They say …

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The hole in the ozone layer has never been larger”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The western edge of the Antarctic ice shelf is melting more than twice the projected worst estimates projecting a 5 foot rise in sea levels in this century.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “With rising temperatures, rising sea levels, melting icecaps and glaciers, shifting ocean currents and weather patterns, climate change is the most serious challenge facing the human race.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The major sources of pollution are from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures. Global figures are not available but in the United States, with the world’s fourth largest land area, livestock are responsible for an estimated 55 percent of erosion and sediment, 37 percent of pesticide use, 50 percent of antibiotic use, and a third of the loads of nitrogen and phosphorus into freshwater resources.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector may well be the leading player in the reduction of biodiversity, since it is the major driver of deforestation, as well as one of the leading drivers of land degradation, pollution, climate change, overfishing, sedimentation of coastal areas and facilitation of invasions by alien species.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector is by far the single largest anthropogenic user of land. The total area occupied by grazing is equivalent to 26 percent of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the planet. In addition, the total area dedicated to feed crop production amounts to 33 percent of total arable land. In all, livestock production accounts for 70 percent of all agricultural land and 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 are at higher levels than experienced in the last 800,000 years and are increasing at rates unlikely to have been seen in the (geologically) recent past. Antarctica was warmer in the last interglacial (130,000 years ago) and sea levels were higher.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Loss of ice from the West Antarctic ice sheet is likely to contribute some tens of centimeters to global sea level by 2100. This will contribute to a projected total sea level rise of up to 1.4 meters (and possibly higher) by 2100.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

I say, “No, I won’t tone it down; in fact, I will be so loud that they can’t help but hear me. I am plenty loving. Love is caring enough to do something about the holocaust. No I won’t tolerate corpse-munching. I see the good in people and I see the bad. I also see the good in animals and very little bad. Peer pressure does not rule my actions. I don’t care if corpse-munchers don’t like us. I don’t like corpse-munching. I am not leaving the children a dead planet on my watch.”

Talk Show Host Bob Linden Wrongfully Arrested By Beverly Hills Cops at "Fur-Free Friday" Demonstration

Radio talk show host Bob Linden was arrested by Beverly Hills cops on Friday in front of a Wilshire Boulevard animal-skin market as Mr. Linden turned on his bullhorn power switch and announced "fur is murder." Beverly Hills cops immediately charged at Linden, yanked the megaphone from his hands, and then yanked his hands behind his back, handcuffing him, and charging him with using amplified sound without a permit, pursuant to a Beverly Hills municipal code which Linden calls "blatantly unconstitutional."

"I can't believe it," Linden said. "Years after I won a settlement with Beverly Hills because of its unconstitutional practices and rights violations, here it is behaving again like George W. Bush, creating its own rogue state, a lawless constitution-free zone. Here we go again, having to show Beverly Hills that, whether it likes it or not, the constitution is still enforced there." Linden was referring to long-standing U.S. Supreme Court decided settled law recognizing the bullhorn as an instrument of free speech expression. Linden has experienced a number of similar wrongful arrests associated with bullhorn usage (which instead of resulting in convictions have resulted in greater animal rights free speech opportunities at such venues as the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, and the San Diego Sports Arena).

In the current oppressive environment where we are losing our rights every day, especially so for animal rights activists, it is more important than ever to assert the rights that we do have. The right to free speech is so important for those who speak for the voiceless - the poor innocent ones raised or trapped to become the fur for sale in Beverly Hills. We need to reach people, to appeal to their humanity. We know that if shoppers know the cruelty of fur, how animals are confined, how they are stomped, gassed, drowned, anally and genitally electrocuted, how maybe 40 lives are killed for one fur coat - of course people won't want to buy it - and maybe that's why the Beverly Hills cops only let me get three words out before arresting me. Do you think everyone who violates the Beverly Hills code is roughly handcuffed - or is that treatment reserved only for animal rights activists", Linden asked.

Prior to the arrest, Beverly Hills cops refused to divulge the municipal code under which Linden was being warned he would be arrested if he used the bullhorn. Subsequently, an officer read Beverly Hills Municipal Code 4-3-501 to Linden, to which Linden replied to the officer that none of what he read applied to his activities and that such a code usually has an explicit or implicit provision that such a restrictive code would not apply to those engaged in constitutionally protected activity. Beverly Hills police arrested Linden anyway, with a court date scheduled for early February.

You can help Bob Linden with his court costs, his defense, and his subsequent lawsuit against the City of Beverly Hills for its repeated egregious violations of our constitutional rights as American citizens. Donations for legal (re not tax-deductible) and should be made payable to Bob Linden, and sent to PO Box 475414, San Francisco, CA 94147.