August 30, 2004, the BC SPCA filed a 70 page lawsuit against me, the Society, some posters and some directors. It named some posts but claimed that it could go on suing us for any other post it cared to name at any time.

We have been told that a rule of thumb for lawsuits is $500 a page to write. If one adds in the other pages the SPCA's lawyers have written to AAS or to its web servers, then the cost just to write threats and writs is already about $55,000.

Add the law suits to silence others such as Mille Sargent who told the truth about the long-time cruelty at the Victoria SPCA, and Cheryl Dawson, who had the temerity to say that the BC SPCA took $4.5 million from the Victoria SPCA (it did), and the web site, CYA, then it is not improbable that the SPCA has spent $100,000 to try to silence its critics. Only the legal threat against CYA worked, but that is only because CYA permitted anonymous posting and couldn't get the proof of an allegation one of its posters made.