| Date | Bill | Author | Action |
|---|
| 02/25/2003 | HOUSE BILL 1784 | Erwin | Third Reading Passed |
OKLAHOMA HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
FORTY-NINTH
LEGISLATURE
First Regular
Session
HOUSE BILL
1784 Modifying punishments relating to cockfighting
ban
Erwin
THIRD
READING
PASSED
YEAS:
71
RCS# 79
NAYS:
26
2/25/2003
EXC
:
4
1:17 PM
C/P
:
0
YEAS: 71
Adkins
Erwin
Miller, R. Smith,
D.
Armes
Ferguson
Mitchell Smith,
H.
Askins
Gilbert
Morgan, D.
Smithson
Balkman
Hamilton
Nance
Staggs
Blackwell
Harrison
Nations
Sweeden
Bonny
Hefner
Newport
Taylor
Boren
Hiett
O'Neal
Tibbs
Braddock
Hilliard
Paulk
Turner
Brannon
Hutchison
Perry
Tyler
Calvey
Ingmire
Peterson
Walker
Carey
Jones
Pettigrew
Wells
Covey
Kirby
Phillips
Wilson
Cox
Leist
Piatt
Winchester
DeWitt
Lerblance
Pope
Worthen
Dorman
Lindley
Rice
Wright
Eddins
Maddux
Roan
Young
Ellis
McCarter
Roberts Mr.
Speaker
Ericson
McIntyre
Roggow
NAYS: 26
Benge
Deutschendorf
Liotta
Steele
Blackburn
Easley
McClain
Sullivan
Case
Graves
Miller, D.
Trebilcock
Claunch
Greenwood Morgan,
F.
Vaughn
Coleman
Hastings
Peters
Wilt
Dank
Lamons
Reynolds
Davis
Langmacher
Smaligo
EXCUSED:
4
Cargill
Plunk
Stanley
Toure
CONSTITUTIONAL PRIVILEGE:
0
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/49Leg/inetvote03.htm
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 49th Legislature (2003)
HOUSE BILL HB1784
By: Erwin
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to crimes and punishments; ordering a legislative referendum pursuant to the Oklahoma Constitution; amending Provisions No. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Sections 1692.2, 1692.3, 1692.4, 1692.5 and 1692.8), which relate to cockfighting; modifying punishments; declaring an emergency; providing ballot title; and directing filing.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION . Pursuant to Section 3 of Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution, there is hereby ordered the following legislative referendum which shall be filed with the Secretary of State and addressed to the Governor of the state, who shall submit the same to the people for their approval or rejection.
SECTION . AMENDATORY Provision No. 2, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Section 1692.2), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1692.2 Every person who willfully instigates or encourages any
cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a felony
misdemeanor. The penalty for a violation of this section shall be
provided in Section 8 1692.8 of this
Act title.
SECTION . AMENDATORY Provision No. 3, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Section 1692.3), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1692.3 Every person who keeps any pit or other place, or knowingly provides any equipment or facilities to be used in
permitting any cockfighting, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a
felony misdemeanor. The penalty for a violation of this
section shall be as provided in Section 8 1692.8 of this
Act title.
SECTION . AMENDATORY Provision No. 4, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Section 1692.4), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1692.4 Every person who does any act or performs any service in the
furtherance of or to facilitate any cockfight, upon conviction, shall be guilty
of a felony misdemeanor. Such activities and services
specifically prohibited by this section include, but are not limited to:
promoting or refereeing of birds at a cockfight, advertising a cockfight, or
serving as a stakes holder of any money wagered on any cockfight. The penalty
for a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section
8 1692.8 of this Act title.
SECTION . AMENDATORY Provision No. 5, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Section 1692.5), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1692.5 Every person who owns, possesses, keeps, or trains any bird
with the intent that such bird shall be engaged in a cockfight, upon conviction,
shall be guilty of a felony misdemeanor. The penalty for
a violation of this section shall be as provided in Section 8
1692.8 of this Act title.
SECTION . AMENDATORY Provision No. 8, State Question No. 687, Initiative Petition No. 365 (21 O.S. Supp. 2002, Section 1692.8), is amended to read as follows:
Section 1692.8 A. Every person who is guilty of a felony under any of
the provisions of Section 2, 3, 4 or 5 of this Act shall be punished by
imprisonment in the state penitentiary for not less than one (1) year nor more
than ten (10) years, or shall be fined not less than two thousand dollars
($2,000.00) nor more than twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
B. Every person who upon conviction is guilty of any of the provisions of
Section 6 of this Act shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for
not more than one (1) year, or shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars
($500.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment Any person
convicted of violating any provision of Sections 1692.2 through 1692.6 of this
title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not
more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
SECTION . It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
SECTION . The Ballot Title for the proposed act shall be in the following form:
BALLOT TITLE
Legislative Referendum No. ____ State Question No. ____
THE GIST OF THE PROPOSITION IS AS FOLLOWS:
This measure amends Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8 of State Question 687. State Question 687 made cockfighting illegal. This measure changes the penalties contained in State Question 687. It changes all the penalties from felonies to misdemeanors. It sets a fine as the penalty. The fine could not be more than $500.00.
SHALL THIS AMENDMENT BE APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE?
YES, FOR THE AMENDMENT
NO, AGAINST THE AMENDMENT
SECTION . The Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, immediately after the passage of this act, shall prepare and file one copy thereof, including the Ballot Title set forth in SECTION
<Enter Section No.>
<8>hereof, with the Secretary of State and one copy with the Attorney General.
49-1-5298 SB 01/16/03
Source: http://www4.lsb.state.ok.us/lsb/hb_short_titles_2003-04.asp
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/2003-04HB/HB1784_int.rtf
Cockfighting
Don’t just ban
dogs
Tuesday February 25,
2003 IN the House of Delegates, a bill to make animal
fighting and related activities a felony was weakened before debate even
began. The legislation now applies only to dogfighting.
Delegate John Overington, the lead sponsor, said he felt there was too much
opposition in the House to including cockfighting. It’s hard to imagine where
that opposition would come from, though Delegate Don Perdue is a past president
of the United Gamefowl Breeders Association. Cockfighting should be put back in the bill. It is
every bit as barbaric as dogfighting, perhaps even more so, as the birds are
equipped with metal slashers that increase injury to other birds. Fights are often to the death. Surviving animals may
be so badly injured that they must be put down. The Humane Society of the United States warns that a
lax attitude toward animal fighting can have bad consequences for West Virginia,
especially as other states increase penalties. “It’s a magnet for other forms of criminal activity,”
said Karen Allanach, manager of media relations for the group. “This bill would
really work to help police deal with other forms of crime.” Current law makes both dogfighting and cockfighting
mere misdemeanors, with maximum fines of $100. Because of that, pursuing animal
combat operators isn’t a priority for police. Even if perpetrators are caught,
the ramifications aren’t serious enough to act as a deterrent. West Virginia should not be a Mecca for dogfighting
or cockfighting, which would brand the Mountain State as a brutal
place. This bill should go forward, in its original
form.
Write a letter to the
editor.
Source: http://www.wvgazette.com/news/Editorials/200302242/
It may surprise you to know that the terrorist
Animal Liberation Front has a magazine. Produced by the team of anonymous
violence promoters who put together the DirectAction.info web site, Bite
Back is a 16-page glossy quarterly, complete with messages of support and
tales of conquest for animal rights criminals everywhere. Source: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/headline_detail.cfm?HEADLINE_ID=1797
Posted
On February 25, 2003
The Center for
Consumer Freedom has obtained a copy of the latest Bite Back. Some of it
-- editorials from convicted
ALF arsonist Rodney Coronado and UK ALF
ringleader Robin Webb -- was not the least bit surprising. But then we
turned to page 8 and found an interview with PETA
president Ingrid Newkirk.
"You can't have all politeness and
patience, all potlucks and epistles," Newkirk tells Bite Back readers.
"Some people will never budge unless [they are] pushed to budge." Newkirk was
never one to mince words, but those words now openly align PETA with its
terrorist cousin. "A burning
building doesn't help melt people's hearts," she says, "but times change and
tactics, I'm sure, have to change with them."
Elsewhere in Bite
Back, Robin Webb (who was recently an invited
guest at Virginia Tech) calls the ALF "compassionate commandos" and
instructs readers that "any legislation that protects" animal-use industries
"may justifiably be ignored."
In Coronado's opinion piece, he confesses
(as he
has in recent speeches) to his part in at least seven arsons. He begins,
"Eleven years ago I stood in the nation's largest fur research laboratory at
Oregon State University. I wasn't there to lock [myself] down and I certainly
wasn't there to deliver a petition. My warriors and I were there to burn the
place down."
Is This What The AR Want To See?
..........'For the rest of your life, you're going to have nothing to do with any animals..............
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LOGAN, Utah (AP) - A northern Utah judge has ordered a woman convicted of 59 counts of animal cruelty never to own cats again.
First District Judge Clint Judkins gave 52-year-old Sydney McDonald a two-day jail sentence, plus fines and restitution of almost $8,000 - and he said her pet-owning days are over.
''If I find out 10 years down the road you have a cat, you could go back to jail,'' 1st District Court Judge Clint S. Judkins warned.
McDonald was found guilty of 59 misdemeanor animal cruelty charges, in what the judge called a case of ''cat hoarding.'' The 59 ailing animals were found in a trailer near the town of Paradise. Most of them had to be euthanized.
Some of the cats were strays that she had taken in, but others had apparently been trapped and taken from neighbors, according to court documents.
Judkins told McDonald: ''For the rest of your life, you're going to have nothing to do with any animals.
''You have some deep, deep problems, and part of the problem is that you don't recognize it,'' he said at the Monday sentencing.
The Salt Lake City woman was placed on two years of formal probation and 12 years of informal probation with the court.
AP-WS-02-25-03 1429EST
Source: http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=121189
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The Abrams Report’ for February 24
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Read
the complete transcript from Monday’s show
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http://www.msnbc.com/news/877152.asp?cp1=1
If The AR Are Not Concerned With Human Life Are They Really Concerned About Animal Life?
...........we’re not really particularly concerned about the human life. If you must, go ahead and kill them, but please don’t kill the animals...........
ANNOUNCER: You’re watching America’s News Channel,
MSNBC. From the courtroom to the battlefield, the program about justice: THE
ABRAMS REPORT. Now, here’s Dan.
ABRAMS: Welcome
back. A few weeks ago, Palestinian militants detonated a bomb on a road between
Jerusalem and an Israeli settlement just as a bus drove by. Luckily, no one on
the bus was injured, but there was a fatality. The donkey the terrorists used to
deliver the bomb blown to bits, and that’s drawn the ire of the animal rights
group PETA.
In a letter to Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat, PETA’s president writes-quote-”We have received many
calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing in Jerusalem on January 26
in which a donkey laden with explosives was intentionally blown up.”
Now this letter says nothing about human life, just the fact
that a donkey was used. It goes on to say-quote-”Will you please add to your
burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the
animals out of the conflict. We send you sincere wishes of peace. Very truly
yours, Ingrid Newkir, President of PETA.”
It
sounds like PETA is saying kill Israeli citizens if you must, but please leave
the animals out of this. Joining us is Andrew Butler, campaign coordinator for
PETA, Rabbi Barry Gelman from the Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue and Noah
Oppenheim, MSNBC contributor.
All right, let me
start with you, Mr. Butler. Does-it does sound like PETA is saying we’re not
really particularly concerned about the human life. If you must, go ahead and
kill them, but please don’t kill the animals....................
Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/877152.asp?cp1=1