IN HAEC VERBA: Ed Slavin Letter to Senator Bill Nelson, Calling For Senator Nelson to Help Halt to Florida National Guard Animal Cruelty and for Senate Armed Services Committee Field Investigation of Florida National Guard Misfeasance, Malfeasance, Nonfeasance, Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Discrimination

http://m.staugustine.com/news/local-news/2013-08-15

Dear Senator Nelson:
1. Please see Peter Guinta's story in the August 16, 2013 St Augustine Record newspaper, "Guard plans to main animals for medic training," and kindly investigate and halt this animal cruelty today.
2. In your capacity as the third-ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, please denounce and help halt forever this outrageous illegal animal cruelty and waste of federal funds.
3. Meanwhile, please ask the Florida National Guard (FNG) to halt this planned activity this morning, hesto presto.
4. Please ask Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin to hold investigative oversight hearings here in St. Augustine this fall on the nature, structure and performance of the FNG, including waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance, and discrimination.
5. Two (2) unscholarly, insensitive FNG generals have wasted federal funds and given offensive, inane and inept speeches, including: (a) one at a St. Augustine history program at Flagler College falsely claiming Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11, and (b) one on Memorial Day 2013, entirely omitting our ancestors' Civil War sacrifices (though he was speaking at the St. Augustine National Cemetery in close proximity to African-American of soldiers who fought to save our Union, buried in graves marked USCT, for U.S. Colored Troops).
6. Meanwhile, FNG's generals have perpetrated this monstrous inhumane animal torture, which is expected to begin today and last all weekend in Tampa.
7. Enough of FNG's "Amateur Hour." Please stop the ineptitude.
8. Please sponsor in the Senate Armed Services Committee an amendment to the DOD authorization bill providing for cutoff of all federal funding for this sort of sordid, wasteful, callous cruelty to animals, from this day forward.
9. Senator Nelson, please pick up the phone, call General Titshaw, and kindly ask that he halt these cruel and unAmerican activities, today, forever.
10. I look forward to hearing from your Chief of Staff, Pete Mitchell, by phone later this morning to inform us that the animal cruelty training is halted. Meanwhile, I have already asked the City of St. Augustine and SAPD to investigate possible state law crimes, and possible violations of the City's leases to FNG.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely,
Ed
Ed Slavin
Clean Up St Augustine
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Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
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