On April 7th in Kankakee
County, a private animal rights vigilante group conducted a raid of an elderly
couple, forcibly taking their business away from them. The Animal
Rescue Corps (ARC) is a private self-styled SWAT team run by high school
dropout Scotlund Haisley who operates nationwide stealing animals from their
legal owners and flipping them for resale. Haisley who pays himself
a yearly salary of $90,000+ out of ARC funds, claims he is simply an animal
lover “saving” animals, but he has no legal authority for any of his
actions. In the Kankakee County raid, Haisley and his volunteer
supporters accompanied two animal control officers to execute a search warrant
on Adrian’s Puppy Paradise, owned by Adrian and Louise Gutierrez.
Animal rights activists claim the business is a puppy mill to justify their
theft of private property. The problem is, Kankakee County Animal
Control Officers have no law enforcement authority to serve search warrants on
licensed businesses either. The search warrant and resulting
raid was illegally carried out. The resulting physical intimidation
and coercion used to get this frail elderly couple to sign over their business
to Haisley was also illegal.
Fox
32 interviewed Haisley and quoted him as saying, “It is our belief she shouldn’t be in
operation. These conditions were extremely inhumane as well as
illegal.”
These activists would have you believe that the Gutierrez family
deserve to lose their business in an armed SWAT style raid simply because they
are opposed to dog breeding in America. They throw around terms
like puppy mill to sway your emotions and ignore the profit motive behind their
actions. ARC is run out of a UPS Mail Drop in Washington, DC, and
cleared $465,388 in 2013, all tax free. They do not run an animal
shelter, have no law enforcement authority and founder Haisley has no
documented education in animals. What is illegal in this situation
is ARC’s actions and the two animal control officers who participated in this
SWAT raid of an elderly couple.
In most illegal raids like this across America, the animals are
flipped and resold in less than a week while the thieves run marathon fundraising
scams off the media coverage of a puppy mill bust. Americans open
their wallets and give donations of millions of dollars to animal rights groups
believing they are helping to save a needy animal and the majority of which is
simply pocketed by illiterate thugs like Haisley.
ARC is nothing more than a group of adrenaline junkies, led by a
high school dropout, and backed by Hollywood money. In fact,
Haisley was sued over an illegal raid of a South Dakota dog breeder back in
2009. In the court documents he admitted that he is in this
business because it gets him better lap dances from strippers. In
another raid in 2011, Haisley stole an aviary of exotic birds in Tennessee and
turned over some of the birds to one of his pet flipping resale partners called
The Bailey Foundation of Maryland, run by Beth Lindenau. Just over
a year later, 40 dead animals were discovered in Lindenau’s home.
Haisley is on record saying that the bird raid in TN was justified because, he
said, “These are the worst conditions for bird’s I’ve ever seen.”
He said nothing when his partner, Beth Lindenau was found to have killed some
of them.
Adrian’s Puppy Paradise was licensed and inspected by the Illinois
Department of Agriculture, passing numerous government inspections over a
fifteen year period. If the Illinois Ag Department couldn’t find
anything wrong with the Gutierrez business, then what right does Haisley have
to run to the media and slander their reputations? In the old days,
Haisley would have been drawn and quartered as a thief. Today he hangs
out with Hollywood celebrities while his victims hide in their homes in
fear.
Katharine Dokken is a Public Affairs Specialist at The Cavalry Group and the
author of a new book, The
Art of Terror: Inside the Animal Rights Movement, available on
Amazon.
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