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Suspect in illegal taping of sexual encounters jumps bail

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Suspect in illegal taping of sexual encounters jumps bail
A judge has signed a 0,000 arrest warrant for a Monroe man who jumped bail while awaiting trial for allegedly making secret tapes of his sexual encounters with women.
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Waterford woman pleads no contest to neglecting pets while at casino
A Waterford woman pleaded no contest to an animal cruelty charge after she left her four pets without food and water for days while she was away gambling.
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Shetland pony abusers avoid jail

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:15:53 +0000

Shetland pony abusers avoid jail
A man and a youth who severely injured a Shetland pony when they dragged it behind a car near Toowoomba in Queensland on Christmas Day have avoided jail terms.
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Man stomped on sandwich-stalking ibis
A student who was being stalked for his sandwich wrestled an ibis to the ground and stomped on it until the bird was so badly injured it had to be put down, a court has been told.
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Farm photog finds niche with four-legged models
MILL CREEK — Anyone can photograph a puppy to persuade people to take it home, says pet photographer Julie Austin. But capturing a shot of a full-grown pit bull that’s been abused is a greater challenge Austin has the eye to take on.
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SC deputy charged with animal cruelty

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:01 +0000

SC deputy charged with animal cruelty
GEORGETOWN, S.C. A Georgetown County sheriff’s deputy and his wife have been charged with animal cruelty.
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Georgetown Deputy, Wife Accused Of Animal Cruelty
A Georgetown County sheriff’s deputy and his wife have been charged with animal cruelty.
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Tribal horsemen round up hundreds of Mont. horses

admin — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:38:33 +0000

Tribal horsemen round up hundreds of Mont. horses
Horsemen from the Crow Tribe in Montana gathered about 700 horses belonging to a Billings man charged with animal cruelty after the animals were found wandering tribal lands and nearby ranches without adequate food and water.
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Woman pleads guilty in Granite Falls animal cruelty case
Dead dogs and cats were found in the woman’s foreclosed home. EVERETT — A former Granite Falls woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to six counts of animal cruelty.
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Woman Denies Hoarding Charge After 53 Dogs Taken

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Woman Denies Hoarding Charge After 53 Dogs Taken
Dozens of dogs and cats are removed from a Mansfield home and their caregiver says she is innocent of the charges. Get the details.
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Ag industry, Iowa lawmakers try to limit undercover videos, say effort doesn’t protect animals
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Angered by repeated releases of secretly filmed videos claiming to show the mistreatment of farm animals, Iowa’s agriculture industry is pushing legislation that would make it illegal for animal rights activists to produce and distribute such images.
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The Curious Case of Brian Aitken

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The Curious Case of Brian Aitken

The Curious Case of Brian Aitken

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Brian Aitken of New Jersey Proving that justice is not only blind, but sometimes quite dumb – and I don’t mean mute – the strange and tragic story of the plight of Brian Aitken is the epitome of the insanity going on in America.

Brian Aitken is a young man of 27 who moved to Colorado from New Jersey, where he was born and raised, several years ago. There, he met a woman who was also from New Jersey, and the two married. Shortly thereafter, the couple had a son, but the pair broke up when the boy was just an infant, and mother and son moved back to New Jersey.

Wishing to be close to his son, Aitken later decided to move back as well, and began making the preparations. Those preparations included learning how to legally transport the three handguns he purchased in Colorado back to New Jersey, a state with very strict gun laws. Starting in late 2008, Aitken made the first trip back home to New Jersey, the first of several to bring his possessions to his parents’ home in Burlington County, until he could find his own apartment.

In December of 2008, Aitken and his friend Michael Torries – who had found an apartment together in Hoboken, NJ – made the final trip out to Colorado to retrieve the last of Aitken’s belongings, including the guns. Before they left, Aitken researched and printed out New Jersey and federal gun laws to ensure that he didn’t break any laws regarding transporting firearms across state lines. He also called the New Jersey State Police prior to leaving Colorado seeking their advice on how best to proceed. He wanted to make sure he didn’t run afoul of the law. He followed all directions to the letter. It didn’t help.

Brian Aitken and Son In January of 2009, Aitken drove to his parents’ house to get the rest of his belongings. He had been having difficulties with his ex-wife, who was refusing to let him see his son. He was obviously stressed about it, and his mother, Sue, noticed. A woman who works with children who have mental health problems, Sue Aitken has been trained to call police when someone appears distraught and may pose a threat to themselves, so when her son left, that’s what she did.

Concerned about her son after he left, Sue Aitken called 911, but thought better of it and hung up. Too late, the police were at her home a short time later. Sue told the police of her concerns, and the police called Brian, who was driving to his apartment in Hoboken with his possessions in his car. The police told him to return to his mother’s home, which he did, willingly complying once again with the instructions of law enforcement.

When he arrived, police determined that Brian was not a threat to himself or anyone else, but searched his car anyway. They found his guns, which were locked, unloaded, and stowed in the trunk, just as he was instructed for transport. Police arrested him for illegal possession of a firearm.

When Brian purchased the weapons in Colorado, he had to pass FBI and CBI background checks. He owned the guns legally, and transported them legally based upon the advice he sought from every law enforcement agency he could imagine he would need to avoid any trouble. Now he was facing trial in Burlington County, New Jersey.

The trouble really began when Brian drew Superior Court Judge James Morley, who was denied re-appointment by Governor Chris Christie after his inauguration. More on that later. A key element in Brian Aitken’s defense was his right to transport legally purchased firearms between residences in New Jersey, which is precisely what he was doing.

Superior Court Judge James Morley Police deposed that their search of Aitken’s vehicle revealed many of his other belongings, which he was in the process of bringing to his new apartment in Hoboken. Judge Morley curiously forbade the jury from hearing that testimony in court. The jury expressed a clear level of discomfort in the prospect of convicting Aitken by asking the judge – on three separate occasions – about exceptions to the law regarding the transportation of firearms. The exemptions are primarily for off-duty officers and security personnel, but also extend to hunters and those transferring weapons between residences. Morley ignored all three requests.

Judge Morley defended his decision to deny the jury of such testimony, declaring that it “wasn’t relevant”. In a subsequent telephone interview, Morley said:

“There was no evidence that Mr. Aitken was moving. He was trying to argue that the law should give him this broad window extending over several weeks to justify driving around with guns in his car. There was also some evidence that Mr. Aitken wasn’t moving at all when he was arrested, but had stored the guns in his car because his roommate was throwing a party, and he didn’t want the guns in the apartment while guests were there drinking.”

Even if that were true, all it could possibly demonstrate is yet another, deeper level of responsibility on Brian Aitken’s part, to have enough sense to remove even unloaded firearms from an apartment full of drunken revelers. No matter to the state of New Jersey, or Judge Morley, whose manipulations forced the jury to convict.

So, the man who did everything he could to stay within the boundaries of the law is now in prison, and as a result of his incarceration, has also lost all parental rights to the son he so desperately wished to be near. In August of 2010, Brian was convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison for a “crime” he tried valiantly not to commit, and by a judge who manipulated the trial to achieve a desired outcome. That judge, as noted earlier, was denied tenure by the state of New Jersey’s new governor for a few previous questionable decisions and their related opinions.

Judge Morley once opined after a case of a 45-year-old teacher’s aide, accused of having sexual relations with a 16-year-old student, that said aide was not a “sexual predator”. In another case, involving a former Moorestown officer charged with four counts of animal cruelty for having oral sex with cow calves, Morley ruled that there was no evidence of animal cruelty. Then the man, Robert Melia, was arrested for alleged sexual assaults of three girls, and a search of his computer revealed videos of him “allegedly” receiving oral sex from the cows. Now Melia is awaiting trial on 48 other counts.

And Brian Aitken is in prison.

If you’d like to help Brian, visit this site:
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Michael Vick, President Obama, MVP, and Dogs: The Saga Just Never Ends

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The stunning resurrection of Michael Vick after a major humiliating downfall has created a number of different headlines over the past year. After being released from prison, there has been controversy regarding whether or not he should play in the NFL, whether or not he should start, whether or not he should be considered for the MVP award because of this remarkable play, whether or not he should be allowed to own a dog, and most recently the infamous phone call from President Barack Obama to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie commending the second chance he gave to Vick.

During his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, President Obama made a phone call to Jeffrey Lurie who quoted the President as saying, “so many people who serve time never get a fair second chance. He was… passionate about it. He said it’s never a level playing field for prisoners when they get out of jail. And he was happy that we did something on such a national stage that showed our faith in giving someone a second chance after such a major downfall.”

Not only did it serve absolutely no purpose for President Obama to get involved in professional sports, the NFL, the Eagles organization, or his personal analysis on the turnaround of Michael Vick, it has once again fueled a firestorm surrounding the heinous acts of animal cruelty that Michael Vick was convicted of and supposedly served his time for.

The world now knows the Michael Vick was heavily involved in dogfighting. Vick personally witnessed and took part in the activities of electrocuting, drowning, and manually strangling dogs that were no longer fit to fight. As a result Vick lost his career, lost his money, and served 23 months in a federal prison camp in Leavenworth, KS.

Now Vick has returned. Jeffrey Lurie and the Philadelphia Eagles gave Michael Vick a second chance by signing him to a one-year contract. Since that time Vick has earned the starting role and proven himself to be an even better and more mature quarterback after a three season absence, something thought impossible. He has elevated his reputation both on and off the field by playing like the league MVP, and talking like a class act. Yet, the arguments continue to go on-and-on by pundits from all sides debating what kind of life Michael Vick should be allowed to live now that he has served his time.

To make it clear, President Obama calling the owner of a sports team to give a knuckle-bump for hooking up one of the brothers is just idiotic to the core, and scored the President absolutely no political points after two weeks of half-way decent governing, following two years of pathetic leadership and failed policies.

But when it comes to this ongoing debate about whether Michael Vick should be able to move on with his life a rehabilitated man, or suffer life-long denigration for a series of mistakes made at a time in his life when he was young, immature, too wealthy for his maturity level, and ego driven by instant fame, has got to come to an end. Seriously, enough already!

As a conservative analyst and animal lover with two dogs of my own, I looked upon Michael Vick in 2007 as a man beneath contempt. I felt his punishment should be very severe, and he should never again be allowed to play in the NFL. But since coming out of prison, a true change has been visible in Mr. Vick, and maybe it is time he is given the opportunity to prove that rehabilitation does work, and only convicted again if he actually does something worthy of condemnation.

Vick was a broken man when he went to prison, and as often happens, people from poor backgrounds in dangerous neighborhoods often times revert back to their instinctive ways once they have suffered their downfall and end up in prison. This was not the case with Michael Vick.

Vick emerged from prison humble and broken with his head held low, but with a new attitude. He snatched the opportunity with the Philadelphia Eagles with a low paying, one year deal as a backup quarterback. He has since kept his mouth closed, his nose clean, and has earned his way back to being arguably the best player in any position currently in the NFL. That is what rehabilitation is supposed to be about, and stifling those that it works for serves no good purpose for anyone, and ultimately leads to the recidivism that has our prisons overcrowded to a level of bursting at the seams.

Then there is the paranoia over Vick wanting to get another dog. Seriously, do those opposed actually think that after everything that Vick has gone through the dog is going to end up electrocuted or hanging from a tree in Vick’s yard? With the scrutiny he would be under combined with inner guilt that he needs to make up for the cruelty he inflicted on those animals, any dog he owned would end up being the most well-cared for and pampered dog to be found.

The point is, there are enough other problems going on in this country right now that we should not be worrying about Michael Vick unless he happens to be on your fantasy football team. The man was caught, convicted, and served his time. Instead of coming out of prison a thug, he just may have come out truly acting the part of the role model he was once supposed to be. With what he shown thus far, it is only fair that he gets another chance. So far he has earned it.

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The Great Shark Slaughter

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The Great Shark Slaughter
Lovers of shark fin soup say it’s a cultural tradition, but science proves it’s brutal and inhumane. by Hannah Dreier Pacific Seafood Trading Company, in the heart of Oakland’s Chinatown district, looks innocuous. Women with pink grocery bags and men pushing wire carts scurry by the corner store at 8th and Franklin streets.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Whistler sled dog task force to set guidelines against ‘culling’ as authorities wait to exhume mass grave

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Whistler sled dog task force to set guidelines against ‘culling’ as authorities wait to exhume mass grave
The task force reviewing the slaughter of 100 sled dogs in Whistler will set guidelines against “culling” sled dogs and may revise animal cruelty laws to enforce new industry standards.
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Pony cruelty pair avoid jail
A FATHER and son have avoided jail after being sentenced for seriously injuring a Shetland pony by dragging it behind a car at Murphys Creek.
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Task Force rescues 195 animals from shelter near Bonne Terre
A total of 195 dogs and cats were rescued from the St. Francois Society animal shelter in Bonne Terre Tuesday.
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Man fined for tossing puppy onto highway

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Man fined for tossing puppy onto highway
A CHICAGO man was fined $US100 for throwing a puppy out of his car while driving along a busy highway.
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Man fine for tossing puppy onto highway
A CHICAGO man was fined $US100 for throwing a puppy out of his car while driving along a busy highway.
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Man fine for tossing puppy onto highway
A CHICAGO man was fined $US100 for throwing a puppy out of his car while driving along a busy highway.
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