Dogsbite.org tops itself in patheticness

So there is a fundraiser going for a pit bull rescue. You can read about it here

This woman was the victim of a pit bull attack (a fighting ring) and after many years she ultimately lost her leg. The fundraiser is to raise money for a permanent prosthetic leg. Here’s the thing. 

She hasn’t become a dogsbite.org minion so they of course attack her. Because you see, only the “victims” who worship at the altar of Colleen are worthy. Anyone that thinks their own thoughts and doesn’t fall in line is unworthy. 

Of course if you are a pit bull owner whose untrained, unexercised, uncared for dogs kill a 2 year old it’s okay as long as you sing the song of dogsbite and blame the rest of the world afterwards.

These people can’t seem to figure out if it’s the dogs fault or the humans fault, they just know they hate everyone and everything that doesn’t fall to their knees in compliance.

And this is the absolutely disgusting actions that follow. Dogsbite.org is SUPPOSEDLY an educational site. No, it’s a hate site. And I honestly do not know how a 501c3 gets away with it. Colleen Lynn you are a sad sad bitter nasty vile woman and you make me ill.

Notice her comment “stumping for pit bulls”. She thinks she’s being funny by making a play on the horrific injury this woman has. How’s that for a “victims” advocate?

And Colleen, I have plenty of words for this situation.

Sad, unfortunate, heartbreaking. Followed by intelligence, kindness, compassion, understanding, empathy, and most importantly SURVIVOR.

I’d say this lady did something not a single one of you morons has managed. She stopped being a victim, and she became a survivor.

Which puts her WORLDS ahead of you.

Foolish Follies

Dogsbite.org = disinformation machine revealed

I'm somewhat confused as to why the head honcho from dogsbite.org Colleen Lynn continues to support and promote breed specific legislation is spite of admitting in a Radio interview that it doesn't actually reduce dog bite related fatalities?


"In the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014, pit bulls killed 203 Americans and accounted for 62% of the total recorded deaths (326). Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers accounted for 74% of these deaths."




Breed Specific Legislation was never about community safety it was about killing pit bulls and it was assumed that by killing pit bulls the death toll would automatically fall but it hasn't in fact in the last 2 years the death toll has been twice the national average for the previous 2 decades 2 years running in spite of the hundreds of thousands of dogs that looked like pit bulls being murdered in shelters during that same time period?

Who we help

"DogsBite.org helps people like Jeff by conducting research on the growing, but underreported, public safety issue of severe and fatal dog attacks inflicted by a known dangerous dog breeds. Our extensive research base of over 2,200 web pages educates the public, law enforcement, journalists, attorneys and policymakers about the growing epidemic of damaging dog maulings our country faces. Read heartfelt letters from parents and family members thanking us for our help."

These people seem to only be advocating for victims of pit bulls and against pit bulls and their owners and regularly encourage followers to lobby politicians and legislators and that's activity which is likely tp put their non profit tax exempt status in jeopardy?



"What puts a 501(c)(3) status in jeopardy? When a 501(c)(3) does not file paperwork with the IRS and/or state or misstates its records intentionally, its tax-exempt status can be jeopardized.

Additionally, 501(c)(3) organizations cannot engage in the following activities:"

•" Conducting extensive lobbying;

• Donating a substantial private benefit to individuals or other organizations for uses not aligned with the organization’s 501(c)(3) purpose;

• Providing outsiders or insiders with personal benefits; • Engaging in any political activity; and

• Having excessive unrelated business income (UBI).

Additional information about maintaining an organization’s 501(c)(3) status can be found on the following Web sites:

www.stayexempt.org http://www.managementhelp.org/legal/lgl_need.htm http://law.richmond.edu/nonprofit/HowToFormANonprofit_1st_ed-Chapter3.pdf http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=136459,00.html http://www.hurwitassociates.com/siteindex.html http://www.legalzoom.com/law_library/non-profit/Operating-a-Non-ProfitCorporation.html"


As you can see dogsbite really doesn't care about the facts this victim may well have had a heart attack, or any number of ailments associated with growing old but because she had bite marks and dogs that looked like pit bulls case closed.

"1Of the 35 total recorded deaths in 2015, two cases are still pending -- awaiting lab results. The deaths of Werner Vogt, 85-years old of Christian County, Missouri and Maria Torres, 57-years old of Gridley, California.

2After a pet pit bull of 8-years killed its owner on Christmas Day in 2014 in Portage, Indiana, the image of 40-year old Edward Cahill posing with his pit bull also went viral on social media. Cahill's mauling death by his family pit bull was "so clear cut," the coroner declined to do an autopsy. "There’s no reason for me to spend $2,500 of the taxpayers’ money on something so obvious," Porter County Coroner Chuck Harris told reporters."

Related articles:
08/31/15: Who Can Identify a Pit Bull? A Dog Owner of 'Ordinary Intelligence'...
01/07/15: 2014 Fatal Dog Attack Breed Identification Photographs - DogsBite.org
01/03/14: 2013 Fatal Dog Attack Breed Identification Photographs - DogsBite.org


Your donation allows them to spread fear and disinformation all of which has contributed to the dog bite related fatalities being nearly twice the national average for the second year running and the fact is dogsbite does not have one active program intended to help victims.

"Your gift allows us to continue our core activities"

• "Conduct and publish high quality research about U.S. fatal dog maulings, including ourannual reports and combined year reports that identify underreported high-risk injury scenarios, primarily involving children.
• Track and analyze breed-specific laws by state and federal agencies, including U.S.military divisions and housing authorities; examine the success of breed-specific laws and provide access to the constitutional rulings that uphold them.
• Educate the public, law enforcement, journalists, attorneys and policymakers on the results of our research through reports, white papers, written and oral testimony, original videos, extended blog posts and news releases.
• Make our extensive research and statistical data freely available to the public, researchers, law enforcement, journalists and policymakers by maintaining a comprehensive website of over 2,200 pages and hundreds of PDF files.
• Advocate on behalf of dog bite and dog mauling victims to advance preventative policies through amicus brief filings and by providing testimony and research analysis results at city, county and state-level legislative hearings.
• Provide a platform of high visibility to ensure that victims' voices are heard -- over ahundred reports from local, regional and national newspapers have cited DogsBite.org statistical data -- and to provide a venue for sharing and support.
• Special investigative projects, including deep coverage of severe and fatal dog maulings to share with the public how victims lives are adversely affected physically, emotionally and financially and how the existing system often fails them.
• Monitor and correct dog lobbyist and advocacy misinformation and false myths; acting as the primary whistleblower combating well-funded animal "expert" groups that manipulate the truth about dangerous dog breeds, primarily pit bulls.
• Provide legislative and litigation support to municipalities and elected officials by ensuring that the leading scientific evidence and winning legal research and can be easily obtained when adopting a breed-specific ordinance or maintaining one.
• Assist newly formed nonprofits and foundations that operate under a similar mission as our own by offering consultation and guidance and by sharing state-of-the art knowledge and best practices we've documented in other jurisdictions.

Learn more about our mission, our passion and why we do what we do."

Colleen regularly encourages followers to contact their local politicians councils etc and dogsbite regularly lobbies law maker all activities which seem to jeopardize their status as a non profit charity.

"Are there limitations on the activities in which a tax-exempt organization may engage?"

"Depending upon the nature of its exemption, a tax-exempt organization may jeopardize its tax-exempt status if it engages in certain activities. For example, under IRS rules, nonprofit corporations must abide by the following restrictions to retain their tax-exempt status:

• Nonprofit corporations with a 501(c)(3) tax exemption cannot participate in or contribute money to political campaigns. If they do, the IRS can revoke their nonprofit status, and can assess a special excise tax against the organization and its managers.
• Nonprofit corporations can engage in only limited lobbying activities. Tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofits that influence legislation to any “substantial degree” face the loss of their nonprofit status. However, for tax-exempt nonprofits that want to participate in lobbying, the IRS simply sets a limit on the money they can spend on political activities."
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http://nonprofitorganizations.uslegal.com/frequently-asked-questions/


Programs NONE, NONE, NONE and NONE dogsbite has absolutely no active programs in relation to helping current victims or preventing future victims it seems most of their budget must go toward propaganda from Merrit Clifton.

Programs

Program: Data Gathering and Report Generation(GuideStar Nonprofit Profile April 2015)

Budget:

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Category:

None

Population Served:

None

None

None

"Program Description:

Dog bite statistical data gathering is the cornerstone of DogsBite.org and has resulted in several important studies issued by DogsBite.org including: U.S. Dog Bite Fatalities January 2006 to December 2008 (April 2009) and U.S. Pit Bull Attacks in 85-Day Period (October 2008). As of April 2014, the 3-year dog bite fatality study has been accessed over 74,000 times since its release and is still often quoted by the media. In April 2011, statistics from the 85-day data collection period were cited in a peer-reviewed medical journal study, "Mortality, Mauling, and Maiming by Vicious Dogs," published by the Annals of Surgery. Each year, starting from 2005, DogsBite.org collects U.S. fatal dog bite data. These annual reports are issued in January of the following year and are widely read by media members, attorneys, medical professionals and researchers. The last dog bite fatality report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was in the year 2000. Our annual reports fill this absence of vital information for the public. Lastly, in addition to our annual reports, DogsBite.org also supplies cumulative dog bite fatality data at the end of each year. For instance, a chart depicting fatal dog attacks by breed from year 2005 forward.

Program Long-Term Success:

Program Short-Term Success:

Program Success Monitored by:

Program Success Examples:"

I've copied and pasted the page from GuideStar with active links simply click on the link to check out the information you want to access as you can see the four links at the bottom of the post above concerning Programs are not active indicating after 8 years they don't have even one successful program to highlight?.

GuideStar Summary

	Updated Profile	Committed to transparency
	Registered with IRS	Legitimacy information is available
	Financial Data	Annual Revenue and Expense data reported
	Mission Objectives	Mission Statement is available
	Impact Summary	Impact Summary from the nonprofit is available
		No Personal Reviews available

Dogsbite has absolutely no support among legitimate animal organizations in the world and as you can see above not even one "review" after 8 years of being incorporated.

Basic Organization Information

DOGSBITEORG INCORPORATED
Physical Address:	Austin, TX 78711
EIN:	27-1527147
Web URL:	www.dogsbite.org
Blog URL:	blog.dogsbite.org
NTEE Category:	A Arts, Culture, and Humanities A30 Media, Communications Organizations R Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy R01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations W Public, Society Benefit W01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Ruling Year:	2011
Top Funders:	Individuals - $25,903

Where do all the donations go if they're not helping victims at least you can see where the Dj's wasting Daxton's Freinds donations with his road side bill boards vilifying American Pit Bull Terriers while featuring a picture of an American Bully, real educational!!!

Mission Statement

DogsBite.org is a national dog bite victims' group dedicated to reducing serious dog attacks.

The mission statement looks a bit light on detail and it's inaccurate because they seem to focus on pit bull victims while virtually ignoring victims of non banned breeds and offer nothing in the way of victims resources other then contact details for lawyers.

Legitimacy Information

This organization is registered with the IRS.

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

Institutional funders should note that an organization’s inclusion on GuideStar.org does not satisfy IRS Rev. Proc. 2011-33 for identifying supporting organizations.

Learn more about GuideStar Charity Check, the only pre-grant due diligence tool that is 100% compliant with IRS Rev. Proc 2011-33.

Guidestar-dogsbiteorg-incorporated


There's no need to take my word for anything just follow the links to the source and verify for yourself.

Annual Revenue & Expenses

(GuideStar Nonprofit Profile, April 2015)

Fiscal Year Starting: January 1, 2014
Fiscal Year Ending: December 31, 2014

Total Revenue  $26,773

Total Expenses  $29,380

Considering their focus revolves around promoting breed specific legislation against a breed/type responsible for 62% (dogsbite stat) of dog bite fatalities it seems they're ignoring those victims of non banned breeds.

In 2014 43 people died as a result of dog related injuries 20 of which involved non banned breeds, I suggest that dogbite.org creator Colleen Lynn explain to their families why she promotes legislation which does nothing to help them or prevent other families suffering similar tragedies in the future.

Most if not all of the pro breed specific legislation proponents have an axe to grind against a population of type/breeds because of a bad experience they've had with a particular dog that may or may not have been a pit bull they are driven by revenge and their judgement seems distorted by hatred.

Please don't enable their Cynophobic tendencies and the fact is this organization should have hundreds of thousands of supporters if they weren't discriminating against a particular breed and were  focusing on victims advocacy as they claim they most certainly would have more support but the fact is after 8 years of being published their Facebook page has little to no support either?......


dogsbite.org/likes

People

910

People Talking About This

4,748

Total Page Likes

0%from last week

0

New Page Likes

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Now considering there's more then 317 million people in America alone not counting the rest of the world with internet access it's a bit delusional of these people to claim to be speaking for the majority which clearly is not the case.....

more to come....

Dogsbite is operating outside their scope because they truly hate pit bulls

There's strict regulations and guidelines under which 
 non profits are expected to conduct their organizational initiative grassroots lobbying is allowable but under strict guidelines....

"Grassroots Lobbying" is defined as an attempt to influence specific legislation by encouraging the public to contact legislators about that legislation.

A communication constitutes grassroots lobbying if it refers to specific legislation, reflects a view on that specific legislation and encourages the recipient of the communication to take lobbying action.

This type of communication is known as a call to action.

 For Example:

• You send a letter to BSL supporters in your community asking them to contact their state representative to encourage him to support a bill that would provide new state funds for BSL programs;

• You send an email to BSL supporters in your community asking them to contact their Members of Congress and urge her to sign on to a letter to the President asking him to increase funding for BSL programs in his budget;

 • You send an email to the BSL community encouraging them to ask their legislators to vote for or against a bill.

Lobbying is NOT:

nonpartisan analysis, study or research, examinations and discussions of broad social, economic and similar problems, promoting and touting the success of your program, requests for technical advice or assistance, or “self-defense” communications.

For Example (these would NOT be considered lobbying):

• Sending an email to the BSL community with an update on or summary of legislation that does not include a call to action (such as a monthly legislative update);

• Making the results of an independent and objective nonpartisan analysis, study, or research on a legislative issue available to the public;

 • Responding to verbal or written requests from a legislative body, committee, or subcommittee for technical advice on pending legislation;

• Participating in a discussion of policy issues where the resolution might require legislation, as long as the discussion does not address the merits of specific legislative measures;

• Meeting with your Member of Congress to discuss your program, as well as the general need for and benefits of BSL programs in your community, without referring to a specific legislative proposal;

• Planning and hosting a briefing on the unique needs of  communities when it comes to BSL programs.

General Lobbying Rules for Non Profit Organizations

The post below seems to contradict or breach the rules and/or guidelines in relation to lobbying specifically in relation to breed specific 
legislation.

DogsBite.org

October 6 at 4:43am · Edited · 

TAKE ACTION: Michigan residents, please send this email to your state senators and say, "I agree with DogsBite.org" -- Or it might become an anti-BSL state. (http://bit.ly/votenoSB239)
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INSTRUCTIONS: Please copy and paste this full letter into your email program. Simply write at the very top, "I agree with DogsBite.org" -- or add you own unique text. Please include the bill number and your position in the subject line: "Please Oppose SB 239." At the very bottom of the letter are the senators email addresses. Copy and paste the full block into the "To:" area of your email. Hit send! You've just helped preserve about 30 jurisdictions in Michigan with pit bull laws. If SB 239 passes, every single pit bull ordinance in this state will be nullified.
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Dear Honorable Michigan Senators,

DogsBite.org is a national dog bite victims' group dedicated to reducing serious dog attacks. We are the oldest and largest nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization committed to putting the safety of humans before dogs and the principal source of information on this topic that is not owned, controlled, or funded by dog breeders, dog owners, veterinarian or animal welfare groups.

My organization strongly opposes SB 239.

We would like the opportunity to address several fallacy arguments being advanced by the supporters of SB 239, which will prevent local governments from enacting and enforcing ordinances that regulate dogs based upon breed, primarily pit bulls.

1. "Constitutional" and "property rights" arguments are invalid

Example fallacy: "Breed-specific laws violate our fundamental individual property rights"

Those were the opening words of April Almond, Senator Robertson's legislative director, who presented SB 239 to the Senate Agriculture Committee on September 17th. A common fallacy echoed by pit bull supporters.

To believe or to promote such an invalid argument would be to ignore American Jurisprudence. If the analysis of the sponsors of SB 239 were correct, there would have been no legal basis for any of the breed-specific law victories in appellate courts; not one breed-specific ordinance would have survived constitutional scrutiny. The fact is, the exact opposite is true. Why has every well-written breed-specific law been upheld after judicial scrutiny? Please see a full listing of these decisions (http://bit.ly/constitutionalityBSL)

Private property issues have been re-litigated in breed-specific cases and each time have failed because this legal issue has been settled for over a hundred years when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. - 166 U.S. 698 (1897) that “property in dogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature” and that government officials could shoot and kill loose dogs that pose a danger to the community. Please see Google Scholar search results for: "Sentell" and "property" and "pit bull"

Learn more about the false constitutional arguments being advanced by supporters of SB 239: http://bit.ly/bslisconstitutional

2. "Breed-specific laws do not work" claim is invalid

Many jurisdictions have reported successful results after adopting a pit bull law. Our ongoing post, Cities with Successful Pit Bull Laws; Data Shows Breed-Specific Laws Work, tracks these cities and their results. Two cities are from Michigan: Saginaw and Ypsilanti Township. Both jurisdictions are proud of their ordinances, which are quite different too, emphasizing the need for local control. Two peer-reviewed studies from Canada and Spain also show a significant decrease in hospitalizations for dog bite injuries after enacting breed-specific regulations. (http://bit.ly/bslworks)

a.) Effectiveness of Breed-Specific Legislation in Decreasing the Incidence of Dog-Bite Injury Hospitalisations in People in the Canadian Province of Manitoba, by Malathi Raghavan, Patricia J Martens, Dan Chateau, and Charles Burchill, Injury Prevention, Published Online First, June 30, 2012 (http://bit.ly/1YITQTa)

b.) Decline in Hospitalisations Due to Dog Bite Injuries in Catalonia, 1997–2008. An Effect of Government Regulation?, by Joan R Villalbi, Montse Cleries, Susana Bouis, Víctor Peracho, Julia Duran and Conrad Casas, Injury Prevention, 2010;16:408-410 (http://1.usa.gov/1WrLuxl)

Legal references:

Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. - 166 U.S. 698 (1897)
"The very fact that they are without the protection of the criminal laws shows that property in dogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature … Even if it were assumed that dogs are property in the fullest sense of the word, they would still be subject to the police power of the state, and might be destroyed or otherwise dealt with, as in the judgment of the legislature is necessary for the protection of its citizens." (http://bit.ly/1jo6YwS)

Nicchia v. New York, 254 US 228 - U.S. Supreme Court 1920
"Property in dogs is of an imperfect or qualified nature and they may be subjected to peculiar and drastic police regulations by the State without depriving their owners of any federal right. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co. - 166 U.S. 698 (1897)" (http://bit.ly/1LVMgek)

Sincerely,

Colleen Lynn
Founder & President
DogsBite.org

DogsBite.org is a national dog bite victims' group based in Austin, Texas. Our website contains a wide collection of data to help policymakers and citizens learn about dangerous dog breeds. Our research focuses on pit bull type dogs. Due to selective breeding practices that emphasize aggression and tenacity, this class of dogs negatively impacts communities the most. Learn more about us: http://www.dogsbite.org/dogsbite-about.php

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    Lewis Alexander Done, thank you and shared! So interesting the many lies.

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    Sally Hewitt Thank you!

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Limitations on Lobbying Activities: Guidelines for 501(c)(3 ...

"Nonprofit organizations that qualify for federal income tax exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") have the most favorable tax status, but they also have the most restrictions on government affairs activities. To maintain their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, these organizations must avoid all political campaign activities "

The rules are quite clear and as you can see Jeff Borchardt shared the post to Daxton's Friends too..

Daxton's Friends for Canine Education & Awareness sharedDogsBite.org's photo.

October 6 at 5:35am · 

DogsBite.org

October 6 at 4:43am · Edited · 

TAKE ACTION: Michigan residents, please send this email to your state senators and say, "I agree with DogsBite.org" -- Or it might become an anti-BSL state. (ht...

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Neither Dogsbite.org or Daxton's Friend Canine Education & Awareness are considered legitimate animal organizations as they don't have one expert between them and exhibit extreme bias toward specific breeds and ignore victims of non banned breeds.

The fact is neither of those 501 c's offer victims anything at all Colleen brags they are the oldest non profit org for victims and yet they offer no services for victims.

Colleen Lynn has admitted that Bsl was designed to kill pit bulls and it was thought that by killing pit bull this would automatically lower the dog bite fatality rates but in spite of the deaths of hundred of thousands of pit bulls in 2014 the death toll was over 50% higher then the average for the two preceding decades which confirms Bsl is not working.

Colleen Lynn Quietly Admits Breed Bans Don't Serve Public Safety But Wants Them Anyway

True public safety advocates wouldn't be willing to let their own opinions of a specific breed to cause them to totally ignore victims of all other breeds these so called public safety advocates have the blood of many victims of non banned breeds on their hands as a result of their reckless twisting of the facts and bold faced lies, shame on you Colleen, Jeff, Merrit etc etc.

more to come.....