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The history of the National Animal Rights Act

    2019 This was the year that marked the 12th anniversary of
the NARA (National Animal Rights Act).

    NARA stated that animals had the right to exist without
interference, enslavement or manipulation from humans, "Animal"
are defined as that class of living creatures from Amoeba to
Zebra. Since it was shown that animals, especially domesticated
ones, had been deprived of a "normal evolutionary opportunity,"
Congress allowed them special privileges (an affirmative action
proviso) They have the right to life. liberty and welfare, yet
bare no responsibility for their actions.

    During the first 12 years, NARA was challenged frequently in
court. but judges held true to the intent of legislation. That
legislation was written with the underlying premise that "An
elephant is a baby is a rat is a bug." All were declared equal
under the law.

    On the day NARA was signed into law by President Paul
Tangus, PeTA, FFA, and HSUS volunteers released all domestic
livestock, zoo animals, condo pets, laboratory animals, backyard
horses, circus captives, game preserve inhabitants, dog kennel
dwellers and aviary prisoners. According to the law, every animal
was guaranteed it's liberty. Each had the right to go where it
pleased.

    Although predators had a heyday, death loss to depredation
was small compared to the carnage on the highways. This
continuing slaughter led to the most significant and far-reaching
stepchild of the NARA, passage of the Anti-Motor Vehicle Act,
which banned all self-propelled vehicles.

    Without trucks, the handling and treatment of large animals
that had been injured posed major problems. Transportation of
crippled, hurt horses, cattle and hogs was impossible due to the
Anti-Motor Vehicle Act: It was also illegal to use a horse as a
beast of burden (Anti-Carriage and Cowboy Act). so the sick and
injured beasts were treated where they lay. by veterinarians
conscripted into public service.

    Disposal of carcasses which litterd highways, lawns, woods
and sidewalks became a moot point, since the Predator Protection
Act prohibited any interference with coyotes, buzzards and
domestic cats engaged in the normal behavior of eating carrion.

    Initially, volunteers were allowed to drag carcass remains
out of their front yards until it was pointed out that the
movement infringe on the rights of bone beetles and blowfly
larvae (The Maggot Protection Act).

    Dogs formed in packs and roamed city and countryside alike,
preying on freed domestic livestock, the occasional horse or the
unlucky cat.

    Vigilante groups soon formed to protect children from the
marauding predators.

    The infamous Struthers Trial established the rights of
reptiles (represented by the ACLU). Ms. Potential *#  _#!

threat to protozoa )*!$

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and violated the Protozoan and One-Celled Animal Act,

    Eventually, the Anti-Antibiotics Bill was passed. Black
market pharmaceutical soon dwarfed the illegal narcotics trade as
medical doctors tried in vain to control the spiraling circle of
disease and death.

    Crop production decreased at alarming rates as insects
multiplied and ate, unhindered. Mechanized farming as well as
draft horses, were prohibited. Wheat, corn, fruit, potatoes,
rice, cotton, cabbage and virtually all other crops were planted,
weeded and harvested by hand. The U.S. no longer attracted
immigrants, so farm labor was impossible to find. The U.S. began
importing food from Third World countries, who looked upon NARA
as a windfall. Mexico and Korea were the two biggest contributors
to Animal Rights political action committee. Initially, animal
rights enforcers spent most of their time in former livestock-
producing areas, seeking violators.

    But soon they were driven back to the safety in numbers of
the cities and suburbs, They had a better chance of survival in a
herd of activists than alone on a country road, facing a pack of
dogs or other predators.

    The self-sufficient soon got fed up and migrated to Mexico
and Canada to work in the fields. They were not missed.

    Any animal (defined as protozoa to primate, excluding
humans) has the right to exist without the interference,
enslavement or manipulation of man. No impediment may be put in
place to bar the natural movement of animals. This includes
screen doors, privacy fences, cages, aquariums or hot wires.

    No substance or weapon may be sold whose purpose can be
construed to be directly intended for the death of an animal.
This includes antibiotics, fly swatters, insecticides, flea
coLlars, bug zappers. D-Con. pesticides, hunting rifles or
shotguns.

    Saturday Night Specials and automatic weapons are exempt,
since their primary purpose is to kill humans.

    The U.S. became a vast experiment that the rest of the WOrld
watched-some incredulously, some greedily.

    If it were not for the concrete, glass and steel structures
built by modern man prior to the passage of NARA, America would
have a prehistoric aura. Although man is part of the ecosystem,
he is essentially removed to hi rise buildings above the third
floor. They travel in groups for safety's sake. The elderly, the
handicapped and children often fell prey to the fearless
predators . It is not uncommon to see a baby calf playing on a
schoolground, a black bear begging on the street or hogs
rummaging through three months' accumulation of garbage,

    Formerly "domestic" cattle, horses, sheep and pigs roam city
parks, alleys, malls, urban lawns, side street, small country
gardens, plains and mountains. They are stalked by large bands of
feral dogs, coyotes, rats and swarms of insects,

    Between parasites, disease and deprivation, a natural
balance is being struck. lt is a world that existed in
prehistory, Not necessarily a bad world, but a dangerous place
for an unarmed bipedal primate like man.



    In the year 2020, the Panic Society became established. The
human population was reduced to a more manageable 10 million and
moved to the country of its origin. Animals have now been given
free rein of the wilderness of the Americas, Africa, Europe and
Asia. People now live in safe areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Native Americans are allowed to roam freely in the Americas NARA
and other such laws are no longer needed as people have now been
successfully been separated from the animals.

    The domestic animal became extinct as all such animals had
been sterilized by laws passed prior to NARA.





























Back to reality.

    Wait, you say, this column is getting preposterous! Even the
most narrow-minded of animal rights fanatics would not ban
automobiles. Roadkill animal deaths wouLd be acceptable. And they
would certainly not ban antibiotics! Look at the lives they've
saved!

    Certain trade-offs are allowed. And, of course, they never
meant for insects, rodents and reptiles to have free access to
their homes. Plus, everybody knows pets should always be
restrained and protected from eagles and coyotes. Packs of wild
dogs simply could not be tolerated in densely populated urban
areas.

    So what do the animal rights activists really want? In a
nutshell, they want the elimination of animal agriculture - pigs,
sheep, cattle, chicken and other poultry. They also want a total
ban on breeding of dogs and cats. What we're looking at is
"selective" animal rights.

    So how does one distinguish which animals have rights and
which don't? Easy they only have rights if they are being used by
people.

    Note, for real. Most of this article was actually printed in
a newsletter that I receive. AH.