For elephants, the constant travel the circus demands translates into abysmal living conditions such as fetid, windowless railroad cars and constant chaining. Behind the scenes life worsens for the elephants as trainers commonly use weapons called bullhooks to beat elephants into submission making them perform unnatural acts such as standing on their heads or dancing. Bullhooks are homemade tools of cruelty that are heavy and have a very sharp hook on the end. By hooking an elephant in the mouth, around the eyes or behind the ears and causing extreme pain and even drawing blood, a trainer can successfully intimidate elephants into performing. The Act dictates that by endangering animals by routinely beating elephants and even having baby elephants suddenly die, Ringling Brothers is clearly in violation of the law.
Every ticket sold to the circus perpetuates the abuse of animals.
Let's teach our children that elephants are magnificent beings who belong in the wild, not chained out behind the Big Top. Mr. William Jasper has written 27 articles in The New American Magazine in the six years since the bombing, painstakingly investigating military explosive experts, seismologists, survivors, rescue workers, and countless witnesses. According to Jasper, in addition to the ANFO car bomb, explosive devices were affixed to various columns within the building itself. There was asymmetrical damage done to the building that could not have been done by the car bomb alone and a few of these devices that had failed to detonate were found in the rubble. The government's lone bomber theory is difficult to believe.