Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO ALL GROUPS AND CONTACTS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING ALL YOUR ‘PARIS’ (FRENCH) CONTACTS

SOMETHING’S GOTTA BE DONE RIGHT NOW!

EXTREMELY URGENT- German Shepherd cross dog being beaten just outside of Paris (France)- please help asap.

Please see the very urgent appeal below including disturbing video footage of a person beating a dog just outside of Paris, France. 

Please note you will find this video called ‘Dog attacked next to Disneyland’ disturbing-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5DsVJuA2QA

If anyone has any contacts in France that can help this poor, abused, terrified dog please contact Lauren Sanford who is trying to help this dog (please note there is an underscore in her email address below).

Lauren Sanford -PHONE: +33 7 86 12 99 68 EMAIL: lms_sanford@yahoo.com

Please could all our supporters from all over the globe now write to the ‘Brigitte Bardot Foundation’ in Paris who campaign to protect animals and ask them to investigate this as a matter of urgency. This desperate dog needs to be rescued now and the evil perpetrator prosecuted and banned from keeping any animals. All the evidence that is needed is now on video. Please contact the Brigitte Bardot Foundation on their contact form below. Please include in your email to the Foundation Lauren Sanford’s contact details as above ie tel number and email address so they can contact her for more info and please also include the link above to this dreadful video

Contact the Brigitte Bardot Foundation here-

http://www.fondationbrigittebardot.fr/site/fbb_a.php?IdPere=172&Id=172

We hope and pray justice will prevail for this poor dog

Many thanks for your support

SWAP team UK

—– Original Message —–

From: Jayne Shenstone

To: South West Animal Protection

Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 9:44 AM

Subject:  Message to German Shepherd Dog Rescue

Do you have any contacts in France?

Jayne 

GSDR

Begin forwarded message:

From: lms_sanford@yahoo.com

Date: 3 December 2010 23:42:27 GMT

To: info@germanshepherdrescue.co.uk

To whom it may concern,

I am currently a resident of France, just outside of Paris. A co-worker of mine has recently witnessed a German Shepherd across from her apartment being beaten. She witnessed it one time and heard it on other several locations. The second time she witnessed it she was able to catch it on a video. She has posted the video on facebook and youtube under ‘Dog Attacked Next to Disneyland.’ –

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5DsVJuA2QA

There is no German Shepherd rescue in France, the animal control is slow-acting, and the police are taking no action. The video is very disturbing and it is obvious that it needs help. If there is any help or advice your organization can offer it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact as soon as possible by email or phone. I would be so appreciative it there there was also any connection your group has to make this more public on a news program to gain awareness.
Thank you,
Lauren Sanford
FROM: Lauren Sanford -PHONE: +33 7 86 12 99 68 EMAIL: lms_sanford@yahoo.com

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Reproduced from:  http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_101204_01

Message from Morrissey

4 December 2010

Message from Morrissey.

I would like to, if I may, offer support to Johnny Marr who has spoken out to the media this week against David Cameron. To those who have expressed concern over Johnny’s words in view of the fact that David Cameron has pledged immense allegiance to the music of the Smiths, I would like to try to explain why I think Johnny is right not to be flattered.

It is true that music is a universal language – the ONLY universal language, and belongs to all, one way or another. However, with fitting grimness I must report that David Cameron hunts and shoots and kills stags – apparently for pleasure. It was not for such people that either “Meat is Murder” or “The Queen is Dead” were recorded; in fact, they were made as a reaction against such violence.

I recall some years ago a party political broadcast on behalf of the Conservative Party where David Cameron spoke directly to camera as an LP copy of “The Queen is Dead” proudly displayed itself on the wall behind his right shoulder. It is, of course, a fantastic thrill when the music you make is acknowledged by virtually anyone at all. But David Cameron is not just anyone. Some months ago, as the long-beaked amongst you might recall, I was due to appear on the Andrew Marr Show alongside David Cameron, and however much I worship the words of Andrew Marr, I could not go through with the invitation.

This was because I knew, then, that David wanted to repeal the Hunting Act, which would mean the brutal killing of foxes, hares, deer, badgers, otters – just about anything that moves.
Often the excuse of ‘culling’ is tagged on to the argument of legalized killing of beings, yet as we all know, motorized vehicles manage the business of ‘culling’ foxes and badgers quite well without messengers of death on horseback. Wildlife (that is, freelife) has its own methods of balancing nature – foxes and owls and birds of prey tending to help themselves to whatever crosses their path.

The countryside, quite remarkably, does not need the Hunting Act to be repealed. You would need to be mindless to believe that it does. People who hunt are under delusions of possession and property and divine right, and their debasement of human standards is always evident in their outrage at ever being questioned about their activities. Meanwhile, the Hunt Saboteurs (who are always termed ‘extremists’ by the Daily Bra – as if opposing brutal killing is an extreme emotion) are themselves symbols of freedom. Hunt Saboteurs do not kill. High Court judges on horseback, dressed in blood-red outfits, are the ones who kill.

As we all know, law in England is applied with partiality: the police are quick to nab the hunt saboteurs, but slow to catch up with the very visible Cheltenham Hunt. The hunt saboteurs are jailed for up to 12 years (for what? attempting to prevent mindless violence?), whereas the unmanly reflex of fox hunting receives a rap on the knuckles (Odious Ferry.)

I beg you to notice the unbearable dimension of sorrow that David Cameron is attempting to inflict upon British wildlife/freelife (an animal is not ‘wild’ simply because it is uncaged.) If you can find the time, would you please write to the MP of your choice – if you can think of one that you half-trust – at The House of Commons, St Margaret’s Street, London SW1P, urging them to vote against the repeal. It is not the hunt saboteurs who menace social order, but the Hunters themselves, and the moral climate of 2010 seeping into 2011 surely tells all intelligent people that the key to the extent of any person’s humanity is in their relationship to – and protection of – animals. Politicians only care about the public as electorate, and once the victory vote has been seized there is no place for debate between The Prime Minister and the people who elected him. (I cannot use the him/her term in relation to a Prime Minister because, as we all know, Margaret Thatcher has ensured that a female Prime Minister would never again be risked.) However, please do not feel powerless against the views of politicians or, for that matter, so-called royalty, because it is they who are powerless against the collective spirit of the British people. I mention so-called royalty because Prince William – who has never made the faintest imprint on the English soul, is also a hunter of deer, as is his fiasco (fiancée) Kate Middleton.

Although William and Kate are so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them, it is worth recalling Prince Harry’s thumbs-up as he sat beside a giant water buffalo, cowardly shot from a safe distance by the ignoble Prince some years back. Intellectually, it is true that the so-called Royal Family are not worth very much when it comes to moral standards. The Queen annually signs-off on the terrorizing slaughter of adult Canadian brown bears in order that her Guards are supplied with fancy hats. The babies of the adult bears who witness their own mothers’ slaughter, are left to die slowly, and alone. The sober and bitter truth is that the Queen of England is indifferent to this barbarism, for she has never once expressed concern by it (although, let us speak quite plainly, there is not one person in the whole of England who can remember or repeat a single word ever spoken by the Queen, such is her command of communication.)

I apologize very deeply for my support over the years for the group Roxy Music. I had no idea until very recently that their singer Bryan Ferret is also an avid hunter, and is now managed by his Lord of the Hunt son, Odious Ferry.

Some are brutally indifferent to the feelings of animals. Many are not. Politically, I long for the day when it is finally acknowledged in the House of Lords that the indigestible business of the meat industry corrupts and destroys the planet more than any other profit organization. We continually hear of disappearing rainforests but the cause is never explained, for this would then force concerned world leaders to ‘cull’ meat production, and rather the world sizzle than it be admitted that the meat industry is the root of climate change. It was Sir Paul McCartney who said: “Save the planet – stop eating animals.” It is the genius of Stella McCartney who has produced footwear made entirely of non-animal materials. As a glowing owner of such shoes, I can confirm to anyone interested that they appear – even on detailed examination – to be no different to shoes made from animals.

Refusing to eat animals remains a political gesture. The world apparently loves the simple, whether it be professional killers such as Jamie Horrible, or the dim-witted and good-natured David Peckham, both as certain of knighthoods as their mediocrity is bona-fide. David Peckham is so dull that he is yet to master his first words.

However, people like me exist, also, and by close of this piece I return to the opening issue of David Cameron and I remind him that the world loves a man who loves to listen. But we can’t believe what you say when we know what you do.

MORRISSEY.

SAV Comment:  You speak the truth and say what many are afraid to say.

You are a top man !

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Think the Secretary of the Interior wouldn’t sell out our wolves and the Endangered Species Act? Think again.

We now know that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been negotiating directly with the governors of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, and we now have strong reason to believe that he is going to propose and promote legislative language to eliminate life-saving protections for wolves in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and portions of Washington, Oregon, and Utah.

Hundreds of wolves — maybe more than a thousand — could die.Under Salazar’s proposal, wolves wold be delisted and lose federal protection. They would also no longer be subject to the ESA at any time and under any circumstances except at the sole discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.

Don’t let Secretary Salazar sell out our wolves and the Endnagered Species Act. Write your senators and urge them to oppose this awful plan.

And no longer would it be possible for the American public to propose protection for wolves no matter how critically imperiled they become. And once the Endnagered Species Act is weakened in such a way, it would invite futrther outrages… dealing a serious blow to the very foundation of the Endangered Species Act, the bedrock conservation law in this country.

Help save the lives of wolves and protect the Endangered Species Act. Please take action now.

Despite being the nation’s chief steward for endangered species, Secretary Salazar has demonstrated little to no concern for the Endangered Species Act, so we have no confidence that he –- or perhaps any future Secretary of the Interior –- would ever conclude that there is a need to restore ESA protection for wolves, no matter how egregious state efforts to reduce wolf numbers may be.

This problem began when Secretary Salazar –- freshly appointed to office and against the advice of numerous environmental groups and senior members of Congress –- who all said his action would be illegal, approved the Bush plan for removing federal protections for wolves. As predicted, he lost the lawsuit and federal protections for wolves was restored.

Were the Secretary’s current proposal to be enacted, it would set a horrible precedent for further legislative weakening of the Act that could easily lead to the total unraveling of the Act, and by itself would constitute by far the worst damage ever done to the ESA and to the cause of conserving biological diversity under any previous administration, Democrat or Republican.

This is an Endangered Species Act emergency. Please take action now!

We don’t have much time to make our voices hear. Please write your senators now.

For the Wildlife Ones,

Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife

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South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com
Sichuan

A woman who was smiling as she was recorded stamping small animals to death while wearing high heels has asked Chengdu police to crack down on the company that hired her and threatened her to shoot videos, the West China City Daily reports.

The woman’s identity was exposed last month by internet users outraged over a four-minute clip featuring her crushing a rabbit to death. Other clips, recorded between 2007 and 2008, show her stamping on or crushing other animals. She was paid 100 – 400 yuan for each clip, believing that only foreigners would see them.

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On 3 Dec 2010, at 13:50, Pei F. Su wrote:

Dear all

Since the latest horrendous crush film was released in China through the internet, ACTAsia has been working with Chinese animal protection groups to get it banned. We issued a joint statement on 23rd November which was signed by Animals Asia Foundation, Humane Society International and the World Society for the Protection of Animals, along with 42 Chinese groups nationwide. We are pleased to report that on December 2^nd the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (China’s central authority on such issues) ordered all radio and television stations at all municipal and provincial levels to remove all animal abuse and violent images, and also ordered them not to repost such footage. One of the four websites with this footage had already removed this film following protests in China, and after the government order another two have done the same.

This is an excellent development for animals, and a great response from the Chinese authorities. We will continue our protests until the website that still has this film removes it.

Over the long term, what is needed to stop this kind of abuse permanently is a good animal protection law, and we are now encouraging people to write to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to ask for China to pass animal protection laws as soon as possible to prevent abuse such as this as well as to the animals suffering in other industries.

Please send an email with a POLITE message (no abusive language please) to the following  addresses: qzxx@npc.gov.cn, tgxx@npc.gov.cn, aw@npc.gov.cn.

A sample letter can be found on our website at 

http://www.actasia.org/index/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=34&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01returnid=72

– you can also view our original joint press statement on this issue there.

ACTAsia for Animals

www.actasia.org

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