Although this is bad news, it has a most positive side. This is extreme action showing that the Breeders are getting very anxious. Ed Buck is a fighter and he has been getting breeders busted through the push by the Board of Equalization, sales tax people. These guys may be setting the example for the country and they deserve our support.
http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/printpage.php?articleID=3979
Monday, October 12, 2009 – By WeHo News Staff, West Hollywood
West Hollywood, California (Monday, October 12, 2009) - A sniper fired a rifle loaded with two-millimeter brass bullets Saturday during a Santa Monica puppy mill retailer protest, hitting three protesters including West Hollywood community activist Ed Buck.
Ed Buck and Carole Raphael Davis reacting to sniper fire that hit them both, as well as a third animal rights protester.
No one was seriously injured; the victims suffered minor welts and contusions.
Santa Monica police are investigating what they called “assault with a deadly weapon,” a felony.
Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) organizers offered a $5,000 reward for the capture and conviction of the perpetrators.
The protesters were at Aquarium & Pet Center, 829 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA, to protest that retailers’ alleged sale of puppy mill dogs, pups that have been bred in inhumane conditions for resale.
Several dozens protesters gathered at the sidewalk in front of the store to shout, wave signs and attempt to warn off clients in the mid-afternoon when they heard gunfire and several of the protesters felt impacts.
The people hit by the bullets included head organizer Carole Raphael Davis, who lived in WeHo for 15 years before departing for LA, Ed Buck, who operates So Cal Golden Retriever Rescue and advocates for slower development in the city and another CAPS protester who Ms. Davis could recall only as Elizabeth.
Mr. Buck said his wound was “a welt on my thigh,” while Ms. Davis credited her sign with slowing the bullet meant for her, saving her injury.
“They must have been aiming at the groin, though,” she said. “The bullet hit my sign right at my groin, and Ed’s and Elizabeth’s injuries were both to the groin.”
SMPD investigators found at least three two-millimeter solid brass bullets customarily fired from a pneumatic rifle, or BB gun.
A rifle of that type may not sound deadly, but a shot in the ear can kill and one in the eye can blind. The incident appalled local officials who heard of it.
“It’s shocking to think that people would try to intimidate people or cause them harm simply because they expressed their views,” said WeHo council member Jeffrey Prang, who has been working with the group to write a municipal ban on the re-selling of any pets except bred or rescued animals in West Hollywood.
He said, “We need to bring the perpetrators to justice. Acts of gun violence are always out of bounds.”
He said that protests against retailers who sell the animals they obtain from large puppy or kitty mills where mostly un-hygienic and inhumane conditions rule can raise emotions to a keen.
“That means we need to be ever vigilant for those who would settle arguments though that gun violence,” he said.
The protesters claim that store employees stood at the front door laughing and high-fiving after the shots were fired.
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and they say that WE are the terrorists.
To add insult to injury, Arnold vetoed the breeder bill this week. California sucks really when it comes to the animals. You've seen the commercials about the CA Happy Cows? Well, if you saw the actual cows, you would never want to drink milk or eat cheese again.
The puppy mill breeders, even some of the AKC breeders, have been talking violence for years.
They have freely discussed hurting people that protest their abuse.
They are violent people who abuse animals and break laws. No surprise that they want to abuse people too.
Now it's coming out in public!
The Arnold thing is just a temporary setback. The world of puppy mills is ending, and the breeders and AKC know it.
Their secrets got out, and there is no putting them back in the tube.
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