[nagdu] PETA and their threats to our safety

[Peter Donahue]

Good evening everyone,

And holler "Fire" at the top of your lungs! Self defense and rape crisis 
management organizations recommend that one use the word "Fire" when they 
feel they're being threatened or attacked.

Peter Donahue



Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Gwizdak" <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 12:23 PM
Subject: [nagdu] PETA and their threats to our safety


Kolby,
There MUST be some kind of legal action you can take against those PETA
people?  They are directly endangering you and your safety - not to mention
the threats and harrassment which violates a few laws.  Can they be banned
from the campus or do you encounter these idiots on the streets in town?

At any rate it looks like legal action is in order.

Too bad I couldn't show you some self defence tecniques to use against these
idiots - to keep them arms length away from you and your dog so they can't
unhook your dog's leash.  If they are coming to harrass you, yell VERY
LOUDLY, "GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!" and put your hand up and straight out
towards them with your palm facing them. Make sure your body is facing them
squarely, look them firmly in the eye - yes, blind folks can do this.  Like
the "Stay" command we learn at guide dog school.  Make a real big scene -
you want to attract attention from passersby.  If there's no passersby,
you're in a more secluded place, avoid this.  If you can't, then you may
have to travel with other people for your safety.

Where are the Campus Police?  You have the right to safety - this is just
like when women are harassed by guys. Bottom line, Kolby, this behavior is
totally UNACCEPTABLE and you need to make it stop before something happens
to you and they are successful in taking Sunny away from you and you're left
alone on a street without a mobility aide.

PETA folks are a real danger and they don't fool around.  Members of this
group have bombed labs and have killed people and have had animals escape -
many of the sort that would pose a phsycal or medical threat to people and
pets.  They are zealots who have no caring at all for people or animals. I
have heard that they actually kill more animals in their shelters than
regular shelters do!  They are extremists who don't give a crap about the
welfare of animals - they just use animals to further whatever agenda they
have and it isn't pretty - no more than the Operation Rescue folks who bomb
clinics or murder doctors who perform abortions.

Kolby, take this seriously and do something about it NOW!  I wish you and
Sunny well.

Regards,

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kolby Garrison" <kolbygarrison at triad.rr.com>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'"
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] calling the program was researching programs


> Hello Jenine and All,
> I love you Jenine, because you get it. As a resident advisor in a
> residence
> hall on my college campus, I cannot stant it when residents come to me
> with
> complaints about other residents. My first question whenever I receive a
> complaint is have you addressed the issue with the person you are
> complaining about? Residents' responses the majority of the time are no. I
> usually tell them to address the issue with the person first, and talk to
> me
> about the issue again if the disruption does not cease. I also have had
> people from peta stop me while Sunny and I are out and about on campus and
> tell me how cruel I am to make that dog work for me. Peta people have
> threatened report me to animal control, have threatened to take Sunny away
> from me, have threatened to remove Sunny from her leash, have removed
> Sunny
> from her leash, or have lectured me about animal cruelty. The few times
> that
> they have removed Sunny from her leash, Sunny has stood beside me and
> looked
> up at me without moving a muscle. The few times that the peta person
> called
> her to come with them, she refused to move. I praised her for that one. I
> love how dogs know people better than humans do, and if Sunny is directly
> telling me that she does not like someone by putting herself between me
> and
> the person whom she does not like I listen to her. If only the peta people
> could see Sunny whenever she is out of harness, or if they could see her
> when I take her harness and leash off of the door knob where they hang.
> They
> would understand that she loves her job, and that she receives abundances
> of
> exercise, play, and love.
> Just my two cents worth,
> Kolby
>
>
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