OpEd by Susan Wagner – President of Equine Advocates
“What is needed now is a public revolt to save these horses!”
Although the #NewYorkTimes is a great newspaper on many levels, it has never, in our opinion, accurately reported on wild and domestic #equine issues, including #HorseSlaughter.
I cannot say why that is, but this latest attempt to report on a “solution” to the #WildHorse and #Burro crisis is nothing less than mystifying. As bad as it is, I think there is something else afoot.
BLM’s Wild Horse Harvesting Machine by John Holland
Of course, it all boils down to money, special interests and a ghoulish plan that the #BLM has been discussing behind closed doors. #Congress demanded that the BLM submit a management plan to them which it did. It actually reads like a roadmap to #extinction. It includes sterilization, gruesome reproductive experiments, sale “without limitation” which means slaughter, sale to slaughter, killing/execution and other destructive programs, non of which have anything to do with protecting and preserving these animals which the vast majority of Americans support. You may read the BLM’s plan for yourselves here: https://www.eenews.net/assets/2018/04/26/document_pm_02.pdf
However, not all of the BLM’s “ideas” are stated in the plan it submitted to Congress. There are more sinister solutions which have not yet reached the news media. We hope in the coming days and weeks that more of these outrageous ideas will be exposed.
What is needed now is a public revolt to save these horses!
It’s not enough to wait until the mid-terms. It could be too late by then. Your activism and advocacy are needed now! Please be pro-active and contact your lawmakers now!
Sadly, many in our government are active participants of the #PaytoPlay agenda. Our wild horses and burros, as well as our domestic equines are all in grave danger of falling victim to those corrupt officials who are willing to set policy based on how much money is being offered to them. This has become more and more evident every day as we watch the news and see corporations paying off politicians and government officials in order to influence government policy.
Our wild horses and burros are among the latest victims of this corrupt hot mess. Only a powerful public outcry can stop this juggernaut to extinction.
Categories: Horse News, Horse Slaughter, Wild Burros, Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
Susan , you are right, and public protests would help also .
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Bo Derek…big horse fan
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Not to mention, how the HE** does a gov’t. agency produce a “comprehensive, science based” plan in LESS THAN 30 DAYS????
I’d like a formal report on what steps were taken in those (less than) 30 days to produce/review/edit anything they didn’t already have in hand when Congress slapped their hands, starting with any formal input from citizen stakeholders during that tiny window of time. I doubt it even exists, like the need for extermination as a “solution.”
All this makes me begin to understand how WWII happened. We MUST get these concerns before anyone in or running for office RIGHT NOW.
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MOVE TO AMEND
We the People, Not We the Corporations
On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government. Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions.
We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.
We Move to Amend.
https://movetoamend.org/
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ACTION ALERT
Citizens Against Equine Slaughter
Posted on May 15, 2018 by CAES
The House of Representatives will begin hearings on the FY 2019
appropriations bill today. This is the bill with the Stewart amendment we fought to get rid of last year, and succeeded.
Last year Rep. Chris Stewart did, as in the previous year, stand in front of this Congressional committee and tell bold face lies to push his major donors’ agenda to get rid of our wild horses.
His amendment sought to use ‘all the tools in the toolbox’ meaning unrestricted sales of “excess” horses, and euthanasia of “excess horses”. His agenda supports the wishes of a huge group of well funded commercial and corporate special interest public lands users and abusers. The leaders of this group being the commercial livestock industry.
We filed an ethics complaint against Stewart, and we cornered him on C-Span, announcing that ethics complaint to the audience at a time when mainstream media would not tell the truth either. We have been forcing the truth to be seen and we will not stop.
We expect the same, if not a worse amendment to be introduced this year to try and kill over 100,000 wild horses. We believe there have been at least 3 stagings, intentionally providing dead horses at the very hands of the federal agencies who are supposed to be protecting them. We need your help, your voices, and your passionate intelligence to speak up again for our wild horses.
https://citizensagainstequineslaughter.org/2018/05/15/action-alert-contact-the-appropriations-subcommittee/#comment-533
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ACT NOW – Contact the subcommittee members listed below, and tell them:
We will not support any language to kill, allow unrestricted sales, or perform barbaric sterilization surgeries of wild mares.
Republicans
•Ken Calvert, California, Chairman
@KenCalvert
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 92882
2205 Rayburn
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-1986
Fax: (202) 225-2004
•Mike Simpson, Idaho
@CongMikeSimpson
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 83701
2084 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: 202-225-5531
Fax: 202-225-8216
•Tom Cole, Oklahoma
@TomColeOK04
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 74820
2467 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6165
Fax: (202) 225-3512
•David Joyce, Ohio
@DaveJoyceOH14
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 44087
1124 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5731
Fax: (202) 225-3307
•Chris Stewart, Utah, Vice Chair
@RepChrisStewart
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 84111
323 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-9730
Fax 202-225-9627
•Mark Amodei, Nevada
@MarkAmodeiNV2
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 89511
332 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6155
Fax: (202) 225-5679
•Evan Jenkins, West Virginia
@RepEvanJenkins
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 25701
1609 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-3452
Fax: (202) 225-9061
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Democrats
•Betty McCollum, Minnesota, Ranking Member
@BettyMcCollum04
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 55114
2256 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6631
Fax: (202) 225-1968
•Chellie Pingree, Maine
@chelliepingree
Facebook Link
Email Web Form use her office address: 2 Portland Fish Pier, Portland, ME 04101
2162 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone (202) 225-6116
Fax (202) 225-5590
•Derek Kilmer, Washington
@RepDerekKilmer
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 98402
2162 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone (202) 225-6116
Fax (202) 225-5590
•Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
@RepMarcyKaptur
Facebook Link
Email Web Form for Zipcode enter 43604
2186 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-4146
Fax: (202) 225-7711
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CORRECTION
Rep Derek Kilmer
(202) 225-5916
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Rep Chris Stewart
WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE
323 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-9730
SALT LAKE CITY DISTRICT OFFICE
420 East South Temple #390
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: 801-364-5550
Fax: 801-364-5551
ST. GEORGE DISTRICT OFFICE
253 West St. George Boulevard
Suite 100
St. George, UT 84770
Phone:435-627-1500
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It’s time to really scream. The horse issues are very real. They have been staging on a much smaller scale but this time staging will be rampant and much larger. It’s time to Fight
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