May We Expect The HSUS To Condemn This Type Of Criminal Activity And Demand Law Enforcement.....
........to launch "aggressive enforcement" campaigns.......
El Pasoan arrested in 2003 anthrax hoax
Louie Gilot
El Paso Times
A case from last year involving white powder and anthrax threats against the FBI, the U.S. Postal Service, an El Paso apartment complex and an El Paso counseling center was solved with the arrest of an El Paso man July 23, FBI officials said this week.
His July 21 indictment charges that Steven Earl Cottingham, 34, sent or delivered four letters between Aug. 28 and Sept. 10, 2003, containing various typewritten threats and a white powder, which was meant to look like the bacteria that cause the deadly disease anthrax but that turned out to be harmless.
After his arrest, Cottingham "made some statements that he may be connected to the Earth Liberation Front and other extremist groups. He made statements that the city and the community were guilty of crimes against the environment and animals, and as a result, he would infect the community with anthrax," said Art Werge, the spokesman for the FBI in El Paso.
Cottingham worked occasionally as a freelance Web designer, FBI officials said.
He pleaded not guilty to charges of mailing threatening communication and conspiracy to kill a U.S. citizen and is being held in jail without bond. His trial has not been scheduled. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Court documents show Cottingham is accused of sending a letter addressed "Postman Die" and containing a note saying, "Nine eleven all over again." A second letter was mailed to the El Paso FBI and said, "And just because what was once found in El Paso on Thursday was not anthrax, what makes you think the next batch won't be?"
In a separate case, Cottingham and his wife, Sariah Owan Cottingham, 27, have been indicted for allegedly counterfeiting more than $50,000 in checks in July and August 2003.
If convicted of bank fraud and counterfeiting securities, they face up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Louie Gilot may be reached at lgilot@elpasotimes.com; 546-6131
Source: http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20040819-157362.shtml
BATON ROUGE -- A national animal rights group Tuesday called on all Louisiana district attorneys to launch "aggressive enforcement" campaigns of the new ban on "hog-dog rodeos" and volunteered to supply investigative help and intelligence on where the matches may be taking place.
Ann Chynoweth, counsel to investigative services at the Humane Society of the United States, said she wrote the letter to remind the district attorneys that the law went into effect Sunday and to offer the organization's help in making cases
Evangeline Parish District Attorney Brent Coreil, president of the Louisiana District Attorneys Association, said the prosecutors are well aware of their responsibilities.
"This is not new," he said. "We have had requests from the humane society before (to enforce cruelty laws). That is their prerogative. . . . I am not intimidated by it; most DAs are not."
The new law, written by Rep. Warren Triche, D-Thibodaux, makes it a crime for anyone to organize or conduct a hog-dog rodeo in which a dog corners a tuskless hog in a pen and attacks it or an event where it can be "reasonably foreseen the canines or hogs would be injured, maimed, mutilated or killed."
The law also makes it a crime to promote or attend the rodeos or raise or train animals for the events, which Chynoweth said is a sport in parts of Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, California and Arizona. The new law sets out a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine, six months in jail or both for violations.
Coreil said special interest groups, such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, frequently write district attorneys, urging aggressive prosecution of laws.
Chynoweth said only Avoyelles Parish District Attorney Charles Riddle, a former state House member, had so far responded to her e-mail message. In a short reply to the letter, Riddle wrote: "Thank you for your courtesies. We will enforce the law as we do every day."
Chynoweth said in the letter that the more than 69,000 society members in Louisiana are glad the new law is in effect "but they also know that a law is only as good as its enforcement." She said hog-dog fights, which she called "barbarically cruel," should be policed and prosecuted.
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Ed Anderson can be reached at eanderson@timespicayune.com
Source: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1092821229184280.xml
.......Ann Chynoweth, counsel to investigative services at the Humane Society of the United States, said she wrote the letter to remind the district attorneys that the law went into effect Sunday and to offer the organization's help in making cases.........
Do You Think The Counsel To Investigative Services Of The Humane Society Of The United States Would Care To Offer The Organization's Help In Making Cases With Reference To Those Who Delve In Different Forms Of Terrorism?
When You Hear That...........
Will You Think The Huddle Is About Protecting Americans From........
........conspiracy to kill a U.S. citizen ......
Or.......
.......hog-dog rodeos.......
| Rescued chickens lead to lawsuit Jill Kaiser Dion, Editor | ||
Fernandes, who is district manager for the
Connecticut Humane Society and a well-respected animal rights activist,
believes the city is unfairly targeting her and her
chickens.
Officials deny her assertion, saying they are just following the law with regard to chickens and their living arrangements. In a last-ditch effort to avoid a lawsuit and to get city leaders to see things her way, Fernandes visited City Hall last week and told Mayoral Assistant John O'Connell that if the mayor did not intercede, she would share her story with the local newspapers. That's what she decided to do last week when no municipal intervention materialized. <snip> |