Sudden Death (Cruelty To Animals)

I'm here today, friends, to talk to you about a serious subject: the death penalty. I'm generally in favor of it for particularly heinous acts of cold-blooded, first-degree murder. The Scott Petersons of the world deserve it, for instance. There's another kind of crime, though, for which I'm enthusiastically in favor of an immediate sentence of death upon conviction or admission of guilt. If anyone is deliberately cruel to a poor, innocent, defenseless animal because they think it's funny or because they're trying to make some sort of a point or because it makes them feel big and strong and manly or whatever to torture something, they should be summarily executed - no prison, no appeals, no Death Row. If you're charged with cruelty to an animal, there also should be no opportunity to plead to a lesser charge. No deals. Just death, plain and simple. I think the manner of their death should be similar in kind and degree to the type of cruelty they perpetrated on the animal. Take those three subhuman assholes in Wisconsin recently who took their roommate's Black Lab puppy and threw it out of a speeding car because they were pissed at the roommate for something. When the poor puppy miraculously survived, they tried to stomp it to death. When that, too, failed to kill it, they left it for dead. The dog lived, and was adopted and given a good home here in Minnesota. Thank God. These three lowlife scumbags should be executed in the same way: pushed out of a car doing 80 miles an hour on the highway. If they live, we commence with the stomping.

I have a theory, and although I have absolutely no evidence to support it, I think it makes sense and is a good one. I believe that animals are angels. I think they're angels that God has placed on earth as a test to observe how people treat them. Most people are capable of behaving civilly in front of other people. Even people who are real pricks or bitches can put on masks of kindness or politeness for others, particularly if there's something to be gained. I believe that these same people, and most people in general, rarely consider how they behave in front of animals, thinking them creatures of no consequence. With animals, people can be themselves and their real nature comes out. One of my favorite truisms is that you can tell a lot about a person by observing how they treat people who don't have the power to do anything to them or for them. Lots of times, animals are just there. Who you are with an animal is who you are when no one's looking.

I'd also like to tell you about a wonderful organization I've just heard about, located on the Apple River near Star Prairie, Wisconsin. It's called Home For Life. Visit their web site here:

http://www.homeforlife.org/

This non-profit organization provides a home for hundreds of domestic animals who have been abandoned or tortured or who are disabled due to injuries or need special care due to disease or illness. The stories of these animals are truly heartbreaking. They have a cat named Cedric whose little face was deliberately burned with acid. They have a cat named Kobi whose ears and all four paws were cut off by a person or persons who should go straight to hell. They have animals with diabetes and leukemia, and animals who are partially paralyzed and need special devices to help them get around. Staff members report that it's the animals who have been subjected to the worst kinds of abuse and torture that are invariably the most friendly, gentle, and loving. If contemplating that kind of grace and the wonderful, forgiving, trusting spirit of these animals doesn't bring tears to your eyes, have someone check your pulse.
While Home For Life doesn't offer their animals for adoption, you can choose an animal and sponsor it, or just give a general gift.

These people are surely doing God's work. To paraphrase the Bible in Matthew 25:40: (Jesus said), "Unto the least of these. What you do for them, you also do for Me".


Cheers!