Rush Limbaugh, United States
Where did the 'humane' in Maryland Humane Society go?
By Judi McLeod
Sunday, May 27, 2007
We are edging ever closer to the kind of state control apparent in the Peoples Republic of China, where dogs are clubbed to death in front of their devastated owners. "We" being all those hapless plebes about to be absorbed in something called the North American Union (NAU).
Not only are dogs clubbed to death in China. China is the country that exported the poison that sickened and killed thousands of pets beginning on March 16.
People have been poisoned from a legion of Chinese food ingredients, most lately puffer fish, sold off as "monkfish". People in Panama have the worry of Made in China poisoned toothpaste, laced with the same ingredient that killed off hundreds of people, including children, in cough syrup.
China remains under the boot heel of Communism, which has no soul let alone heart.
In Rockville, Maryland, where animal control is handled by the police department, an 18-inch, 4-lb. capuchin monkey is under a version of house arrest.
The monkey is under the custody of the Montgomery County Division of Animal Control and Humane Treatment, after authorities seized the animal from a weeping woman who was raising the baby as her own.
Not only did authorities brutally seize the monkey, they have stated that they will not return it.
Instead the state has issued the monkeys' owner Elyse Gazewitz with a letter informing her it would be housed at her expense on their premises.
A Maryland law forbids possessing a "nonhuman primate", including monkeys, as a pet. Never mind that Gazewitz, who has been charged with several civil violations worth $1,800, thinks of the monkey she named Armani as her "baby".
Authorities seem less able to protect university students from crazed psychopaths on shooting sprees, but they can easily round up a monkey after some nosy Parker rats out a pet lover.
A recent change in state law rendered the possession of the monkey illegal and Gazewitz says the monkey came into her life before May 31, 2006.
The weeping woman, who can now add lawyer's fees to her burgeoning expenses, has until May 31 to appeal to the District Court.
How can a public body called the County Division of Animal Control and Humane Treatment cause such painful mental anguish?
The roar from radio giant Rush Limbaugh provides the only hope is this story.
The mainstream media waxed sarcastic, with MSNBC flashing a picture of Armani over the words "Illegal Resident". Guess none of the MSNBC info babes keep pet monkeys. These investigative journalists got their story, though.
"This is outrageous! I cannot believe such insensitive feelings among the animal control people in the state of Maryland...this is gut wrenching, heart wrenching. How can this happen in the United States of America? How can you take away a pet monkey like this? I know the law is the law. This woman is devastated," Rush, chosen human companion of a pet cat named 'Punkin', lamented on his May 25 radio show.
Imagine the scene of mental anguish when Animal Control was executing the law in a private home in Rockville, Maryland.
"...I can't eat. I can't sleep because he sleeps with me. I had animal control at my door saying if I didn't let them in they would arrest me, seize Armani and euthanize him. So I let them in. I showed them paperwork and they didn't care. My little teacup Maltese who is two pounds saw me in handcuffs and was watching Armani being taken away and he started barking and going crazy and Armani was screaming for me. They put him in a zoo. I'm not able to call. I'm not able to ask how he's doing. I haven't seen him," a tearful Gazewitz told reporters.
Where did the "humane" ever go in the Humane Society?
We live in a society where politically correct mores make it inappropriate for a teacher to hug a child whose parent has recently died; we carry on life in a society that allows Christianity to be held up for ridicule and one that is inexorably making patriotism punishable.
"How could this happen in the United States of America?" Rush wants to know.
How could it happen in the United States of America of 2005 that authorities removed a feeding tube and water from a handicapped Terry Schiavo, guaranteeing her slow and painful death?
How could it happen in the US that millions of babies are ripped from their mothers' wombs in a legalized process called abortion?
How could it happen in the US of America that the pictures of the killer of 32 innocents at Virginia Tech could flash for hours from the television screen before silence covered the mystery of their death like the darkest of cloaks?
It could only happen because we let it happen.
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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