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Speak Up for the Wild Horses NOW before it is TOO Late.

Posted by on July 4, 2016
 Denise Brown 
July 4, 2016 @ 12:59 PM
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I am sorry, but I have to speak my mind on this. Ginger from the Cloud Foundation is one of my wild horse heros and her efforts are commendable and just unbelievable to most people!! But, she was just too darn (damn) nice at the Sub Committee meeting. These people don’t want to be smiled at and read a report that is ‘like’ or ‘has a fairy tale ending.’ I don’t want to water down her great efforts, but she actually blew the advocates’ chance at putting our foot down and reading them the riot act. (I don’t mean like the protester who was yelling out of turn that the police had to come for her). I mean that Ginger needed to bring graphic posters of pregnant mares, mares and babies, sterilization techniques, slaughterhouse procedures and what ever else needs to be planted into the Sub Committee’s brains. She needed to make a debate with them that shamed them and that made them want to actually investigate more themselves by attending the experiments and organize a meeting with a panel of reputable veterinarians and biologists and scientists, not just one veterinarian and a bunch of cattle people. They need to be compelled to find out more and where the money goes and comes from.
The advocates need to hire a strong speaker to be able to pound these points home and not just hope someone listens by smiling at them and being nice. They only respect brute force. Even the BLM rep was being pecked at the whole meeting. He was smart enough to play dumb and not answer direct questions. Ginger did not have the answers they needed to make them ask better questions while this was broadcast to the public. Is there anyone out there or that anyone can recommend to be able to handle bullies. This is definitely a job for a strong voice and strong language.
I know five minutes of time is very little, but it was one of our few chances to approach these people and make them realize the insanity of sterilization experiments like the Nazis used. And the foolish “lovely way to die” to put them down language that compared the wild mustangs to puppies being neutered showed their total ignorance.
Get mad people, tell them we voted for these people in office and it is their job to listen to the public’s voice. It is not their job to decide on what species lives or dies.
The Wild Horse & Burro Act needs to be upheld. Even BLM seemed to be on the side of protecting the wild horses compared to the Sub Committee. They need to be educated on this multi-faceted plight that the mustangs are on. It is not a simple neuter and slaughter solution. These are America’s icons. If the world sees American politics is willing to kill off their iconic wild horse, then what do we care about when it comes to any species or needy person on the planet?
Get angry. Tell everyone you know about as much as you know at every meeting you go to.
Hand out cards that explain where to find out information. Put a bumper sticker on your car.
Everyone has some circle of influence that might know a politician or news reporter or big wig lawyer or speaker or celebrity or wealthy humanitarian or Senator or anyone who could turn some heads.
Write to your Congressman to protect America’s Wild MUSTANGS today! Speak out now before it is too late.
I will never give up. I have invested too much time, too many years of research, too many sleepless nights worrying about these free spirited animals. Stand up and stand up now for what you think is right. I know there are countless things wrong with this world, but this is an important time to work for these wild ones. If we don’t, then 10-20 years from now, they will be gone and we will wonder how we let this happen. Visit a BLM site if you can. Start a letter writing campaign. Talk to adults and kids. Start today.
Ginger and RT cannot do this by themselves. They need fresh, bright minds with brashness and power to deal with this brick wall. Even Madeleine Pickens has been tormented by the ignorance of it all. There are endless ways to fight, but it has to be a constant, continual voice and a loud voice.
Keep on speaking up. The squeaky wheel gets oiled — just like the cattle ranchers keep complaining. It is our turn to complain and complain til they listen.

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