{"id":128,"date":"2017-10-29T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-10-29T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:32:25","slug":"star-ledger-columnist-asks-why-not-arm-all-the-activists-cites-scathing-report-on-njspca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/29\/star-ledger-columnist-asks-why-not-arm-all-the-activists-cites-scathing-report-on-njspca\/","title":{"rendered":"Star-Ledger Columnist Asks &#8220;Why not arm all the Activists?&#8221;, cites scathing report on NJSPCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_2015-1.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Newark Star-Ledger Columnist Paul Mulshein asks &#8211; sarcastically &#8211; if we&#8217;re arming the so-called\u00a0 &#8220;animal cops&#8221; of the NJSPCA,\u00a0 then why not arm, say, the Sierra Club?\u00a0 He points to the folly of having private citizens, with little or no oversight, running around the state with guns and, get this, <em>a 10-wheeled paramilitary assault vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For his take on this group and its conduct, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2017\/10\/armed_animal_cops_why_dont_we_just_arm_all_the_act.html\">g<\/a><a style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/index.ssf\/2017\/10\/armed_animal_cops_why_dont_we_just_arm_all_the_act.html\">o HERE<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By the way, these &#8220;wannabe&#8221; cops stamp &#8220;POLICE&#8221; on their vehicles and call themselves &#8220;Animal Cops&#8221; but they are NOT Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newark Star-Ledger Columnist Paul Mulshein asks &#8211; sarcastically &#8211; if we&#8217;re arming the so-called\u00a0 &#8220;animal cops&#8221; of the NJSPCA,\u00a0 then why not arm, say, the Sierra Club?\u00a0 He points to the folly of having private citizens, with little or no oversight, running around the state with guns and, get this, a 10-wheeled paramilitary assault vehicle.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/29\/star-ledger-columnist-asks-why-not-arm-all-the-activists-cites-scathing-report-on-njspca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star-Ledger Columnist Asks &#8220;Why not arm all the Activists?&#8221;, cites scathing report on NJSPCA&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,27,13,39,52],"tags":[76,75,68,2,73,74,77,72,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}