Why when people are caught on tapes abusing animals...like Covance, and Bailey & Barnum Circus....?
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I haven't seen the tape, but in order to sue you need either to have your own interests harmed, or you need to be suing under a law which grants a private right of action to sue to enforce the law.  Animal cruelty statutes are usually criminal, and have to be enforced by the district attorney or county prosecutor, not by suit of a private individual.
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So many in jail on Dateline-20 20-Front line-Fox news-Cops. Read many stories. Whats your point? Real footage with real people
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The same reason anyone uses coercion to get what they want. It is a control issue. These kinds of people are putting their problems on your shoulders and if you accept that responsibility you deserve it. It is sad but true.
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Because they like to watch other people suffering!!
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I did not read any of the links, but I would like to know what your point is, really.  I can't believe you think it is a good thing -- or a trivial thing -- to so warp a child's life.  Making it a monetary fine, of whatever amount, is tantamount to making all little children into prostitutes!  And slave prostitutes, at that, since they wouldn't even get the money themselves!!!\n\nThis is really bizarre, and I'm looking forward to your explanation.  I'm not going to follow all those link, and neither is anyone else, I'm guessing.  Or maybe one or two of them, but not all.
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned the Veterinarians & how they play a BIG part in deciding if a horse goes to the gate or gets scratched.  The "Industry" needs tighter standards to keep BOTH Horses & Riders from going onto the racetrack.  People & Animals are dying just so those bets can be placed!  Why haven't the Stewards been held accountable for any of this?  They have the final say on backside security issues in regards to ALL licensed personnel, including trainers & owners.  I gave back my CHRB License after 5 years of getting screwed out of wages & watching owners, trainers, & vets misdiagnose & wrongly medicate horses to get them to the starting gates in order to collect on their bets.  The horse was INSURED, so it was not as important as it should have been on a RESPECT level.  My Father was a vet, so I knew enough to know when things weren't right, but having a Groom's license made me look like the #1 suspect when a horse was sabotaged with medications & injuries.  The Industry has a LOT of misguided con artists & substance abusers within itself.  I hope Barbaro generates enough publicity to shed some light on this DARK ISSUE.
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It is because poor people are easy targets for police. \n\n If there is a video tape,  then as long as the incident in question is captured on tape, then no matter what the other police officers say happened, the video tape does not lie.  \n\nThere may be an issue if part of the incident happened off-tape,  then the police officer(s) may say, that something happened before the tape was on, or after it was off,  and accuse a suspect of a crime without having any video tape to prove or disprove their allegations.\n\n At that point, it becomes a credibility issue and poor people are more likely to not have on their side, "indicators" of trustworthiness.  For example, they may not have a full-time job.  They may not have access to other law-abiding and respected citizens in the community that can vouch for their truthfulness and character.  They may have a criminal record or drug history.  \n\nAnd, even putting all that aside:  if the "poor" person testifies on his/her own behalf,  many times poverty is a result of lack of education.  Often a person who lacks education may not be able to express himself or herself very effectively.  The person may be nervous, speak grammatically incorrect, etc.\n\n And, when you have a career police officer -- used to testifying -- against a poor person, who may be a poor communicator, the jury will often side with the police officer.  \n\nThe police know this and this bias works it way through the system in who police decide whom to enforce laws against and in how they treat suspects.
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Oh please, just watch them, when they go to hit someone, they stomp they'er foot down. Under them is like a tin floor or something like that, that makes a lot of noise. I use to believe that crap too. I haven't watched it since a friends aunt, who was married to one of those guys, told me how fake it was.
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Our Forefathers never dreamed it would be abused so. It was meant to give you a voice not to hurt. Crooked and Selfish and greedy people are abusing it-with no common sense.
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That depends on what you consider abuse. If you mean torturing a pet, I think most states procecute that crime pretty harshly already. If you are talking about something idiotic like Whole Foods not carrying live lobsters because it is inhumane to the lobsters then you are way off base.
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It's one of the way for them to channel their anger. they sometimes imagine the animal is a person that had done damage to them when they abuse the animal the imagine that that they hit the person they were angry at. this type of person have to take anger management class or they can solve it them selves by trying to find other way to channel their anger maybe by buying a sand bag to his on it carrying heavy object helps to reduse the level of anger in a person.\nand also this person have to have support from their love ones.\nother reason this person have the tendency of feeling superior when they hurt animals. they think there is no other way for them to feel strong and by abusing animal it makes them feel strong.
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unfortunately some people (usually children, sometimes adults in arrested development) just get a charge out of upsetting people. It makes them feel significant or important that they can shock someone. You shouldn't be so porous to such experiences. That's not a criticism of you, it's just general advice. I'd probably feel the same way. But I'd realize what it was, report it as abuse, delete it, and then I'd refuse to give the street urchin any more real estate in my mind's memory.\n\nCheers, mate.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure that Americans do torture people from time to time.  I think it's mostly in retaliation for the atrocities committed by the enemy, and although I think it's human nature and understandable for our people to do things like that, I also think it's important for our soldiers to try to hold themselves to a higher standard than the Muslim animals who perpetrate such acts against us.  It's hard not to exact revenge against pigs like them, but it's important that our servicemen and women try to adhere to a higher, more honorable standard  than the enemy.  It's what distinguishes us from the so-called "people" we are fighting against.
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yes we are too politcally correct, things like this let two pedo's go into a park with a video camera to film kids.  When a) the are on parole in a bail hostel and b) one of them had only just been released on bail again the same day charged with new offences that he'd committed since his release from prison!!  Makes you f**king sick that scum like this have more protection than our kids..  same goes for smack heads, thieves.. armed robbers etc..
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Well I think this is a prime example of people behaving like animals.  Neither side can see that breaking the cycle is what's needed to cease the violence.  It's like dealing with two spoiled children in a way.  You watch them fight for awhile and eventually you just make them leave each other alone, or let them beat the hell out of each other.\n\nThe more we allow terrorists to terrorize us, the more their agenda succeeds.
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in puerto rico they had one like a month ago, it came out in the news and everything and you can hear the screams and crying. but guess what it was a prank it was some guys doing that and recording it. well they got caught but i have to see to believe
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I think you pretty much answered your own question: Because they are psychopaths. Like the other post said though, what comes around always goes around. People that commit harm against others no matter how large or small, will eventually be made to confront and deal with what they did. It may not even be in this lifetime, but karma has a way of coming back on everyone. NOONE is exempt from it if they know what they are doing is wrong.