ISSUE 6 EDITORIAL
By Claudette Vaughan

This is not the New Age. This is the Old Age. An age where ghouls, disbelievers, and headhunters exist. This an age where murder is rife and witchcraft dominants. This is an age where those who will hurt the abolitionist animal rights movement have already moved to do so. Religion has yet to find its feet. All is still slavery.

Our intention in producing this sixth issue is to open up the field of serious discussion on religion, non-speciesism and where it currently is at with the animal rights movement. We have striven to keep things as close as possible to the original source without becoming creative with scripture or fanciful about it.

If this issue leaves you with only one new thought, let it be this one.

Whether we have loved or not, given our time on this planet, we believe this is the initiation of being here.

Through some of the interviews, notably Paul Waldau in, ‘The Specter of Speciesism” and Norm Phelp’s, “The Dominion of Love” and “The Great Compassion” we asked the question, to our knowledge never asked before:

If on this planetary journey, this religious journey, in one’s lifetime we have failed to love and instead have brutalized, killed or tortured other living beings, is it part of our evolutionally hierarchy of progression to fall back into a younger evolutionary scale i.e., that soft and innocent state that non-human animals reside in to learn the lesson of love again? To love and be loved again?

Both organised religion and the animal rights movement have this in common. There are undeniable forces working in the world that are out to destroy both. These forces will never ever accept animal rights because their intention is to further mechanicalise life and love, not support it.

Being kind to animals is often the difference between life or death for them. Animal activists strive to make parameters stronger than a precarious nod in the right direction from a human who ultimately determines whether or not an animal will live or die.

As a fundamental obligation to animal rights the movement must embrace no-kill advocacy. It is a tragedy that hundreds of thousands of healthy animals are killed every year.

How hard is it not to kill animals in the corporate animal "rights" and welfare organisations of today yet most profess to call themselves pro-animal. At very least it’s a contradiction in terms and at most, a plain corruption of all that we are working for and against.

What this feeding frenzy of killing pound animals has done in the animal advocacy movement is dishonest. It has discouraged people from joining, made a mockery of our years of combined efforts together, depressed people who placed their faith and money in the animal rights movement, and it left a hard-core base of animal rightists and rescue workers alone and undefended.

The New World Order’s (NWO) plan for civilisation is animal welfarism not animal rights and certainly not animal liberation. The NWO also opposes religion. However, the Globalists fund the rampant materialistic capitalists – Bush and the rape and plunder of Iraq springs to mind, but equally so to does the indiscriminate and intolerable forced breeding practices of dogs and cats especially favoured in the West. Who is questioning the forced rape of animals en mass for breeding purposes these days? The Animal Rights Movement is small, there are so few of us, yet what we do collectively is something the NWO can’t abide and that’s we reject utilitarianism. AR activists refuse to accept the fact that anything that is truly valuable must be utilised or commodified.

When animal activists challenge the economic status of animals it’s only then we begin to see the Machine really start to kick in. It’s then we see the scope of what we’re up against and the Machine’s goal ultimately is to make slaves of us all – to make battery hens of us all. People wouldn’t be so complacent about animal rights if they knew how literal this all is. We see this minutely in the corporate state with their attire and parlance, rules and regulations ad nauseam. How much worse will it be in 50 years time for both grassroots animal rights and human rights activists?

The New World Order created “the class struggle”. It wants only two class divisions. The elite and slaves. No middle classes and no dissent. In their world, animal activists are seen as degenerates – barely tolerated and certainly underestimated.

The mutilation of animals in factory farms and labs is just a fore-taste that starts with animals then moves onto humans - the weakest and “lowest” first – disabled, children and the unattended. I also think the New World Order wants a man’s relationship to a women to be the same energy imbalance as that of between a man and his dog, for control purposes. In Japan we see this with men and the “ideal” geisha standard model for women. In Muslim countries we see it with men and child brides (pedophilia) and again we see this happening in India with men and so-called “arranged marriages” (pedophilia again) some girls as old as 6 or 7. In the west we see it with men and trophy second wives who are much younger in age than the man in question. The influence is corrupt and flies in the face of love and it denigrates older women but produces a certain type of “hard” male. Why is rampant capitalism the driver behind this move? Because it corrupts and it’s in a sphere of material life that’s the lowest and can be measured. Is the saga of Orwell’s 1984 or The Society of the Spectacle the only choice we have? Another world is possible.

CAN YOU REGULATE EXPLOITATION? WE DON’T THINK SO.

In this issue we have been extremely fortunate to have three remarkable men talk out against the sex slave industry of women and girls. Derrick Jensen who was sexually abused by this father when young, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who wrote the book “Hating Women…” and Victor Malarek who wrote The Natashas, a book on the global sex slave industry. These men have all dealt with the issues involved in the exploitation of women and girls. We have interviewed them. Please read them. In this issue we have made a case for the human rights abolitionist position.

It’s easy to see when it’s your own species that regulating child sex practices is totally unacceptable yet when it comes to animal rights for personhood reasons the same connection isn't being made. You have to ask yourself why?

RELIGION AND ANIMAL RIGHTS

With Lent just gone we also invite you to read what the early Church Fathers had to say about fasting. A vegan lifestyle appears much more strict than the requirements of Catholics fasting on Feast Days, but it is the Early Church Fathers that really knew the religious significance of fasting and how the act itself generates reverence – which ironically is what veganism does for the animals! There’s a tonne of work still to be developed on these important issues.

A special thanks to Noah Hannibal for his incredible work on this issue.

The Abolitionist would like to sincerely thank all our contributors:

The genius of activists: Derrick Jensen, Noah Hannibal, Annie Paterson- artist par excellence, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Congressman Dennis Kuninich, Patty Mark, Margaret Setter, Ken Setter, Tom Regan, Victor Malarek, Rosalie Little Thunder, Jill Robinson, Paul Waldau, Norm Phelps, Debra Trantor, June Bird, The Turtle Guy, Joan Papayanni, Lynda Stoner, Biteback Magazine, Dr John Wedderburn, Kurma dasa, Karen Davis, Dr Chinny Krishna, Pam Rice, David Cantor, Fakhar – I – Abbas, Christine and Chris Lehmann, Angela Stafford, Vasu Murti, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Richard Schwaltz, Rabbi Adam Frank, Pam Ahern, Rheya Lindon from Animal Active!, Kylie Dubrich, Erin Pavlina, Mark Pearson, Olga Parkes, Michaela Newell, Nita Hontiveros – Lichauco, Dreena Burton, Turn Over A New Leaf’s Graeme and Di Skully-Heron, Joanne Salzman, Joanne Laureuk, Beverley Lynn Bennett, All the people at Safe Haven for Donkey’s In The Holy Land, Butterflies M.Katz, Roz Holme, The Society of Animal Rights in Eqypt, SHAC6 and their Support Teams, Marian Hussenbux, Dr Nandita Shah, Daphne Plump, Soulmama Café.

THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO BARRY HORNE, JILL PHIPPS, MIKE HILL, TOM WORBY, the Australian DIANA SIMPSON. And RONNIE LEE.