Registered: May 2005
Location: Kamas, Utah
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Tables turned on Humane Society
Jim Matthews, Outdoors
Posted: 07/26/2012 08:32:04 PM PDT

The Humane Society of the United States, an organization that does next to nothing for animal shelters but sues, badgers and lobbies politicians and businesses into adopting its radical animals rights agenda, is getting a taste of its own medicine.

In a little-reported ruling by a judge in the District of Columbia earlier this month, the HSUS is going to court to face charges under RICO statues on racketeering, obstruction of justice, malicious prosecution and other charges for a lawsuit it brought and lost against Ringling Brothers Circus' parent company Feld Entertainment, Inc.

After winning the case alleging mistreatment of elephants in its circuses brought by Friends of Animals (later merged into HSUS), the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), lawyers at Feld filed a countersuit with a litany of charges ranging from bribery to money laundering to racketeering. The attorneys for the animal rights groups asked the judge to dismiss all charges, but most remained because the evidence was overwhelming. So in early August, HSUS will be facing the music in a case that should attract the attention of hunters, ranchers, farmers and anyone impacted by HSUS' radical animal rights agenda.

District judge Emmet G. Sullivan did dismiss allegations of mail and wire fraud, but he did so only because Feld didn't have standing to file this charge. His ruling all but set the stage for a class-action
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RICO lawsuit against HSUS for misrepresenting itself in its fundraising campaigns across the nation. This lawsuit easily could bankrupt HSUS, put it out of business and send some of its top executives to prison.

For the first time, a group has fought back against the animal rights and environmental extremists who have been setting policy in this country for the past 20 years or more. Now, instead of getting rich off their lawsuits and fundraising schemes that misrepresent their efforts and accomplishments, they could be driven out of business. These groups have cost the farming and ranching industry jobs and raised the price of products we buy every day. They are behind the efforts to ban sport hunting across the nation. They have forced state wildlife and fishery agencies to waste countless millions of dollars on lawsuits and have spearheaded policies and legislation like the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), which has ruined livelihoods in recreational and commercial fishing without helping marine resources.

These groups operate with surly arrogance and believe they are above the law. Thankfully, that is not the case. Stay tuned.

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Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Wi
Posts: 72

This is great news! Sure hope the charges stick and they are prosecuted and ajudicated to the maximum penalties of the law! Hopefully this may be helpfull and be used as some sort of precedent too the California legislature, for them to re-think their support of the bill backed by the HSUS to close down bear and bobcat hunting. If I'm not mistaking, seems a few years back some of the fringe groups of these nut job animal lovers, were classified as terrorist for blowing up buildings, vandalizing fur farms etc.

Thanks for posting, made my day!!

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Registered: Jul 2006
Location: East of Huntsville, Alabama
Posts: 657

This has been making the rounds lately, but is actually from back in 2007, I believe.

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Registered: Mar 2012
Location: Wi
Posts: 72

Leslie, I did email Mr Matthews about his article, and if he would clarify the case against the HSUS, as to current or old. This was his short reply:


"The judge's ruling that the Barnum Brothers (Feld Entertainment) civil case against HSUS could proceed was issued earlier in July."

I did do a little search also, and found something that could be the same case, and the date on when that was filed, I believe was in 2010.

I understand that much that is found on the internet may be suspect, but maybe the wheels of justice are just turning abit slow on this.

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