Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket Mentions IDA's Criticism of BLM Roundups
- Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 8:51
- In the News, Wild Horses
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Speaking of political minorities, In Defense of Animals points out that Obama’s Interior Department continues a new roundup of wild horses on public and private Western lands these days, despite a federal judge’s suggested postponement.
The animal ancestors of early-day mustangs, the wild horses are “removed” because the Bureau of Land Management says the freeloading horses compete for forage with private cattle, whose owners happen to pay BLM a fee for munching said taxpayer-owned grass.
In the interests of the administration’s promised transparency, the roundups — accomplished by helicopters stampeding the wild creatures into holding pens for shipment — are closed to the public.
Eliot Katz, a veterinarian and president of IDA said: “For America’s wild horses, President Obama’s promise of change rings hollow. His administration has continued the same secretive and destructive Bush Administration war on the wild horses of the American West.” Finally, something in 2010 that’s Bush’s fault.
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We must expose the truth about the BLM – THAT THEY DETERMINED TO EXTERMINATE ALL WILD HORSES & BURROS and that they have already illegally sent thousands & thousands of our National Treasures that they were supposed to be protecting to to hellish slaughter houses and destroyed over 100 herds so that they can replace them with 9 MILLION of their parasitic cronies welfare cattle that have destroyed our public lands. Its too bad we can’t still; hang horse thieves like SLAUGHTER HOUSE BOB (Bob Abbey- Head of BLM). All cruel round ups are unnecessary and must be stopped now.
Having the BLM responsible for our Wild Horses is like having Michael Vick in charge of all the dogs in the country. Here is the TRUTH- Since 1971 when Wild Horses came under BLM’S murderous “care” there was over 270,000 wild american horses & burros, the BLM has abused and sent to slaughter through their “adoption program “ THOUSANDS of our beloved Wild Horses. They have done this to make room for 9 MILLION WELFARE CATTLE. There are now less than 40,000 horses left, most imprisoned in crowded pens. You do the math……. lets see way over 200,000 thousand wild horses abducted, most deviously sent to slaughter houses & NOW less then 40,000 HORSES left versus 9 MILLION PRIVATE WELFARE CATTLE!
(and the horses were supposed to be protected, and these cattle cost the tax payer MILLIONS-don’t be thinking we are making any money by having these cattle on our public lands- quiet the opposite & thats not even to mention the monumental destruction these cattle have done to our public lands.
The BLM also has brutal convicted animal abusers taking charge of these imprisoned terrorized horses. WILD HORSES & BURROS are supposed to be protected by the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Horse & Burro Act ( enacted by Congress after Wild Horse Annie, American school children and the people rallied Congress to protect our Majestic living legacy. There IS NO need for relocation. Why is nobody addressing the real issue? 9 MILLION cattle are decimating the land. The welfare cattle are privately owned and belong on their owner’s property. Horses do not overgraze & do not destroy water areas- CATTLE DO !!!! How could anyone believe that 30,000 WILD HORSES & BURROS are doing more damage than 9 MILLION corporate cattle?
WE WANT A PERMANENT END TO WILD HORSE ROUND UPS -THEY ARE CRUEL AND UNNECESSARY. AS THERE IS NO WILD HORSE OVERPOPULATION -THAT IS A FACT !!!!!!!
Preserve and Protect our WILD HORSES for future generations-tell the Senate to pass SB 1579 – the R.O.A.M. ACT NOW !
Stop the BLM’S CRUEL ROUND UP & SLAUGHTER OF OUR WILD AMERICAN HORSES. Urge Congress to hold a hearing or investigate BLM’s management of America’s wild horses and burros and tell the BLM to IMMEDIATELY STOP rounding up and killing or removing our wild horses and burros or selling them for slaughter and return them to the lands where they were living in 1971.
We want those who have perpetrated this tragedy to be fired and prosecuted . We no longer want all our remaining Wild Horses and Burros to be under the control of the agency that is abusing and murdering them ALL ! We want all herds destroyed by the BLM ( OVER 100 HERDS ILLEGALLY DESTROYED ) to be restored and all the horses currently imprisoned by the BLM to be freed.
We want all cattle removed from the land stolen from the wild horses & we want the corrupt-subsidized destruction of our public lands by the corrupt BLM & corporate cattle & other parties ended and our land and water cleaned up and those who have done the damage to our public lands to pay to restore our land to the way it was before they let their cattle destroy it. In short we want justice.
kudos to Carrie , she said it all so very well , Thank You Carrie………. Now we all need to Unite on this most Important Issue……………… Where is Our President???? After the Outcry of thousands of Americans calling in Protest about The BLM???? not a word from him yet???? It would be ever so easy for him to just take two minutes to SAVE OUR WILD MUSTANGs…………… I and Thousands of American People also Want Justice for OUR WILD MUSTANGS….And The BLM held accountable for their Complete Negligence…….. and Disrespect of Our Mustangs, How Dare the Very Agency appointed to PROTECT OUR MUSTANGS, do this to them !!!!!! HOW DARE THEY BREAK THE LAW>>>>>>>>>>These Mustangs are the Spirit and The Power, and the Heritage of every American………. Unite every American, and stop this disgrace and betrayal by the BLM>>>