Eenie, meenie, minie, moe: Giuliani v. Clinton
According to a CNN poll, 31% of self-identified Republicans want former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani to be the next President while 37% of self-identified Democrats picked Hillary Clinton. Dog lovers and anyone who respects the United States Constitution need to pay particularly close attention to any race that has Guiliani running for President. Guiliani tried to push for a law singling out Pit Bulls and "streamlining" the process for destroying dogs. His idea of streamlining was to eliminate dangerous dog hearings and just skip straight to euthanization. What that would mean for dog owners is, based on someone's accusation, your dog could be killed without so much as a hearing. That's the world Mayor Guiliani sees. Why stop there? Why not streamline the criminal process and do away with a fair trial? Oh, but wait, he has already proposed such an absurdity. Dangerous dog laws generally fall under criminal codes. So, when a person is charged with harboring a dangerous dog, he or she is charged with a crime. Streamlining the process means taking away a fundamental Constitutional right.
Apparently, Giuliani believes the Constitution can be warped to fit his own personal agenda. Anyone with that kind of an attitude shouldn't get anywhere near the Presidency.
References:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/07/poll/index.html
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/bronxbeat/1999/march/march8/pitbull.html