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You are right, Tracey. He is also going to be the keynote speaker for ALDF, whose mission is to eradicate trapping and hunting.

Animal Rights “Sugar Daddy” Bob Barker to Headline Harvard Law Conference
12/30/09

Bob Barker, the long-time host of the daytime game show the “Price is Right”, is continuing his promotion of animal rights. Not only is Barker donating multiple millions to found animal law classes around the nation, he is now being honored as the keynote speaker at a major conference to be held by the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) next year at Harvard University.

The ALDF just announced that Barker will be the keynote speaker at its "Future of Animal Law" conference, April 9-11, 2010. The conference will be held at Harvard and is designed to “explore vital issues relative to animal law and activism.”

Barker, an avowed anti-hunter, has spent millions of dollars on establishing law programs at various universities throughout America. For example, as the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA) reported in November, he gave $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University, in order to create a professorship on animal rights that will eventually develop into a full undergraduate degree program. However, that is by no means the only funding Barker has given since his retirement from television.

According to the promotion material for the ALDF conference, Barker established an endowment fund for animal rights law at Harvard in 2001. He subsequently established additional endowments at Stanford, Columbia, UCLA, Georgetown, Duke and Northwestern University law schools.

“Bob Barker has become a sugar daddy for aspiring animal rights lawyers,” said Bud Pidgeon, USSA president and CEO. “He is offering seed money to train an entire new generation of those seeking to stop sportsmen’s activities in courts across America.”

The ALDF was founded in 1979 and has dedicated itself to eradicating hunting and trapping. It supports trapping bans and has done work to have anti-hunters named to state fish and wildlife commissions.

And this explains why...

“Legal Precedents”: The Anti’s Best Friend
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:27:08 AM

By Greg R. Lawson, Director of Communications

If the anti’s have their way, court decisions will become their “weapon of choice” to establish the all important “precedents” they need to squeeze sportsmen more and more until, eventually, there’s practically no room left to do what you love.
It’s hard to imagine anything more monotonous and painful to experience for a sportsman than the agony of sitting through a long courtroom proceeding.

Imagine the typical courtroom scene…lawyers shuffling through stacks of paper and looking impatiently at their watches. Long speeches about the meaning of technical words. All kinds of “experts” constantly reiterating their “facts” and completely contradicting the other side’s “experts.” The entire process almost seems a bit comical.

However, sportsmen would be dead wrong if they stopped paying attention to what happens in courtrooms because it’s within those walls that the future of outdoor sports may well be decided.

The weapon of choice for many shrewd anti’s is no longer fake blood and picket signs, its legal briefs and precedents. Far more than just words on paper, legal precedents are the lifeblood of the legal system and establish the framework for making future legal decisions. For this reason, legal precedents have rapidly become the anti’s best friend.

For example, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation’s (USSAF) legal arm, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund, spent precious money and time defending trappers in Maine from an assault on their continued ability to trap. While this case was important to trappers in Maine, who could have seen their heritage go down the drain if the anti’s had won, the precedent that the case would have established was much farther reaching than trapping alone.

Had the anti’s won their case, every time a hunter, angler, or trapper accidentally caught an animal that happens to be on the Endangered Species List, the anti’s could ride into court and try to block those seasons. The antis might not have always succeeded in these efforts, but the precedent from the Maine case could well have enabled them to win in many situations.

Fortunately, with the sportsmen’s victory in federal court, the anti’s didn’t get their beloved precedent… this time. However, there is no doubt that there will be a next time, and time after that, etc. Indeed, the anti’s know that they don’t need to win every time they go to court; they just need to win here and there to put our outdoor heritage at risk.

The bottom line is that sportsmen…you need to pay attention to these cases. No one wants to go to court. But sometimes, there’s no choice. The USSAF plans to be there, but we’re going to need your help to keep us in the game financially so that we don’t let any precedents snuff out our proud heritage today or tomorrow.