What the U.S.A Must Change to Become A Great Nation -by Anthony Marr

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North American soil with trepidation. But almost at once, I found the Canadianpeople warm, gentle and helpful, and genuinely kind and loving to their companionanimals, which made me feel very much at home. Further, I was amazed by how peoplecould openly criticize the government without any fear of retribution, and on thecontrary I saw smiling politicians shaking hands with the humble people inChinatown, which was unheard of where I had come from. There was/is a freeMedicare system for all, and a respectful policy towards seniors. So finally, whenI swore myself in as a Canadian citizen, I felt rightly proud for belonging

finally to what I perceived to be a great nation. But it did not take me too longto get disillusioned. As a university student, I worked summers out in the bush asa geologist’s assistant. It was then I began to see the horrific assault bylogging companies against the environment. When one year I worked in a cathedral-like old growth forest by which I was awed, the next year, it had been reduced toa waste land, with nothing but huge grey stumps left behind. I saw trophy huntersshooting down anything magnificent that moved. And I saw mines and pulp millsdischarging heavy metals, cyanides, organo- chlorines, PCBs, PAHs and dioxins onto the land. And that was before I learned about the horrendous Newfoundland sealmassacre, and finally flew over the six hellish Alberta tar sands mines which madeof the entire Athabasca watershed one enormous carcinogen.

But at least, so I thought, I still had my freedom of speech, until I became an

animal rights activist, and found that although I could indeed shout my lungs outin a demonstration, and could debate 100 hunters at a time without gettinglynched, the truth of the matter is that not one word I had spoken or writtenproved worth a dime in the eyes of those to whom it was addressed. And over myprotestations, my tax dollars were used to subsidize the seal hunt.

So bit by bit, then clunk by chunk, and year by year, the monument of Canadiangreatness disintegrated in my mind.

In the mid-late 1990s, I went to India to work in three tiger reserves to helpsave them from habitat destruction, and the Bengal tiger from extinction.

India’s great Mahatma Gandhi said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral

progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” From what I have seenin three expeditions by plane, train, jeep and on foot, each lasting 2-3 months,India’s animals are not well treated, especially its street dogs and wildlife. Ihave personally rescued a puppy from being stoned to death by children, while theadults stood by, doing nothing. Where animals are concerned, India first task isto save the Bengal tiger and its complex ecosystems. The country does have afederal program called Project Tiger, but it is fighting a half-hearted andtherefore losing battle, and tiger habitat continue to dwindle, and tiger numberscontinue to decline. The tiger is a world treasure, but India has theresponsibility to preserve it. If we cannot even save the tiger, a speciesuniversally loved and admired, what can we save?

Not until India has demonstrated her sincere and whole-hearted commitment to

saving the Bengal tiger and its ecosystems would I begin to consider her in thequestion of greatness.

In 1999, the Makah native tribe in Washington state clamored for a revival oftheir “traditional” hunting of the Grey whale. We could not stop them from killingone young female – with a high-powered 50-calibre rifle and towed back to shorwith a motorcraft – some “traditional” whaling. But we have legally stalled themsince, so far. This was my first field engagement with American activists, and Irapidly grew to love working with them on an international basis.

From 2003 through 2008, I conducted 6 Compassionate for Animals Road Expeditions



(CARE tours), each covering 25-41 states in 3-7 months.

I have worked with grassroots activists in almost every state on their campaigns,and have developed a certain depth of understanding in most of their issues andtheir ways of handling them. I have seen their successes and failures, and havelearned from them the dos and don’ts. In doing so, I have also been exposed to theopposition, and the way it works, to KNOW THY ENEMY. Most of all, I have becomekeenly aware of not only local trends, but national trends (of which local

activists may not always be aware), and I have forged coalitions to deal withmulti-state and nation-wide problems and issues. As well, I have engaged Americanactivists in Canadian issues, not least of all the 300, 000- baby- seals-per-yearNewfoundland seal massacre, with my car painted with the slogan “I AM CANADIAN.BOYCOTT MY COUNTRY!”

And I have received much support in return, for which I am deeply thankful.

I love my American friends deeply, so I wish America the best. Unfortunately, theway I’ve seen it, in many ways it is not even good, much less great. I owe it tomy American friends to point a few things out from my visiting Canadian’sperspective. To heal, one must first diagnose. Following are some of myobservations:

*1st Amendment violations

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the FiveFreedoms. It is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expresslyprohibits the United States Congress from making laws “respecting an establishmentof religion” or that prohibit the free exercise of religion, infringe the freedomof speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the right to peaceablyassemble, or limit the right to petition the government.

In terms of the freedom of speech, it forbids viewpoint discrimination, howeverunpopular the viewpoint may be. However, if you say as much as “Good morning” to ahunter in the process of targeting a deer, you can be charged with violating the

state-level Hunter Harassment law, which in turn violates the First Amendment. Thehunters argue that it is the sound of the speech, not the words, that harasses thehunter, but how can even they separate the words from the sound? If the words of“Good morning” is protected by the First Amendment and can be spoken, how can thesound of “Good morning” when it is being spoken be illegal? Clearly, the HH lawsare created and administered by hunters, for hunters, including the judge inPennsylvania who convicted Jan Haagensen on five counts of hunter harassment – fortelling invading hunters to get off her land, and for telling a hunter huntingfrom the road that what he was doing was illegal even under the hunting laws of PA(listen to the Jan Haagensen interview by Anthony Marr on Animal Voices inwww.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr).

What about the mother of the U.S. – Great Britain? Does true freedom of speech

exist there? Judging by the life-time ban of Dr. Steven Best from the U.K. forspeaking in favor of direct action in animal rights activism, the answer is aresounding NO.

If all these curtailments of freedom, and invasions of privacy, are designed towin the “War of Terror”, then the first battle is already lost, because the lostAmerican freedom is the terrorists’ spoil of war. The United States and Britainhave compromised and defeated themselves.

A nation whose constitution has been compromised cannot be considered great. Theway for the U.S. to correct this problem is to scrap all state-level laws that



violate the First Amendment of the Constitution.

* Pseudo- Democracy

Democracy means majority-rule, but minority-rule by power elite is not uncommon,if not rampant. And it could even be written into the constitution itself. Theconstitution of New Jersey, for example, stipulates that of the 11 voting memberof the Fish & Game, 6 must be hunters. In most such case, all 11 are hunters,

because any odd-man-out will be ostracized mercilessly until he/she quits. This ispseudo- majority-rule within the commission, but real minority rule in the entirestate of New Jersey. The result is a set of hunting laws by hunters, for hunters,and the non-hunters and anti-hunters of New Jersey, which add up to 99.2% of thepopulation (only 0.8% of New Jerseyan’s hunt) have no say in the matter. Somedemocracy.

A nation which mocks and violates its own founding principle cannot be consideredgreat. To correct this problem, all U.S. states must have wildlife management lawsdetermined by a panel proportionately representing the general population of thatstate, not its small-minority hunting elite.

Another point of pseudo- democracy is in the form of the so-called “public

consultation” sessions in county, city and municipal council. From my observation,by the time the council is in session and the public is allowed to speak, thedecisions have often already been signed and sealed behind close doors. So thepublic strenuously speaking their mind, to which the council only pretends tolisten, is expending their energy showing externally what a great democracy theyall live in, being able to speak out with passion without fear of persecution.

The crux of the matter here is the composition of the council itself. A pro-hunting council will decide in favor of urban deer hunting no matter whatactivists say. The solution is to make the council anti-hunting, and this has tobe done through the political process by fielding anti-hunting candidates andcampaigning to put them in office. Already existing is the League of Humane Voters(LOHV) headed by Peter and Anne Muller, and LOHV chapters headed by local

activists (e.g. Lane Ferrante, director of the new Ohio LOHV chapter).

All this is easier said than done, considering that almost all Americanpoliticians on all levels are puppets of the powerful gun lobby, hunting lobby,and the arms and hunting industries. And pseudo- democracy, pseudo- anything forthat matter, has no place in greatness.

*A CORPSE-run nation

I love my American friends, each in a unique way, but there is one thing incommon. They all live in a system originally designed by conscience, e.g. the U.S.Constitution, but eventually abused and corrupted by corporations, opportunists,rapists, psychopaths, sociopaths and ecopaths (CORPSE) for their own immediate

profit and aggrandizement, at the expense of the innocent, the future and thewhole. They have created new subsystems for the purpose of defeating theConstitution itself, complete with pseudo- patriotic slogans. And they attack theconscience of society itself – us.

The impact of such a system far exceeds that directed against the animal rightsand environmental movements. It can wipe out all the corals in the sea, it candesertify the entire Amazon, it can starve millions with a global millenniumdrought, it can make Earth uninhabitable for humans, and it can wipe out over 80%of all species on Earth as the End-Permian Extinction did 251 million years ago.If we let these CORPSEs run the show, the entire nation will behave as if it has



no conscience. Can a nation without conscience be considered great? Can anypsychopath be considered great?

Analyse a CORPSE-run nation, and we will see the evil manifest in a thousanddifferent ways, including the rise of Nazism in WW2 Germany. Following are thosethat I have personally encountered through my travels in the United States ofAmerica -”the land of the free, the home of the brave”.

*Political Puppetry

Even the person in the nation’s highest political office can be, and to a largeextent is, a puppet. Its puppet-masters are corporations. When George W. Bush wasgovernor of Texas, GUI (governing under the influence) of Big Oil, Texas rankedlast in environmental protection. The oil companies got richer and ever morepowerful, so much so that they put Bush all the way up into the White House, tomake of the Unites States a large Texas. As soon as Bush took over as president,one of his first feats was to gut the Environmental Protection Agency by plantingunprecedented numbers of industrial CEOs into the EPA’s highest ranks, who thenproceeded to eliminate as many Clinton-era protection laws as the public wouldallow. An the authority- fearing and by-and-large apathetic public just lethim/them do it. And of course, whether he was genuinely ignorant of global warming

or not, he publicly voiced skepticism about global warming, and very publiclyrefused to ratify the Kyoto Treaty to counteract the global threat of climatechange, by virtual order of Big Oil, thereby squandering a great opportunity tolead the world by peaceful means. Worse, 8 years of precious time for saving theplanet was wasted, when the total amount of time for doing so is no more than 12years as of 2000. Even Obama, infinitely better informed than Bush ever was orpresumably ever could be, is still a puppet to an extent – of the coal industry –even though he himself, as an independent thinker, if he has any logic at all,would not condone.

If even the top leader of a nation is a puppet, that nation cannot be consideredgreat.

*Neo-Fascist “Democracy”

Wikipedia has a definition for a certain ism, which “comprises a radical andauthoritarian nationalist political ideology and a corporatist economic ideology”.That ism is called Fascism, and the United States “Democracy” is dangerously closeto it. A Fascist nation is automatically precluded from greatness, because itsubjugates the will of its citizens to that of its corporations. An all-powerfulcorporatist economic policy has no regard for human rights, much less animal rightand environmental integrity. Its only concern is economic hegemony and militarysupremacy.

To correct this problem there must be a new amendment to severely limit or excludepolitical influence on government by corporations, and economically powerful

special interest groups such as the NRA or, to be fair, the HSUS. The root of allpolitical evils is corporate economic influence of political election outcomes.Putting it bluntly, to fire each and every “best politician money can buy” is amust for national greatness.

*A war started by a fool

The war: The Iraq War. The fool: George W. Bush. The fool is gone, but the warremains. As long as a foolish war continues, the nation waging it cannot be great.

*Bought global warming denial



In case the general population feels smug about corporate villainy and politiciansbeing corporate puppets, each citizen should be reminded that he is himself amini-puppet, whose very thought may not be his own. Corporate thought controlexists in many forms, in many nations, but nowhere as pronounced and blatant andstaggering as in the United States, the lair of Big Oil. To ensure a sustained oiland coal market, Big Oil has spent some $100 million in waging a counter- campaignto discredit global warming as a myth. The result is that the United States ranks

rock bottom in global warming awareness amongst all western nations ininternational surveys. This is a deliberate deception and dumbing down of allAmericans by the American power-elite which profits hugely from public apathy andcompliance, at the expense of the environment and our children’s future.

The 8 Bush years may already have driven the planet past the point of no return.Obviously, a nation that sabotages international efforts to save the planet andour children’s future for its own short term profit bears the antithesis ofgreatness. Is Obama significantly better? Better, yes. Significantly? Not as longas he keeps on puppeting for Big Coal.

*The self- debeautification of America

American the Beautiful? Almost heaven, West Virginia? John Denver would weep, ifhe saw what I saw that summer day in 2008, when I was in my 6th Compassion forAnimals Road Expedition. A local activist took me up one of the mountains towitness for myself a mountain- top-removal operation by the coal industry.

To call it “an eye-sore” is like calling Ted Bundy “naughty”. A government thatwould allow the destruction of the magnificent mountains which took millions ofyears to build for the short term profit of its puppet master Big Coal is not agreat government, and the nation ruled by such a government is not a great nation.

*Be insured, or die

In “socialist” Canada, medical care is a basic human right. In “capitalist” United

States, it is not. I don’t know why some Americans hate or fear “socialism” somuch. It is just another case of McCarthyish paranoia. No nation which says itscitizens, “pay up or die.” can be considered great.

Only the puppet masters have anything to fear, because – Where does the money comefrom? -Taxation – of the filthy rich – stupid.

*The enslavement and slaughter of billions

Substitute humans for animals, and concentration camps for factory farms andvivisection labs, and cattle cars for cattle cars, gas chambers for slaughterhouses, and the factory farmers and transporters and vivisectors and slaughterers,would be no better than Nazis. Only their victims are different. The humans are

essentially the same.

Quantitatively, it’s worse. Line up the cows slaughtered every year in America forhuman consumption in single file, and the cow line will stretch from L.A. to N.Y.back and forth 16 times, and the pig line, 35 times, and the chicken line (10billion) would stretch between the Earth and the Moon 8 times. All these add up tosentient- being- sufferings on an astronomical scale.

A nation harboring such enormous imposed internal suffering cannot be consideredgreat.



*Lying to The People

A government that lies to the people is criminal, by whatever political system itabides. A nation in which a government lies to the people is light-years fromgreatness.

Here is a blatant example. In 2007, while on my 5th Compassion for Animals RoadExpedition (CARE-5), I was in Allentown PA when local activists asked for my

assistance in opposing a new bow-hunting scheme within the nearby Trexler NaturePreserve. It was the dying wish of General Harry Clay Trexler that no hunting beconducted within the preserve. But in 2007, the local government announced to thepublic that due to an increase in the white-tail deer population within thepreserve, its ecology has been compromised, and that the deer population needed tobe reduced, and further, that the bow hunters in the area have volunteeredthemselves to do the job for the community, free of charge. Except for theresistance put up by these few great local activists, notably Carol Loomis,Virginia Wolfe and Cheryl Baker, the public had no comment, and the hunt did goahead. On opening day of the hunt, Carol, Cheryl, Chryl’s teenage son and Ientered the preserve, amidst the hordes of bow hunters, male and female, all armedto the teeth. We received many stares ranging from suspicious to hostile, but itwas an eye-opener. Were I blindfolded and driven by deep into the preserve, and

taken for a short walk of no more than 100 yards from the parking lot, then havethe blindfold removed and asked what I was looking at, I would have answered thatI was in a farm. Acres of forest had been ploughed down, and row upon row of deerclover had been planted in its place.

Those who understand the Compensatory Rebound Effect, some hunters included, knowthat with an overabundance of food, deer would maximize their reproductive rate.Instead of no-fawn and singlet, they would have twins and triplets, resultingindeed in an overabundance of deer, which is what the hunters want. Localresidents are usually not aware of this, at least not on a first person basis, andthat is that the bow-hunters are very aggressive in forcing their way intopotential hunting areas where the discharge of fire-arms is illegal, includingurban parks like the Trexler, and even within the urban areas themselves – in

people’s backyards. It is the general strategy of hunters to first cultivate ahigh deer population, then claim deer over- population, then offer themselves assaviors of deer-damaged communities. The truth of the matter is that the wholething is initiated by the bow-hunters in collusion with the hunter- friendlypoliticians who are often themselves hunters, for which they were put in office bythe hunting industry in the first place. I took pictures of the plantation andsubmitted them to the local newspaper, and spoke at length to its reporter, butthe article that came out the following day did not make a single mention of thedeer clover plantation, did not use my photos, but instead glorified a femalehunter for being among the first to bag a magnificent buck.

How great is a nation in which the government deceives the people to appease itspuppet masters?

*A nation run by serial killers

Let’s brush aside all the fluff and window- dressing and BS and get down to thebare bones, shall we? The cold hard fact of the matter is that not only are thevast majority of politicians under the thumbs of powerful serial killers, but arethemselves serial killers. I am talking about recreational hunters and trophyhunters. The fact that their victims are non-human does not alter the fact thatthey have no compassion, revel in bloodshed, derive pleasure from another being’ssuffering, and practice serial killing as a form of entertainment.



When I go speaking to children, I often ask them what to them is the most immoralreason for killing an animal – in self-defense? For food? For clothing? For money?For fun? Without a single exception the children in all schools have voted againstKILLING FOR FUN as the most immoral reason for killing anything. And America isruled by a small minority of very powerful but highly immoral people who kill forfun, i.e. who are recreational hunters.

A nation run by serial fun-killers cannot be great.

*Animal protection laws or lack thereof

Animal protection laws do exist within the United States, and on both the federaland state levels. Federal animal protection statutes take the form of Acts, whichnumber almost 100, including the African Elephant Conservation Act, the AirborneHunting Act, the Animal Damage Control Act, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act,the Animal Health Protection Act, the Animal Welfare Act, the Animal Fighting Act,the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the Captive Wildlife Safety Act, the Dogand Cat Protection Act, the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act, theEndangered Species Act, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, the HumaneSlaughter Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Migratory Bird ConservationAct, the Recreational Hunting Safety and Preservation Act, etc. These may seem

impressive, but if we look between them, we’d see huge gaps through which entiresectors of the animal kingdom could be abused, tortured, shot, trapped andslaughtered with impunities, notably wild animals not protected by the EndangeredSpecies Act, and farm and lab animals place under the “protection” of theDepartment of Agriculture, the very governmental body whose purpose is to exploitthem. And some of these “animal protection laws”, e.g. the Animal EnterpriseProtection Act, as its name clearly states, is to protect the animal enterprises,not the animals, and its new incarnation the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, isdemonstrably unconstitutional.

I consider the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act unconstitutional l because even anon-violent demonstration is an act of “terrorism” if it inflicts economic damageupwards of $10,000 on any animal enterprise. So, a boycott of a certain company,

e.g. KFC, could be considered an act of terrorism if the company could demonstratethat as a result of the boycott, it suffered $10,001’s setback in chicken wingsales, in which case the jail time is up to 6 months. If the financial damage isin the range of $1 million, the jail time is up to 6 years. In other words, ifMartin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi were animal rights activists today, theywould have been considered terrorists. Again, the primary point is that the AETAviolates the Constitution of the United States. A conditional freedom of speech isa contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as freedom of speech “on thecondition that you don’t offend anybody.”

The state level animal protection laws are far simpler than the federal acts.Generally, they protect cat, dogs and horses which “belong to” human individualsand some corporations, but not wild animals that “belong to” no one. The reason

for this is that the “owners” of the cats and dog and horses would make a fuss if“their” animals are harmed by others, e.g. shot by a hunter, but there is no oneto speak for the wild and hunted animals. So basically, these are “animal-owner”protection laws, not animal protection laws, which therefore concern themselveswith human rights, not animal rights.

No nation that does not recognize that animals have rights can be consideredgreat.

*Government control of media



Local radio talk show listeners may think that their own area is exceptionallyright wing. But having listened to radio talk shows in my car while I driving fromstate to state, from coast to coast, I can tell you with certainty that it is not.Where the radio talk show scene is concerned, the entire nation is exceptionalright wing. Over 95% of all well known American talk show hosts, from RushLimbaugh on down are right wing. And worse, every morning, each right wing talkshow host would receive an email from Maryland telling them the talking points ofthe day, and what stand to take on each talking point. In the newspaper arena,

investigative journalism is all but dead. It is brain-washing on a grand scale.

The Allentown PA newspaper article on the Trexler preserve mentioned above, whichburied my photos of the Trexler plantation, is not an isolated local case either.In many places, a reporter attacking or just questioning hunting is committingprofessional suicide, or at least opening himself to severe and concerted hunterattack.

Thought control and the suppression of truth is not the mark of a great nation.

*The 5 lethal maneuvers of the House of Fraud

I have mentioned the Jan Haagensen case (listen to the Haagensen interview by

Anthony Marr on the Animal Voices talk show archived inwww.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr). Haagensen was convicted by the PA criminal court on5 counts of hunter harassment, which involve a jail term. She appealed to anappellate court, and had the convictions all overturned for a total lack ofevidence. Now she is taking the offense, and is legally challenging theconstitutionality of the PA Hunter Harassment Statute. She is fighting this battlealone and deserves, and needs, our support. But at least she could appeal.

While researching material on Steve Hindi, one of my guests on Animal Voices, Icame across the following passage by Rob Sherman in an article which shocked evenme. I will copy-paste it here verbatim:

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While there may be two sides to the rodeo debate (although I doubt it), as aprofessional journalist, let me assure you that you should place no credibility,whatsoever, in anything that the Illinois criminal courts do. The criminal courts,here, are widely recognized as a House of Fraud which fakes the conviction ofcompletely innocent people for the purpose of attempting to smear the reputationof political enemies.

Here are five ways in which they do it:

1) Most judges in Illinois criminal trials are former prosecutors from the samestate’s attorney’s office that is now presenting the prosecution’s case. Blatantconflict of interest. The judge has numerous ways of rigging the outcome of cases

to ensure conviction, as described below, regardless of whether the Defendant isguilty or innocent. Indeed, it doesn’t even matter if the Defendant has not beenaccused of doing anything that violates the cited statute.

2) Block the introduction of testimony that exonerates the Defendant. The way thatthis scam works is, every time the Defense asks a prosecution or defense witness aquestion that, if answered, would clearly exonerate the falsely accused Defendant,the prosecutor objects to the question being answered and the judge, who is aformer prosecutor (sort of a prosecution tag team), sustains the objection. Thejury never gets to hear the testimony that would exonerate the Defendant.



3) Block any testimony from Defense witnesses who have the knowledge to refuteeverything that the prosecutor is contending. The way this scam works, theprosecutor objects that the testimony of the witness should not be allowed becausethe testimony is supposedly irrelevant. The former- prosecutor judge, beingfamiliar with this lawyer trick, sustains the prosecutor’s objection and thewitness is barred from testifying. A jury is required to base its decision on theevidence and testimony presented, so if the jury is only allowed to hear fromwitnesses that support the prosecution’s trumped up charges, the jury has no

choice but to render a decision based solely on the prosecutor’s presentation.

4) Charge and convict the Defendant for the crime of nothing. This is a beautifulscam that any rodeo type would love. The prosecutor accuses a Defendant of beingin violation of a law, but doesn’t allege that the Defendant actually did anythingthat violates that law. After a trial on the allegation of the crime of nothing,the judge says, “I enter a finding of guilty,” but not guilty of doing anything inparticular. Then, when the Defendant complains to the judge, “I didn’t do anythingthat violates the law. I wasn’t even accused of doing anything that violates thelaw, and you haven’t found me guilty of doing anything which violates the law. So,just what, exactly, is it that you found me guilty of doing that violates thelaw?” To which the judge responds, “You don’t understand, sir. Now that I’veentered a finding of guilty, you have lost your presumption of innocence.

Therefore, you have to tell the Court what it is that you did that violated thelaw, rather than the other way around.”

5) The hostage-taking scam. This scam is an extension of Scam #4, above. In thisscam, the judge takes the falsely convicted Defendant hostage every time he has anappeal brief due, to keep him from appealing the fake conviction. The way thatthis scam works, every time that the filing date approaches for the Defendant tosubmit an appeal brief to the Appellate Court, the prosecutor and judge schedule asimultaneous post-trial hearing in which the prosecutor or court demands that theDefendant announce what it was that the Defendant supposedly did that violated thelaw for which he was falsely convicted. If the Defendant refuses to make up afalse accusation against himself and be coerced into confessing to the falseaccusation, the Defendant is sent to jail, not for committing a crime, but rather

for “Failing to cooperate with the Court’s efforts to help him.” This is done justin time to keep the Defendant from filing his appeal brief. No appeal brief, noreversal of the fake conviction. Quite a clever lawyer trick by the judge andprosecutor. On the other hand, if the trick succeeds in scaring the innocentDefendant into making up a coerced false confession, that moots out any appealbecause the Defendant has supposedly admitted guilt to the non-existent crime.Either way, the fake conviction sticks and the Defendant loses.

Again, as a professional journalist, I have personally seen all of these lawyertrick courtroom scams. It’s why nobody should ever take seriously ANYTHING thattakes place in Illinois criminal court. It is truly a House of Fraud.

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This is downright bloody disgusting if you ask me, and even if you don’t. Tell me,how can a nation harboring this kind of miscarriages of justice and judicialcorruption be even remotely be considered great?

The solution here is obvious. Nail down these legal felons and bar them for good.Then put them on trial for abuse of power, comtempt of court and corruption ofAmerican justice, convict them, throw them in jail and throw away the key.

*America: destroyer of the Amazon



Americans consume so much beef that America imports huge quantities of extra beeffrom Brazil. Americans consume so much ethanol in gasoline that America importshuge quantities of extra ethanol, also from Brazil. And Brazil burns down theAmazon rainforest by the thousands of square miles to create extra land for cattleranches and soy plantations. If Americans, and Canadians for that matter, do notvoluntarily curtail their own gluttony for Earth’s dwindling resources, not onlyare they not world-leaders, but world- degraders, and this is far from great.

*Fiscal irresponsibility

Suppose a family has been living beyond its means, and is now teetering on thebrink of insolvency. Any responsible banker will advise the family to tighten thebelt, not to borrow more money to maintain that same unsustainable standard ofliving which has driven the family to have lived beyond its means in the firstplace. And this is what the U.S. is doing on a national scale as we speak. Afiscally irresponsible nation cannot be a great nation.

*The self- impoverishment of the animal rights movement

Americans and Canadians complain about China becoming the largest consumer on a

per nation basis, while they remain the largest consumers on a per capita basis.

How much does an American, or a Canadian for that matter, need to live? Less than$20,000 per year. I can say this with certainty, because this is how much I liveon, including the cost of doing my work. So why should we tolerate, much lessaccept, and far less contribute towards, the CEO of the largest American animaladvocacy “non-profit” organization paying himself a cool quarter million dollarsper year, or almost $25,000 per month, and paying his dozen or so VPs $150,000each, and his own secretary a handsome $100,000, all from the donations meant forthe animals? Isn’t he just a little ashamed of himself for personally profiting byrobbing the suffering animals for which the donations were meant? Thisorganization has a financial worth of $230 million – all animals’ money – and anannual budget of some $120 million, of which some 50% is overhead, which include

the lavish salaries, financial investments and a $6-10 million fund-raisingbudget. In spite of all these mega-bucks, this insatiable organization stillstoops to charging penniless grassroots groups kilo-bucks for simple zero-costassistance. I have always thought that when a group has crossed a certain sizethreshold, it will turn from its original cause to its own growth as its primarypurpose. But not until I have directly observed this group over time did I realizeto what abysmal depth this could sink. One cold hard fact is that thisorganization, and several other similar ones with big names and offices, the CEOof one of which paying himself, would you believe, $ 750,000/annum, with theirhigh overheads and slick fund-raising machines, have sucked the financialresources within the movement dry, leaving nothing for the grassroots groups, mostof whose members could not even afford health insurance, while that CEO and hisVPs and “executive” secretaries laugh all the way to the bank.

This is open and blatant corruption and betrayal within the animal rightsmovement, but it is not all. Through my travels, I have stayed at local activists’home by the dozens, and never have I encountered a local activist without one ormore animal companions, bless their hearts. If they, being true-hearted animaladvocates and activists (unlike that CEO who openly confesses to having nopersonal affinity for animals), had to choose between buying health insurance forthemselves and paying the vet bills of the animals under their guardianship, theywould pay the vet bills and do without health insurance for themselves. I haveseen families spending thousands of dollars in vet bills while they can ill affordeven food on the table. The problem where the movement is concerned is that most



of these animal guardians would choose to pay the vet bills than to donate thesame amount to a grassroots animal rights group when they cannot do both. And thevets, like the pseudo- animal- advocacy CEOs, seem just as intent on sucking allfinancial resources out of the animal rights movement, which has indeed beenimpoverished.

We are animal rights activists, and we are the conscience of our societies, eventhe conscience of humanity. If this conscience has been compromised by hypocrisy

and greedy, our societies, in fact humanity itself, cannot be great.

*The new world disorder

Any “new world order” designed, organized and led by a nation that is not greatwill descend into disorder.

Final question:

Is there a truly great nation in the world today?

Please let me know if you can think of any.

Anthony Marr holds a science degree from the UBC and has worked as a fieldgeophysicist and an environmental technologist. In 1995, he became a full timewildlife preservationist, which has brought him to India three times, earning himthe title of the “Champion of the Bengal Tiger” in the Champions of the Wild TVseries aired in 20 countries. As an anti-hunting activist, he has conducted highprofile campaigns in Canada for the bears and seals, and been to Japan twice forthe whales and dolphins. He is the founder of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) and iscurrently on his fourth Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE-4), covering40 states. He is also the author of Omni-Science.

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