In this issue of GFN we're going make some serious, logical and valid common sense points. Never mind if the lead stories are about the dreaded "Cockfighting". Just absorb what you'll find within this issue of GFN...

We should have titled the headline "Letter to the Editor". However we wanted to give HSUS credit where credit is due, thus, the "headline".

Gamefowl breeders all know that HSUS operates no animal shelters and is nothing more than a propaganda machine for animal rights activist. This organization , HSUS, runs one scam after another and has been successful at fooling the public, most of the media and a large majority of politicians. These people know nothing about animals but are experts at public relations.

Their scam begins with their name, HSUS, and grows from there. One of the biggest lies they perpetuate is the size of their organization. Every press release from HSUS now claims 10 million members. Pacelle has claimed 12,000 plus members in every congressional district.

I believe this is hogwash. I was in Washington D.C. 9-13-00 along with close to 300 other cockers. Guess how many HSUS members showed. About 7 including WP ( Wayne Pacelle, Chief Executive Officer of the Humane Society of the United States) himself.

Again in may 2005 close to 300 cockers attended a South Carolina House committee meeting and there were no HSUS members.

According to research I have done on this group and according their own tax returns. Evidence proves that a vast majority of their (HSUS) income is received from charitable trust and investment income, not from membership fees.

HSUS has exaggerated numbers for years to advance their agenda. A paid staff, who are not members, generates Mass emails, phone calls and faxes.

I believe that HSUS has nowhere near the totals in membership they claim. We should challenge them to prove their numbers. We should use their own methods against them, by a public press release and a public challenge and a public court. We can prove once and for all that HSUS is a tiny organization with a big checkbook that is buying legislation.

Editors Note: The above was written and sent to GFN by one of our members. Let's look further, from another GFN member in article 2....

It’s that time again here in the Land of Enchantment, time to take up your cross and head to the state capitol, either in the hopes of protecting your personal freedoms or robbing someone of their culture because it “personally offends” the elite few.

Regardless of how one feels about “cockfighting”, this latest attempt to ban a cultural practice that has been legal here for a few hundred years, under Spanish, Mexican and American rule, should be a wake up call for those few American Patriots who still believe in the sanctity of the Constitution of the United States of America. The Founding fathers of this country were truly great men of vision, for they knew that this day would come. A day when the mass mentality of this country would become indoctrinated to lies, misled by so called leaders, and manipulated into a mob-rule mentality.

That is why the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written with protection for the individual citizen already incorporated into them. They were written to protect you from your Government; if and when that Government became tyrannical in its’ rule. The following are facts about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These facts were once common knowledge, but knowledge is becoming less and less common these days. The quotations are not my words, they are the words and the property of Gary McLeod, borrowed from his website, as once again, contrary to the “chicken crusaders” I choose to convey facts to the fine people of New Mexico, rather than trying to sway you with emotions, opinions and hearsay.

From the Declaration of Independence: “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, unalienable Rights are Rights that cannot be taken away legitimately unless one forfeits his own Rights by taking the Rights of another.” Cannot be taken away legitimately without forfeiture by criminal activity. I am not a criminal nor have I ever been and yet my freedom to participate in my cultural activity of choice is being threatened.

Also from the Declaration: “that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, Among these indicates that these were not ALL of the rights granted by GOD but the most basic. According to other writings of the Founders and the Constitution, Pursuit of Happiness included Property Rights. Life, Liberty and Property are all essential elements for the Pursuit of Happiness. If any one of these rights are taken by government without due process of law, the result is tyranny.” The gamefowl used in this cultural activity and the land on which it occurs are both private property and due process of law does not mean invent a new law in order to make criminals out of citizens.

Again, from the Declaration: “That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, These words clearly identify the proper function of government, which is to protect God-given rights. That protection was meant to extend only to protection from other people and other countries. It is NOT a proper function of government to protect the people from themselves. Individuals are responsible for themselves and must suffer or benefit from the consequences of their own actions.” Again, all we ask for is tolerance. To all who are of Hispanic decent, cockfighting is your culture, it may or may not be your tradition, but it is your culture and it is New Mexican culture and no one should be allowed to discriminate against a culture simply because they do not like that culture.

• Charles VanHoozen
• NMGBA.com

This comes into GFN from a common sense American, one of our members....

If you do any of the things below, we share a common enemy. Please contact your house representatives (http://www.house.gov/writerep/) and say: “I strongly OPPOSE H.R. 137 and I respectfully urge you to oppose this piece of legislation in the House and Senate.”

AND HERE’S WHY....

IF YOU are a Christian:

Peter Singer (Father of animal rights) in the book Animal Liberation states, "Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition."

IF YOU Farm Livestock:

When asked if PETA would help the Colorado National Guard, which is already airlifting bales of hay to the snowbound animals, PETA responded: “You’re going to save them, and then in six months they’re going to be killed and end up on someone’s plate. So I don’t know that it’s really the most noble cause.”

IF YOU Hunt:

From PETA's own website "Although it was a crucial part of humans’ survival 100,000 years ago, hunting is now nothing more than a violent form of recreation that the vast majority of hunters does not need for subsistence. Hunting has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world, including the Tasmanian tiger and the great auk." CLICK HERE for the URL link.

IF YOU Fish:

"If you wouldn't do this to a dog, why do it to a fish?" asks the billboard, funded by the Fish Empathy Project. That is a campaign launched last fall by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), stepping up earlier anti-fishing efforts.

IF YOU own a Pet: (dog/cat/bird/hamster/rabbit/ mice/gerbil/rat/guinea pig)

"One day we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. (Dogs) would pursue their natural lives in the wild...They would have full lives, not waiting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV."

IF YOU do any of these:

• Rodeo
• Take your children to the circus
• Own a kennel
• Own a farm
• Fish
• Hunt
• Own pets
• Read the Constitution
• Eat meat
• ect, ect. ect.

Then your doomed. Why? Because the ones who wish to take your freedoms are on the march. The only way to stop this flagrant abuse of God given freedom is to stand up, get a backbone, and tell the ART's your sick and tired of it. Otherwise expect to be eating Tofu and mowing the back forty with your teeth for nourishment.

IF YOU care:

OPPOSE H.R. 137 within the next week.

Editors Note: GFN's Members are educated. We know how to network. The "network" is mad as Hell and frankly, we're not going to take it anymore. Stand back ART's, you've got a revolution coming on.

GFN expects it's members to understand this publication. Many times we say to ourselves "I need to read between the lines." ,,,,, "Something is being said here."

Without further ado we present to you Daryl Makk from Canada. Make sure your speakers are on and enjoy the show, just in case you missed it in our last issue

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