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On Jul 1, 11:40 pm, Rudy Canoza wrote:
Rupert wrote: On Jul 1, 12:23 pm, Rudy Canoza wrote: Rupert wrote: On Jun 30, 9:06 pm, Rudy Canoza wrote: Rupert wrote: On Jun 30, 8:54 pm, Rudy Canoza wrote: Rupert wrote: On Jul 1, 12:08 am, Rudy Canoza wrote: Rupert wrote: This is just a troll so it is stupid to bother replying to it, It is not "just a troll", but it is utterly predictable that even though you believe it is stupid to reply to it, you reply to it anyway. You fatuous ****. Can I just clarify one thing, Rudy. No. You are incapable of clarification. You're a windy, wheezy **** who always obscures, never clarifies. I always pound sand up my ass. Right. It just never stops, does it, No, rupie - regrettably, your fatuous bullshit never stops. You do have the option of not bothering to read it It's entertaining to let you know that others are aware of your fatuous bullshit. Why? Are you worried that I might be confused about the fact that when I post to Google Groups a few people might read what I have to say? Not following you, Ball. You think that simply by letting me know you've read my post you've scored a point? |
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On Jun 29, 7:12*pm, Rupert wrote:
I'll just explore the topic of bullying and the right to free speech a bit further. A good friend of mine, about my age, just finishing off an accounting degree and with a fairly small salary working for Animal Liberation NSW, was recently in court facing a seven-figure lawsuit because she went to Pitt Street Mall a couple of times and handed out a few leaflets discussing a practice that quite a lot of Australian sheep farmers do known as "mulesing". With this procedure a large chunk of flesh is removed from a sheep's backside with a pair of gardening shears, for the purpose of preventing blowfly strike. At the time of the protests my friend was doing it was usual to do this procedure without any anaesthetic. There is now a legal requirement to use anaesthetic and the wool industry has made a commitment to phase out the practice, I think our campaign can take some of the credit for that. We made the statement that mulesing is cruel, there was some discussion of that in court, apparently they found the statement in some way objectionable. Anyway, Australian Wool Innovation claimed that we had violated the Trade Practices Act by calling for a boycott of Australian wool (which we hadn't, although PETA had done that, but they had to bring us into court along with PETA because it's an Australian law and they had to get an Australian organisation involved). They sued two Animal Liberation NSW activists and claimed that they should be liable for $5 million to cover the costs of an advertising campaign that they had to do in response to our campaign. They kept Animal Liberation NSW tied up with the initial hearings for many months. This of course meant that we had to devote time and money into arguing our case that the matter shouldn't go to court, thereby preventing us from functioning effectively as an organisation. I myself was involved in these protests and it is only a matter of good fortune that I did not have to go to court myself. As you can imagine, for individuals like myself or my friend the idea of potentially being liable for seven-figure amounts, even if the possibility is fairly remote, is fairly stressful. I think at the time we were handing out the leaflets we had this crazy idea that we lived in a liberal democracy and were allowed to publicly express our opinions about practices that concerned us. That may help to clarify the concept of "bullying" for you. The McLibel trial is another example, though that one backfired. Understand? That's what bullying is. A public expression of an opinion that it's immoral or in some other way undesirable to eat meat is an exercise of the right to free speech, phenomena like the above two examples are what you call bullying. I have meat for eating. Maybe I FORCE MY WILL on the public and SHOW HOW YUMMY MEAT IS. OR maybe I act like a FORCEFUL SISSY, like PETA does. Be gentle to nature, Have a salad, don't add bacon bits, be gentle, enjoy the greens, destroy your economy and be sissies, have a salad, your economy will survive without meat, try to conserve, use grass and dandelions, earth likes gentleness, HEY THANKS FOR THE SISSY IDEAS Take that shit to the retards that already follow your stupidity. We'll take your retards back with the smell of delicious cooked meat, and you'll be broken and back to your pamphlets. |
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On Jul 3, 4:59*pm, Watcher of MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists
wrote: On Jun 29, 7:12*pm, Rupert wrote: I'll just explore the topic of bullying and the right to free speech a bit further. A good friend of mine, about my age, just finishing off an accounting degree and with a fairly small salary working for Animal Liberation NSW, was recently in court facing a seven-figure lawsuit because she went to Pitt Street Mall a couple of times and handed out a few leaflets discussing a practice that quite a lot of Australian sheep farmers do known as "mulesing". With this procedure a large chunk of flesh is removed from a sheep's backside with a pair of gardening shears, for the purpose of preventing blowfly strike. At the time of the protests my friend was doing it was usual to do this procedure without any anaesthetic. There is now a legal requirement to use anaesthetic and the wool industry has made a commitment to phase out the practice, I think our campaign can take some of the credit for that. We made the statement that mulesing is cruel, there was some discussion of that in court, apparently they found the statement in some way objectionable. Anyway, Australian Wool Innovation claimed that we had violated the Trade Practices Act by calling for a boycott of Australian wool (which we hadn't, although PETA had done that, but they had to bring us into court along with PETA because it's an Australian law and they had to get an Australian organisation involved). They sued two Animal Liberation NSW activists and claimed that they should be liable for $5 million to cover the costs of an advertising campaign that they had to do in response to our campaign. They kept Animal Liberation NSW tied up with the initial hearings for many months. This of course meant that we had to devote time and money into arguing our case that the matter shouldn't go to court, thereby preventing us from functioning effectively as an organisation. I myself was involved in these protests and it is only a matter of good fortune that I did not have to go to court myself. As you can imagine, for individuals like myself or my friend the idea of potentially being liable for seven-figure amounts, even if the possibility is fairly remote, is fairly stressful. I think at the time we were handing out the leaflets we had this crazy idea that we lived in a liberal democracy and were allowed to publicly express our opinions about practices that concerned us. That may help to clarify the concept of "bullying" for you. The McLibel trial is another example, though that one backfired. Understand? That's what bullying is. A public expression of an opinion that it's immoral or in some other way undesirable to eat meat is an exercise of the right to free speech, phenomena like the above two examples are what you call bullying. I have meat for eating. *Maybe I FORCE MY WILL on the public and SHOW HOW YUMMY MEAT IS. OR maybe I act like a FORCEFUL SISSY, like PETA does. *Be gentle to nature, Have a salad, don't add bacon bits, be gentle, enjoy the greens, destroy your economy and be sissies, have a salad, your economy will survive without meat, try to conserve, use grass and dandelions, earth likes gentleness, HEY THANKS FOR THE SISSY IDEAS Take that shit to the retards that already follow your stupidity. We'll take your retards back with the smell of delicious cooked meat, and you'll be broken and back to your pamphlets.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for your intelligent feedback. You conclusively proved that I've been completely mistaken about this issue, and I've actually started eating meat again in response to your thoughtful philosophical arguments. Thank you for showing me the way, my intellectual superior. |
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On Jul 3, 6:59*pm, Watcher of MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists
wrote: On Jun 29, 7:12*pm, Rupert wrote: I'll just explore the topic of bullying and the right to free speech a bit further. A good friend of mine, about my age, just finishing off an accounting degree and with a fairly small salary working for Animal Liberation NSW, was recently in court facing a seven-figure lawsuit because she went to Pitt Street Mall a couple of times and handed out a few leaflets discussing a practice that quite a lot of Australian sheep farmers do known as "mulesing". With this procedure a large chunk of flesh is removed from a sheep's backside with a pair of gardening shears, for the purpose of preventing blowfly strike. At the time of the protests my friend was doing it was usual to do this procedure without any anaesthetic. There is now a legal requirement to use anaesthetic and the wool industry has made a commitment to phase out the practice, I think our campaign can take some of the credit for that. We made the statement that mulesing is cruel, there was some discussion of that in court, apparently they found the statement in some way objectionable. Anyway, Australian Wool Innovation claimed that we had violated the Trade Practices Act by calling for a boycott of Australian wool (which we hadn't, although PETA had done that, but they had to bring us into court along with PETA because it's an Australian law and they had to get an Australian organisation involved). They sued two Animal Liberation NSW activists and claimed that they should be liable for $5 million to cover the costs of an advertising campaign that they had to do in response to our campaign. They kept Animal Liberation NSW tied up with the initial hearings for many months. This of course meant that we had to devote time and money into arguing our case that the matter shouldn't go to court, thereby preventing us from functioning effectively as an organisation. I myself was involved in these protests and it is only a matter of good fortune that I did not have to go to court myself. As you can imagine, for individuals like myself or my friend the idea of potentially being liable for seven-figure amounts, even if the possibility is fairly remote, is fairly stressful. I think at the time we were handing out the leaflets we had this crazy idea that we lived in a liberal democracy and were allowed to publicly express our opinions about practices that concerned us. That may help to clarify the concept of "bullying" for you. The McLibel trial is another example, though that one backfired. Understand? That's what bullying is. A public expression of an opinion that it's immoral or in some other way undesirable to eat meat is an exercise of the right to free speech, phenomena like the above two examples are what you call bullying. I have meat for eating. *Maybe I FORCE MY WILL on the public and SHOW HOW YUMMY MEAT IS. OR maybe I act like a FORCEFUL SISSY, like PETA does. *Be gentle to nature, Have a salad, don't add bacon bits, be gentle, enjoy the greens, destroy your economy and be sissies, have a salad, your economy will survive without meat, try to conserve, use grass and dandelions, earth likes gentleness, HEY THANKS FOR THE SISSY IDEAS Take that shit to the retards that already follow your stupidity. We'll take your retards back with the smell of delicious cooked meat, and you'll be broken and back to your pamphlets.- Sweet Baby Jeebus!! Another clown like Boobs. How many clowns can these newsgroups support at one time? |
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On Jun 29, 6:01*pm, Watcher of MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists
wrote: It must have been inevitable for the PETA people to become Fascists just like the MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists. *We can expect more non-stop bullying until they get their way, like a bunch of cry- babies. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-rights-group-... Animal rights group turns its fire on celebrity meat-eaters After helping to make fur coats taboo, campaigners at Peta are using hardline tactics on A-list carnivores By Rachel Shields Sunday, 29 June 2008 Animal rights protesters have launched a series of angry campaigns against A-list carnivores. They are shifting their focus from celebrities who wear fur to others who encourage the "exploitation" of animals by eating them. In its latest campaign, Peta – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which became infamous for dousing fur- wearers in red paint – has launched an attack on the singer Jessica Simpson. Ms Simpson was singled out for ridicule after she was spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Real Girls Eat Meat", believed to be a light-hearted dig at her boyfriend Tony Romo's vegetarian ex- girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. Alistair Currie, a spokesman for Peta, said: "Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants, but she doesn't have a right to eat what she wants – eating meat is about suffering and death. Some people feel like they are standing up against a tide of political correctness when they make a statement like this – what she is really doing is standing up for the status quo." The animal rights group doctored a photo of Ms Simpson to read "Only Stupid Girls Eat Meat", and listed "five reasons only stupid girls eat meat". In May the group condemned the British actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers for admitting that he had tried dog meat while in China. The Peta attacks are seen as a sign of the radicalisation of some vegetarian groups. They claim eating meat causes environmental destruction, damages human health and contributes to global hunger, as well as inflicting suffering on billions of animals. Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) claims that there are currently between five and six million vegetarians in the UK but estimates that as many as a third of population have significantly reduced their meat intake. "Vegetarians are still in a minority – most people eat meat. You're sticking your neck out as a vegetarian, and so most are passionate about it," said Annette Pinner, the chief executive of the Vegetarian Society. A recent pronouncement from the head of the UN climate change agency that the best thing people can do to halt global warming is to turn vegetarian has taken the debate a step further. Paul McCartney, a veteran vegetarian campaigner, recently launched "Meat Free Mondays" to encourage meat-eaters to eat vegetarian food once a week, citing the UN's statement as a good reason to forgo meat. Yet there is evidence that the British public might be rebelling against pressure to cut their meat consumption. Despite the cost of meat hitting a 22-year high, British supermarkets actually report a rise in sales. Waitrose has recorded big year-on-year increases in the sale of most meats, while sales of Asda's "2p sausage" have gone up by 42 per cent. so? even us vegetarians don't take PETA seriously. they're useless.. all those things are, if they were useful, they'd be out of a job. and joblessness means no productivity. just because fakey vegetarians go on about how not eating an animal is going to save it... doesn't mean us real ones believe that shit. eat your god damned meat.. i don't give a ****... what you do is your hamster sammich. |
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On Jun 29, 6:53*pm, Rupert wrote:
This is just a troll so it is stupid to bother replying to it, but I'll just observe that the Centre for Consumer Freedom has a perfect right to do an advertising campaign pointing out that PETA has made a financial contribution to a group which is currently classified as a terrorist organisation in an effort to discredit the philosophical positions that the group takes, they have a perfect right to engage in pot-calling-the-kettle-black tactics claiming that the name of the organisation Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine is a misnomer, they are really a group pushing an animal rights agenda, when we all know perfectly well that the Centre for Consumer Freedom is a lobby group for the meat and tobacco industries, and PETA has a perfect right to do an ad campaign saying that it is stupid to eat meat for whatever reasons they can come up with to defend that contention, and none of this is bullying, it is just exercise of the right to free speech. If you want to explore the meaning of the word "bullying" then have a look at some footage of factory farms and slaughterhouses. but you replied to it anyways? |
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On Jun 30, 3:58*pm, charley wrote:
On Jun 29, 6:01*pm, Watcher of MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists wrote: It must have been inevitable for the PETA people to become Fascists just like the MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists. *We can expect more non-stop bullying until they get their way, like a bunch of cry- babies. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-rights-group-... Animal rights group turns its fire on celebrity meat-eaters After helping to make fur coats taboo, campaigners at Peta are using hardline tactics on A-list carnivores By Rachel Shields Sunday, 29 June 2008 Animal rights protesters have launched a series of angry campaigns against A-list carnivores. They are shifting their focus from celebrities who wear fur to others who encourage the "exploitation" of animals by eating them. In its latest campaign, Peta – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which became infamous for dousing fur- wearers in red paint – has launched an attack on the singer Jessica Simpson. Ms Simpson was singled out for ridicule after she was spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan "Real Girls Eat Meat", believed to be a light-hearted dig at her boyfriend Tony Romo's vegetarian ex- girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. Alistair Currie, a spokesman for Peta, said: "Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants, but she doesn't have a right to eat what she wants – eating meat is about suffering and death. Some people feel like they are standing up against a tide of political correctness when they make a statement like this – what she is really doing is standing up for the status quo." The animal rights group doctored a photo of Ms Simpson to read "Only Stupid Girls Eat Meat", and listed "five reasons only stupid girls eat meat". In May the group condemned the British actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers for admitting that he had tried dog meat while in China. The Peta attacks are seen as a sign of the radicalisation of some vegetarian groups. They claim eating meat causes environmental destruction, damages human health and contributes to global hunger, as well as inflicting suffering on billions of animals. Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva!) claims that there are currently between five and six million vegetarians in the UK but estimates that as many as a third of population have significantly reduced their meat intake. "Vegetarians are still in a minority – most people eat meat. You're sticking your neck out as a vegetarian, and so most are passionate about it," said Annette Pinner, the chief executive of the Vegetarian Society. A recent pronouncement from the head of the UN climate change agency that the best thing people can do to halt global warming is to turn vegetarian has taken the debate a step further. Paul McCartney, a veteran vegetarian campaigner, recently launched "Meat Free Mondays" to encourage meat-eaters to eat vegetarian food once a week, citing the UN's statement as a good reason to forgo meat. Yet there is evidence that the British public might be rebelling against pressure to cut their meat consumption. Despite the cost of meat hitting a 22-year high, British supermarkets actually report a rise in sales. Waitrose has recorded big year-on-year increases in the sale of most meats, while sales of Asda's "2p sausage" have gone up by 42 per cent. PETA = left wing wackos- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - putting effortless thought agenda |
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On Jul 15, 4:17*am, "white, fat and fugly"
wrote: On Jun 29, 6:53*pm, Rupert wrote: This is just a troll so it is stupid to bother replying to it, but I'll just observe that the Centre for Consumer Freedom has a perfect right to do an advertising campaign pointing out that PETA has made a financial contribution to a group which is currently classified as a terrorist organisation in an effort to discredit the philosophical positions that the group takes, they have a perfect right to engage in pot-calling-the-kettle-black tactics claiming that the name of the organisation Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine is a misnomer, they are really a group pushing an animal rights agenda, when we all know perfectly well that the Centre for Consumer Freedom is a lobby group for the meat and tobacco industries, and PETA has a perfect right to do an ad campaign saying that it is stupid to eat meat for whatever reasons they can come up with to defend that contention, and none of this is bullying, it is just exercise of the right to free speech. If you want to explore the meaning of the word "bullying" then have a look at some footage of factory farms and slaughterhouses. but you replied to it anyways?- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Yup! |