Does That Mean Animal Users Can Sue Animal Rightists For Use Of Funds To Support Terrorism Alleged?
 
Animal rightists sue Adidas
Use of kangaroo leather alleged

Jenny Strasburg  Chronicle Staff Writer

Davis animal-rights group Viva USA on Wednesday sued athletic- shoemaker Adidas and three California retailers on claims that they violated state law by selling shoes made from kangaroo parts.

The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, names as defendants the U.S. subsidiary of Germany's Adidas-Salomon AG, based in Portland, Ore., as well as San Francisco's Lombardi Sports, Sport Chalet of Los Angeles County and Off-Side Soccer in Folsom (Sacramento County).

Viva said it wants to halt imports of products including soccer cleats and running shoes made of kangaroo leather. The lawsuit is part of the group's global campaign against the commercial use of kangaroo body parts, which it said is illegal in California. Adidas sets industry standards for athletic- shoe materials because of its dominance in the market, Viva said.

"They are showing the same disregard for California law that the hunters show the baby kangaroos whom they bludgeoned to death," Viva spokeswoman Lauren Ornelas said in a statement.

Ken Lombardi, co-owner of Lombardi Sports, and Off-Side Soccer manager Alan Farebrother said they were unaware of a law that specifically prohibits selling kangaroo products and said their stores expressly do not sell products made from endangered animals.

Lombardi said he followed Adidas' advice on Wednesday and pulled from his shelves one type of Adidas shoe named in the lawsuit.

Officials at Adidas and Sport Chalet could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

E-mail Jenny Strasburg at jstrasburg@sfchronicle.com.

Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/08/BU248020.DTL


 
Suits & Thugs & Rock & Roll
Cockfighting, prescription-drug abuse and other pursuits that tiptoe over the line of legality; plus, we give a shout-out to Plaza Frontenac
 
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Letter of the Week

A July 7 missive from Anheuser-Busch International, Inc. vice president John Hanichak to Amy Rhodes of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA):

Dear Ms. Rhodes:

Thank you for expressing your concerns about cockfighting and the mistreatment of animals in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

As a company, we care about animals and do not condone cockfighting. We looked into the matter and found that while we did not sponsor these activities specifically, our sponsorship of the overall festival associated our brands with an activity that we do not condone. Therefore we have instructed our distributor to avoid such sponsorships in the future.

For more than 150 years, Anheuser-Busch has had a recognized reputation for treating animals with respect -- from animal protection to animal rescue and rehabilitation to wildlife habitat preservation. Our company is a major sponsor of various conservation organizations including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, The Conservation Fund, The Wildlife Habitat Council and Living Lands & Waters, to name a few. Throughout the years we have partnered with and contributed millions of dollars in support of conservation and wildlife programs.

Again, thank you for contacting Anheuser-Busch and giving us an opportunity to respond.

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Source: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2003-07-30/unreal.html/1/index.html


 
Maryland: Dogfight Sentencing Demonstrates Effectiveness of Citizen Involvement
 
 
Re: Wed 30 Jul 2003
Readers of gamefowl news have seen this article.  That letters were sent to request stiff sentencing constitutes "Undue Influence" which the defendants lawyer needs to file an appeal.  I am not a dog fighter but dog laws tend to become gamefowl laws and if we do not ask that this case be appealed then we will be fighting the same law for gamecocks.
 
Below is the e-mail address to Mr Alex Foster, the Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted the case.  Let him know that having the record for the strongest sentence in the state's history means that a human being will be living in a cage.  Is any animal worth having a person treated like this, I don't think so.  JIMDEM
 

Alex Foster, Assistant District Attorney
50 Maryland Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
alexander.foster@co.mo.md.us

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Re: Wed 30 Jul 2003
 
If there was any TRUTH left in the state of Maryland? Then this is how that article would have actually appeared!


Sentencing Demonstrates Effectiveness of ARA PROPAGANDA on Citizen Incarceration



Thanks in part to the letters of deluded and deceived citizens calling for stiff punishment, on July 17 a Maryland judge handed down the strongest, most overreaching, discriminatory and unconstitutional sentence in the state's history, for an individual convicted of the greatly maligned historic, cultural tradition, of breeding fighting animals.
On September 30, 2002, city police goaded by unscrupulous animal control officers trained, overseen and controlled by the privately held, radical animal rights lobbying organization the Humane Society of the United States, found two dead dogs—one that was partially decomposed and possibly eaten—and a third who was still alive, but in the "opinions" of the HSUS operatives were, "emaciated and dehydrated," in a Gaithersburg apartment. These special interest "investigators" also found video footage of dogs being allowed to fight. The footage showed Ronald Roy Grant allowing one pit bull puppy to fight another. The puppies were not restrained from leaving the fight despite the repeated attempts of the Animal Rights Activists masquerading as animal control public servants, tried to falsely claim that they were. Please note that even after sustaining severe injuries, the pure GAMENESS of the breed alone, is what wouldn't allow the pups to leave their fight.
Grant pleaded guilty to one count of dogfighting, which is really quite a ridiculous thing to charge ANY human with, much less making it so that someone's presence at a fight between two DOGS, becomes a felony-level crime for a PERSON!
At Grant's sentencing, aspiring District Attorney and Animal Rights lackey Alex Foster, read from specially solicited, contrived, selected and edited citizen letters in his speech. Montgomery County Judge Warren Donahue succumbing to the obvious snow-job perpetrated by the District Attorney's Office, then handed down the stiffest, most politically motivated sentencing penalty in Maryland history for this or any other artificially contrived concept like the act of, "animal cruelty." Grant was sentenced to six years in prison, three years of which is mandatory time behind bars. Grant was then sentenced to three additional years of supervised probation with several conditions, including an offensively cruel and unusual punishment of no contact with dogs, and mandatory psychological counseling.
Until this case, no one in Maryland had been subjected to such viciously cruel sentencing of anything more than 14 months for such a manufactured and alleged crime that the likes of "animal cruelty," represents! This sentencing sends a very strong message to the entire American public, that the enemies of freedom and all that is good and right about this country, use illegal animal fighting laws as their tools for attaining citizen subjugation in their quest for a "Big Brother" type of political control, AND that THIS will evidently be tolerated in the state of Maryland.


What You Can Do:



Please write and assail Mr. Alex Foster, Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney, for his politically motivated and viciously vigorous PERSECUTION of Grant. Without his detrimental IGNORANCE and absent his LACK of TRUE knowledge and understanding of this issue, the sentencing would certainly have been much less discriminatory, as in nonexistent!!
Mr. Foster can be reached at:

Alex Foster, Assistant District Attorney
50 Maryland Ave.
Rockville, MD 20850
alexander.foster@co.mo.md.us


Assistant District Attorney Foster is also prosecuting Grant's codefendant, Norman Blassingame, who is scheduled to be sentenced on October 6, 2003. Blassingame was coerced into pleading guilty to contrived animal abuse and conspiracy charges, in order to minimize his OWN persecution by Mr. Foster and his Animal Rights puppet master sponsors, who share his same political aspirations for personal gain and the subjugation of fellow citizens. Because Grant also happened to appear in video footage showing dogs in a series of fighting demonstrations, Mr. Foster intends to seek the maximum sentence for these fallacious "crimes." Even though his ungodly, inhumane and purely punitive crusade, is on behalf of his political backers and not the MAJORITY of his constituents. This is only being done to support Foster's effort to gain greater control and popularity in his future bid for elected office. Please write to the judge to ask him to give Blassingame the JUSTICE, and Foster the maximum penalty they both deserve. Send your letters, addressed to Judge Durke Thompson, but NOT to the E-mail address above. Because this scum-bag Foster, will surely bury them with the REST of his skeletons!!


If you live in Maryland, please contact your state legislators and urge them to support legislation in the 2004 session to strengthen the current anti-domestic terrorist laws. Let your lawmakers know that even the possession, training, selling and transporting of animal rights FASCISM for any purpose, should be a felony. You can find out who your Maryland State legislators are at:
mdelect.net/lookup.asp

Don't let these human hating fascists of the atheist, Animal Rights Cult be allowed to wrongly imprison even one more American Citizen.
Abolish all antihuman "Animal Rights" laws, TODAY! **

***That means every single one of them, folks!!!

YBITSOK,

Fan
 
Courtesy; GamefowlFan