I just received the following email from Dave Barker in the USA. I think the implications are self explanatory ...
" I've never before sent an email out to everyone in my contacts list, but never before has there been such need.
A proposed law, identified as "S 373", as currently written will end possession, transport, and commerce for all pythons and boas in the USA. This law will immediately put Tracy and I out of business and destroy all that we have accomplished working with pythons and boas in our careers. The bill will be voted on by the committee tomorrow, so this is very last minute and urgent.
Today is the last day we can get emails or calls in to the committee, the media, and the White House, and request that they stop, or at least amend this unfounded and insane law, written and supported by the HSUS, a rabid animal-rights group.
Below is a message from USARK, the national organization that represents and supports reptile keepers and their rights. We are asking for you to read the message and then do any of the three actions listed. At least send off the two emails (one to the White House and one to the media), very easy and quick to do if you click on the two links provided.
Look at the list of senators on the committee. If any are from your state, then please call him/her and ask that this bill not be passed. It will confiscate property rights from Americans, destroy small businesses, destroy one of the most successful conservation projects ever accomplished by private citizens, and cause millions of animals to be destroyed.
Tracy and I are in disbelief that this has come to pass. We are asking you to please help with our cause.
Thank you,
Dave Barker"
Scary stuff. We urgently need to form a representative group here in Australia to protect our rights as reptile keepers and remedy many of the rediculous inconsistencies that already exist between our various States in Australia.
" I've never before sent an email out to everyone in my contacts list, but never before has there been such need.
A proposed law, identified as "S 373", as currently written will end possession, transport, and commerce for all pythons and boas in the USA. This law will immediately put Tracy and I out of business and destroy all that we have accomplished working with pythons and boas in our careers. The bill will be voted on by the committee tomorrow, so this is very last minute and urgent.
Today is the last day we can get emails or calls in to the committee, the media, and the White House, and request that they stop, or at least amend this unfounded and insane law, written and supported by the HSUS, a rabid animal-rights group.
Below is a message from USARK, the national organization that represents and supports reptile keepers and their rights. We are asking for you to read the message and then do any of the three actions listed. At least send off the two emails (one to the White House and one to the media), very easy and quick to do if you click on the two links provided.
Look at the list of senators on the committee. If any are from your state, then please call him/her and ask that this bill not be passed. It will confiscate property rights from Americans, destroy small businesses, destroy one of the most successful conservation projects ever accomplished by private citizens, and cause millions of animals to be destroyed.
Tracy and I are in disbelief that this has come to pass. We are asking you to please help with our cause.
Thank you,
Dave Barker"
Scary stuff. We urgently need to form a representative group here in Australia to protect our rights as reptile keepers and remedy many of the rediculous inconsistencies that already exist between our various States in Australia.