Please crosspost for Tyson

Please cross post for Tyson, more letters they get the better, give em a head thumping:

EDDR Update: July 2005
www.endangereddogs.com


Another Innocent dog condemned to die:


Tyson, an old ‘pit bull’ registered under the draconian Dangerous Dogs Act legislation has been sentenced to death by the Courts.
What was his crime? Well he hasn’t actually done anything wrong, but his muzzle wasn’t on him and the Act requires that registered dogs must be muzzled at all times when in a public place.
Tyson’s case was heard initially at West London Magistrates Court and has painstakingly worked its way to the High Court in London, but regardless as to what you and I see at just plain common sense, the death sentence has been ordered and Tyson must now die.
Will we now all feel a lot safer in our beds tonight with the knowledge that the streets are a safer place? – I think not!
Yet again, the Act which is supposed to protect the public, makes no sense at all, what is the point when you throw the full weight of law against one old dog?
Why spend colossal amounts of public money and waste endless man hours just to secure the death of an old dog who didn’t have his muzzle put on, where is the justice in this?
Many cases have been highly publicised over the years, showing the inadequacies of the legislation, the Act was amended in 1997 but the Amendments obviously didn’t go far enough, the Act has once again reared its ugly head and proved that the machinery to promote misery and deliver injustice after injustice is still very much intact.
Every veterinary surgeon in the country should, on a matter of principle and in line with their sworn oath, refuse to administer the fatal injection and decline to participate in the destruction of a wanted healthy companion-against the owner’s wishes.
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has the powers to intervene, Tyson should be pardoned and allowed to live out the rest of his life in peace.
The DDA needs to be urgently reviewed and changes made to prevent these miscarriages of justice from arising in the first place. Its present format is nothing short of a complete shambles and it should be made obsolete and replaced.
Tyson is locked away somewhere awaiting his fate, he will no doubt lick the hands of his executioner, like those who have before him, expecting he is going home, condemned due to his breed and nothing else, speak out for him today and make you opinions known:


Members of Parliament:

Write to your MP at:
The House of Commons
Westminster
London SW1A OAA

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Telephone the switchboard on 020 7219 3000 and ask to be transferred to your MPs office.


The Prime Minister:

The Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA

Address letters ‘Dear Mr. Blair’ or ‘Dear Prime Minister’
Fax the Prime Minister on 020 7925 0918 (from outside the UK: +442079250918)
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The Home Office:

Rt. Hon Charles Clarke – the Home Secretary
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF

Fax: 020 7273 2065 (from outside the UK: +442072732065)
Email: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk



News coverage:

‘Pit bull death sentenced condemned’ – BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4636925.stm

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Tyson's death on my conscience
The Dangerous Dogs Act is bad law. It is high time it was amended
by Roy Hattersley in The Guardian – 4th July 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/s...1520609,00.html

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’Innocent old Pit bull must be put down’ – The Times 30 June 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/articl...1674649,00.html
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