Please stop posting negative info

[Serpents_Den]

Yea but if enough of us keep pushing the truth someone has to listen eventualy .

Look at the 911 truth movement, they make a joke out of anyone that questions 911 so all in all killer pythons are coming to every US neighborhood unless they ban responsible owners from having such deadly creatures.

[Serpents_Den]

Yea but if enough of us keep pushing the truth someone has to listen eventualy .

We will only be listening to each other but the majority will buy the lies and not question a thing.

"They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."

[joepythons]

Well like they said yesterday this fight will never be over.One after another they are going to keep pecking at our industry.Its sad but i thought we lived in the "land of the free and the home of the brave".Why are these "other" people allowed to tell us what we can have or not .

[joepythons]

We will only be listening to each other but the majority will buy the lies and not question a thing.

"They must find it difficult... Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority."

Thats why the said we need to go out and talk to our neighbors and show them the truth.If we all talked to 1 person a day think how many minds we could change .Its all in the aproach we take

[Serpents_Den]

Well like they said yesterday this fight will never be over.One after another they are going to keep pecking at our industry.Its sad but i thought we lived in the "land of the free and the home of the brave".Why are these "other" people allowed to tell us what we can have or not .

That's how our government works they take away a little in small increments but when you look back 10 - 20 years you'll see how much we let them take. They'll never stop as long as we keep giving away our rights.

[Serpents_Den]

Thats why the said we need to go out and talk to our neighbors and show them the truth.If we all talked to 1 person a day think how many minds we could change .Its all in the aproach we take

If the 911 movement can't wake enough naive people up about 911 or the criminals running this country we certainly won't be able to do nothing about holding our rights to keep reptiles and it will continue to trickle till there is nothing more to give up.

Sad but true.

[MustBeSatan]

At last nights meeting at Tinley show they spoke about going on the offense side of our hobby instead of the defense.Instead of posting threads showing negative info we find in the local papers concerning reptiles.We should be showing the truth about our reptiles.When someone posts info they find its just giving those that dislike our reptiles more fuel to use against us.Yes majority of the stuff in the papers is false but those that believe everything printed dont know that.They also spoke about going to your local newspapers and giving them the truth about reptiles in a profesional manner.They also talked about educating your neighbors and community about the truth concerning our reptiles.If you can find scientific info on reptiles so people can read the truth it will also help.So what i am trying to say here is please only show the TRUTH about reptiles not uneducated info incorrectly given to our media .

I see a whole host of problems with this idea.

Just think about it for a second. They suggest we stop posting negative news articles on our site. The logic being that if we don't post negative news stories, the papers will have nothing to write about. So us not posting their stories, gives them less to write about? Is that what they're saying?

Anyone else see a design flaw there?

Also, lets be honest, what newspaper is going to publish a story about "Average guy sends email to news outlet about why snakes are less dangerous than we make boatloads of money telling you they are." They won't. I mean go ahead, try, but they won't.

It is critically important to be aware of what the other side is saying. It's important to know so that we can all form opinions; we need to be as educated as possible, so that when someone finds out you have snakes and says "Man, I read this article saying that..." You can say "Ah, yeah, I've seen articles like that... They got some of their information twisted, here's why..."

I guess what I really don't understand is how they expect that not posting threads on reptile forums will stop, slow, or otherwise make any difference in, the media from printing incorrect information. You think Fox or NBC give a rats rear end about BP.net? You think they run over to Kingsnake.com for their information? Somehow, I doubt it.

If they did, their information might be better.

If you guys (you guys being American herpers, obviously this decision doesn't have any real, immediate implications for me personally) want to defeat this bill, ignoring news about herps, be it good or bad, is the absolute last thing you should do. Get informed, know your stuff. Watch what you say and how you say it. VOTE. Vote twice. Register your pets as voters and vote for them. But don't ignore what's happening around you. That's step 1 of a great plan for losing your right to own herps.




**Note: I do not suggest or condone the submissing of false voter registration in order to alter election results.

[nixer]

i heard dan rather was a hybrid part burmese part human

[j_h_smith]

Here's a picture of my son receiving an award from the Civil Air Patrol. I downloaded it from the camera to my computer and when I looked at the picture on the computer, this is what I got.

Strange,
Jim Smith

[dsirkle]

Look at the 911 truth movement, they make a joke out of anyone that questions 911 so all in all killer pythons are coming to every US neighborhood unless they ban responsible owners from having such deadly creatures.