Our dear friend Joey Racano is the
epitome of what true Environmentalism should be all
about. He loves animals in the wild and out, he loves
clean water, he loves trees and all natural beauty.
Joey used to live in Huntington Beach and fought many
a battle for seabirds, various wetlands, secondary
treatment of run-off water and more. Joey now fights
those battles throughout the State of California from
his Morro Bay digs. When Joey ran for City Council
in Huntington Beach he had them very scared. There
is a reason for that: Joey does his homework!
The recent solo death plus the mauling of two others at
the San Francisco Zoo….seems to have raised the ire
of our beloved Joey. Here is a open letter to Mayor Gavin
Newsome and the people of San Francisco courtesy of
Joey Littleshell:
Dear SF Mayor and Zoo,
First, I would like to take a moment to give thanks to
the SFPD. These brave folks not only responded to what
was certainly a dangerous call to duty, but they gave
that poor tiger peace at last.
It struck me as weird when I heard SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
say, “We’ll find out what went wrong”.
I’ll enlighten the dense Mr. Newsom; Gavin, what went
wrong was people have become sick and twisted enough to
spit in the face of the creator by imprisoning the greatest
of all creations- the TIGER!
The only things sicker than imprisoning that glorious
creature, are going to visit the zoo (likewise, Seaworld
and the captive Orcas there), and, yes, there is one thing
even more demented- that is the US government being so
opportunistic in its rush to enslave society that the talk
is all about those ‘animal rights’ folks (IE: terrorists)
who may have let the tiger out.
I am hoping that someone, somewhere,has learned a bit
about the nature of themselves out of all of this. Perhaps
the ‘trainer’ who lost her arm last year? Tell me dear,
what did you presume to ‘train’ a tiger to do? Forsake
meat, perhaps? Jump through a flaming hoop? Relinquish
her stripes?
Shame on you. If it were within my power, you would be
in a cage for years on end, fed through the bars with
‘public feedings’.
The kids from San Jose? I wonder if they knew each other?
A 17 year old dead at the front of the enclosure, and two
more attacked a short distance away. Hmmm. Were they
together? Had they been taunting the big cat? Perhaps the
tiger hunted them down purposefully.
As for you, Mr Newsom, yes, you go find out what went wrong.
Perhaps it was the fact that we disrespected the greatest
force nature has produced, ignoring the plight of its
dwindling habitat, preferring instead to have this striped
dragon pace endlessly back and forth until its teeth dropped
out with age.
Tiger, tiger, burning bright
in the forests of the night
What dread hand and what dread eye
dare framed thy fearful symmetry?
Joey Racano
Joey Racano, Director
Ocean Outfall Group
www.stopthewaiver.com
My music: http://www.myspace.com/joeyracano
Member, California Green Party
Delegate, 2007 Green National Convention
Endorsements:
California Green Party, 2002,
Orange County Patrick Henry Democratic Club, 2004
Huntington Beach Mobile Home Owners Association, 2004
Former CDP State Central Committee Delegate, 2003-2006
Former Member- CDP Environmental Caucus
Author- CDP ‘Heritage Tree’ State Resolution, 2003,
Casa Beach (La Jolla) Marine Sanctuary Resolution, 2007
Tel and Fax: 805-772-2988
Cell: 805-540-8970
Address: P.O. Box 1260
Morro Bay, Ca 93443-1260
USA
=====================================*If you have
other Environmental concerns we suggest you contact Joey.
He will tell you directly whether he can help or not! We
really love that! In the meantime….as Jack Lemon said:
“Save the Tiger!” Joey is a true Independent
Democrat….who has no qualms about putting anyone’s feet
to the fire! We really like that too!
rw
As a liberal, I can only say that Joey Racano is a whack-job. Complete and utterly disconnected fool. Like a lot of his cronies, he has a habit of saying things in the least effective, most offensive manner possible, and as a result ends up tubing his possibility of creating any effective change on the issues he (allegedly) cares for. Pretty sad when someone works as hard as Racano does and screws up the possibility for effective advocacy and change for their issues.
Who else than a truly sick person would create a cause celebre for the death of a 17 year old on Christmas? What sick mind would imagine that the cause for the freakl accident was perhaps “they been taunting the big cat? ”
Tigers are aggressive hunters. period. End of story.
Zoos are not evil. Zoological Societies advance our understanding of animals and habitats, help to maintain wildlife and prevent extinction of rare and endangered animals, are often housing animals that have been taken from the wild illegally by poachers and the black market and cannot be returned to the wild. They also serve to educate and inform people of all ages of the need to maintain the habitats and preserves that keep wildlife viable in the wild in this day and age.
Racano is a fool, and it is sad that you celebrate such an ill-informed person in your posts. Perhaps if Racano read something OTHER than blogs (although I appreciate his quote of William Blake – do you think he knew it was William Blake?)and based your opinions on information and educated points of view, you would have something substantive to say.
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Blake’s poem is profoundly deep meditation upon a complex web of issues of God, creation, gnostic beliefs, how God could create evil, why there is bloodshed in God’s world, why God would create killers, the complexity of nature, I could so on for, literally, pages. It is a bastardization of his work to take a few lines from the final stanza for the purposes of Racano’s post.
Come on guys, you can do better than post this offensive tripe.
Ronandanna Winship, I already knew you were nuts. But in case anyone else needed confirmation of the fact, today you offer it: “Our dear friend Joey Racano…”
Possibly Joey Racano is the only person in Orange County who is more bizarre than you.
And you are “dear friends” with him!
The universe is screaming.
Ron, thanks for the reminder of how Racano was once one of the crazies on the OC Democratic Party Central Committee. I praise the creator that he is now the problem of the San Luis Obispo County Central Committee.
I always ask myself what attracts crazies like him, Steve Rocco or Stanley Fiala to politics?
I do not now anything about Joey, but his message to the Mayor of SF is that of a whacko – tigers are God’s greatest creations? Nothing greather than the tiger? Ridiculous. This blog deserves more sensible posts than this!
Joey Racano = Moonbat Hippy!
Damn Hippy!
Did anyone read the post? Joey is now a GREEN party member…
Claudio,
We agree once again!
Ron & Ann,
Why would you give his views a forum? I’ll bet he is also a HSUS advocate that wants to eliminate all pets for the same reasons he hates zoos…
Well, it good to see that Joey
brings out emotion from people.
That’s his job! Hey, the reason
Joey is important…is that he
is the “only one” that steps up
for the environment..every time!
Sure he not “mainstream”..if he
was..he would not be interesting.
As the news comes out…three guys
that were probably drunk…were
“Foolin with Sashquatch”…and
the Tiger got mad! Whether you
like Joey (which was a devote
Democrat Environmentalist – and
did in fact switch to the GREENS
now-a-days)or hate him…he brings
up important things about wildlife
and water quality and the terrible
efforts of over population. Glad
we got your motors running…but
don’t take it so personally…Joey
hates everyone that endangers the
environment! That’s just what he
does!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
Ann and Ron: Do you even try to work facts into your posts?
1. Ron and Ann’s First False Statement
You write: “As the news comes out…three guys that were probably drunk…were “Foolin with Sashquatch”… and the Tiger got mad!”
What a load of Burro Burritos! Let’s look at actual news reports:
” Zoo officials said a “moat” separating the habitat from the public viewing area that measured 33 feet across contained no water, and has never had any. They did not address whether that affected the tiger’s ability to get out.”
“I think it could be feasible for a cat that has been taunted or angered,” Jack Hanna, former director of the Columbus Zoo, said Thursday. “I don’t think it would ever just do it to do it.”
Police have not addressed whether the victims had teased the tiger.
On Thursday, Fong denied earlier reports that police were looking into the possibility that the victims had dangled a leg or other body part over the edge of the moat, after a shoe and blood were found inside the enclosure.
No shoe was found inside, but a shoeprint was found on the railing of the fence surrounding the enclosure, and police are checking it against the shoes of the three victims, she said.”
The last minutes of a 17-year-old boy’s life were spent trying to save his friend from a brutal tiger mauling at the San Francisco Zoo, only to have the animal turn on him, police and family members said.
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The 350-pound Tatiana, in an undated photo, escaped and killed a visitor Tuesday at the San Francisco Zoo.
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Carlos Sousa Jr. and his friend’s brother desperately tried to distract the 350-pound Siberian tiger, but the big cat instead came after Sousa.
“He didn’t run. He tried to help his friend, and it was him who ended up getting it the worst,” the teen’s father, Carlos Sousa Sr., said Thursday after meeting with police.
The heroic portrait of Sousa and a timeline of the dramatic Christmas Day attack emerged as officials revealed that the tiger’s escape from its enclosure may have been aided by walls that were well below the height recommended by the accrediting agency for the nation’s zoos.”
“San Francisco Zoo Director Manuel A. Mollinedo acknowledged that the wall around the animal’s pen was just 12½ feet high, after previously saying it was 18 feet. According to the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, the walls around a tiger exhibit should be at least 16.4 feet high. Video Watch why Sousa Sr. believes the zoo could have done more to protect patrons “
“Mollinedo said it was becoming increasingly clear the tiger leaped or climbed out, perhaps by grabbing onto a ledge. Investigators have ruled out the theory the tiger escaped through a door behind the exhibit.”
No story I have found on the net reports that they were drunk – some do report that some of the young men had been cited for public intoxication months earlier. You are relying on speculation of the Zoo, which had an enclosure with a wall 4 feet lower than the standards established for such enclosures by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums. The Director of the Zoo previously claimed the wall was actually 18 feet high, an exaggeration of 5 1/2 feet and the difference between being 1 1/2 feet higher than the standard and 4 feet lower thna the standard. In short, the Zoo director is under fire for the deaths of two elephants at the Zoo, and this same Tiger mauled a zookeeper one year earlier, in December 2006. Can you say “spinning the facts to avoid responsibility?” Look for the Zoo director to lose his job,and the Zoo to settle a wrongful death suit in the 7 figures, all in the next 12-18 months. You heard it here first, and not from Ann, Ron or Joey the Whack-job. By the way, also note that the Zoo director also seized upon facts (shown to be false in later reports) that a shoe and a blood were found within the enclosure, and thus the victims must have been in the enclosure and somehow aided in the Tiger’s escape. Blame the victims – great strategy – works great for the Insurance Companies, criminal defendants, and the Bush administration.
If indeed someone did in fact enter the tiger’s enclosure, they would indeed have to be drunk – or a whackjob like Joey Racano, who would either be entering to give the tiger a hug of sympathy at its oppression, or seeking to free her from its “illegal imprisonment, in the name of animal justice!” \
By the way – next time you see Joey, complement him on his leather shoes.
2.) Ron and Ann’s Second False Statement
“Whether you like Joey (which was a devote Democrat Environmentalist – and did in fact switch to the GREENS now-a-days)”
Joey was never a devoted Democrat: He left the Green party for a short period of time to infiltrate the Democratic Party Central Committee to promote his environmental positions in the dominant party in California. Racano, a longtime resident of Huntington Beach, was a Green Party candidate for City Council in Huntington Beach in 2000, receiving 6,522 votes or 3.6%
of the votes in the election. After Ralph Nader screwed the entire country and ushered in George Bush in 2000 through his third party candidacy as a Green Party member, there was a significant exodus by Green Party members to the Democratic Party, and an attempt to create an alliance between the two parties within California and Orange County. Claudio can fill you in on greater details. Joey Racano, in short, was never a devoted Democrat anything – he is , however, certainly devoted to the environment.
“the reason Joey is important…”
HA HA HA HA HA!
This is possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever read on OJ!!!
Hey, we love “Eye Witness News”..
and believing the news reports
from the SF Zoo….is amazing
belief in “Flying Saucers that
were lights in the sky!”……
Let’s get this right OK….ONE
bloody Shoe was indeed found inside the Tiger Compound. The second shoe found 300 yards away
on the way to the Snack Bar. Perhaps,just perhaps….the one
that died was prompted to dangle
his legs over the side, while
taughting the Tiger. Isn’t it
amazing how the other two guys
are not cooperating with police.
The Tiger grabs the guys foot..
climbs up his body…slashes
his throat and runs after the
other two guys…. But hey, we
were not there…you were not
there ….but we do know….there
is a dead Tiger…that had never
escaped before in the history of
the Zoo…one dead kid…and two
assinine co-conspirators…that
are in the hospital. As far as
your bull about Joey…at least
you agree he wants to defend the
environment. Additionally we
know that Joey doesn’t get his
money like so many paid off officials- that get their taste directly from developers!
How many do you know that are
on those payrolls?