per se, so we do not have to prove any actual damages. If we obtain a judgment, we will pursue it through bankruptcy or anything else.”

“You can see from this brief excerpt how threatening this is,” Harmonay said.

In their years as BLM contractors, the Cattors have billed the government millions.

Sue Cattoor responded to a request for comment by the Horseback saying, “I am sure you have read the lawsuit and what we asked Maureen to do and not to do.  The other defendants – publishers & etc I believe can not be held accountable for what she writes or has written.”

Two defendants including the operators of The Examiner have been dropped from the lawsuit according to Harmonay.

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“I, likewise, have been attacked by the Cattoors in an effort to subvert my First Amendment Rights.  Isn’t it incredible that a contractor who works for the Federal Government who is then funded by American taxpayers can believe that they can then sue taxpayers for reporting the truth?  Absolutely mind-bending. My love letter from Sue can be viewed by clicking (HERE).” ~ R.T.

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Livestock Behaviorist Shuns Advance Publicity at Vegas Horse SlaughterFest

Posted: December 26, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Story by Steven Long ~ Author/Publisher of Horseback Magazine LIVE LINK

CSU Faculty Member Caught in BloodFest Cloud of Controversy

Humane Slaughter Expert Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University

HOUSTON, (Horseback) – A nationally know animal behaviorist, Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University, has asked that her name not be linked to pre-publicity for controversial gathering of ranchers, horse breeders, and representatives of the meat industry and industry wanabes who will gather in Las Vegas shortly after the New Year.

Yet Grandin will speak at the event.

“Temple is attending the meeting and will be presenting, said the famed professor’s spokeswoman, Cheryl Miller. She gave no further explanation why Grandin is reluctant that her name be used in advance publicity which has been widely circulated to the press. In notes sent to anti-horse slaughter advocates Miller said the Colorado State faculty member had asked event organizer Sue Wallis, a Wyoming legislator that her name not be used in pre-publicity for the event.

Organizers of the event are hoping to build a legal horse slaughter plant in Wyoming. Grandin gained fame by designing a system which tricks cattle into a state of well being as they are led to slaughter by a captive bolt gun, a device that sometimes misses its mark and leaves animals maimed.

Other guests touted to speak at the summit include Bob Abbey, director of the federal Bureau of Land Management, an agency under fire for allegedly attempting to drive the wild horses of the American West to extinction in favor of providing cheap grazing land to farmers and ranchers.

Recently ethics complaints have been filed against Summit organizer Wallis R, Wyoming with her state legislature alleging self dealing and possible IRS violations of the 501(c)3 non profit status of her groups. The complaint was filed by wild horse advocate Pat Fazio, Ph.D.

Another Summit participant, BLM’s lead helicopter chase contractor, Dave Cattoor, once plead guilty to the misdemeanor of illegally capturing wild horses which were later allegedly sold for slaughter.

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BLM Participation in “BloodFest” Shocking

Posted: December 24, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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Press Release from The Cloud Foundation

BLM Director Bob Abbey to speak at pro-horse slaughter convention

Las Vegas, NV (December 23, 2010)—The Cloud Foundation voices its concerns today over the significant BLM participation in the early January “Summit of the Horse”, better known as the “Slaughter Summit”. BLM Director, Bob Abbey, will be a keynote speaker at the conference, which purportedly ties wild horse management to the “solution” of horse slaughter. American wild horses must be protected from groups trying to profit from their slaughter. Director Abbey’s taxpayer-funded trip to Las Vegas to participate in a conference supporting horse slaughter is concerning.

“The BLM’s significant participation in this slaughter summit is truly troubling,” states Cloud Foundation Director, Ginger Kathrens. “The BLM needs to change course and begin listening to the American people who are calling for the protection and preservation of our wild herds, not to those who would profit from their flesh.”

Joining Director Abbey is the BLM’s longtime primary roundup contractor, Dave Cattoor, who, in 1992 pled guilty to one federal misdemeanor of “aiding and abetting” the use of an aircraft to illegally capture wild and free horses. The horses were sold to a Texas slaughter plant. Despite this conviction, BLM continued to award Cattoor millions of dollars in roundup contracts. Other speakers of note at the conference include current BLM Wild Horse and Burro Public Advisory Board member, Dr. Boyd Spratling DVM and Larry Johnson, who served on the Advisory Board for over ten years and made no bones about supporting the euthanasia of healthy wild horses in government holding facilities.

Organizers of the Summit promote the building of horse slaughter plants in the USA that would export horsemeat to Asian and European markets. Wild horses, essentially “grass fed”, are not tainted by drugs and dewormers, thereby making them more vulnerable to slaughter. The European Union, tightening food safety regulations, currently prohibits all wild equid meat except for that of zebras. Despite BLM assertions to the contrary, wild horses are sent to slaughter in Mexico and Canada regularly (link to video).

“How many of our wild horses sent to long term holding have ended up in slaughter houses?” questions Kathrens. “BLM lacks a transparent tracking system in order to account for the thousands of animals sent to numerous facilities around the country.  To make matters worse, independent observers are denied access to these facilities to confirm the total number of animals being held.”

Horse slaughter is illegal in the US where horses are not consumed. The majority of horses sent to slaughter are young, healthy animals while others are barely able to walk and may be old and infirm, deserving of humane euthanasia—not slaughter.

The Master of Ceremonies for the Summit is agricultural talk show host and former disgraced pork factory farmer, Trent Loos. Conference organizers include the leading advocate of horse slaughter, Sue Wallis, Republican State Representative of Wyoming. Wyoming resident, Patricia Fazio, Ph.D. recently filed a complaint with state officials for alleged violations of ethics laws and securities fraud by Representative Wallis.

“They call the wild horses ‘feral’ and the slaughter horses ‘unwanted’ to denigrate them,” explains author RT Fitch. “The proponents of horse slaughter complain about the cost of wild horses in holding, but completely ignore the hundreds of millions of dollars shelled out by taxpayers to subsidize privately-owned livestock on public lands.”

The Cloud Foundation requests transparent tracking of all American wild horses removed from the wild and held by the BLM as well as an independent count of the estimated 40,000 wild horses in long and short term holding corrals and pastures. Wild horses cost little on our public rangelands but more than $40 million annually when incarcerated in government holding. Meanwhile, subsidized privately-owned livestock graze the majority of the wild horse ranges, at a net loss of at least $123 million per year. Restoring wild horse and burros to the more than 24 million acres removed from them over the past 40 years along with reinstatement of the more than 150 “zeroed out” herds while managing ranges “principally” for wild equids would effectively solve the “wild horse problem,” created through decades of mismanagement by the BLM.

Currently the BLM is removing the last of America’s wild horses and burros from Western public lands at enormous taxpayer expense—animals that Congress intended to remain free and unharmed. Population estimates, based on BLM’s own data, reveal a wild population of less than 20,000 wild horses and burros remaining now on American western public lands—at least 5,000 fewer than roamed free in 1971 when Congress decreed wild horses and burros to be “fast disappearing” and unanimously passed the Wild Horse and Burro Act. In 1971 there were more than 8,000 burros. Today BLM reports there are 4,7000 but likely far fewer. The BLM’s target population is only 1,200 burros.

On December 10th the US House of Congress agreed to a budget increase for BLM, giving the broken program $75 million to continue the roundup/removal of America’s wild herds. However, this week the Senate held BLM funding at 2010 levels until March by passing a Continuing Resolution. This resolution did not include the additional $12 million requested by BLM and did continue the prohibition to not allow the use of federal dollars to kill healthy wild horses or sell them for slaughter.

The Cloud Foundation will continue to push for a “defunding of the roundups” as legitimized by a recent independent report on the BLM’s mismanagement. Economist Dr. Caroline Betts of Southern California University estimates that wild horses and burros will undergo rapid extinction in as little as 11 years if BLM is allowed to continue on the current track of removals.

Links of interest:

Horse slaughter http://bit.ly/fZjRv5
R.T. Fitch www.sfthh.com
Trent Loos http://www.equinewelfarealliance.org/uploads/Abbey-Summit.pdf
Independent Report to Defund Roundups: http://bit.ly/gCyiu0
WY Resident Files Complaint against Wallis http://bit.ly/hZPccF
Stampede to Oblivion: An Award Winning Investigative Report from CBS Las Vegas: http://bit.ly/iiNNYs
American Herds – “What’s Left?” http://americanherds.blogspot.com/2009/12/whats-left.html
Congress Sends Letter for Wild Herds to Secretary Salazar: http://bit.ly/54sign
Roundup Schedule: http://bit.ly/roundupsched
Mestengo. Mustang. Misfit.  America’s Disappearing Wild Horses – A History: http://bit.ly/8ZCk8e
Public Lands Grazing Costs http://www.sagebrushsea.org/pdf/factsheet_Grazing_Fiscal_Costs.pdf
Short link to this release: http://bit.ly/dVMNZB
Past Cloud Foundation releases: http://bit.ly/9XD0TE
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BLM’s Wild Horse Stampede Contractor Exposed as Deceptive

Posted: September 8, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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(The News as We See It) by R.T. Fitch

BLM’s David Cattoor Plots to Subvert First Amendment Rights, Again!

Dave Cattoor, "I'm not going to give them the one shot that they want" ~ Photo by Jim Wilson/New York Times

It was subtle, it was sweet and done with such professional flair that most people would have missed it on the first go around but a second viewing cements the words and causes the jaws to drop.  Clare Major, of the New York Times, caught on video BLM Wild Horse Stampede contractor Dave Cattoor discussing with his company and BLM personnel the process of killing a horse, that his firm would injure, and how to hide it and dispose of it in such a manner that the public and press would not see it or become aware of the incident.  How sweet is that?

“All the King’s horses and all the King’s men will never be able to put Cattoor’s words back in his mouth again.”

Sunk, doused and caught with his pants down all due to the desire to be “famous” and to appear in the New York Times.  The egos of Dave and Sue Cattoor have finally done them in.

There’s background as to how badly the Cattoors wanted to manipulate the press and be on the “good side” of the Times.

Three days earlier, at another trap location, the Cattoors and the BLM granted NYT reporter Jessie McKinley and photographer Jim Wilson unprecedented access inside the active trap area while holding other press and public observers at bay almost a mile away.  When news of this discriminatory act was exposed by this reporter on “Straight from the Horse’s Heart” close access to the traps was then denied to all press and public.  NYT filmmaker Clare Major was kept behind a jute fence halfway up a mountain with a horrible view of the illicit operations only 48 hours after her team mates were granted unfettered filming.  Along with reps from HSUS and Horseback Magazine she suffered the ire of the Cattoors for being caught using deceptive practices only days earlier.

Ms. Majors contacted her editor to request another day of shooting as nothing occurred during that filming attempt.  She likewise made special arrangements with Sue Cattoor to be allowed down to the trap site for interviews prior to the arrival of the correspondents from Horseback Magazine, it was during that time that Dave Cattoor was caught showing his tried and true business model.  The “them” that Cattoor was referring to was the team from Horseback, including this reporter.

Dave Cattoor’s comments not only back up and verify the fact that his operations harm, maim and can ultimately kill wild horses but what is hidden in his words verifies that this is a practice and process that he has used against the free press and public in the past and it has worked.

Cattoor said,  “If something happens we are going to correct it quickly, just like we talked about.  If it’s a broken leg, we’re going to put it down, slide it on the trailer, same thing, we are going to town with it.  I’m not going to give them the one shot that they want.”

“Same thing”, what does that mean?  How many times have these deceptive activities occurred in the past?  Is the BLM privy to these clandestine killings and if so do they assist?

“Going to town with it”, which town, what facility, how does he dispose of the horses that he kills?

All of this comes on the heels of Sue Cattoor’s interview with Horseback Magazine where she admitted that Dave shot and killed a mare and her foal on a cliff, from a helicopter, during the deadly Owyhee Stampede where the Cattoors were involved with the deaths of dozens of wild horses.  Cattoor claims the shootings were to put the horses out of their misery but there is no sound medical criteria to support their claims.

The New York Times video continues to artistically close out their piece with another classic and telling Dave Cattoor quote, “..they (wild horses) have to be managed, without management all you got is death, that’s all you got.”

That, ladies and gentlemen, puts the whole problem into a nutshell.  The Cattoors have always believed that they have the divine right to play the role of judge and jury over our national icons while the BLM not only pays them to do so but stands back and lets them run the entire show.  Wild horses never made it through hundreds, thousands and millions of years until Dave and Sue Cattoor showed up to save them from their impending doom of living wild and free on the land that has been their homes for centuries.  What a tremendous burden the Cattoors bear by playing God to the publicly owned wild horses of the United States of America, I am in awe.

These people have controlled the BLM while they have manipulated and attempted to manage the public and press.  Besides the controls and erroneous restrictions they place upon the very people that fund their illicit operations they attempt to control information via threats and intimidation.  Magazines, Newspapers, Non-profits and blogs have received threat letters from Cattoor’s attorneys in an attempt to subvert the truth and violate the First Amendment rights of the free press.  An example of such a threat letter can be seen HERE as received by this reporter, who did not cave in to their overreaching and erroneous demands.

Hats off to the New York Times for bringing to light the true spirit of the BLM and their contractors.  The video has gone viral on the internet and all the attorneys in the world will not be able to undo the major PR damage Cattoor has beset upon himself.  They would be tremendously busy writing threat letters to all of the major news chains and media outlets.  Not even the BLM’s high dollar PR firm is going to be able to put a positive spin on either the Cattoors or the BLM Stampede practice.

It’s simply divine justice that the silver bullet that fells the bloody Cattoor reign over our wild horses comes not from the virtual gun of a tax paying wild horse advocate but from the very mouth of David Cattoor himself.  Sooner or later the lies catch up with you and the truth about David Cattoor has been over 35 years in coming.  The spirits of the wild horses that David Cattoor pled guilty to of being sold off to slaughter can now rest in peace.

The truth is out.

New Laura Leigh Video Highlighting Deceptive Acts of Cattoor and BLM

BLM Helicopter Stampede to put 50% of California’s Wild Horses and Burros behind Bars Forever

Posted: August 12, 2010 by R.T. Fitch in Horse News, Wild Horses/Mustangs
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(The News as We See It) by R.T. Fitch ~ author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart“

Let the Suffering Begin!

HOUSTON – (SFTHH)  The BLM’s much contested Twin Peaks stampede began amidst a cloud of controversy on August 11th in Northeastern California.  The aerial assault is scheduled to last 6 weeks with a total of 2,000 wild horses and burros set to be placed behind bars to endure a lifetime of imprisonment and potential sterility.  Setting the stage paranoid BLM officials over reacted by calling in county Sheriff Deputies and Federal Rangers in the advent that a passive equine welfare advocate might “do something” to disrupt the roar of helicopter blades and stampeding horses.  Much to their chagrin, nothing happened.

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BLM Helicopter stampede contractor David Cattoor, (“The United States of America vs David Cattoor” where Cattoor plead guilty to the count of “Conspiracy” and also a second count of “Using Aircraft to Capture Wild Horses, Aiding and Abetting”), had his pilot fire up the company helicopter at 0730 hrs and commence with the destruction of our native wild horse herds.

Pay no mind to the fact that Cattoor has made millions from the BLM by stripping our public lands of their native wild horses, but Dave actually made a comment to Sam Stanton of McClatchy Newspapers on the opening day of wild horse destruction.

“They’ve got to be managed,” said Dave Cattoor, the Utah-based contractor in charge of the roundup. “They’re just totally wiping themselves out.”

Thanks Dave, we appreciate your one sided and highly slanted input but your wife and normal mouthpiece for your company walked all over herself, last week, with rumor, untruths and innuendo regarding the trumped up lie of the Owyhee roundup being conducted as an “emergency” due to “lack of water”.  Now we should listen to you, NOT!

Virtually every single, independent photograph or video of the wild horses that are harassed and assaulted by the BLM and their contractors has proved to be healthy and in excellent condition.  That is when independent photographers manage to exercise their First Amendment rights and are allowed to be on public land watching their publicly owned horses being brutalized by a publicly funded private contractor hired by an out-of-control federal government agency.  That has not happened much, as of late.

According to reports about 130 formerly free wild horses were jammed kicking and biting into the trap and pens prior to the conclusion of the first day of the dastardly deeds.  Reports indicate that Cattoor called the activity off early due to high winds in the area but there is no direct report that the high winds were generated by an excessive amount of BLM PR generated hot air.

Two seated Federal Judges allowed the destruction of this herd to proceed without comment or any indication as to basis of their decision.

The BLM indicates that they will leave 500 horses on the tens of thousands of acres at Twin Peaks but if they perform as they have in the past the U.S. public will be lucky to see any equines remaining as the BLM has no policy for scientific integrity and cannot manage grade school math.

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