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Grand jury indicts alleged assailants of humane investigator Steve Hindi

February 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton 12 Comments

Hindi beaten, drone destroyed, while trying to videotape site of suspected cockfight             IRONTON, Ohio––A Lawrence County,  Ohio grand jury on February 23,  2021 indicted suspects James V. “Bub” Newcomb II,  53,  of Waterloo,  Ohio,  and distant Newcomb neighbor Shannon Lee Clark,  35,  on multiple felony counts originating in a January 3,  2021 alleged assault […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Pacific rim, Philippines, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Becki Newcomb, James V. Newcomb II, Marty Bentley, Merritt Clifton, Shannon Lee Clark, Steve Hindi

Enforcing anti-cruelty laws proves harder than passing them

February 9, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Who enforces “victories” won by the Humane Society of the United States?  Stop Animal Exploitation Now, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness, & the Humane Farming Association are trying.             SALT LAKE CITY,  LEXINGTON,  BOSTON––Some animal advocacy organizations with multi-million-dollar-a-year-plus incomes attract donors by the hundreds of thousands through winning passage of laws that they then […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Chimps & other primates, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Eggs, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Lab animals, Laws & politics, Meat issues, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, Science, USA Tagged With: Darren Stapleton, Karen Budkie, Maura Healey, Merritt Clifton, Michael Budkie, Paul Shapiro, Robert Gibbens, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Alleged cockfighters who attacked Steve Hindi identified by ANIMALS 24-7 and tipster

January 6, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

New suspect named Suspects were videotaped in the act of committing an array of apparent state,  local,  and federal offenses.             WATERLOO, Ohio––Showing Animals Respect & Kindness [SHARK] at 9:35 a.m. west coast time on January 5,  2021 posted video of alleged cockfighters violently assaulting SHARK founder Steve Hindi two days earlier,  destroying SHARK equipment, […]

Filed Under: Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Beth Clifton, James V. “Bubba” Newcom II, Merritt Clifton, Newcomb Game Farm, Ohio Game Bird Association, Rebecca “Becki” Newcomb, Scott Aldridge, Shannon L. Clark, Steve Hindi

Investigators survive ambush attack at alleged cockfight in Ohio

January 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi is bloodied & drone lost in Wayne National Forest––a federal jurisdiction             WATERLOO, Ohio––Ambushed by at least four alleged assailants while sending a Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) drone aloft to videotape the crowd at what he told ANIMALS 24-7 was by far the biggest cockfight […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & standards, Poultry, Sports, USA Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Pinemountain Game Club, Steve Hindi, Waterloo Wonders, Wayne National Forest

How Henry Bergh threw pigeons to the dogs for the next 150+ years

November 17, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

ASPCA founder Henry Bergh hated pigeon shooters,  except when he wanted something from them Henry Bergh,  who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866,  might have perfectly understood Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi’s frustration,  expressed on November 14,  2020 in his ANIMALS 24-7 guest column “Talk […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bats, Birds, Birds, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Ernest Freeberg, James Gordon Bennett, Merritt Clifton, Robert Roosevelt, Steve Hindi, Theodore Roosevelt

Talk can’t stop pigeon-shooting psychopaths, by Steve Hindi

November 14, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Why is Showing Animals Respect & Kindness alone in fighting pigeon shoots? [Guest columnist Steve Hindi founded Showing Animals Respect & Kindness,  https://sharkonline.org/,  in 1992.] The cowardly psychopaths of the Philadelphia Gun Club,  located in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, began their slaughter season on Friday the thirteenth of November 2020,  shooting emaciated,  dehydrated live pigeons tossed out […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Birds, Birds, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Opinion, Opinions & Letters, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Heidi Prescott, HSUS, Humane Society of the U.S., Philadelphia Gun Club, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Black man killed by police dog; white man threatened by cop caught at cockfight

October 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Public records requests reveal how cops killed Joseph Lee Pettaway;  threatened Steve Hindi MANCHESTER, Kentucky;  MONTGOMERY, Alabama––“White privilege,”  in parts of the rural South,  could be defined as being able to find out through public records requests that corrupt and sadistic cops might want to kill you before they actually do it. This,  anyhow,  appears […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Dog attacks, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Laws & politics, Police & military, Training, USA, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Alexandra Semyonova. Merritt Clifton, Logan Wolfe, Niara Savage, Patrick Robinson, Steve Hindi, Trent Baker, Yvonne Pettaway-Frazie

Cockfighter Cozad missed chance to hide behind U.N. “Agenda 21”

September 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

BL Cozad garbled Bible & U.S. Constitution             MORGANTOWN, Kentucky––If cockfighting advocate BL “Billy” Cozad had ever actually read the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit Agenda 21,  instead of blindly denouncing it,  he might have found that certain passages in it better support his arguments than anything he misquoted and misrepresented from the Bible and […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: BL Cozad Jr., Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stu Chaifetz

Wildfires, COVID-19, & cockfighting besiege Monterey County

August 29, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Cockfighting may be accelerant behind COVID-19 explosion MONTEREY, California––The 50,000-acre River wildfire,  destroying at least 13 homes,  and the 7,000-acre Carmel wildfire,  razing 50 homes,  reportedly forced the evacuation of more than 500 animals to the SPCA for Monterey County shelter during the fourth week of August 2020––and then forced the animals’ re-evacuation to the […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Javier Morales Vaca, John Ramirez, Merritt Clifton, Ramon Villegas, Royal Calkins, Steve Hindi

Pro-cockfighting rally draws fewer participants than local cockfights

August 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Apathy thwarts “Call To Action BBQ” VERBENA, Alabama––One inept attempt to rally nationwide support for cockfighting,  convened on short notice amid a global pandemic,  scarcely means the multi-million-dollar cockfighting industry is unraveling,  protected as it is by “good old boys” in legislatures and law enforcement. But that fewer people rallied in defense of cockfighting on […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal fighting, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Chickens, Cockfighting, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Poultry, Religion & philosophy, USA Tagged With: Brenda Schory, Brent Easterling, Jim Collins, John Shearon, Mario Maldonado, Merritt Clifton, Steve Hindi, Stuart Chaifetz

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