A Personal Thanksgiving Greeting/BLM Wild Horse Helicopter Stampede Contractor
“In My Outraged Opinion” by R.T. Fitch ~ president of Wild Horse Freedom Federation
“RIGHT NOW, TODAY the Cattoors are having THEIR way with YOUR wild horses at the Adobe Town helicopter stampede with NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION…”
“Feel Good Sunday” is canceled for this day. Sorry, I was planning on writing about what an uplifting and endearing experience Terry and I had on Black Friday riding our companion horses on Galveston Beach versus being tied up in a mall with a bunch of crazy people but that is going to have to wait for another day as the plight of our wild horses and the antics of the BLM pushed all that goodness and light off onto the back burner, as usual.
Instead, I will share with you some darkness that rode in on a broomstick from the cold, stark western skies and landed square in my inbox on Thanksgiving weekend with a stomach churning plop and covered with the smell of distant deceit; that, ladies and gentlemen, was a personal email from the grand dame of wild horse pain and suffering, the BLM hired gun for ripping away the freedom and destroying the families of our wild horses and burros, none other than the BLM helicopter contractor, Sue Cattoor.
Sue Cattoor speaking at Pryor Mt. 2009 Roundup while Ginger Kathrens films – Photo by R.T. Fitch of Wild Horse Freedom Federation
I haven’t heard from Sue since around 2010 when she didn’t like what I had written on my blog so she hired an attorney to threaten me, my wife, my home, my horses and everything close to my heart. That didn’t sit well with me and it didn’t sit well with some outstanding, nationally known, big city, Houston attorneys who came to my aide, pro bono, and blew Sue and her cronies off.
Click (HERE) to read Demand Letter
You see, Sue (yes, it is the same first name that Wallis carries, another glowing pair of horse hating eyes peering out from underneath yet another rock) likes to be talked about, she loves to see her name in print, she relishes the opportunity to admonish equine advocates on how they know so little about horses while she, her husband, (once brought up on charges for capturing and selling wild horses to slaughter), and her son, (video taped stomping a wild burro to death), are the only ones who know anything about wild horses AND they are helping those horses by chasing them all around the desert in their flying toys in all forms of weather and terrain. BUT if anything is said that points to the truth and is contrary to their means of suckling millions of dollars from the BLM’s teats then the gloves come off, the claws come out and sanity flies out the window.
Click (HERE) to read Cattoor Indictment
We first met the ‘wicked witch of the west’ (that is in my humble opinion, of course) in Sept. of 2009 at the last helicopter harassment roundup of Cloud and the Pryor Mountain herd. Ginger Kathrens took Sue’s grandchildren under her wing, one day, and talked about fossils and the history of the Pryors while Sue was allowed, by the BLM, to stand in front of the public and cameras to complain about all the “bad” things we were saying about her and her high dollar family on the internet. ‘sniff, sniff’ She claimed we hurt her feelings, then she proceeded, with friends, to stand behind myself, my wife Terry, Ginger Kathrens, Makendra Silverman, Carol Walker and other advocates and heckle us as we watched and talked about the release of Clouds greatly reduced family band. Her inane and rude babble was so offensive that I went to the BLM ranger who was watching over our dangerous band of female advocates and asked him to put a cork in his contractor’s mouth but he claimed that to do so would be to trample on her First Amendment rights.
Well how about OUR First Amendment rights, why is a BLM contractor, once again, allowed to make direct contact with a U.S. tax payer and tell them what they should and could write about! Is there something wrong with this picture? YES!
This individual is taking our tax dollars, against our will and then has the gall and audacity to tell me what I can and cannot write on my blog? Hell No!
RIGHT NOW, TODAY the Cattoors are having THEIR way with YOUR wild horses at the Adobe Town helicopter stampede with NO PUBLIC OBSERVATION. They assaulted the horses, yesterday, with no one allowed to view and they are doing it again, TODAY. Is that right? HELL NO!
Are they going to stop at destroying the lives of 700 horses as promised or will they take more because they are paid on a ‘per horse’ basis by the BLM? You will not know because we were not allowed to witness. And what are the odds that the roundup will conclude today with no one around to verify, REAL GOOD, because there was no public observation.
And Sue Cattoor writes to me about truth and clarity; give me a break and gag me with a spoon…now I have heard and seen everything and that is a lot to say at my ripe and venerable age.
It’s wrong, it is all wrong, it is so wrong I can smell it all the way out here in Texas. We will not go silently into the night nor will we be absent to witness the conclusion and cleanup of this debacle.
Although not verified I will bet my bottom dollar that the Cloud Foundation will be out to Adobe Town tomorrow and I can assure you that we, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, will be there in one way, shape, manner or form, too…we do not plan to rollover, sit or beg to the whims of a contractor who has made millions on the sacrifice of the freedom and lives of America’s western icons, the wild horses and burros.
Below is my inappropriate holiday love letter from Sue and below that is my response and below even that are some cool and interesting links to the history of Sue Cattoor…nothing is edited for the sake of evidence for potential litigation but I must say just one more time as I take a very deep breath, HOW DARE SHE!
(You poked the sleeping dragon, Sue…not good!)
Hi RT, I happened to listen to you and Ginger and I beleive Debbie on the radio the other night. I heard you state that you people as advocates need to be sure and check all the facts and to be sure you are telling just the truth. You were referring to the hide that was left in the dumster in Delta. So I am asking you to remove one statement from your latest blog attacking this Wyoming gather we are doing. You state this gather was put off until now because the contractor was not available sooner. That is not so. We have not done any work for the BLM since August. We would have much rather done the gather in September or October. It is my understanding that the gather had been put off because there was no space for the wild horses. So the Rock Springs Grazing Association was threatening to file contempt of court charges against the BLM. They had no choice but to quickly find some space, bring in a contractor (that happened to be Cattoor Livestock Roundup) and get the gather started. That is why no one (not even our company) had any advance notice. So please remove that statement from your blog and inform your readers that scheduling a contractor was not why the gather is being done at this time. Thank you, Sue Cattoor
From: R.T. Fitch <RT@rtfitch.com>
To: “clr@wildhorseroundups.com” <clr@wildhorseroundups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 1:36 PM
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Telling only the truth
Well Sue, it’s so nice of you to think of me over the Thanksgiving weekend, the best to you and yours, too.
TCF issued the original release and if you read carefully it uses the word “appears” which I have gone back and accented on the blog post so you can’t miss it…and by the way, you have about 500 other blogs, newspapers and magazines to contact to change that one word as the release went viral. (You even got some free publicity in all of that, you should be excited.)
I am admittedly pleased that you chose to single me out. For that I am very thankful and feel so very, very special but your bullying and stomping on the first amendment could be construed as harassment by some; not by me, I only find it entertaining.
Please feel free to log onto the blog and comment yourself, I guarantee that if you don’t cuss and use spell-check your comment will get through.
Remember, less is more!
R.T.
Click (HERE) to preview the Cattoor Family Legacy on WHFF
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Etc. Etc. Etc…it goes on and on…
19 comments on “A Personal Thanksgiving Greeting/Threat from a BLM Wild Horse Helicopter Stampede Contractor”
You said it all RT , Bravo !!! would like to add 1 Thing, her letter is the rantings of a greed filled moron, who has no common regard for the lives of the horses she terrorizes…. … !!!! again how dare she !!!!!! she is another who i am quite sure has a special place in hell reserved just for her …………………
Right on Arlene!… I am guessing they could be Aetheist and or Sociopaths …………Wild Horses are God’s Creatures and this is an
OUTRAGE!!
A special place in HELL for the Cattoors “ah yes”……
Dear Robyn, sure would like to witness some of that Hell for them Right here on Earth, tired of this murdering bunch of evil people !!!!!!
I hope they aren’t Atheists, as I would find that very embarrassing. A contractor that can do what they have done during the many roundups must be a sadist and have no respect for the wild species with which we share the earth when they can stand by and see mares separated from foals, stallions desperately trying to get to their mares to protect them, or risking their lives to break free, If this contractor really knew horses, they wouldn’t use helicopters driving the horses in terror at breakneck speeds–they would use humane roundup methods on horseback.
Yet behind all of this is the BLM that should make removal a last option for herd management, reduce the welfare cattle leases so the horses that belong on the land can stay there, and instead of rescues having to go to kill auctions to keep wild horses for slaughter, contract with the rescues to assist with herd management and help them buy lands to move the warehoused horses to. Imagine what the rescues could do with $65 million to keep the horses safe, free, and out of the hands of kill buyers.
Sue: Pad the cross bars!!! And do everything else to make these horses (protected by Americans) feel spoiled and pampered. These are not your ranch horses, you know. And their end will not be slaughter, like your ranch horses. Don’t push the babies and pregnant mares and elders past their abilities. These aren’t your ranch horses. There are laws in WY against overdriving and negligent endangerment – even extending to your own ranch horses as well as OUR protected wild horses. Try to keep the horses safe, reduce the sweat evidence and breath rates – do what you can to keep the horses alive as you destroy our peace of mind. And pray tell, just where did BLM “make room somewhere”.
So the BLM had to “make room somewhere” or they had no place to PUT these horses? How about leaving them where they belong? RT, keep bringing the wrongdoers & their actions into the public eye! This is what is going to bring them down at some point. Hopefully, it will happen BEFORE they manage to eradicate the wild horses & burros. Anyone making millions (& I’m sure that is the correct amount) from chasing down horses & burros & trucking them away (to where?) needs to face the wrath of the public – the people who OWN the public lands. Not the horses & burros – they are their own beings.
KEEP IT UP!
Well, said my friend. She has nerve, and I would love to see her son prosecuted for cruelly killing that burro. There were witnesses to this atrocity, and many of the other atrocities this family of trolls have committed. These are our wild horses and burros, and we have a right to know how they are being treated and where they are being sent. No witches brew will save her from the hatred she has created toward herself and her family. So, if she wants to have people stop discussing their neanderthal family then they all need to walk away from round ups and get a gag on Sue.
offended by What you say or How you say it they shpuld Quit doing Ignorant things!
Or better Yet tell her to quit reading the blog! I am So sick of Im gonna scream if I dont get my way…….these people need to grow up. Oh wait killing animals makes them powerful….whew I forgot for minute……
When you start to terrorize innocent Mustangs and Burros for personal gain , you have a HUGE Mental Problem !!! especially when your kid stomps a innocent Burro to death , you need help Big Time !!!!!! Sorry I have no sympathy for that !!!!!
R.T., is you response to the Cattoors Cease and Desist Letter posted anywhere? I saw her/theirs to you, but not your attorneys back to them.
Good question, I went through a PC to Apple conversion in August of 2011 and lost track of a lot of documents. Will go back to my exterior drives and look for it. Thanks!
Reblogged this on “OUR WORLD”.
Thank you RT for standing up not only for horses but for our first amendment rights ! This tactic of threatening to sue someone for expressing their constitutional right is a bluff that needs to be called at every opportunity ! Most states now have some specific law designed to protect rights of free speech against corporations or federal agencies who try to intimidate citizens with harassing lawsuits, generally referred to as SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) in speaking out against governmental decisions, including brutal BLM roundups in freezing weather !
Again, as usual’ thank you rt for keeping your horse warriors updated. As a midwesterner, I wish so many times I was closer to the west. Evil however knows no bounds. These
people certainly do have places waiting for them in hell as well as many of the politicians in Washington, DC. One cannot say that the devil and his advocates are not alive and well. In revelation 19:14 god promised us paradise and a place without tears..it refers to horses in heaven. How long can the cruelty and death go on? The sickening thing is that our tax dollars are paying for this. I only wish I had the money to fly everyone to dc. Horses are one of the animals closet to god. But we must never ever give up the fight. I will be going to my us house reps office tomorrow to protest all of these activities. May god please all of the horse warriors out there on this Sunday.
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well many of the politicians in DC.
This roundup is nothing short of cruel and inhumane. If Sue (and all the others) would take one minute to focus on something other than greed, the horses and burros might have a chance. However, Sue and her ilk are only part of the problem. Big Oil/Fracking industry is raping the land and the horses are in the way. Thank you RT for standing your ground. Our strength is in our numbers.
Message to Sue: You can run but you can’t hide from the Interwebs. True colors shine though. We’re all connected now through blogs and social so brace yourself. All the threatening letters you/your counsel send are only a testament to your true nature. Consider coming over to our side and rethink how you might have a positive impact on these beautiful creatures. Do you really want your legacy to be about cruelty and harm?
Thank you RT, I read and watch every thing i can on this subject. Thank you for putting it all on the line. There’s no other way but to put our entire being into it. I have giving up my life , life style all to help in the fight against the slaughter of these animals. Padding the truth from the public is old already, I can read between the lies and lines! Whether (She) is contracted or not WE have a moral Duty to protect these animals. It always seems to come down to greed and money . Thanks for shinning the light. I too will continue to stand up and be heard what ever the cost.
Bull! What constitutes a ‘threat’ that: “Rock Springs Grazing Association was threatening to file contempt of court charges against the BLM”? Perhaps a look at their grazing permits is in order too. Does not justify roundups so privately owned cattle can graze public land at such outlandish ratios….
So … if Cattoor has not done any capturing of our wild horses and burros since August, why did we tax-payers pay them $1,300,000 in the last six months IN ADDITION to the Adobe/Salt Wells and Seaman and Blue Wing and Tonapah and Owyhee and Swasey and North Lander and Burns/Miller and Diamond and McCullough 2013 capture payments?
Go to usaspending.gov advanced search Cattoor Livestock and see for yourself.
IDVPIID/PIID/MOD: INL10PC00593 / INL13PD01429 / 0
Recipient: CATTOOR LIVESTOCK ROUNDUP INC
475 S 200 W, NEPHI, Utah
Program Source: 14-1109
Department/Agency: Department of Interior: Bureau of Land Management
Product/Service: F016: NATURAL RESOURCES/CONSERVATION- WILDHORSE/BURRO CONTROL
Description: CATTOOR LIVESTOCK, GATHER IGF::OT::IGF
Signed Date: 09-16-2013
Obligation Amount:
$800,000
PIID/MOD: INF10PX76936 / 10
Recipient: CATTOOR LIVESTOCK ROUNDUP INC
475 S 200 W, NEPHI, Utah
Reason for Modification: EXERCISE AN OPTION
Program Source: 14-1611
Department/Agency: Department of Interior: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Product/Service: F016: NATURAL RESOURCES/CONSERVATION- WILDHORSE/BURRO CONTROL
Description: HELICOPTER GATHER
Signed Date: 06-18-2013
Obligation Amount:
$500,000