A friend of mine commented recently that there seemed to be a lot of stories about animal cruelty in the news lately. This reminded me of the animal cruelty bill that was proposed, but didn’t pass, in Arkansas. The bill would have made some acts of animal cruelty felony offenses. It did provide protection for hunters and farmers so that they would not be charged with animal cruelty for killing dinner, but the prevailing fear of all things animal rights defeated the bill.
Animal cruelty bills are important because they take people who enjoy causing pain to a living being off of the streets before they turn these impulses to human beings. Animal cruelty is horrible in and of itself, but it is also often a harbinger of worse things to come.
Yeah, like G.W. sicking his dog on Armadillos on his “ranch”, I thought they were the state animal of Tx. or something and here’s the former governator letting his lap-dog attack and ravage a cornered critter. Kinda splains his callousness in regard to human lives.
Comment by alaskavic — September 18, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
In case there is anyone left who didn’t know, Dubya got his childhood kicks by putting firecrackers in the mouths of frogs and blowing them up.
Wonder where big hair Barbara and her “beautiful mind” were while her little monster junior was abusing living creatures?
Comment by kerry — September 21, 2007 @ 12:33 pm
You know, these would have been good things to bring up about “Der Murder Monkey” during his Presidential campaigns. I wonder why no one did this…
Comment by idealistferret — September 21, 2007 @ 5:03 pm