The history of the GSDCA WDA is long, convoluted and without much in the way of honest representation or serious concern about working dogs in general or the German Shepherd in particular. But sometimes there is a ray of hope to remind us that while many of these people have been deceived it remains true that you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. As these fundamentally decent and honest people work their way up in the organization some of them are not fooled, can not be prevented from seeing the tangled web of lies the WDA is based on.
As a good example, in June of 2010 the president of the WDA, Mr. Danny Spreitler,
resigned his office with a ringing denunciation of the organization and the long
term people who participated to this conspiracy to deceive. This was an act of
enormous wisdom and courage, for many people exposed to corruption and deceit in
high places are gradually sucked into the deceit, never quite arrive at that
moment to make the break and tell the simple truth.
Sent: 6/30/2010
12:10:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Letter of Resignation
Today I announce my resignation as President of the GSDCA-WDA. I have learned
that one must be able to live with oneself in order to enjoy all that life has
to offer. At this time, when so many great things are happening around me, I
find myself mired in the political strife of the GSDCA-WDA and GSDCA. And to
what end is the political strife going to benefit our great breed? It will not.
I was elected because I would fight for the membership. Now I find that I am so
politically correct that I quit fighting for all the wrong reasons. I can no
longer be part of the lies and deceit.
The GSDCA-WDA can never fully realize its place for the breed as long as it
falls under the realm of the GSDCA. And fall it does. The GSDCA holds the seat
in the WUSV and controls the flow of judges, events and all paperwork. The
GSDCA-WDA relationship is built around the fact that the GSDCA wants to
maintain the seat in the WUSV and the GSDCA-WDA is the only way to keep it. For
years, the SV and WUSV have been misled by the GSDCA WUSV Liaison, Dr. David
Landau, regarding the relationship between the GSDCA and the GSDCA-WDA.
Wolfgang Henke, President of the SV, made reference to this deceit while speaking
to the membership at the 2009 North American Sieger Show. The written agreement
between the GSDCA and the GSDCA-WDA was demanded by the SV once they learned of
the true depth of the deceit. The deceit continues as the membership numbers
reported to the WUSV are inflated. GSDCA is not the largest German Shepherd organization in the
Danny J. Spreitler