"I
may not like what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right
to say it." -- Voltaire
It was only
a matter of time before the proverbial shit hit the fan and one group
or another raised arms to try and get me thrown in jail, decapitated and
crushed like the sinister plague that I am.
Whether it
was the Christian Right, the NRA, the PTA, Republicans or Aunt Bessies
Mahjong Club, I knew that eventually something like this would happen.
Quite frankly
I'm surprised that it took this long for some organization to catch wind
of "that guy who actually shows reality for what it is" and
make a fuss over it. Quite frankly I'm surprised that it was over a video
clip of a cat being cooked by a culture which thinks nothing of eating
an abundant animal for survival.
Why the hell
couldn't this be over something more important, like a human?
Now don't
get me wrong, I am totally against animal cruelty and have never eaten
a cat, nor plan to, but it just seems harder and harder to be offended
by the video without seeming like a hypocrite. Someone preparing a meal
of an animal that our culture cherishes offends us, yet we brutally slaughter
hundreds of millions of animals yearly for consumption. It's just hard
to take the moral high-ground on this one if you are a meat eater.
Today Wired
was kind enough to print an article on this site, and had some delicious
quotes from PETA saying that they are going to try and get me prosecuted
for distributing animal cruelty.
"PETA
officials say they are confident the site (Stile Project) will be prosecuted
under a new federal law prohibiting depictions of animal cruelty for commercial
purposes."
If you don't
know what I am talking about, a few days ago I
posted this video. 600 e-mails later I thought that the issue was
over. Far from it. Many people
living in Asia e-mailed me confirming that eating cats and dogs is a widely
practiced culinary event, and we even tracked down the source of this
video. Surprisingly, you can probably rent it at your local video
store.
PETA, maybe
you should also prosecute PBS since they have broadcast the exact same
thing many times on a special on foreign cultures and their eating habits.
Maybe you
should also prosecute
AMAZON.COM which SELLS the "Faces Of Death" videos which feature
DOGS and CATS being killed and eaten, not to mention cows, sheep, chickens
AND humans.
Talk about
directly profiting from selling animal cruelty! Somehow I doubt that Amazon
will ever hear from the Justice Department, but a skinny bald Jew who
lives in his mom's basement will. Selling videos that feature animal torture
sounds like "the depiction of animal cruelty for commercial purposes"
if you ask me. I wasn't exactly selling the video clip for money.
Where do
we draw the line between animal cruelty and survival? Is it animal cruelty
if we eat the animal after we kill it?
Where the
hell is the People For The Ethical Treatment Of Humans in all this?
How come you never hear about them protesting snuff films like Faces Of
Death sold on commercial websites?
What about
the Discovery channel as well? Every day they show animal cruelty. When
one animal kills another for survival. I don't know of anything more cruel
than that. What about CNN? Daily we see humans murdered in cold blood,
yet I don't hear anything about the Justice Department getting on their
case.
Not to mention
the fact that PETA
has THIS video on their website called "Meet your meat,"
which shows the slaughtering of various animals for human consumption.
Now how exactly
do they differ? Both are animals, and both are eaten by humans for nourishment
and survival. Depending on where you are in the world it would make the
difference between acceptability of eating cats, dogs, cows or whales.
In Japan
they eat whale meat. In North America, we do not. In Asia they eat cats
and dogs. In North America, we do not. In India they do not eat cows.
In North America, we do.
What makes
me sick about groups like PETA is that they'll raise hell over a video
clip showing the cultural habits of an ethnic group distributed on the
Internet, yet not sue the people that are putting 6 million animals
to death in our country every year because they are unwanted or strays.
I did not
make the video clip, nor did I add the soundtrack. This is reality, this
is raw, and straight out of Korea. Some people have no other choice but
to eat cats. Personally after watching that video a week ago, I haven't
been able to eat meat because I have been so disgusted with myself.
Why doesn't
PETA report McDonalds to the Department Of Justice for having chickens,
pigs and cows slaughtered for food, cooked and then sold? Hell, PETA should
report themselves for selling the VHS tape of Meet Your Meet online! Why
does my posting of this video differ from theirs? Both are in an education
context, both discuss the social aspect of eating other animals.
What also
really pisses me off about this whole ordeal is how a so-called respectable
publication like WIRED would sink so low as to write an article about...
ME!
It's like
seeing Mr. Rogers smoking a crack pipe. Some things are just not meant
to happen.
Want to know
why they did it? Well, rumor has it that the mainstream media really doesn't
have anything important to talk about, so they have to whore out cheap
tabloid type articles and sensationalistic news to try and keep their
audience of mental drones appeased.
By talking
about a site like mine, they are actually "lowering" themselves
to my level, but in a way where it's considered to be "respectable
journalism," when it is nothing more than doing exactly what I do
on this site every day.
Kind of like
Jerry Springer syndrome -- Being in the mess and above it at the same
time.
Now besides
the fact that the author of the Wired article is a liar (I offered to
comment on the video many times via e-mail after receiving an e-mail from
him a few days ago asking for an interview and he claims they were unable
to get in contact with me), things are taken out of context. Now why am
I not surprised, coming from the commercial mainstream media, that something
like this would happen?
You want
to know what really scares me about this whole ordeal? Not one person
even commented on the video of the kidnapped Russian soldier getting throat
sliced open by a Chechen terrorist.
NOT ONE.
Humanity
has it's priorities seriously fucked up.
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