Okay, confession time. Longtime lurker who has been to maybe three tiny shows max in her lifetime and is not a member of the USEF, so please take the following words as the view of a not very informed outsider.
Moving beyond the atrocities of the incident,
How must he have felt, letting down friends, family, clients, kids…???
Why oh why did I have to get caught? ducks for cover 
Sorry, sorry!
But seriously…
I’m reasonably sure that the killing was a well-thought out plan of action, designed to minimize any and all possible “problems” associated with such an endeavor-using a middleman and electrocution, etc. Those actions did just not seem the work of a man broken with indecision and guilt over a difficult choice, but a business decision to minimize loss. Or possibly embarrassment. I really don’t know, and I’ve never met him or actually even heard of Mr. Valliere before the No Reinstatement threads. This is just how it’s appearing to me.
I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice person when under parole, but it takes a bit of cool, calculating temperament to even think about doing anything close to what he did, which leads me to wonder if, indeed, he feels remorse for killing a horse under his care or if the remorse is for getting caught. The regret itself seems genuine, but his quotes personally come across as “I’ve done charity, I’ve expressed remorse, ergo I am entitled to join the USEF 
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[QUOTE] “I’ve helped a lot of different animal charities,” Valliere said. “I donated all of my lesson money to the animals left behind after 9/11. I’ve donated a lot to the ASPCA and to rescuing horses in distress. A lot of people just don’t know what I’ve done. Mason was kind enough to ask me to judge. There were only a handful of people [dissenting] ”” enough to stir up a problem. Some people just won’t let go." [/QUOTE ]
Again, he probably didn’t just wake up one day an Evil Horse Killer â„¢ after a life of good deeds, but had a long and disreputable spiral downward to reach that point. Yes, this is nothing but speculation on my part based on admittedly limited experience. However, nothing has really convinced me that if a similar situation comes up again, he won’t make another wrong decision. 
Ok, long rant over. This is my view of the subject, and when I discussed it with non-horsey folks, they had similar opinions on the situation. Am I missing something? 
