The public is going to get a shock soon. The van Dongen case is not the only one where the SPCA has acted illegally and unlawfully or injured animals. These other cases are soon to hit the courts, and lawyers are now informed and judges have precedents to be guided by. The SPCA's career in animal cruelty prevention has been nasty, self-serving, animal and people abusing, and we can only hope - short.

It began with the hiring of Craig Daniell away from the Ontario SPCA in November 2003. With any luck, his control will end before he has had even two years to wreak uncontrolled havoc on innocent animals and humans.

Crown and the courts have believed to this point that the BC SPCA is an honest, ethical, animal centred agency of honourable people. They are not going to believe that much longer, if they still do.

AAS still wants an SPCA that puts animals first. Right now, it uses and abuses animals for its own self-interest. There are seizure cases where animals have been injured, subjected to extreme distress, killed, sickened, and made miserable, that are going to hit the news soon.

Just because Crown has laid charges against people based on SPCA reports to Crown, does not mean that the SPCA's Reports are honest or correct or that the targeted person is guilty. If that were true there would be no such thing as wrongful convictions. Law-enforcers trump up "evidence" against targets all the time. But there is a large body of lawyers and agencies who watch the police like hawks for instances of police-state behaviour.