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Contact us SHARK Newsletter April 23, 2013 Join our Email list
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SHARK Begins New Campaign to "End Pigeon Shoots Now!"
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As you know, SHARK has spent the past few years video-documenting live pigeon shoots in Pennsylvania, where birds who have been deprived of both food and water are used as living targets and shot for fun. Although these horrific events are already illegal under current anti-cruelty statutes, some local district attorneys with ties to pigeon shooters have failed to take action. They have even stopped Humane Society Police Officers from filing charges against shooters. Therefore, SHARK is fully supporting newly introduced legislation that will specifically ban pigeon shoots in PA.
To educate the public and promote the passage of this legislation, which is PA senate bill SB510, SHARK is engaging in a multifaceted campaign we are calling "End Pigeon Shoots Now!"
We kicked-off this new campaign last Wednesday, April 17, when SHARK Investigator Stu Chaifetz went to Delaware to confront John Sigler, former President of the NRA, current Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party and all-around vile person who has shot pigeons at the Philadelphia Gun Club.
Watch how quickly Sigler ran away in the following video.
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Watch the NRA Run!!!
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The raw footage of the event was picked up on a few websites, which you can view at the following links:
* Former NRA President, Runs Away After Being Confronted about Animal Abuse
* Exclusive Video: John Sigler Flees Questioner Regarding His Pigeon-Maiming
* Ruh Roh, SHARK Posts YouTube Of "Cowardly Ex-NRA President Confronted" At Leg Hall Yesterday
The Sigler run-a-way is just the first of many events we will hold over the coming months to expose out of state pigeon shooters. We do this not only to educate PA legislators that most pigeon shooters don't even live in their state, but also to show the shooters themselves that they will be held accountable for their vicious cruelty.
We are taking the fight right to the killers, with only a video-camera and the truth on our side.
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TAKE ACTION - Leo Holt and the Jackson Laboratory
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Leo Holt is the former President of the Philadelphia Gun Club as well as a former Board member of the NRA. He's also the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Jackson Laboratory, located in Bar Harbor, Maine. The Jackson Lab breeds millions of mice who suffer terribly in labs around the world.
These type of labs are often very concerned about being associated with animal cruelty, so why then would they elect a man who has been videotaped torturing wounded pigeons with his very own hands to lead their Board? Let's ask and find out!
Please politely and respectfully email the Jackson Laboratory and ask them why Leo Holt, who thinks the mass slaughter of starved animals is fun, is the right man to chair their Board. Please also ask them how they feel about the Jackson Lab now being so closely associated with severe animal cruelty such as pigeon shooting.
Edison Liu, M.D. President and Chief Executive Officer
edison.liu@jax.org
Robert Braun, Ph.D. Associate Director and Chair of Research; Professor bob.braun@jax.org
Charles E. Hewett, Ph.D. Executive Vice President and COO chuck.hewett@jax.org
Michael E. Hyde Vice President for Advancement and External Relations mike.hyde@jax.org
Watch the video of Leo Holt torturing pigeons HERE. This Thursday, April 25, 2013, the Jackson Lab is holding an art show at their location in Maine. SHARK has submitted the following picture and asked that it be included in the show.
Feel free to send a copy of this picture, along with the link to the video of Holt torturing pigeons, along with your email.
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Kindest Regards,
Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team
"Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." - Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers
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