The Grimm Truth

Civilization Comes To The C-9 Basin

Jeanette Jordan, president of the South Florida SPCA responded to my column on the outrages long tolerated in the C-9 Basin.

    The answer to your question about defeating blood sport in our community is “yes.”

     The thirty-year long party in the C9 basin is over for good.  The reason?  Too many people now know what is going on and are outraged by the degradation of our precious wetlands not to mention the horrific animal abuses involved in dog fighting, cock fighting and illegal slaughter.

    The first time I actually visited the C9 Basin was in July, 2009 to see with my own eyes and to document the corpse of “Linda,” a beautiful Quarter Horse mare stolen, slaughtered and burned in front of her own foal, at Stone City.  After I got over the sick feeling and shock of the dead horse and seeing her stunned, confused baby still trying to nurse on his dead mother, I looked around and wondered what woe-begotten, hideous, Third World country I had landed in.

    Up until then, South Florida SPCA had been documenting the 20+ horse carcasses showing up on our roads, byways and even in their own stalls.  Had been that is until it became too big and too dangerous for us to continue. There are some really bad actors involved in these activities.  Death threats are not something I could tolerate on behalf of my organization.

    We withdrew.  Luckily, the gauntlet was taken up by our former board member, Richard “Kudo” Couto, now founder of A.R.M (Animal Recovery Mission), by law enforcement and the many government agencies involved in cleaning up the unholy mess in the C9.

 Last, but not least, the media – local, state, national and international, print, TV, radio and Internet are all keeping an eye on the C9 Basin.  Let the evil-doers  lawyer up, demonstrate and make all the phone calls they want. The dirty little secret of the C9 Basin is out now and I have full confidence that our elected officials will not cave.

This stain on the reputation of the legal and proper agricultural businesses in our beautiful Florida will be soon be gone and with good riddance.

Another South Florida writer adds her own lament:

 Moved to West Palm Beach --  a game bird breeder poisons my oldest, sweetest dog.  Moved back to Princeton, the neighbor has eleven big dogs in cages in plain sight, tethered pit bulls, with brutal, horrific screams emanating from this little boarded up house.

The police and animal services are letting the U.S. Constitution get in their way.  Everyone shrugs while these people brutalize dogs day and night.  I run my outdoor fan to drown out their screams.

Crimes of this nature are far more damaging than property theft.  This continuous torture has taken away my freedom and my peace.  I do not know what to do. You go as far as the law allows and the criminal continues laughing

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A Super Lobbyist Displays His Super Ego

              This American Life, the NPR show that airs Saturday and again Sunday mornings on WLRN, this week featured a segment on the Julia Tuttle Causeway and the sex offender camp that festered in its bowels for more than two years. 

Most Miamian’s are, by now, aware of the contradictions and the ironies and the policies-gone-amok that created that mess. But the NPR show, reported by former New Times writer  Isaiah Thompson, offers a stunning performance of the self-styled super lobbyist Ron Book. It is a study in unapologetic megalomania as Book both defends the dodge logic behind the sex offender residency laws he invented and the Napoleon-like power the unelected campaign money bag man wields in this community.  It makes for stunning listening.

The link:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/407/the-bridge

For Being Utterly Unconvincing, McCollum Slipped Rekers Another Sixty Grand

As it turns out, George Rekers, the anti-gay professor of behavior science, caught flouncing around Europe with a gay prostitute, made paid much more than $60,900 from the office of Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum. Rekers provided the “expert” testimony in McCollum’s courtroom defense of Florida’s prohibition against gay adoption.  For that unconvincing expertise, he was paid a total of $120,693.

For its $120,693, the Attorney General’s office got testimony that Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman found was “motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science. Based on his testimony and demeanor at trial, the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.”

The link to the Florida’s payment to its anti-gay vendor:

    http://flair.myfloridacfo.com/approot/dispub2/cvphsrch.htm