THE PACT ACT

 Submitted by: Joseph Grisafi Jr

The PACT Act – An Overview. Its Consequences

I’m not going to explain the entire Act here. I just want to present some facts of what is behind this Act and some of its consequences. If you’re interested it can be found on-line. But this explanation should give you a brief overview about it. What I explain here was found in RANGE magazine, summer 2020 issue. For those unfamiliar with RANGE, it’s a magazine dedicated to western states about ranching, farming, property and animal management, and the way of life in the west. Many articles are about how our government attacks the ranchers and farmers and how the ranchers have to fight back against the onslaught. BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is a rogue agency out to confiscate land owned by the ranchers for generations. I’ve been reading this magazine for years and love its content.

Animal Rights groups are behind this bill. It was presented in a highly deceptive way allowing for its speedy progress through the House and Senate, and the eventual signing by POTUS.

The author of the bill is the Humane Society of the United States. This fact alone demonstrates the underlying motivation of this bill. It’s to further the animal rights agenda, not animal welfare as they hope the public believes.

Vague language allows for a wide spectrum of interpretation, especially when it comes to what is “customary and normal.” It leaves open very concerning and certainly vastly different interpretations for future changes.

According to the language of the bill the term ”animal crushing” means actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury.

Depending on the opinion of this vague language, farmers could end up becoming felons. Here’s how: Putting livestock in a squeeze chute to vet or to provide treatment for an ailment or injury could be considered CRUSH.  Branding livestock, which is means of identification – BURN. Neck roping a calf to doctor an injury in a pasture – SUFFOCATE. Applying ear tags to livestock – IMPALE. Home health care for household pets involving subcutaneous fluids or medication – IMPALE. This should concern all households with an animal – cat or dog or any other pet. An injection into your dog can make you and/or your Vet a felon.

In section 1365 the definition of bodily injury includes “impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty.” How do you interpret this? It is common animal rights tactic to anthropomorphize, which is applying human characteristics to animals. Castration is a standard animal care practice. Yes, it is. There are reasons for doing this. It obviously physically affects a “bodily member or organ”.

Animal rights groups were pushing this bill. Many were present at the signing. I will not list all the names. All these people at the signing were not members of the base that helped to get Trump elected. We can probably say none of them were Trump supporters.

There are already animal cruelty laws in place in all 50 states. This means that there are already set standards to go by. For example, would transportation of these “abused” animals across state lines make the list of potential felonies? This may interest livestock transporters.

The PACT Act passed through the House and the Senate with lightning speed. There was no opportunity for discussion or debate. This should concern every American who owns animals.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT – On October 16, 2019, the sponsor of HR 724, Rep. Deutch referred the PACT Act bill to the Consensus Calendar. A new rule effective this year for the 116^th Congressional Session. The Consensus Calendar removes an important legislative step. Representative Deutch’s action allowed the PACT Act to bypass any Committee hearings and move to the floor vote. (READ THIS AGAIN FOLKS. This is your congress at work to lie and deceive you. Both parties are complicit. Joe)

The process used to push the PACT Act through the Senate without debate is called “hotlining” and it raises as many red flags as this piece of animal rights sponsored legislation.

S479 was hotlined out of the Judiciary Committee to the Senate floor on November 5. At that time there were only one or two Senators present. The PACT Act was brought forward and passed with no vote because no one knew it was on the floor, and consequently there was no one to oppose the bill. This is the most deceptive way to pass a bill. How many others bills were passed using this deception? No doubt, many. Ultimately, the PACT Act then landed on President Trump’s desk in the course of two weeks, completely unnoticed by much of Washington, D.C. He subsequently signed it into law days later. (Where were his advisors? Did Trump have any idea what he was signing? Did he read it??? Even if you’re a Trumper, if you’re an American AND an animal owner/lover this should make you mad. SHOULD. Joe)

Everyone who owns animals should be extremely concerned with the next step – rulemaking. The rules are being written by the DOJ – people familiar with laws but not familiar with animal health and welfare. This law could have enormous implications on animal ownership and breeding in many ways. Since this is an Act and not a bill, it can be easily amended in the future.

Amendments can affect all animal owners. Two of our dogs had to be euthanized because of cancer. The Vet and us as owners could be felons. Cropping the ears can make you a felon. Slaughtering an animal after hunting could make you a felon. Vets can easily be felons. The Act would make us felons if the exemption list is amended. And some day “these people” will do what they can to make us all felons. They want to control our behavior. It’s not their love of animals; it’s their love of POWER AND CONTROL.

Who will decide what is “customary and normal”?