Fighting For Their Lives Against Anti-Human Religion..........
 
.........back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments........
 

Bill seeking lower cockfighting penalties passes House

2003-04-23
By The Associated Press

The Oklahoma House reversed itself Wednesday and passed legislation that asks voters to lower the penalty for cockfighting and spare cockfighters from a prison term.

House members voted 52-43 for the measure a day after they defeated it 52-47. Gamefowl breeders were in the gallery when the House reconsidered the measure and said they were relieved the bill was still alive.

"I'm ready for it to be over," said Kelly Barger, a game fowl breeder in Pawnee.

A cockfighting question approved by the people last November made it a felony for anyone to raise chickens for fighting. The question is punishable by a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison.

But Barger said polls have indicated most Oklahomans believe the blood sport should be a misdemeanor. The bill proposes to lessen the penalty to a misdemeanor on the first offense, punishable by a $2,000 to $25,000 fine and up to a year in jail.

"It is a felony for owning a chicken," Barger said. "The general citizenship thinks that's wrong."

Courts in some Oklahoma counties have enjoined enforcement of the cockfighting question. Barger said he still owns and fights gamecocks but that others have quit the business.

"A lot of people have sold out," he said.

In cockfighting, roosters are fitted with spears or knives and often fight to the death. Cockfighting remains legal in New Mexico and Louisiana.

The legislation passed after House members cut off debate and refused to consider removing amendments they approved on Tuesday. It now goes back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments.

The measure, Senate Bill 835, originally called for an election in November 2004 but was amended to call for a vote at the next special election.

The bill's author, Rep. Randall Erwin, D-Nashoba, said he did not disagree with the amendments but did not want send the bill back to the Senate.

"I'm tired of the volleyball back and forth," Erwin said.

A similar bill by Erwin failed by a narrow vote in the Senate last week but was revived on Tuesday through a parliamentary move by Sen. Frank Shurden, D-Henryetta.

The Erwin bill passed the House in February on a 71-26 vote.

Source: http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=1015792&pic=none&TP=getarticle
 
 
Bill Seeking Lower Cockfighting Penalties Passes House
 
Oklahoma City (AP) - The Oklahoma House reversed itself today and passed legislation that asks voters to lower the penalty for cockfighting and spare cockfighters from a prison term.

House members voted 52-to-43 for the measure a day after they defeated it 52-to-47.

A cockfighting question approved by the people last November made it a felony for anyone to raise chickens for fighting. It is punishable by a 25-thousand-dollar fine and up to ten years in prison.

Gamefowl breeders were in the gallery when the House reconsidered the measure. They said they're relieved the bill was still alive.

Game fowl breeder Kelly Barger says polls have shown most Oklahomans believe the blood sport should be a misdemeanor. The measure proposes to lessen the penalty to a misdemeanor on the first offense, punishable by a 2-thousand to 25-thousand dollar fine and up to a year in jail.

The measure now goes back to the Senate for consideration of House amendments.
Source: http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0403/84535.html
 
 
............."Groups like the anti-people Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society treat nature like their church," ............

............ It's a religion thing," .........

......green groups are engaging in "the pagan worship of trees, and they are willing to sacrifice people" in the preservation process," .......
 
 
AR, ER, Anti-War, Anti-Cockfighting, Anti-Gamefowl, Anti-People, Anti-Animal Use, Anti-Animal Ownership, And On And On..........
 
 
In The Church Of The Anti-Human?

 
 
'Forced Busing' at National Parks Decried as 'Anti-People'
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
April 23, 2003

(CNSNews.com) - A federal plan to restrict the use of private automobiles in California's Yosemite National Park is raising the hackles of land rights advocates nationwide and prompting protests at the park.

"The Park Service is trying to force visitors out of their cars and into big buses, and drive people away from our national parks," Chuck Cushman, executive director of the American Land Rights Association (ALRA) said in an interview with CNSNews.com Tuesday. Cushman also leads the newly formed Visitors and Communities for an Open Yosemite.

Cushman led a group of several hundred protesters at Yosemite on Tuesday as U.S. Rep. George Radanovich (R-Calif.) was chairing an Earth Day congressional hearing at the park on the new regulations.

The new restrictions on private automobiles are contained in the National Park Service's Yosemite Valley Plan, which was passed during the final days of the Clinton administration.

The Yosemite Valley Plan is estimated to cost taxpayers $442 million and includes plans to eliminate hundreds of prime riverside campsites and cabins and reduce by two-thirds the availability of daytime parking spaces for visitors. A spokesman for Radanovich was not available for comment, but the congressman has raised concerns about key aspects of the plan.

Local business leaders also fear more regulations will further weaken tourism to the park, which has dropped steadily since 1996 when 4.2 million people visited. This past year's visitors totaled 3.46 million, according to the Park Service.

The Park service is engaged in "social engineering" at Yellowstone and is trying to do the same thing at other national parks, Cushman warned.

"Forced busing did not work in Los Angeles or in Boston schools, and it won't work in our national parks," Cushman said.

"The Bush administration still has a chance to kill the plan," he added.

The ALRA has a long history of fighting battles in Yosemite. In the 1970s, when the Park Service attempted to evict all private property owners from the park, the ALRA successfully fought off the attempt, and Cushman still owns a house in the park.

But Courtney Cuff, the Pacific regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a private watchdog group that monitors the federally run National Park Service, thinks the new regulations will help "create more of a balance" at Yosemite.

"We see the plan as actually providing a great opportunity for visitors in a sense that the eco-system will be restored," Cuff told CNSNews.com. The NPCA, along with the Wilderness Society and the Sierra Club, are promoting the new federal regulations at Yosemite.

"We are striving to restore what is so beloved about this park: access to flora and fauna, amazing wildlife and trees," Cuff said. "We are going to really bring this park into the 21st century," she promised.

Cushman believes environmental groups that have pushed the busing plan are doing so as part of their "divine plan," which seeks to preserve the parks as an environmental Holy Land.

"Groups like the anti-people Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society treat nature like their church," he said.

"They don't want people camping or driving or generating trash. To them, it's defacing their church. It's a religion thing," Cushman explained.

The green groups are engaging in "the pagan worship of trees, and they are willing to sacrifice people" in the preservation process," Cushman said.

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Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200304/CUL20030423a.html
 
 
The Church Of Anti-Human Alive In Merced County California?
 
Who Else Besides The AR And This Public Servant Installed To Enforce The Law.............
 
Deputy District Attorney James Swanson
 
...........Are Able To Use Free Media Advertising To Promote Insinuations And Their Own Personal Opinions?
 
..........He said the lethal and highly contagious Exotic Newcastle Disease was first detected in backyard chickens raised in Southern California much in the same way as was observed in Flores’ backyard............

............“I’m quite sure that a person from Southern California, who wanted to transport his birds to Merced County, would not be deterred from doing so because of the quarantine.”............

..........cockfighting poses a serious threat to the county’s poultry industry..........

............cockfighting also poses real safety issues..........

............“It is easy to see that is a lethal recipe for violence,” ..............

Do You Think Edmundo Tapia Flores Can Get A Fair Trial In Merced County Superior Court When The Deputy DA Is Allowed To Make Insinuations And Personal Opinions About The Case In The News Media?

Good Luck Edmundo Tapia Flores For Justice To Be Served In Merced County..........
 
Delhi man is charged with animal cruelty
 
By Mike De La Cruz - Merced Sun-Star

FLORES

A Delhi man charged with animal cruelty stemming from a rooster fight at his residence in January was held to answer in Merced County Superior Court following a preliminary hearing.

Edmundo Tapia Flores, 33, was given a May 8 arraignment hearing date on Monday by Merced County Superior Court Judge Robert Quall.

At the arraignment hearing Flores will enter a plea and be given a jury trial date.

Flores is charged with three felony counts of animal cruelty and three misdemeanor counts that include raising roosters for the purpose of fighting, possession of fighting implements, and allowing a cockfight to take place on his premises.

Mike Valencia Perez, 54, and Frank Perez, 50, both of Delhi, and Mario Rodriguez, 30, of Turlock, were arrested along with Flores, and face misdemeanor charges of being spectators at a cockfight.

Flores was arrested on Jan. 11 when sheriff’s deputies raided his Mariott Avenue residence and found cockfighting taking place.

Court records indicate the raid was the result of an anonymous call of a cockfight at the Flores residence.

Responding deputies observed several people in the backyard who immediately fled.

Deputies also found seven bloodied and dead roosters in a hole in the backyard, one bleeding and dying rooster, and about 30 roosters in separate crates or tethered to barrels.

Deputies also reported finding Flores in possession of 12 slashers, sharp knives that are attached to the roosters’ legs allowing the birds to inflict serious and often fatal wounds to each other.

Deputy District Attorney James Swanson, who supervises the sheriff’s Ag Crimes Task Force, said that besides being cruel and inhumane, cockfighting poses a serious threat to the county’s poultry industry.

He said the lethal and highly contagious Exotic Newcastle Disease was first detected in backyard chickens raised in Southern California much in the same way as was observed in Flores’ backyard.

The disease has spread to commercial businesses in Southern California which has led to strict quarantine of the area, the prosecutor said.

Swanson said that people who engage in cockfighting have a vast underground communications network enabling them to know when and where cockfights are being held.

Fighting cocks are brought to these events from all over the state and even from out of state to compete, Swanson said.

“I’m quite sure that a person from Southern California, who wanted to transport his birds to Merced County, would not be deterred from doing so because of the quarantine.”

Swanson said that cockfighting also poses real safety issues.

He said the major purpose of a fight is to allow the spectators and participants to wager on the birds.

Large sums of cash are on hand at these fights, along with guns, alcohol and drugs. “It is easy to see that is a lethal recipe for violence,” he said.


Reporter Mike De La Cruz can be reached at 385-2474 or mdelacruz@mercedsun-star.com.
 
Source: http://www.mercedsun-star.com/news/newsview.asp?c=44736