[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: [TX_RPOA_E-News] Animal Law Section Texas State Bar
- From: Stormy Hope <stormy435@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Stormy Hope <stormy435@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:39:24 -0800
Begin forwarded message:
"In fact, the application of human on human relationship
words such as guilt, innocence, murder, adoption, foster, boy, girl
are just
as inappropriate to use on animals as words like marriage and love-
making."
TX-RPOA E-News
>From RPOA Texas Outreach and
Responsible Pet Owners Alliance
"Animal welfare, not animal 'rights'
and, yes, there is a difference."
Crossposting is encouraged.
December 19, 2011
Since its inception in 1996, the Animal Law Section of the Texas State
Bar
has been led by attorneys who are members of Texas Humane Legislation
Network and/or Animal Legal Defense Fund. Some RPOA members attended
that
first Animal Law Section's organizational meeting which had Holly
Hazard,
with Doris Day Animal League (now merged into HSUS!), as the predominant
speaker claiming there are only two animal groups in the country:
"animal
user groups" and "animal rights groups."
It is encouraging to see that some
attorneys are now agreeing with RPOA's animal "welfare" goals. Thanks to
J. Collier Adams for the letter below.
.......................................................
Texas State Bar Journal, Letter to the Editor, also submitted to Pratt
on
Texas.
Re: Animal Law articles appearing in the November 2011 State Bar
Journal.
Dear Editor:
If animal law is an outgrowth of the social justice movement as one
article states, then, in my opinion, animal law is actually a cover for
incremental animal liberation. Texas animal activists have succeeded in
creating a relatively new legal scheme (Health & Safety Code) which
imposes
new duties upon animal owners - to be enforced by animal seizures,
forfeitures, limited appeals, high appeal bonds, criminal penalties,
jail
time, mandatory psychological counseling for juvenile offenders (Family
Code) and the loss of professional licenses (Occupations Code). These
new
solutions were created by exploiting everyone's abhorrence of animal
cruelty. The problem is an ever expanding definition of animal cruelty
that
results in the legislative creation of a public communal interest in
everyone else's private property interests in animals. Underlying the
legislative transformation lies the ardently held belief that abuse of
animals in the form of eating meat, wearing leather and riding horses
can be
stopped by changing our culture. There is a lot at stake.
Animals can't be liberated without destroying unique American rights to
private property together with much of America's wealth and means of
wealth
and job creation which could very well be the unspoken purposes of this
foreign-born resurrection of the concept of human-like consciousness in
animals known as "sentience".
"Sentience" is the central tenet to animal liberation, so let's test the
idea that animals are sentient beings. Sentience has been described as
being
able to feel pain, but is more accurately described as a human-like self
awareness or consciousness of self. Let's say that an animal is any
living
thing visible to the naked eye that is not a plant. This means that
sponges
are animals. This also means that Sponge Bob Square Pants could be real.
Does this seem silly? One animal activist voiced the character of Fern
Arable who saved the life of Wilbur the pig in the 1973 movie
Charlotte's
Web.
On the other hand, Descartes (1596 -1650) the father of modern
philosophy and creator of the healthy skepticism of the Cartesian
analysis,
denied that human-like consciousness explained the behavior of
animals. He
also rejected the then conventional wisdom that the earth was flat. But
let's ignore philosophy for a moment and instead apply a little common
sense
to what we see with, for example, the canines that we love so much. Only
with the greatest of difficulty while under constant supervision do they
resist succumbing to all manner of bodily impulses. Otherwise,
anywhere in
public, they eat and sniff and roll in all sorts of putrid matter. They
sniff the parts of every living thing, lick their own parts regardless
of
who is looking, refuse to do as we say, bite our loved ones, sport-kill
cats, eat from the floor and eat dead mice and baby birds whole. When
dogs
are set free, they get hungry and quickly go undomesticated, become very
dangerous and constitute a serious public safety hazard for the very
least
of us, our little children. This abbreviated list of bad acts, common
among
their species, proves that animals have no human-like consciousness of
self;
otherwise they would not do such things, and certainly not in public.
Adopting a view that includes some but not all of human-like
consciousness
is no less arbitrary or less capricious and does not result in any fewer
constitutionally infirm denials of private property rights in animals.
Moreover such consciousness has never been, and cannot be, proven in
animals.
Furthermore, animals are incapable of establishing or learning a moral
baseline. Such incapacity absolves animals of moral responsibility.
Therefore animals cannot be guilty. Because they cannot be guilty,
they also
cannot be innocent. In fact, the application of human on human
relationship
words such as guilt, innocence, murder, adoption, foster, boy, girl
are just
as inappropriate to use on animals as words like marriage and love-
making.
If you are interested in learning more, I recommend, especially to every
law school president and elected official Richard L. Cupp's SMU Law
Review
Vol. 60 2007 article beginning "A Dubious Grail:..."
Yours truly,
J. Collier Adams
Morton, Texas
P.S. The reader should also know that the FBI considers the Animal
Liberation Front to be a serious terrorism threat. Check out
www.negotiationisover.com For more check out the Animal Liberation Press
Office, follow certain personalities on wikipedia.com, a board-vetted
research site, and learn about activists' use of the anarchy A and
fist and
paw tattoos and about C.U.R., the canine underground railroad. For a
discussion of the dangers of veganism, check out www.lierrekeith.com
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