Did you know verbal assault is
defined as?
• Yelling
• Lying
• Name-calling
• Insulting, swearing
• Withholding important information
• unreasonably ordering around
• Telling a person she or he is worthless or nothing but trouble
Sounds very unprofessional, huh? Certainly not something that an individual
running greyhound event would do to a greyhound adopter, right?
Recently I was contacted by someone
in the greyhound community who posted the following on social media:
“The other day, after receiving an
email from the other Greyhound event taking place next week, I sent an email
back to them with a few general questions: Who were the speakers? What was the
schedule for the speakers? Who were some of the vendors? What adoption groups
were benefiting from the event? I also wanted to know if it was a family event
where children could attend and if a person with a lifetime registration as a
sexual offender would be present. I asked these questions previously on their
Facebook page and in response I was kicked off their page. I did get a response
this time, before being removed from the mailing list.
I felt I should share it with you:”
The person who asked is a greyhound
adopter and volunteer as well as someone who donates funds and time to both
greyhound and animal causes. This person is also female and did state her name
and email address in the inquiry to the organization that runs the greyhound
event in question.
Now take a moment to carefully read
the response that was sent to the woman by the organization that runs this
family friendly greyhound event and who's president and "public face"
is an individual who is a convicted child molester with lifetime sex offender
registration: (please note -any and all spelling errors are left as they
appeared in the original response)
"On Sep 29, 2016, at 6:05 PM, <admin@xxxx.org> <admin@xxxx.org> wrote:
Thank you for writing. It's rare to connect with such a hateful and ignorant
person like you.
Not that you care, but we help greyhounds. We don't attack people or spread ignorance
or hatred. Just not what we do.
We raise funds for greyhound adoption through holding greyhound events. We have
run 18 successful events over the span of 11 years. We have raised over
$100,000 for greyhound adoption. And we have done so with a perfect 100% safety
record for all attendees. (Don't you hate facts like that? It's so hard to be
ignorant!)
Now that said, because you are a selfish and ignorant troll, we know that none
of these facts matters in the slightest to you.
So please, if you don't like our event or you don't like any of our volunteers
or --what is more obvious -- you don't like yourself very much, please stay
home. We won't miss you.
We have hundreds and hundreds of event goers who love greyhounds and support
everything we're doing. So, please, crawl back under your bridge and spew your
ignorance to those who will listen.
We don't care.
Good luck,
Admin"
Does anyone see a bit of irony that
the "Admin" of an organization that runs family friendly greyhound events
whose president is a convicted child molester with lifetime sex offender
registration makes the statement…
"We don't attack people or
spread ignorance or hatred."
Yet proceeds to call a woman in the
greyhound community "a hateful and ignorant person" and "a
selfish and ignorant troll" in addition to telling the woman “you don't
like yourself very much" and to "crawl back under your bridge and
spew your ignorance".
So much for this organization taking
the high road and not verbally attacking someone, huh?
There are still people in the
greyhound community who attend and/or vend and/or support a group and/or
individual who authorizes their "Admin" to send out such a missive.
Well, that is their right and I can only guess they are proud to continue to
have ties to such an organization and such an individual. Now perhaps these
attendees and vendors and supporters might be able to inform the rest of us in
the greyhound community exactly what amounts and exactly where this "over
$100,000" is documented and can be accounted for? My math could be off but
100K over 18 event comes out to a bit over $5000 per event and this amount is
supposedly divided up to the adoption groups that assist this organization
which runs family friendly greyhound events, claims not to attack
people or spread ignorance or hatred and is run by an individual who
has lifetime sex offender registration as a result of a conviction of sexual assaults
to children.
As this organization only files a
990N with the IRS and no information is available via the normally used,
trusted verification sites for not-for-profit organizations, many are in the
dark about the expenditures and if they might be a bit over the top. If an
organizations bills or expenses far exceeds what is actually donated to
individual greyhound adoption groups, perhaps those in the greyhound community
would be wiser to send their donations and event registration fee amount
directly to a greyhound adoption group they support rather than run donations
thru a 3rd party event planner who offers no full financial accounting that
anyone has ever put forward.
"Don't you hate
facts like that?"
