Bob Abbey’s BLM “Horse Harvesting” Machine Continues to Roll

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Now if the BLM used half way humane methods of rounding up horses, perhaps we all wouldn’t have sat up and noticed and gotten this outraged.  Using a contractor that has been convicted of killing wild horses? Using Walmart bag whip sticks instead of natural horsemanship? Stuffing scared wild horses in trucks and driving them for hours right after they ran for miles and miles? Rounding them up in the middle of foaling season, in the middle of extreme temperatures?

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Guest Op-Ed by Simone Netherlands of Respect4Horses.com

From the highway it is a beautiful sight. A giant blue lake, with greenery all around and the desert mountains behind it in the stark blue summer sky. Its hard to take your eyes off of the scenery, so be careful driving. Far off in the distance you can barely make out some moving dots next to the lake. They are easily mistaken for a large herd of cows, many blacks and some whites and greys. But they are definitely not cows, they are a most magnificent herd of wild and free roaming horses living in a most spectacular peace of nature, still untouched by man.

Kudo, (founder of Animal Recovery Mission in Miami, working to close the horrendous illegal slaughter farms there) and myself, (founder of Respect4horses in Arizona), have decided to temporarily veer off of our main courses a bit to join forces and go document the wild horse roundups in Twin Peaks, CA. As we are driving on the road towards Fallon, where we want to visit the broken arrow holding facility, we noticed the lake and the dots along side of it and we decide to turn around, just to check in case they might be horses. I am so glad that we did.

WildHorse@BLM.gov: Fact or more BLM Fiction

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(In My Humble Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart“

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Last week the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fell right off from the radar screen.  Besides conducting their murderous and heinous crimes on private property, so that the press and taxpaying public cannot observe, they turned off virtually every form of electronic communication.  It all fit the pattern of cloak and dagger, dark and dirty acts needing to be concealed and of course; they are not only above the law but well beyond being burdened with any fair and honest public opinion.  So it came as no surprise to me that their paranoia continued to grow.

Then a mass email from one Debbie Collins, an alleged member of the “BLM WH&B Team”, entered the fray and Ms. Collins used the email address of wildhorse@blm.gov.

The content of Ms. Collins’ email was so outlandish and inaccurate, as per the BLM’s own numbers, that it demanded a response so I gave in and actually ran out of steam after answering just two of her erroneous and incorrect statements.  So I sent the following email to the above address: 

R.T. Fitch rt@rtfitch.com

07/28/2010Subject: The Public Tide has turned Against You 

Lots of questions out there and no one is buying your hype as your actions negate your words.

BLM’s Bob Abbey Dances with the Truth and Drops the Ball AGAIN

 

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(In My Humble Opinion) by R.T. Fitch ~ author of “Straight from the Horse’s Heart“

“Unfortunately, between the BLM’s high priced publicity agents and attorneys the judge and the public were fed a cock and bull story about how the horses were dying of thirst and had to be “rescued”.  They did not need to be rescued the week before, the month before or whenever but just during the hearing, they were in danger.  (Of course, the BLM had sold off all of the water rights and has allowed private fences to be erected around water sources so that wildlife has no access but what the hay, it’s been like that since 1916).”

People Who Live In Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones!

Today Director Bob Abbey, Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), issued a statement which in a nutshell says that the “BLM’s goal is to enable healthy horses and burros to thrive on public lands”.  In the real world I would love to believe those words but the reality of the matter is that the statement is as far from the truth as is the freedom of 38,000 wild horses held in pens with no hope of living out their normal lives.

His statement is inserted in its entirety, below, and instead of going over and rebutting each and every word it is far better to simply state that the BLM has been in the business of using and abusing wild horses for decades.  The spirit of the law no longer applies to Mr. Abbey as is evident in the events of just the last several months.

Abbey, himself, cannot even get his numbers straight with against the latest press release from his own agency.  We have been reporting for the past year that the BLM does not have a clue as to how many horses are located on the public lands yet they continue to hand out grazing permits to private cattle owners so that the horses are so far out numbered that the going ratio is at least 50 to 1 in favor of the cows.