Brigitta McMillan wrote: "Unfortunately, none of the core of posters who had inside information, who were intelligent, informed, committed, and reliable, came forward with more information. CYA died. It seems the SPCA had succeeded in shutting the group down. And the SPCA itself barrelled on as it always has. The law doesn’t protect the innocent, it protects the powerful."

Actually, it is the expense of the law, not its statutes, that favours the more wealthy.

In BC, where AAS is being sued by the enormously wealthy BC SPCA (possibly as much as $24 million in revenue in 2008), the costs are the highest in Canada, perhaps almost the highest in the world. Government charges for rental of courts, filing fees, taxes, lawyer's fees, all these add up to defeat of the less wealthy by the more wealthy.

Fortunately, I have a valuable home, and I will spend every penny of its value to defend myself from the SPCA's allegations of my untruthfulness. It is all I have, but I can't save my house for myself while betraying the principle of the right to tell the truth. Or not to speak for the animals who I know suffered cruelly at the hands of the SPCA for so long, and for those many animals who are still being killed by the SPCA.

The wealthy SPCA has chosen the expensive court system to silence accurate critics many times. The SPCA usually wins those quietly crushing wars against those little people who feel they must say what they have seen. But not always. Read how it lost the lawsuit against the wife of Rick Sargent, who went on to become (volunteer) President of the Board of Directors of the BC SPCA because he hoped to reform the SPCA from within. http://www.animaladvocates.com/spca/victoria.htm

Reform from within is very seldom (if ever) successful if the way the business or agency runs itself, works for it. Rick Sargent found that out and had to quit. So did other BC SPCA Directors.

The big brave SPCA did not attempt to sue the deep pockets and top libel lawyers of the Vancouver Sun or Sun columnist Barbara Yaffe for calling SPCAs Auschwitzes or the BC SPCA employee or volunteer who were quoted in the article saying things like, "there is an alarming insensitivity around the practice of euthanasia," and "sick or injured animals too often suffer for days without getting access to veterinary care. (Read full article: BC SPCA - A Prison Camp For Animals http://www.animaladvocates.com/top-stories/PrisonCampForAnimals.htm