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Is S373 part of your future?

The response and participation of the masses has been woefully short. So far the numbers are absolutely pathetic. Where are you? What have you personally done? Do you think YOU are not in very real danger? You are an endangered species. If you have done nothing, you are like a sheep going to slaughter and those who are wide awake and fighting, need your help. YOU need your help!

We managed to send a loud and clear message to the US House of Representatives last year to stop HR669. The senate has yet to hear from the masses who will be harmed by S373 if it passes, and we all need to make our voices heard. The battle is not even close to over. The Bill can be amended still in the Senate. Unfortunately many assumed that amendments only occur in at the committee level. That is untrue. The Senate Bill S373 has at least three more steps to go through before it can no longer be amended. In the Senate, at the House level, and in the conference committee, changes can be made to create a bill that they believe will pass. Nobody has dodged a bullet in this fight. Nobody! Everyone is still fully in the crosshairs of the HSUS. The HSUS is working overtime to get this done with as MANY species on the bill as possible. When the Senators who may have an opportunity to vote on this bill do so, will your Senator have heard from you loud and clear? Will your Senator fear voting to bankrupt you and your business? Did you do everything you could to stop this bill from passing in any form!?

For the HSUS, this is NOT about a list of 9 snakes. They are in this for the long haul. If they see that the reptile nation has fallen asleep and believes they can have someone offer an amendment that includes all Pythons, that is what they want, they will do it! They want all of us to go down. It will be a sweet victory for them if they do just that, because most of us were asleep thinking they were no longer shooting at us. If you are not in this fight with both feet, you are a deer in the headlights waiting for the animal rights wacko tractor trailer to take you out.

This is NOT over! You are NOT safe. Your letters do count and are needed RIGHT NOW!

Watch this video I did, rough though it is, to describe this is greater detail.

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Jeff Ronne Sr
The Boaphile
Director USARK

Originator of Boaphile Plastics
The Boaphile Boa Site

They won't give up, and neither can we. We must send our letters, make our calls and recruit as we continue to move forward!!

To everyone who has sat back watching this unfold, and have done nothing. This is directed at you.

The HSUS is SCARED OF US! This is a point I made the other night on my reptile radio appearance.

The HSUS received 87 million dollars in donations in 2008.

The reptile industry is a 3 billion dollar per year industry.

That means that the reptile industry is 29 times larger (dollar for dollar) than The HSUS.

Can you imagine taking on something 29 times larger than you? That would be the equivalent of The HSUS trying to beat an NFL football team by itself! Offense, defense, and some special teams!

The HSUS can't do that! And they know it! They found out first hand when they lost the HR669 battle. 50,000 letters vs their contributions to the pockets of our Congressmen - it was a no brainer in favor of us.

If you like analogies, here's another. Go watch "A Bug's Life". It's a perfect illustration of what can happen when people band together to fight, rather than segmenting into smaller groups who are scared out of their minds. In the movie, a large ant colony defeated a terrorist group of grasshoppers because the ant's stuck together, and fought together. WE CAN DO THAT! (Yes, I DID just compare us to ants, lol - but I also called the grasshoppers, "terrorists"!)

What they're currently doing is trying to segment our industry by proposing mini versions of HR669. And that's EXACTLY what HR2811 and S373 are. These bills have the EXACT SAME LANGUAGE as HR669, they just focus on a smaller set of animals.

HR669 encompassed almost 2,500 animals. These bills currently focus on between 2 and 40 (depending on what stage you examine of the bills life).

They'd LOVE to get it back to almost 2,500. But for now, they'll be happy with the handful or two that they get out of HR2811 and S373 because we're the most outspoken segment of the pet industry at the moment. We're the ones fighting. They figure if they can knock us off, the rest will be easy pickings! They won't have to face an NFL football team anymore, they'll just have a series of one-on-one games. And they'll win those. Every time.

So if you don't fight S373 and HR2811, and these bills pass, you can kiss the entire industry goodbye. Once their done with non-native animals, they'll move on to the native animals, then cats and dogs. Trust me.

Get off your butt and DO SOMETHING! WRITE YOUR LETTERS or YOU'LL be to blame for this passing.

jb
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What's written above is purely my opinion. In fact, MOST of what you read on the internet is someone's opinion. Don't take it too seriously

Jonathan Brady
DeviantConstrictors.com
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I am trying everything I can possibly think of to get people on board. I have had almost my entire family send in letters. I have gotten all my friends on board (even though they don't own reptiles). I have emailed the link to everyone on my contact list (half of which I am not sure who they are). I have been posting bulletins on Myspace.com almost daily. I have sent emails to all the major US news stations. I wish there was a way we could get TV publicity (commercial, news coverage, etc.). I don't know what I would do if S373 passes. My dreams, my retirement, my life will all be gone!

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to this fight! If this bill is stopped, we'll have you, and others like you to thank!

I wish there was a way to selectively penalize those who are doing nothing.

jb
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What's written above is purely my opinion. In fact, MOST of what you read on the internet is someone's opinion. Don't take it too seriously

Jonathan Brady
DeviantConstrictors.com
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