Joshua Sarsfield (carriage driver) testifies opposing ban

I'm Joshua Sosville, horse carriage driver.

If the public has been actively deceived, we as the industry involved and our legislators have a responsibility and a duty to expose that deception.

We are here because NY Class are animal liberation extremists whose eventual goal is the extinction of not just all working but all domestic animals, period.

Their movement defines captivity as abuse.

So no change we make could ever be enough because domestic animals are an abomination to them.

We are here because Steve Nislick is a billionaire.

You might say, well, that proves his heart's true because what does he need the money for?

But billionaires don't care about money.

If it was about needing money, they'd probably stop at $100 million and retire.

You've got to have a certain personality to go all the way to the billion.

How can you not get to $100 million and say, okay, now I can finally write that play I never had time for?

But they keep going because it's not about money.

Because if you're a billionaire, dollars aren't money.

Dollars are points.

Points in a game.

And a game is only enjoyable when you're on the field playing it, crushing your opponent.

The problem is your opponent is us, and it's a game we never signed up for.

And your winning point is our lives.

Your winning point is our children.

Nislik thinks he can control these people, but they'll come for his.

Horse two, if not now, sooner or later, this generation or the next.

The mounted unit, the park rangers, the service dogs, the bodega cats, they could be finding horses

that need their help, but they focus all their attention on the 68 best kept and most visible horses in the country because the visibility is the point.

A symbolic victory in their long march toward extinction.

These horses get the perfect ratio of exercise, rest, and human attention.

They're getting the best life of any horse in America.

Everybody loves doing what they're born for.

Birds love flying.

Horses love pulling.

I love running my mouth.

There was a dog escaped in the news.

They found him herding sheep for three days.

Never seen a sheep in his life, all right?

You may see a poodle on a couch watching TV and a hunting dog covered in rain and dripping with mud and think you know which one's living the good life, but a poodle is a hunting dog, and I promise you the happy dog is the money one.

Thank you very much.

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