Arkansas Blog

One of the great boondoggles of all time: Farm Bureau: a fascist-oriented insurance company masquerading as some sort of rural/farming advocacy group. The people who believe this are nothing more than gullible, low-information Morons who repeatedly fall for it! A truly amazing Uhmerikan phenomenon...
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Upon reflection, that's the definition of most RepubliBaptists in the South, particularly here...AND (no kidding) in "our" Ledge!!!
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Not so sure the "enhanced charges" are all that necessary.

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"Who will this effect? What are the collateral consequences?"

That needs to be asked. Though I sympathize will those wanting to protect animals, I do not believe that advocates having fully thought this through.

Being cruel to pets is a common phenomenon among emotionally and behavioraly disturbed individuals--individuals that need treatment, not prison. Those charged under this legislation will likely be children and teenagers.

Those successfully prosecuted under this law will face the loss of the right to vote, the inability to obtain insurance and housing, and will forever be scarred with a criminal record that will making obtaining a job with decent pay and benefits almost impossible.

There's got to be a better way.

THINK ABOUT IT

Basil......I've already answered this same rant of yours on another thread. Here's the short version. Anyone under the age of 18 will be charged as a juvenile and the record is sealed to all. Anyone over the age of 18 should know better and they get what they deserve.

The felony provision will only kick in in cases of EXTREME cruelty and 90 % of arrests will still be misdemeanors.

You sympathy for animal abusers is misplaced.

Basil...Are you kidding me? You think it's a "bad" thing to be scarred with a criminal record, etc. when you are convicted of abusing animals? Go to www.WarmHearts.org and read the "Arkansas Animal Cruelty Legislation" link and the "Letter to a Puppy Mill Owner" link. Educate yourself on what "animal cruelty" really is and why these abusers need to be locked up. You are right that most of these abusers are emotionally and behaviorally disturbed individuals. So are people who abuse and kill human beings.

Would like to have read the wording, but the link crashed Firefox 3.0.5 several times.

However, I will comment that the PR efforts of PETA does not help gain support with some of us who spent time on a farm and prepare and helped prepare food from the hoof, roots and chicken feet.

So I will just say, "Love them fried 'sea kittens' especially with hush puppies and fries!"

P.S. Are catfish "River Kittens?"

PETA has nothing to do with this bill.

WhattaYaKnow,

Read the post. I didn't say they did, but if you don't believe that their PR efforts affect support for animal cruelty legislation, then you are very, very foolish.

Then more power to them!

A whole lot bark and not much bite in the draft legislation. Whatta bet its gets watered down further in conference? And as predicted here, Dusty McD nearly threw his shoulder out patting himself on the back for his heoric efforts to push Arkansas from the 19th Century clear into the 20th Century of animal cruelty legislation. Dusty: How was the Yellville Turkey Drop this past year?