Despite Their Religious Devotion, the Amish Can Be as Cruel as the Rest of Us

• I live 30 miles from the largest Amish community located in Holmes County where they have over 400 USDA large, commercial dog breeding facilities, many people refer to as puppy mills. There are over 11,000 dogs lanquishing in these places and as reported by Ervin Raber in a letter to his congressman, it is a nine-million dollar a year industry. Go to http://www.BanOhioDogAuctions.com and learn more about this cruel industry. In the local paper an Amish father and his son, bragged about how well the two of them care for their dogs, their 250 dogs! They simply do not get it, that dogs are social creatures who crave emotional connections in order to thrive. They figure as long as they are fed and the moms are kept pregnant with nursing puppies 24/7 inside a cage, what is the problem?!

• Had no idea my comment would get its own post, wow. I'd just like to add that I'm not trying to insinuate that all Amish people are bad or anything, it's just that we tend to see them as some kind of elevated, super perfect group of people, when they're really not all that different than anyone else. Some people would go as far as to say that they qualify as a cult and actually...I think they do fit the criteria. There's a lot of potential for bad stuff going on when people decide to isolate themselves like that.

• Alfred, put up a tall, sturdy fence around your property.

• Yea we have several amish colonies here in Montana and like people are saying they are scum who break the law and get away with shit, well anyways the amish here go into local stores and steal, they send 5 or 10 people into the store and stick what ever they can find in their pockets and walk out, theres stores here that have rules that can only have 2 - 3 Amish people walking around at a time so the store owners / employees can try to keep tabs on them to make sure they arnt stealing.

• Amish are a joke.........just a scam to not pay taxes.Any of the ones with money have a mobile home next to their shack they live in that is modern, They will say they rent it out.........lol.They use the phone,'fridge,freezer,washer,dryer,TV in their "rental" home. They have property close to mine in Central Pa.Won't let anyone hunt on theirs but constantly sneak over on mine to hunt. I run them out when I catch them,tear down tree stands they build on my property and clean up the garbage from where ever they ate lunch and scattered wrappers. I used to buy 150 trout every year for a small pond on my property for local kids to catch......even had a sign up 16 and under only then caught 3 adult male Amish with 27 trout in a bag fishing there.I had done this for years but can not any longer.Within a couple days they have caught them all and there are none left for the kids. I can not watch my property 24/7 and they know that. Simply put Amish are scum.

• Liberals are the ultimate bigots.

• ^^not to mention the FLDS *shudder*

• I dated a former menonite once, and she described that sexual abuse was, unfortunately, something she had seen too much of among those cultures. I have heard similar stories about Mormon and LDS faiths.

• There is a interesting article that was published in a Lancaster paper that I read that talks about all sorts of abuse amongst the Amish. Most are silenced by the shame and their own families - though often is it their family doing the abusing. This link tells a horrible story about an Amish woman who was abused for years by her own family. http://boards.library.trutv.com/showthread.php?t=276594

• scumsuckers live aaall over the place and wear many hats

• Sadly I'm pretty sure the Amish do a lot more horrid things and get away with it because like you said "they take care of their own"

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