Us Presidential Election '08 - Voting For Animals Options

[Furkidlets' Mom]

A timely warning from Teresa Wagner to all U.S. citizens who are getting ready to vote in a new President. (too bad the lovely pictures of the animals & graphics in this email from her won't come through on this site; you could subscribe to her newsletters though, to get the original version to "forward" to friends) HOWEVER, you can still copy and paste her message into your own emails and pass this along well in advance of the election!! If you care about animals (wild, stray or domesticated), make your vote reflect that and spread the word about Sarah Palin's inhumane viewpoints! I'm taking much the same kinds of action here in Canada, with our own federal election in only 2 weeks' time.....spreading the word on party leaders' stances towards animal issues, writing letters to the editor, signing petitions.....anything I can do to finally, hopefully make a change in how animals are treated in our country (and by extension, in others). Please do your own part, too, if you can. The animals are depending on US to shift people's perspectives, and fast, before more harm is done to them, and therefore also to us all! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND MAKE SURE YOU VOTE!!!

Please Consider the Animals
on November 4, 2008 in the U.S. Presidential Election

They need our voice, our vote and our loving prayer





The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs
no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.
We need a boundless ethic which will include the animals also.

~Dr. Albert Schweitzer




Dear Friends and Clients,

In my lifetime there has never before been a candidate for President or Vice President of the United States who is such a dangerous foe of the animals as we have now with Sarah Palin.

Her record of cruel and inhumane treatment of animals has received very little national and international press. I learned of it only from the many animal advocacy groups who send me email alerts and from friends who passed on information.

I thought long and hard before writing and sending you this plea for the animals. I don't believe it is my place to tell anyone how to vote. There are, of course, many issues and concerns that impact our private voting decisions and our lives--the economic crisis, taxes, the war, foreign policy, energy costs, affordable health care, education, reproductive choices, the environment and many others. However, I also believe that those of us who love animals need to remember that the animals cannot vote or lobby on behalf of themselves regarding the issues that impact their ability to simply live their natural lives undisturbed on the earth. The people who care about animals are their only voice regarding policies that effect them. So, I decided to send the following information to you as a fellow animal loving human for your consideration when making your voting choices.

If you are not familiar with Palin's policies regarding her support and encouragement of aerial wolf huntng, her bounties for wolf legs as rewards to wolf hunters, the shooting of wolf pups, refusal to accept scientific proof of global warming and its impact on animals, her drive to keep polar bears and beluga whales from needed protection and relentless massacres of moose and caribou, I encourage you to learn more from the following links:


http://hslf.typepad.com/political_animal/e...ions/index.html
(Humane Society Legislative Fund article on Palin)

http://hslf.typepad.com/political_animal/2...ne-society/html
(Humane Society Legislative Fund article on each candidates' voting record on animal issues)

http://www.friendsofanimals.org
(Friends of Animals)

http://www.defendersactionfund.org/newsroom/sarah_palin.html
(Defenders of Wildlife)

http://www.defendersactionfund.org/index.html
(Defenders of Wildlife)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU
WARNING: This last link is a graphic video showing the aerial killing of wolves program that Palin wholeheartedly supports. It is very difficult to watch so please protect yourself energetically before viewing. It is included here as proof of the cruelty condoned by someone who could be one heartbeat away from being President of the United States.


I quickly became upset and angry when I learned about the aerial wolf killings. These wolves are hunted down and killed not because they have been killing people, pets or "livestock." They are killed because governor Palin doesn't like the fact that wolves eat moose and caribou. The wolves are killed so more moose and caribou are available for "trophy hunters" and for the revenue created from the canned hunts for wolves. When wolf pups are found who have been orphaned from these aerial hunts, they are shot in the head and killed, rather than taken to a wildlife rehab center or even a zoo.

I got so caught up in my outrage about all this that it was impacting my ability to send love and protection to the animals at risk. Sustained anger is not good for our health or our souls. But temporary outrage at injustice may be the only thing that ever movtivates the energy necessary to create change for a more compassionate world. Without a period of voiced outrage and actions to change social injustice, injustices continue. Democracy is about people having the right to say what they think is right and wrong. As Americans we have an important opportunity to vote for what each of us think is right or wrong regarding the treatment of animals in this election.



If you are a US citizen, I encourage you to exercise your privilege and right to vote on November 4th.
The animals cannot vote on behalf of themselves. We are their voice.



Wherever your place of citizenship on earth, if you love animals and care about their welfare, I invite you to join me in:


Picturing leaders in the White House, and world leaders everywhere, who support the compassionate treatment and welfare of animals everywhere on earth.
Sending love to all human beings whose hearts are not yet open to treating animals with compassion and respect. It is only in receiving love and compassion that they can learn more about giving it.





May the animals of the earth have the opportunity to live on it in peace~



Much love to all of you,
Teresa

www.animalsinourhearts.com







Look at their beauty, look into their eyes.
Feel their souls.
Please, consider them as you cast your vote.
We are their voice in this election.
Please tell everyone you know who loves animals
to consider the animals in this election.














Teresa Wagner
Animals in our Hearts.com

[Furkidlets' Mom]

I also just received this (2nd) election message from a friend-in-grief of mine. Once again, Palin's actions speak for themselves. If you're concerned about these animal issues, you could consider donating to this advertising cause as well as help spread this message by copying and pasting it into emails to others (or visit this organization's website and their appropriate web page and send that link to others).

In like fashion to this organization's plea for help, I had donated a few dollars to a Cdn.-based advertising campaign to try to stop our Prime Minister from next forming a majority government, thus robbing him & his party of the means to have even more power to keep destroying everything/everyone priceless in sight. Whatever method may have ultimately worked, something did work, and we at least don't have a majority government after our own recent national election, and thank goodness, as things are bad enough with the minority government leading party we're still stuck with. I've also just donated to this cause as well.

And FYI, polar bears are particularly near and dear 'icons' of the Canadian wilderness, too and many of us here are also fighting for their protection, with our own governments also caving into oil and gas exploration (=money), rather than saving them and their habitat. Polar bears in Canada are already 30% leaner than they used to normally be, due to habitat, and therefore food supply destruction, as well as their birth rates plummeting. This entire planet is SICK and I believe we need to stop thinking in terms of "my" country, or "their" country and instead think of the health of our entire planet as a whole, including all species in guardianship of it. The plain and simple fact is that the way IT and other species go, so WE go, as there is NO separation between 'us' and the earth - we are all one organism in truth.

If nothing else, I still firmly believe that staying clearly focused on what you'd RATHER &/or ideally, see (picture it, feel it), is always the best course of action to accompany whatever other actions you might take.

With all of this in mind, here is the newest message about Palin and I still say she's one very scary woman:


There are just 14 days to Election Day, and voters deserve to know that vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s brutal insensitivity to wildlife goes well beyond wolves.

Please read the message below from activist and Broadway, Hollywood box office and independent film actress Ashley Judd to learn about our powerful new TV ad and how you can help save polar bears threatened by trophy hunting, starvation, drowning and ultimately extinction.

With Gratitude,

Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund



Help Air this Powerful TV Ad Before the Election



Donate now to help air this ad on TV in key states and support wildlife-saving efforts across the country…

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Ashley Judd, Broadway, Hollywood and indie film star

Please help protect threatened polar bears and expose Sarah Palin’s terrible record before Election Day with this powerful new television ad! Donate now…

Dear Animal Defender,

Our polar bears are threatened with extinction, and the next presidential administration may well determine whether or not they disappear forever.

That’s why I’ve lent my voice to Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund’s powerful new television advertisement about vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s efforts to eliminate vital protections for polar bears.

As I told Rodger, this woman must be stopped! First it was the shameless slaughter of wolves. Now the heartbreaking plight of the polar bears which utterly breaks my spirit. We have to do all we can to help them AND to stop Palin!

So please watch this new TV ad now and help put Sarah Palin's anti-polar bear record on TV in key battleground states like Ohio, Colorado and Virginia.

Already, polar bears are starving to death, birthing fewer cubs and drowning as sea ice disappears and their search for food becomes more difficult. Scientists at the U.S. Geologic Survey say that polar bears could disappear from Alaska within 50 years, driven to extinction by habitat loss and global warming. [1]

Despite the risk of extinction, Governor Sarah Palin has launched an all-out effort to eliminate protections for threatened polar bears -- a move that could lead to more polar bears dying of starvation and drowning, and more being killed by wealthy trophy hunters.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, she covered up evidence from her own scientists showing the need for polar bear protections. [2] Now she’s doing the bidding of the oil companies and trophy hunters, suing the federal government to stop the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. [3]

As governor, Sarah Palin has been a disaster for polar bears, wolves and other wildlife. A heartbeat away from the presidency, she could do even worse.

Donate now to help Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund air this powerful ad and advocate for our wildlife.

Make no mistake: This could be a very close election, and it is critical that we do all we can to educate voters about Palin’s appalling record between now and November 4th.

We have to get this ad on television as soon as possible, but Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund needs your support to air it. I hope you will help.

Sincerely,

Ashley Judd

P.S. Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund needs to raise $150,000 to run this powerful new TV ad in key battleground states like Ohio, Colorado and Virginia. Please donate $20, $40, $100 or whatever you can afford to put get this powerful ad on the air.

Notes

[1] Anchorage Daily News. Sept. 8, 2007.
http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/wildlife/be...p-9200531c.html

[2] “Palin Challenged on the Environment.” Anchorage Daily News. August 30th, 2008. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/510779.html

The Anchorage Daily News reported in May that the head of the marine mammals program for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and two other marine mammal biologists on his staff agreed with nine studies the federal government cited to justify listing polar bears as a threatened species.

Their e-mail appeared to contradict Palin's assertions that state wildlife officials had found no reason to list the bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Palin wrote in January that she based her opposition to listing the bears on "a comprehensive review by state wildlife officials of scientific information from a broad range of climate, ice and polar bear experts."

[3] “Oil Group Joins Alaska in Suing To Overturn Polar Bear Protection.” Washington Post, Aug. 31st, 2008. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8083001538.html



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