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Next week (hopefully on Monday), the Center for Consumer Freedom will be
launching a new site at HumaneWatch.org, to act as a watchdog over the Humane
Society of the United States.

In addition to a blog, we’ll be building a document library for online use.
We also plan for a list of HSUS personnel and a way to browse through all
the organizations that make up the HSUS universe. (There are quite a few.)

This is meant to be interactive. We’ll moderate comments for profanity,
etc. But no views will be censored. In addition, we’re putting out the call to
people who have documents that they’d like to see made public. Anonymous
contributions are welcome.

This project will cover ALL areas of society that HSUS interacts with. (It
will be the first Center for Consumer Freedom effort that intentionally
strays outside of the food and ag universe.) Everything is on the table for
discussion: Biomedical research issues, dog breeders, equine issues, the
Canadian seal hunt, fur and leather, wildlife and Endangered Species Act matters,
lawsuits, fundraising, etc.

Please visit
www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4094-get-ready-for-humanewatch for our announcement, which includes information about a
new P.O. Box and a dedicated e-mail address for tips and submissions.

I hope you’ll participate! Please feel free to spread the word far and wide
about this.

With Every Good Wish,
David Martosko

Thanks. Should be very helpful.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Everybody join this thing. Already got my first notice from them "PETA behaving badly". Just what the Dr. ordered.
Thanks again.
jsc
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Subscribe to this. Excellent information. Here is a sample...

If you're on any of the many e-mail lists maintained by the Humane Society of the United States, you probably saw a desperate plea for money last night from HSUS president Wayne Pacelle. There's nothing unusual about that -- HSUS sits up and begs for dollars countless times each year. But what made this piece unusual was that it consisted almost entirely of ridiculous attacks on the Center for Consumer Freedom. Go ahead and look. We want you to read it. It's one of the best examples we've seen of the kind of scorched-earth politics this so-called "humane society" practices.

But don't feel bad for us. Frankly, we're flattered that Wayne and his $100 million-per-year operation, with a $162 million balance sheet, nearly $38 million in annual salaries, and over $2.5 million in pension funds socked away (in one year alone), with 30 lawyers on its payroll -- we could go on but you get the picture -- are spending their time attacking us.

Our entire annual budget is less than what Wayne's HSUS puts into pension funding! (Read that again.)

Make no mistake: This is a David -vs- Goliath story, and we're the ones with a pocket full of pebbles.

Is HSUS's leader getting nervous about our little research outfit? Is he concerned that we've figured out how (according to a national survey) Wayne has convinced Americans that HSUS uses most of their contributions to rescue and shelter stray and unwanted dogs and cats -- while it actually gives less than one-half of one percent of its budget to hands-on pet shelters? (That's according to documents HSUS itself files with the IRS.)

Is Wayne worried that we might tell HSUS donors how much of their "$19 a month" (from the group's ubiquitous TV ads) never reaches pet shelters -- the hard-working organizations that actually do the heavy lifting to protect the cats and dogs in those weepy commercials?

It could be that Wayne Pacelle is upset because we participated in an Atlanta ABC television news story last year, which exposed how much of his organization's money is diverted away from pet sheltering. Or maybe it's because we surfaced a story about how the Louisiana Attorney General investigated HSUS after it collected more than $34 million by using the Hurricane Katrina disaster as a fundraising gimmick

Perhaps -- just perhaps -- the fat cats at our nation's sorry excuse for a national "humane society" are just upset because someone has realized that self-proclaimed watchdogs need to be watched themselves.

Stay tuned. Visit www.HumaneWatch.org later this week. And keep an open mind.
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"As hard as I've tried, just can't NOT do this"
John Crickmer

Now that's good stuff. Looks like the tide is turning against HSUS and they are starting to enter the stages of desperation...

Wonderful idea! I'm looking forward to learn what other organizations are connected to HSUS.

Many thanks to David Martosko and the Center for Consumer Freedom for exposing these tricksters!