I have to say I am one of the luckiest people alive to have the friends and followers I have. For the last several years, especially, I've noticed how decent everyone has been in the face of those not so good.
My friends and followers exist in stark contrast to those of my enemies and I'm very happy about that. In the exotic animal industry, you have two types of people: those who are part of the shady practices which define the view of the industry from the outside, and those who just want to keep and enjoy their animals in the privacy of their own facility.
I truly feel that the company one keeps reflects greatly on a person. The truth in this belief has been the most resounding when dealing with the shady characters in the exotic animal industry.
It's not uncommon to have the shady characters of the business take advantage of the other owners especially in terms of fraud. This is the case with one of my pending cases, Leo v Thomas, in the Jefferson County Supreme Court. Every single person on Thomas' side has been entirely belligerent, loud, nasty, insulting, hateful, dishonest and judgmental and has been so right off the bat - many times without anything said by me preceding such obnoxious behavior. Every single person.
On the other hand, every one of my friends and followers (except you Gerry) has been polite, respectful, quiet and decent. Of course, they are decent people. They don't do what Thomas and his buddies do. They are entirely different people.
Here are some examples since July 2017 when I made the effort to oppose Thomas and his network of thieves.
The Uninvited
Thomas has several members of the NYSDEC on his side, the most hated public service and regulatory agency in the state of New York. Lieutenant Billy Powell has lied over and over about my facility, my family, my business and my animals. He has employed numerous unethical and unlawful tactics in trying to persuade neighbors and others to inflict loss upon my business. When I finally gained access to documents about my case, they sharply contradicted his accounts of everything.
Furthermore, my prosecution by the Department was started by Powell simply because we had an argument on the phone in November 2015. This occurred after he nastily declined to agree to tell his officers to kindly leave their business cards next time they visit my facility when I'm not there. I had requested such due to my elderly parents, who were present during the visit but were not able to remember much about their visit when trying to tell me about it upon my return. Powell didn't even tell the truth about who called in the complaint and what the complaint entailed. But, however, he stated everything was fine. Thus, lying and entrapment began.
The DEC loves to do things behind another's back. This is a tell-tale sign that the agency is up to no good which is its usual mode of operation. Additionally, it's unethical for public servants to do so. Although the staff are pretty bright intellectually, the Special Licenses Unit is full of experts on poor conduct and the crooked implementation of the licensing systems.
Joseph Therrien, and his supervisor, James Farquhar, have been assisting Thomas and his attorney. It appears they are intending to circumvent the legal system by writing secret statements for Thomas so his attorney can slip them to the judge.
Likewise, Thomas' former Animal Care Inspector from the USDA, Andrea D'Ambrosia, encouraged him to take my animals under fraudulent pretenses and is even helping him obtain forged statements from witnesses in order to submit and help him win in Court. D'Ambrosia was so nasty during one of her last visits to my facility, I literally had to call the local PD to escort her off of the premises. Talk about dangerous. Several weeks later, she then sent over an investigator who showed up yelling and screaming in the driveway of my home bringing a bunch of sheriff deputies standing between my vehicle and I so I couldn't get away if I felt threatened enough to do so. What lunatics!
And, then there's Thomas' attorney, Mikey Young. The second appearance was spent watching him blow the Pampers off his ass as he was yelling for 5-10 minutes straight complaining about my overuse of the acronym "CPLR" throughout my amended complaint and other trivial, ridiculous complaints. Not too respectable or professional. When asking for advice from other attorneys, they were disgusted and now refer to him as a "lawyer" always with the quotation marks. They state he should be turned into the bar.
Then there are the sneaky things Young does such as purposely stalling and cause dilatory delays - a method the NYSDEC is well-versed in as well. Saying he doesn't have papers when he does. Saying he has never spoken to anyone at the DEC after he had already turned in several letters to the Court stating that he has. Young also plays the DEC "card" in misrepresenting laws such as I can't have my badger back because, according to the DEC, I'm supposed to be licensed, when that is not true. Of course, he had no answer when I mentioned in open court that his client never had such licensing while possessing the badger in New York. All of these things (and much more) have helped to reduce the respect I use to have for lawyers and the judicial system. Too much snobbery for my taste.
This lovely person has done so much more in trying to get me to abandon the enforcement of the law upon his client. Upon my offering a sweet settlement to his client, he and his client did nothing but play games and lie. If his client had turned over only two of the three animals, nothing would have been said by me, no charges, no nothing but my withdrawing the case and the matter resolved with no further public comment about the matter. No one would have ever known he did, indeed, have my animals, even though he lied about them being deceased. I would have said nothing to no one; not even my parents or close friends. By now, he would have been completely void of any legal or any other kind of problem involving this matter. As far as I would have been concerned, it never happened. Now that's quite the settlement. However, the fact that he wants to continue the conflict again shows the kind of person Thomas is.
The fact that Thomas and his attorney have been so egregious in exhibiting such behaviors is indicative of the kind of people they truly are. Mr. Young vyed for a judgeship not too long ago but he lost. The hair stands up on the back of my neck when I imagine him as a judge - not because he's not intelligent enough, but because of how he treats those he doesn't need or he acts like are beneath him in importance. I think New York State is corrupt enough without having another judge like Young, especially when he can't even properly represent his client.
I was quite surprised how Young sacrificed a primo deal for his client by playing so many games and by failing to usher Thomas through the best settlement offer his client could ever have hoped for. Of course, maybe I shouldn't complain. After all, it's obvious he's stringing his client along for more money. All it takes is this guy to treat others according to the rules of the Attorney's Professional Code of Conduct. Sometimes I think he just can't sustain moral conduct, especially when it's gotten to the point in which it's hard to tell where his lips end and the DEC's ass begins. Sometimes I think he's switched clients. Maybe Thomas turned into the DEC? of course, they really are the same beast.
Then you have the others which support Thomas who haven't even met me in person, much less know me. Such lovely characters consist of boorish characters like Adam DeParolessa, Elise Able, my 800-lb neighbor who says he shoots all of the animals I released in the past (nice guy huh?) and who received advice from Billy Powell of the DEC to go ahead and shoot any animal at large which he thinks belongs to me. Such action is in violation of the agricultural code.
In the not-so-distant past, I became aware that my other neighbor was documenting everything I did outside. I'm treated like I have some meth lab or something of that nature in my backyard. It's ridiculous! I think these people have way too much time on their hands.
Yet, with all of this surveillance that Powell has on me, not once has he been able to find anything over the years - not once! Well, ok, except my overwintering coyotes. Oh, then there's the failure to throw Virginia opossums out into the cold while they were still recovering from bacterial infections. Oh, and sending in paperwork late and also, having chipmunks in my possession without exhibiting them although they are an unprotected, thus unregulated, species. Jeez, I wonder if I really do have a legal operation here!
What makes this situation almost hysterical is that while Billy Powell is obsessing over my every move, licensees only several miles from me are violating laws like they are going out of style. I volunteered for one who had illegal possession of seven red-tailed hawks, a thirteen-year raccoon kept since a baby, houses 70+ raccoons in her foyer through which the entire family walks numerous times every day to get in and out of the house, a buck which continually got loose and chasing neighbors, and so on. Powell has knowledge of this yet lets it continue because to him, it's much more important to watch my every move to see if I well, you know, do something he can possibly twist and turn and use against me since he has so little to use against me to begin with. I'm already being held responsible for other people's foxes running around. I think he's overestimating my ability in being able to control other people's animals.
It's almost like a keystone cops filmstrip or an Abbott & Costello skit where the joke is on the cop who, in obsessing over some benign phenomenon, ignores something substantial occurring right under his nose. No wonder the public doesn't take the DEC (especially its law enforcement division) seriously. There are a huge rash of violations which occur repeatedly by the same licensees every day, every week, every month, year by year, and yet, that's ok with the NYSDEC.
The Unbalanced
Other "upstanding" advocates fighting for Thomas' perceived "right" of industry shmucks to steal animals are Ronnie Strack of Ohio and Mikey Frasier of Tennesse. These guys are quite unbalanced psychologically. Ronnie masquerades around either under a facebook profile name of Rob Case or he does so as a government-employed sniper at Yellowstone National Park and credits himself with the leadership of an elite group of biologists turned snipers who are solely responsible for the successful introduction of wolves into the Park. Not true! Boy did the biologists I spoke with directly at Yellowstone get a guffaw at Ronnie's, 'er Rob's, imaginary life. This interesting psychopot has a plethora of stories when I first met him online. Maybe he's catfishing? I think so.
Frazier is like a butt blister waiting to burst upon impact (i.e. a nuisance). He hit the roof when I nicely disagreed with him in the past. He became so abruptly angry and started rifling insults at me. What a baby! ... a grown man who can't even handle congenial opposition from another. I even said he had a decent argument but that I just thought he was being a little too hard on wildlife rehabilitators. Obviously, not all is operating smoothly upstairs with this guy! But, it speaks volumes to who he goes after and who he helps with bullying online. He reflects well upon me, but not Thomas and Stacey.
Bad never sides with good; it always sides with someone or something just as bad, if not worse. It also stands to reason why good people shouldn't understand why bad people do the things they do and vice versa. I use to pound my head against the wall when I couldn't understand irrational people like these guys until I realized that I didn't understand their ways because it was so far away from the right thing that I'm not supposed to understand irrational arguments and behavior.
Other characters with personality disorders who also support Thomas and who have shown their true colors gullibly believing unsubstantiated information Thomas gives him (all of which is not true) is Jeff Taylor and a few others. Thank God, if they felt they had to choose sides, it wasn't mine. I have to say Taylor is one of the first to look at a judge's order and then claim my accusations are false. Not too swift. Obviously, he is believing what he wants to believe. And boy, what a nasty nasty guy! However, that's his problem, not mine.
Yet, not one person on my side has ever done any of these things. Not a one. I'm the one who has faced formal accusations from the Department yet I am the one with sound arguments and proof of how Thomas is lying, therefore, leading me to success in obtaining a court mandate for the return of my animals. I am not the one playing games or tricks nor am I the one entrapping other people. I have no secrets because I don't need to hide anything. I'm legal 100%. Well, unless I end up doing this civilian resistance thing and put up a lonely giraffe in my backyard. That's beside the point though.
Not one person can say that about any one of my enemies. This is an illustration of an obvious battle between good and bad. Although I'm the only one in the group of people I have mentioned in this post who has been prosecuted by the department, I am the only one who isn't employing unethical and unlawful means in order to get what I want and hurt others. That's the other side's strategy and again, it speaks volumes to the quality of their characters.
Crooked authorities and their patsies are the people who are against me but support Tyler Thomas and Nicholas Stacey. These two have been allowed to illegally possess, acquire, transport and detain animals both in New York, from New York, and into Texas and are still breaking conservation laws to this day. Thomas' false claim that all of my animals perished within a year of each other isn't seen at all as a problem with the USDA or DEC. Do you think they'd have the same attitude if I had claimed such a thing happened to any animals I had in my custody? Of course not.
I haven't even touched upon the duo's violation of federal laws like the Animal Welfare Act, the Lacey Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, not to mention possible provisions of Tyler's CBW license which I've been told will not be renewed, per USFWS.
Again, not one person associated with me has done any of this stuff at all. They haven't even peeped a vulgar word against Tyler Thomas and Nicholas Stacey and their minions and DEC patsies (well, except for you Gerry). That's amazing! And it makes me incredibly proud of who I am and those who feel comfortable associating with me. It's an astoundingly favorable reflection upon me as those who associate with Thomas and Stacey reflect upon them horribly and rightfully so. Many times the most subtle characteristics of conflict are the most telling in determining who is right and who is wrong; that is, if you are open enough to see it.
It is far too much of a trend for me to think it's just coincidental that the followers and friends of a person, especially in the exotic animal industry, are not reflective of the person him or herself. I thank you, my friends and followers, for your kindness, support, compassion, and decency. I cannot tell you how much it means to me and how good you are compared to some of the worst people I've ever met in my life in the world of Tyler and Nick (although I hear Nick isn't so bad). I'm so incredibly lucky!
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