AR-News: (CA - US) Urgent alert to help macaw!!

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Please respond by June 9!!!

http://www.smdailyjournal.org/article.cfm?issue=04-28-04&storyID=30309
 
 "This man exerted a tremendous amount of rage on an innocent animal."
 
 That was how a California prosecutor summed up 53-year-old Anthony James
 Ellis' March 2003 drunken attack on his macaw, Johnny. In a purported act of
 "self defense" against the bird, Ellis held Johnny upside down and
 repeatedly punched him before slamming him headfirst against a boat. The
 macaw's resulting injuries reportedly included a fractured leg and broken
 beak, as well as internal trauma. Ellis' reported attempts to regain custody
 of the battered bird were denied-Johnny has since been adopted.
 
 On April 27 of this year, Ellis was convicted of two felony counts of
 cruelty to animals. He now faces up to three years in prison and is
 scheduled to appear before Judge Geoffrey T. Glass for sentencing on June
 11. For more information on the case, please click here.
 
 Please let Judge Glass know that, in the interests of preserving the safety
 of the community-including both human and nonhuman members-it is imperative
 to impose severe sentences on animal abusers. (For more information about
 the link between cruelty to animals and violence toward humans, click here.)
 Politely ask that Ellis be sentenced to three years of incarceration and
 ordered to undergo a mandatory mental health evaluation, followed by
 psychological counseling and anger-management classes at his own expense. To
 ensure that no more animals fall prey to his malicious and violent
 tendencies, respectfully urge His Honor to bar Ellis from contact with
 animals for the maximum period allowable by law and to see that any animals
 who still remain in his charge be immediately located and seized.
 
 It is imperative that all correspondence be dignified and polite so as not to discredit our campaign.
 
 The Honorable Geoffrey T. Glass
 Judge of the Orange County Superior Court
 4601 Jamboree Rd.
 Newport Beach, CA 92660