At first, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw US Rep. King's press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Matt Lahr

April 7, 2010

Office: 202.225.4426

King Informs 4-H Leaders of Real Agenda of Humane Society

SIOUX CITY - Congressman Steve King (R-IA) today released a statement objecting to the presence of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) at a recent National 4-H Conference. King’s purpose is to inform 4-H leaders and members of the extreme anti-animal agriculture agenda of HSUS.

At first I thought, "anti-animal"? That's fine. But then I realized it said "anti-animal agriculture." And "agenda." It might just have been all that alliteration, but I was starting to feel queasy. By "animal agriculture" did he mean "killing animals"? And the Humane Society is against it?

Not on my watch!

That's why I'm writing this diary, because I believe:

• An Almighty God gave us dominion over animals so that we could do anything we want with them. I mean, that only makes sense, right? If you have dominion over something, the sky is pretty much the limit.
• Family farmers are scared to death of the vegetarian menace, so Steve King is only representing them by attacking the Humane Society. It has nothing to do with the fact that the Humane Society is actually anti-factory farming, and Steve King is in the pocket of big agriculture. Which is no threat to family farmers.

Then Steve King lowered his proverbial boom:

"HSUS is run by vegetarians with an agenda whose goal is to take meat off everyone’s table in America.”

Off MY TABLE?

At first, I thought it couldn't be true. I went to the Humane Society's website and couldn't find anything like that.

But then I did some searching around the internet, and found the following document:

(http://file.wikileaks.org/file/HSUS-Secret-Plan.pdf)

There you have it. In black and white.

Animal rights wackos planning to destroy our way of life: Kids. Economy. Pets. Meat.

And people are worried because rightwing militias like Hutaree plan to kill police officers! I give the true threat to the homeland: animal lovers.

Thank you, Steve King. Thank you.