AR-News: (US MI) Prosecutor urged to get tough in cat torture case

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Detroit Free Press
April 14, 2004 
BY AMBER HUNT MARTIN
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER 
It wasn't just that Edward Baker allegedly bashed the cat in the face. Or 
that he chased it around the blood-spattered laundry room. Or that he 
extinguished cigarettes on another cat's paws. 
It was, authorities said, that he acted methodically, intentionally. 
That's why the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is putting 
national focus on the Macomb County case, said Daniel Paden, a cruelty caseworker 
with the animal rights organization. 
"These malicious, deliberate acts -- these acts don't bode well for the 
future," Paden said. 
Paden recently wrote Macomb County Prosecutor Carl Marlinga, urging him to 
"vigorously prosecute" Baker of Clinton Township by demanding jail time and 
psychiatric counseling. 
Paden said the Norfolk, Va., organization sees hundreds of cases a week in 
which people mistreat or kill animals. 
But the organization only writes about 10 letters a week demanding that 
prosecutors act. 






full story:

http://www.freep.com/news/locmac/peta14_20040414.htm 



“I personally cannot get overly worked up about the deprivation of human 
rights in a world where non-humans have no rights at all. Until animals and nature 
have rights, none of us have any rights at all because without animals, 
ecosystems and nature's diversity, rights are meaningless. Humans are a group that 
was never very successful to begin with. Overly territorial, obsessed with 
trivialities, violent, petty, and completely lacking in empathy for other 
species. The world would be a much nicer place without us." Captain Paul Watson 
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