Fido's testicals at risk!

When a country is in revolution, I heard in a novel about Liberia recently, you should flee when they shoot your dogs. In America, I think the rule we should use, because we say that we are a civilized nation, is slightly different. We should flee when they overregulate our dogs. Americans, we are barking at the heels of fasicsm.

I stumbled across this little article today in the La Canada, California, newspaper. (See this link for the complete story http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2006/05/18/news/lnws-dogs0518.txt I will parabark it for you, though, for time-saving purposes.

In their ultimate wisdom and with so much time on their hands to tackle truly weighty issues such as dog birth control, citizens of La Canada along with apparently all other cities and towns in Los Angeles County, are now forced to either spay or neuter their dogs by the age of four months.

The bill was orginally drafted to control the breeding of Rotties and pit bulls, but was later amended at the suggestion of county counsel (we should turn loose the dogs on attorneys) to include all dogs. There are certain exceptions, such as assistance dogs or purebreds who compete (the AKC has done more to ruin breeds in America than any twenty organizations combined, so they should be the ones forced to spay or neuter their disease-ridden, temperament defective show dogs), but essentially, no matter what the dog owner's personal preference, a dog must be spayed or neutered.

I remember in college one of my English professors warning his wide-eyed students of the erosion of our civil liberties. I listened, but didn't understand the impact of what he was saying until many years later. He had a friend, an old river boat captain, who used to tell him "Buddy, you don't know what freedom is." In a few years and at the rate we're going, we definitely won't.

I remember when I lived in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, the County Board of Stupidvisors, in their ultimate lack of wisdom, debated forcibly implanting birth control in welfare mothers if they wanted to keep receiving welfare benefits. I wrote a scathing letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, which they refused to publish. "How do they think these women get pregnant," I asked rhetorically, "with a turkey baster?" The same legislators that run headlong to legislate morality as they hastily zip up their zippers are the same ones who probably don't think twice about frequenting strip clubs or calling an escort service. Those are the perks of the rich white mainly paternal and if female, mainly co-opted ruling class.

Now, they've turned to dogs. Supervisor Mike Antonovich originated the measure. Here is his email form to complete and return: http://antonovich.co.la.ca.us/forms/index.html#email%20address I'm emailing him, not that he will give a hoot, but please, if you are tired of government intrusion in your lives, write to him and keep writing to him and to others who trample your civil liberties. We are all sliding toward a regulated hell on earth, but at least, slide down barking!

Aren't there some meatier issues the Stupidvisors could sink their teeth into, such as controlling our bleeding borders? No, they won't make any meaningful strides on this contentious issue because it requires taking a stand, something no politician, John McCain especially included in this assessment as he panders to the right-wing so-called Moral Majority, the modern-day Pharisees, will do. They are spineless, too afraid to alienate a perceived "constituency."

It boils down to this. There are too many real problems in America that aren't being addressed to waste time intruding in people's personal lives, or the lives of their canine companions. Whether our federal government is busy collecting our telephone records at our expense, or a County Board of Idiots is legislating a dog's testicles, it is time Americans said enough. We need to sweep the plate clean. Maybe instead of www.electnolawyers.com, we should start www.electnofascists.com.