Dogfighting Ring Run Out of Daycare - Maywood Illinois

The names of the three individuals arrested are:

Martez Anderson, 38

Charles Sutton, 42

Lance Webb, 27

According to Martez Anderson, who was interviewed by a reporter the day of the raid,

"All these criminals out there and they are wasting the tax payer's money on this".

Here is a photo of Martez Anderson

When Martez Anderson's cell phone was reviewed a video showing a man burning a live dog to death.

Before I make any comments, I would like to share a couple of comments posted by individuals who responded to the report on YouTube.

First from someone who identifies himself (or herself) as VictoryCough. “Dogs are kept in cages, on leashes and forced into shows. Animals are property, we deal with them as such in the legal system. I find animal abuse morally repugnant, but for a state to be able to take away the life and liberty of an individual for fighting dogs? Dog fighting should be legal. Animals are property. Rights should be reserved for humans.”

Now from someone who identifies himself as swordofisis. “And when a canine makes a moving political statement like that on TV then Ill listen. otherwise you are anthropomorphizing and believing that something is true because you think it is or should be. We should bar-b-q those mutts on the flames of a thousand bibles and serve them up as free "Hot Dogs!" for the homeless.”

OK, what is MY reply to VictoryCough and swordofisis?

PROPERTY???!!!! These two individuals are apparently as defective as Martez Anderson, Charles Sutton, and Lance Webb.

Dogs have the same sensory nervous system as humans. Why don't we tear the flesh from the above individuals then staple their skin back on.

And fear? Do these people actually BELIEVE animals don't experience fear? . . .

"One without inner strength must show their strength through domination and destruction."

Dog fighting is abuse. Abuse, whether it is human or animal is abuse. Inflicting fear & pain is abuse. Animals feel the same pain we feel. It is also a documented fact that those who abuse animals also abuse their spouses & children. Illinois just signed into law that when animal abuse is discovered within a home that the authorities are to also investigated child abuse, & vise versa. It should also be noted that when houses that are raided for dog fighting, drugs & weapons are also found.

The law is changing on companion animals being considered "property". A sign of a society that is becoming advanced. Anyone who has no empathy for the pain of others is a sociopath. A sociopath is defective. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be changed. They are a danger to ALL other life. Laws are set in place because there ARE those in society who cannot & will not respect anything that doesn't make them feel good. They will inflict pain, suffering, & death with no remorse.

Yes, these people SHOULD be locked away from society. If not, how about letting them buy the house next to, or move into the apartment next to, VictoryCough, swordofisis, the defense attorneys who defend them, and the judges who allow them to walk among us.

These are evil people, and anyone who defends their actions apparently are also incapable of feeling the pain and fear that these innocent animals go through. I ask, what in the hell is wrong with those who think it is fine to allow such heinous atrocities to continue?

In MOST of these animal abuse cases people like these get no jail time. The defense attorneys find some loop hole and they are set free, or they get suspended sentences, or they get supervision. THAT is our legal system. Animals ARE still considered "property" in our legal system.

When are the “caring” humans that are outraged going to stand up and say: “No more, enough is enough”.

"To ignore and do nothing is to condone." And you may quote me.

Here is the YouTube video from the day of the raid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS8aptp-Fd8

Here is the follow-up story from the day of the bond hearing: http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/09/dogfighting-maywood-cook-county-sheriff-police-court-bond.html

Michael Vick signs with the Philadelphia Eagles

Michael Vick has shown NO remorse. His “lip service” is empty of emotion. Michael Vick is a sociopath. Classic example. Sociopaths will say and do whatever it takes to get what they want, and he wants to play football, make his money back, and get the admiration of millions of fans.

Has anyone seen one tear of pain he “feels” for the pain he caused? No. His eyes are empty of empathy, so why are so may people “feeling” empathy for him? If he had tortured and killed children in the fashion he tortured and killed innocent animals would these FANS be whooping it up and cheering his so called “rehabilitation”?

Michael Vick is defective and the powers of the Philadelphia Eagles that are responsible of giving this man the ability to be a role model are guilty of trading morality for their greed of wealth.

On Sunday, November 22, 2009, at 7:30 P.M. the Philadelphia Eagles will be here in Chicago to play the Bears. I will be demonstrating at Soldier Field. Will I be alone? Who will, stand up to not only the outrageous atrocity the Ph Eagles are perpetrating against morality, but also are the fact the Philadelphia Eagles are thumbing their noses and laughing at the lack of strength in the American legal system, and show Michael Vick’s that we know WHAT he really is.

Oh, by the way Mr. Benjamin Todd Jealous of the NAACP, this is NOT a racial thing, so your time would better spent on causes that could actually benefit from your attention.

What this Michael Vick sick fiasco does have, however, is the foul stench of a Sport’s Figure Elitism and the need to acquire as much of the Almighty Buck as possible at any cost. . . . Even your soul.

Man who beat, poisoned Allegan dog is sent to jail

by John Tunison | The Grand Rapids Press

Friday September 04, 2009, 11:53 AM

Jason Allen Williams also was ordered to pay $2,359 in restitution, placed on two years probation and cannot own animals without supervision during his probation.ALLEGAN -- A 23-year-old Grandville man who once worked for a dog day care center was sentenced today to 45 days in jail for trying to kill his dog by feeding it anti-freeze and beating the animal while it hung from its leash.

Williams was arrested in November after a neighbor of his residence, then in Dorr Township, saw him beating the dog while it hung from its leash over a tree branch.

Williams' attorney, Craig Haehnel, blamed his client's behavior in part on psychological problems that put Williams in a mental facility for a short period before the November beating. Williams was supposed to be on medication, he said, but had stopped taking it.

Chance's new adoptive owner spoke briefly before Allegan County Circuit Judge George Corsiglia.Several supporters of Wishbone Pet Rescue, which nursed the dog back to health and renamed him Chance, were in court today to watch the sentence.

"People like you cannot do this to dogs. You cannot do this to any animal," he said, only revealing his first name, Brian, in court.

Prosecutors and Wishbone officials say Williams once worked as a trainer at a dog camp.

Williams apologized today, saying he had no justification for what he did.

"I truly did love that dog, even though my actions didn't show it," he said. "There is not a moment that goes by that my life has not been filled with shame and regret."

More: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/09/man_who_beat_poisoned_allegan.html

Do I REALLY have to AGAIN add MY comment to this inexcusable behavior? AND AGAIN my outrage at a ridiculously absurd and pitiful sentence of 45 days? If this had been a child would he be getting out in 45 days? . . . Well, maybe so. After all our justice system HAS been turned over to the loop hole finding public defenders and defense attorneys who don't care about how many victims there are, but only how clever they themselves can be.

Oh, and OF COURSE homage must be given to those Judges without balls who use their "discretion" to allow these criminals back out to destroy more lives.

Ossia M. Phillips, Atlanta, sentenced to 10 years for dog fighting

"An Atlanta man is going to prison for 10 years for running what police call a major dogfighting operation."

My hat is off to you Judge Stephanie Manis. Hurray for you!!!!!

"33 year old Ossia Phillips pleaded guilty in Fulton County Superior Court to 15 counts of dogfighting and 2 counts of aggravated animal cruelty.

In December 2007, police found 15 pit bulls and the bodies of several more, behind Phillips' property in Ben Hill.

A fighting ring was found in the woods behind the house."

Source: WSB Radio - Sept 4, 2009

To read more, cut and paste this link into your browser. (Clicking on it will not get you there.) : http://www.pet-abuse.com/cases/12841/GA/US/RSS/

NOW . . . My question is why can't Chicago prosecute like this????

Eh, Judge Carothers of Branch 46th at 555 W. Harrison, room 304??????

Want info on her? . . . http://www.illinoisjudges.net/profile_sub07_carothers_bio.pdf

Did everyone get that name? JUDGE CAROTHERS. (Yep, for those here in Chicago, she is related to THAT Alderman Isaac (Ike) Carothers.)

This Judge Carothers has a very bad habit of being soft, and even throwing out, animals abuse cases. (By the way, she is also lenient on drug cases.) Maybe we should note at this time that she started her career as a public defender, and her career then proceeded into years of being a Defense attorney.

Example, just last week Judge Carothers found "No probably cause" for the arrest of someone who had 16 counts of Owner's Duties and 16 counts of Cruel Treatment. (That means there were 16 dogs found.) Yes, dog fighting.

Judge Carothers allowed this person to walk even though neighbors reported them, the officers, upon arriving at their residence, smelled foul urine coming out of the residence, AND the defendant LET the officers into the residence where they found these dogs. Unfortunately, even though these dog fighters, these heinous cruel excuses for human beings, tortured and killed animals, their names cannot be disclosed because of . . . thank you very much Judge Carothers.

Does anyone believe these neanderthal beings will stop their torture and murder of innocent life? No they will not, thank you Judge Carothers.

And thank you Judge Carothers for showing others who torture and kill for fun and profit that the system will work in their favor.

My suggestion for this CHICAGO Judge? . . . Well, besides that. . . . Send her to traffic court.

Keith Middleton - accused of throwing girlfriend's dog against a door

Keith Middleton became jealous as his girlfriend was talking on the phone. He picked up her little 4 pound dog, Gizmo, and flung him across the room and into a door. Gizmo’s injuries required the little three year old dog to be euthanized.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/02/man-accused-of-throwing-girlfriends-dog-against-door.html

Keith Middleton has a history of violent behavior and is currently remanded in Cook County Jail. Is he remanded for the murder of Little Gizmo? No. He is remanded on assault charges against a human. Assault. Not murder.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Keith Middleton should have been locked away from civilized society years ago, but our current laws have been watered down and revised to the point victims are the minor spoke in the wheel of justice.

Political correctness has taken over all good sense and has made is possible for slick sociopathic lawyers and misplaced bleeding heart public defenders to manipulate through the many loop holes now awarded them.

The next court date for Keith Middleton is Monday, September 28, 2009 at 26th and California, room 302. Chicago, IL. [SEE BELOW FOR UPDATE - TRIAL] Court begins at 9:30, however there is always a long line of lawyers for all the other cases scheduled to be heard that day (as all days) asking for continuance after continuance before a trial will begin . . if a trial will begin. More times than not, the defense attorney will think of some new question on a piece of evidence that will again call for yet another court date in order for the judge to rule on that motion.

So what is the reason for all these continuances? Prolonging cases will hopefully tire out the witnesses, and in the misdemeanor courts, if the arresting officer doesn’t appear for one of the hearings, the case is simply dismissed.

Fortunately, in Middleton’s case, this cannot happen. He is up on felony charges. Middleton’s PRIVATE attorney is a mouthy, vainglorious, short woman who speaks incorrect English and walks around a lot making her presence known. Not that this has any barring on the case, per-say, but I am still disgustingly puzzled why anyone would want to defend these people. Now, wait, I am NOT saying that they shouldn’t be REPRESENTED, but in the cases that the attorneys KNOW their client is guilty of these heinous acts, how can they sleep at night conscious of their premeditated role of purposely contributing to the pain and destruction their clients will continue inflicting once they are set free?

Case in point, in one of the misdemeanor courts in Chicago there is a man (will not name him because he was not in the media) who was arrested for nine counts of cruelty and owner’s duties. All dogs were impounded. Well, not all. One was dead. “Cruelty” and “owner’s duties” could mean a lot of things. Nine dogs, one dead. Think he was dogfighting? Think? His PRIVATE attorney is trying to get the search warrant thrown out. Note, this is occurring in MISDEMEANOR court. That means if the search warrant is thrown out, then the man will go free.

First of all, killing an animal should NOT be considered a misdemeanor. So that alone is a travesty. Now to the lawyer who wants to show society that we just have to learn to live among defective humans doing grotesque things to us and those we love. . . . I want to ask this lawyer a question: “Would you want your client to move in the house next to you and your family?”

Oh, but I get off the subject of Keith Middleton and the murder of Gizmo? No, because this is the convoluted mess that must be waded through in order to finally just have the subject of Gizmo’s memory resurrected. Pulled out of the dusty vault from behind boxes of continuances, lawyer tricks, lost paperwork, and over-worked Assistant States Attorneys.

Will the murder of Gizmo ever come to trial? Not if Middleton’s pompous little lawyer has anything to say about it.

My prediction. Before Middleton’s bench trial for assault of a human even begins, deals will be made for a plea on the assault charges, thus shortening the length of a trial, loosening up the case load on the judge, and saving tax payers money, if the state will dismiss the inconsequential act of viciously, intentionally, hurling a little 4 pound dog against a door. And another perk to all this? Less jail time for Middleton. After all, the prisons are over crowded. Must make room for the next one.

Surprise me. Prove me wrong.

UPDATE:

- On September 22, 2009 the (bench) trial began on the battery charge. It will proceed Monday, September 28 at 26th and California, room 302. Chicago, IL. At the conclusion of this trial a motion will be heard for status on the murder of Gizmo. -

WAY TO GO JOE

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona - No-kill animal shelter

http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetModule&mn=Mash

Now, THIS man is an example of the common sense morality that the rest of the country needs to adopt.  

The following is from www.snopes.com

"Sheriff Joe Arpaio was instrumental in the opening of the Maricopa Animal Safe Hospice (MASH), a no-kill animal shelter operated by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in what was formerly Phoenix's First Avenue Jail. The MASH is a facility dedicated to caring for rescued animals that have been abused or neglected (as well as temporarily caring for the pets of owners who have checked into domestic violence shelters):

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's no-kill animal shelter, MASH, was created to house and care for animals that have been abused or neglected by their caretakers and rescued by the Animal Cruelty Investigative Unit. The purpose of the shelter is to provide a safe, healthy and healing shelter for these tragic animals, who must necessarily await the outcome of their owners' cruelty cases in court. Hopefully, their ultimate outcome will be adoption into loving, permanent homes. 

The first shelter opened by Sheriff Arpaio is in the First Avenue Jail, located at First Avenue and Madison Street, Phoenix, Arizona. This 30-year-old jail previously held inmates, but was closed for repairs to plumbing in December 1999. Though no longer suitable for housing inmates, the jail looks like paradise to the four-footed victims now housed and recovering there. 

The MASH location in the First Avenue Jail is air-conditioned, and the cells have been reconditioned to comfortably house animals."

A Boost For Puppy Mills

And you have Obama to thank.  

For all his lip service about adopting from a shelter, Barack Obama accepted a Portuguese water dog as a gift from one of his Kennedy buddies.  Am I surprised? Not in the least.  Ah, but wait, it’s OK because this dog was returned by it’s first purchaser.

That makes it all better.

Someone said to me that she thought the kids “were allergic to most breeds, and this breed is safe”.

I want these kids tested for allergies.  I want this dog tested.

When Disney released the live film version of 101 Dalmatians, a run on Dalmatian puppies soon followed.  Most of the purchasers of these Dalmatians never investigated the temperament of Dalmatians, or how these dogs would fit into their families.  It was the breed of the moment.  The breed their little darling kids wanted.  The breed that people would acknowledge as the owners proudly walked their spotted trophies. 

This rush to be “in” lead to many unwanted dogs.

Want to make some money?  Puppy mills are going to have a money making field day with this.  Don’t think this is going to happen?  Think again.

Portuguese water dogs have already started to be bred in masses as I write this.  The so called legitimate breeders will have a hard time keeping up with the demand.  Those who miss out on the supply of Portuguese water dogs from the breeders, or can’t afford the price the breeders are asking, will flood the the pet stores in search of the President’s dog.  Supply and demand is the greedy puppy mill’s greatest ally. 

Puppy mills are cheering you Mr. President. . . . .  

And for those who believe the President has more important things on his plate than setting an example for his children and making a statement about the lack of concern for pet overpopulation and the millions of companion animals that are euthanized each year . . .  

The Kennedy family apparently agrees.

But I’m sure this is no surprise to Mary Jo Kopechne.

“Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.”  ~Albert Schweitzer