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catscradle Aug. 19th, 2002 02:27 pm)
catscradle Aug. 19th, 2002 02:27 pm)Okay, so I'm reading CNN and the cover story is of a little dog about to be gased by al-Qaeda. Now, I love dogs. I owned one for 15 years before she went to dog heaven and I'm thinking of getting a greyhound from the rescue society this fall. I have a raggety old stuff dog named Dolly from when I was 5 years old that I'd kill for before letting some yahoo breath on it wrong. Some people are cat people, I happen to be a dog person.
That all said - CNN can kiss my ass for this story (WARNING - Those that are sensitive to animal stories may want to skip this): Disturbing scenes of death show capability with chemical gas
But let me tell you why. I have nothing against that dog, it's an adorable dog - I love all dogs. My dog loving nature is not the point here - what is the point is CNN working upon the emotions of their audience. Yeah, it's a sad story and things like that should never ever happen - But Mary Kay and other cosmetic companies plus most of our science industries do the same damn thing if not worse EVERY DAY IN THE UNITED STATES! This isn't news! If you're going to run a story like this, go to Mary Kay, go to Smith/Kline, go to your average university's bio/chem departments. Don't show us some fringe terrorist group and tell us they're evil for kicking puppies. WE KNOW THEY'RE NASTY!
I hate to tell CNN this, but in the 1940's, Nazi Germany was actually doing this to humans.
Bush getting that hard up that we need to run stories about cute puppies getting gased to keep our interest in fighting al-Qaeda?
That all said - CNN can kiss my ass for this story (WARNING - Those that are sensitive to animal stories may want to skip this): Disturbing scenes of death show capability with chemical gas
But let me tell you why. I have nothing against that dog, it's an adorable dog - I love all dogs. My dog loving nature is not the point here - what is the point is CNN working upon the emotions of their audience. Yeah, it's a sad story and things like that should never ever happen - But Mary Kay and other cosmetic companies plus most of our science industries do the same damn thing if not worse EVERY DAY IN THE UNITED STATES! This isn't news! If you're going to run a story like this, go to Mary Kay, go to Smith/Kline, go to your average university's bio/chem departments. Don't show us some fringe terrorist group and tell us they're evil for kicking puppies. WE KNOW THEY'RE NASTY!
I hate to tell CNN this, but in the 1940's, Nazi Germany was actually doing this to humans.
Bush getting that hard up that we need to run stories about cute puppies getting gased to keep our interest in fighting al-Qaeda?
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Yeah, and over here it's called medical experimentation. What's your point? Plus do you think if one of our own homegrown terrorists did that they'd show the footage? They wouldn't even show footage of the modifications to DOOM that Dylan and Eric made post-Columbine, yeah I'm real sure that if somebody did the same thing to an animal in America - even for the purpose of practicing to hurt other people - they would have shown it.
Plus, hello, daytime TV? Kids could have been watching that! Normally I'm not one for blaming the media for what kids could see, but CNN is a news channel and therefore arguably okay by parental standards. Puppy snuff films are probably not what they had in mind.