April 12, 2025
The SHARK Team is beginning the fourth year of documenting extreme animal abuse in Illinois, a state which boasts one of the best humane laws in the country. That boast is an outrageous lie.
Even though it is early in the day, I can't overstate the mental and physical exhaustion I already feel, because of the knowledge that in spite of the hundreds of hours of video evidence in our possession from the last three years, and regardless of how much illegal cruelty we record today, there is nothing that will bring relief or justice to today's victims of steer tailing.
The corruption of Illinois officials is staggering, and ranges from Boone County's Zoning Department, Animal Services, Sheriff, State's Attorneys, and County Board, to the Governor, Attorney General, and Senate President. The corruption involves both Republicans and Democrats. It is bipartisanship in the most horrific sense.
Northern Illinois University, which is supposed to be an institution of higher learning, has branded us as racists, and refuses to even look at our evidence, much less talk about it. The media is afraid of the "racism" charge, no matter how much abuse evidence exists, and no matter that the vast majority of Hispanic people reject this illegal cruelty.
A steer with a broken leg, broken horn or broken back, or who can't get up from exhaustion after being run 24 times only to be slammed to the ground doesn't care who commits the abuse. The degloved steer bleeds and suffers no matter who ripped his tail off.
Illinois is referred to as the "Land of Lincoln." There's no question that Lincoln would have condemned this pointless, indefensible abuse. Anyone with any sense of compassion, honor or dignity would.
