April 10th 2009
Lyin’ Joe, The Puppy And The Police State
O
K, so Joe Biden’s a liar. That’s hardly big news, is it? It’s not like the American people bought a vice-presidential pig in a poke, after all. But buying vice-presidential puppies from a … the horror! … breeder, now that’s news. Even more newsworthy is the governmental response.
In case you missed the basics, Lyin’ Joe was much quicker than his boss. He wanted a pup, so he went out and got one – a German Shepherd from breeder Linda Brown in East Coventry, PA. Ah, how sweet.
But not in whacko America.
After the local rag wrote up the story, readers started posting comments, says said local rag. Ugly, hateful, insane comments:
Following a story about Brown and Biden in the Daily Local News, readers posted 131 comments, some chiding Biden for having the Secret Service with him when he went puppy shopping and others complaining he did not get the dog from a shelter.
Brown was taken to task for selling pedigree dogs.
Brown said she has read the comments, even the one that said she was sued.
“I’d like to meet that person,” Brown said, adding that she has not been sued.
Some people were outraged about the photograph of Biden holding a 5-week-old puppy, Brown said. But, the breeder points out, Biden only came to select a puppy on that visit, left it with its mother and returned three weeks later to take it home.
Brown was not only vilified in posted comments to newspapers but also on the Web site of People for the Ethical Treatment Animals, or PETA.
According to a Dec. 12 press release from the animal rights group, it aired its controversial TV commercials “Buy One, Get One Killed” in Biden’s home state of Delaware after he bought his dog from Brown. The commercial blames euthanization of animals in shelters on people who purchase pets from breeders.
Goodbye, choice. Every decision we now make is monitored by those who deem themselves to be more pure than us, those who live on a higher moral plane. Nevermind that supposedly sentient purebred dogs have a right to breed and bare pups just like mutts. Doesn’t matter; mutts are morally superior. Tell that to our purebreds, Cammie and Pepper.
But the outraged psycho-moralists were just the beginning of Brown’s problems. Perhaps the shirts the agents of oppression were brown, too:
Brown also was cited for record-keeping problems and warned about maintenance and sanitation shortfalls by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
“I was cited for a piece of kibble on the floor and five strands of dog hair. They took a picture of that, they walked around, snapped pictures and don’t tell you why,” said Brown, who disputes all the items where she was written up.
Brown’s case was heard by District Justice James DeAngelo in South Coventry on March 31. She was found “not guilty” for each citation, the judge’s office confirmed Wednesday.
Chris Ryder, press secretary for the Department of Agriculture, said Brown was inspected in December because of a complaint. He said it was department policy not to release the name of the person who complained.
Is it just me, or did Ryder’s comment sound like it fell just a bit short of an apology? But then, why should an Agency of the State apologize for overtaking a private enterprise, terrorizing its proprietor, and actually bringing her up on charges that cause embarassment and worry, and take time and money to defend. It’s her fault for daring to be an entrepreneur and not a government lackey.
What a sad, disturbing story. And even sadder is this: It happens all the time.
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