It is a horse pilgrimage by the horse and for the horse and we the people, participants in their cause to inspire and educate the public about the dire situation our horses are in.

Senate Bill, SB 727, and House Bill 503 The Equine Prevention Cruelty Act passes. These bills would prevent horse slaughter in the US and shipment of horses to slaughter to foreign countries.

These bills have languished for too long while our noble friend, the horse, die excruciating deaths. So far there are 28 Senators co-sponsoring SB-727 and 180 co-sponsors for the house version. We need 40 more House Representatives to co-sponsor HR 503 for it to pass the House and a total of 60 Senators need to join on SB 727 for it to pass the Senate.

We can not let any Senators get away with the murder of our noble friend, the horse, without their callous disregard going unnoticed. These bills do not prevent horse owners from euthanizing or killing their own horses. It only protects horses from being sent to slaughter plants.

There is also a call to our representatives to implement a moratorium on all BLM wild horse round-ups until an independent study and count of our wild horses can be established. This agency, entrusted to take care of our public lands has been entrenched with cattle interests for too long. They are spending our tax dollars recklessly to take away our wild horses while increasing cattle grazing on the lands that were originally designated primarily for the wild horse. To find out more please visit www.thecloudfoundation.org. We must get the attention of our Senators and representatives NOW!

A pilgrimage to Washington DC with horses, and for those that must stay at home, they can table at their Senators district office with their horses or horse trailers and banners until the bill passes. This can be done on a weekly or monthly basis with or without horses.

Teachers play a vital role and must also be recruited in getting children to write letters, draw, write stories about the horses just as Wild Horse Annie did back in the 1970’s. If it worked once, it can work again.

It begins with you, in your own town or city and does not end until the horse is saved from slaughter and round-ups. It is an on-going affair, a growing movement that will excite and capture the American heart as it grows. There are thousands of retired folk with horses who like to ride long and short distances. We need these kind of adventurous people. There are the endurance riders and the dormant couch potatoes that long ago rode in the saddle and dream of it still and “Dang nab bit, I’m going to do this thing.”

You can ride for a mile or a thousand miles, it doesn’t matter. The point is to get horses back in front of our faces and minds. You can host potlucks in your local parks, with talent open mic entertainments centering on the sentiments of our friend, the horse.

Pilgrimage participants will converge on Senators’ offices as they pass through the various cities and towns. They will distribute post cards, leaflets, action alerts in front of Senators’ offices. Tables will be set up where locals can write or call their Senators right there to support these bills and actions.People can bring their horse trailers with or without their horses as a way of getting attention. Banners and slogans can be hung on the trailers showing the depictions of sad eyed horses waiting for slaughter and slogans reading, “Senator So and So needs to stop this atrocity now.” Portable DVD players showing the round-ups and horses going to slaughter is a great tool to educate the public as well. With handheld loud speakers, (Michael Moore style), they inform the public that this Senators’ do nothing attitude is responsible for the death of 65,000 horses last year and counting because they have not co-sponsored SB- 727 and joined the call for a moratorium on all BLM wild horse round-ups.

Pilgrimages hold a fascination for Americans. It appeals to our sense of history and romance as does the horse itself. I attended a seminar on the most effective ways to get representatives to respond to causes of the people. Unfortunately, media and embarrassment were two key factors in getting the attention of politicians when you didn’t have money or lobbying power to persuade them. The pilgrimage will do both.

For those who wish to ride to Washington, DC the vision is of an ongoing pilgrimage of horses, horse and riders, covered wagons, buggies, horse trailers, cars, bikes, walkers, converging on the Capitol in a daily, weekly or monthly appearances as a constant reminder to our Representatives in Washington, DC that this issue is not going away. It is not a one day protest or affair. It is on-going and growing with banners, slogans, DVD players, loud speakers, an outpouring of visitations to their offices and exposing them for their lack of moral kin by allowing our horses to be murdered without thought or care. Since people would be leaving from different states at different times this would create a constant influx to the Capital.Media coverage is an important aspect and my partner, Meredeth Magnenti is a video graphic artist and editor and would video tape our whole venture and put it on the web and You Tube as well as various websites.

I produce a public access TV show that airs in Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Spokane and Monterey. We encourage anyone to video their part of the journey. Contact local media outlets in the towns you pass through and the local Chamber of Commerce. Usually the news media loves these kind of stories and are starving for new stories. My part in this will be theater, the Four Horses of the Apocalypse, each horse depicting the prophecies in Revelations. The white horse is salvation, the red, war and pestilence, the black one, death and the brown signifies famine. The riders will be in full costume to glorify this powerful vision. The theme is that horses are messengers and gifts from God and what we do to the horse and God’s creatures shall be visited upon ourselves.

In fact, this is happening as we lose more and more of our freedoms. As we converge from different states we will report on how intact our freedom of speech remains in America. If the dollar bill still declares ‘In God We Trust,’ the Four Horses of the Apocalypse can also inspire a powerful message and our link to God and his messenger, the horse. My particular vision is to rescue four horses from a slaughter plant holding facility either in Texas or Washington State and trailer them to Washington, DC with trailer banners advertising on one side, “Bound for Slaughter” and the other side, “Now I’m free”. I wish to contact ranches throughout the country to allow rescue horses on their lands. There is so much open empty space where horses could roam. It is a myth they destroy the land. They enhance it as famed wildlife ecologist Craig Downer so aptly states. Let’s fill these spaces with the beauty and majesty of the horse.

For a detailed questionnaire, and a chance to participate, please contact Lorna Moffat, PO Box 5454, Monterey, CA, 93942 Tel: 831-644-6160. To watch my TV Meet America series go to www.ampmedia.org Thursday 9:30 pm and Tuesdays at 3: 30 pm. I do on-going stories and updates about our horses and have interviewed Craig Downer, Ginger Kathyrens, and Madeleine Pickens, Animal Angels, Dreamcatchers, Front Range Equine rescue .