Welcome to the jungle … we’ve got fun & games. They claim they’re saving animals but politics pulls the reins. (Apologies to Guns n Roses, I got carried away for a moment)
Its amazing how this story just keeps on rolling, and its really the Humane Society of the United States that is driving it. A cone of silence continues to descend over the original WSB-TV story on HSUS fundraising practises that continues to support the rumor of the unleashing of the HSUS legal team on WSB-TV for their researched & fact-supported story.
As I previously mentioned, the original story been removed from the WSB-TV website. When I wrote to WSB-TV that I was saddened to see the story removed from their website, I received the following response. A response that has been sent out to others who wrote in to WSB-TV over their disappointment as seeing the story vanish from view.
“Thank you for writing to Talk2Us. We appreciate hearing that you were engaged by the report about HSUS. We put up and pull down stories as part of our daily editorial process. We are working on an additional story about HSUS. – WSB-TV”
Its an odd response. How often does a network pull a story after less than 24hrs where the viewing is accelerating and the comments are still being logged at a rapid pace. (mostly supporting the article I might add. I have copies of the comments, just in case this is contested) Furthermore, the Youtube copies of the WSB-TV video have all been taken down by WSB-TV request through a copyright claim. Funny thing though, at last my count there were 254 Youtube video links that were WSB-TV video. Yet the video that they have taken down is the one with the HSUS investigation? Considering the current evidence, I fear a much less accurate follow up. I hope to be wrong.
David Martosko of the Center of Consumer Freedom has not been immune from the attacks either. Alot of people on Twitter were surprised to find that his accounts had been suspended for “Suspicious Activity”, allegedly at the behest of the HSUS. Given that (a) his Twitter activity does not appear to violate Twitter terms of service and (b) the Humane Society Twitter users have the ability to block his messages if they don’t want to see them, it is difficult to interpret this as anything but a message that the HSUS doesn’t want anyone one Twitter to be able to see his messages.
I’ve been noticing a significant amount of activity on this website as well, with a minimum of 15 visits from the Humane Society of the United States server this morning already. They are spending a lot of time on the two most previous blog articles as well as on the About AR-HR page. I’ve publicly asked (via Twitter) if there is something in particular that they are looking for, but have not yet received a response
The usual recommendation to corporations facing this kind of media is to ignore it, since attempting to make it go away usually makes the process worse. I’m becoming increasingly curious why they are actively choosing to forego this normal, and wise, course of action. Why is fighting to make it seem like this report never happened SO important to them up to the very highest levels?
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In case your last question wasn’t rhetorical, the answer is that when you are engaged in the Big Lie you have to constantly “correct history” as Winston Smith was tasked with doing in George Orwell’s “1984.”
Interesting that YouTube is now claiming that the WSB-TV HSUS report “is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Georgia Television Co. d/b/a WSB-TV” If this were the case, why are there 241 other WSB video reports on YouTube?
They, the H$U$, are trying to make the whole thing “go away” like it never was, but ha ha, thousands of us saw the story on the internet, and on the news. You cannot fully remove history, not from the minds of those who already know every word was true….
Yep, big Humane Society of the United States money and threatening a law suit was surely the case here. Even though they stated facts, the station had to weigh attorney costs to clear their name vs. dropping the story. This is a typical strategy for HSUS: Break every organization down by taking legal action or threatening to do so. Even if you are by-the-book and in your rights to do so, HSUS will file a law suit not to win but to intimidate you in bowing to their will. HSUS has dozens of well paid attorneys on staff just for this purpose. So why does the press refrain from pursuing such stories? How many 10 to 100’s of thousands of dollars will it cost us to get this story out and win our case? Sounds a bit like Scientology doesn’t it? Scare everyone with legal action if you say something against us. Keep it up HSUS, the government is itching to tax your $300,000,000 in the bank. And better yet, retroactively. You may have pulled the story but you really screwed up by doing so. The world is watching you even closer now.
Wow. I was notified of this story by a friend who told me that the HSUS would probably kill it before I had a chance to view the video.
What are these people trying to hide?
They don't want their tin cans to roll away before they have a chance to kill off all of mankinds domastic animals. Read for yourself! http://www.pet-law.com/future/whatis.html
Guess H$U$ isn’t as powerful as they wish. You can still see the video at http://www.gopitbull.com/general-discussion/13879-abc-news-atlanta-expose-hsus-donations.html