Comments on: Making the world safer http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4572 Bookworm Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:52:29 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4572 I'm all for criminalizing intentional abuse, undue cruelty, or carelessness. The kind of blanket prohibition animal rights activists seek, and the violence they often visit on humans in the name of protecting animals, is unacceptable. And I say this as someone who has always doted on her animals, but never stopped being aware that they are not humans. I’m all for criminalizing intentional abuse, undue cruelty, or carelessness. The kind of blanket prohibition animal rights activists seek, and the violence they often visit on humans in the name of protecting animals, is unacceptable. And I say this as someone who has always doted on her animals, but never stopped being aware that they are not humans.

]]> By: Menkit http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4571 Menkit Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:37:44 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4571 It's obvious that none of you have sat down and watched an animal being vivisected - or even read about the millions of animals who are experimented on cruelly and with total disregard for their welbeing just so some scientist gets on the gravy train. Same with animal agriculture - the whole system is so open to abuse. Anyone with a heart would understand why animal rights activists risk their lives and freedom to help save animals. Until people wake up and recognise that animals do indeed have feelings just like us and are worthy of consideration, there will be no end to it. This bill is making the compassionate ones the terrorists when in fact it is the animal abusers who are the real terrorists. It’s obvious that none of you have sat down and watched an animal being vivisected - or even read about the millions of animals who are experimented on cruelly and with total disregard for their welbeing just so some scientist gets on the gravy train. Same with animal agriculture - the whole system is so open to abuse. Anyone with a heart would understand why animal rights activists risk their lives and freedom to help save animals. Until people wake up and recognise that animals do indeed have feelings just like us and are worthy of consideration, there will be no end to it. This bill is making the compassionate ones the terrorists when in fact it is the animal abusers who are the real terrorists.

]]> By: momacat http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4570 momacat Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:22:20 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4570 The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) is a bill that, if passed, could make it a crime to cause any business classified as an "animal enterprise" (e.g., factory farms, fur farms, vivisection labs, rodeos and circuses) to suffer a profit loss -- even if the company's financial decline is caused by peaceful protests. Outlawing non-violent activist tactics that don't physically hurt anyone and defining them as "terrorism" is a completely unacceptable violation of our constitutionally-granted First Amendment rights to freedom of speech as Americans. The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) is a bill that, if passed, could make it a crime to cause any business classified as an “animal enterprise” (e.g., factory farms, fur farms, vivisection labs, rodeos and circuses) to suffer a profit loss — even if the company’s financial decline is caused by peaceful protests.

Outlawing non-violent activist tactics that don’t physically hurt anyone and defining them as “terrorism” is a completely unacceptable violation of our constitutionally-granted First Amendment rights to freedom of speech as Americans.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4569 Ymarsakar Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:57:15 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4569 Don't you mean your advantage? Feinstein sounds like "Feingold"... not a very pleasant reminder. Don’t you mean your advantage?

Feinstein sounds like “Feingold”… not a very pleasant reminder.

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4568 Bookworm Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:51:13 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4568 My problem with Feinstein is that I know her. I went to school with her kids and stepkids, and saw a lot of her growing up. She's a bright, competent woman who sometimes gets it -- as she did with this challenge against animal rights terrorists. I don't excuse her bad conduct in the name of partisanship; I'm just willing to acknowledge when she does something right. And after all, she's better than Barbara Boxer. My problem with Feinstein is that I know her. I went to school with her kids and stepkids, and saw a lot of her growing up. She’s a bright, competent woman who sometimes gets it — as she did with this challenge against animal rights terrorists. I don’t excuse her bad conduct in the name of partisanship; I’m just willing to acknowledge when she does something right. And after all, she’s better than Barbara Boxer.

]]> By: jg http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4567 jg Sun, 10 Sep 2006 23:17:49 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4567 J. writes: 'I’m a lot surprised and a little disappointed.' Bookworm will surely know the female officeholder better than those of us outside California. Yet I still remember the grave judiciousness with which Feinstein delivered her verdict on the possible impeachment of Bill C. She had put on quite an extended consideration, all, we were assured, in the name of a fair and impartial judgment. And she found Bill not guilty of lying. She abused us. I found her completely guilty of misusing her high office for partisan purposes. And a openly flagrant dishonesty. J. writes:
‘I’m a lot surprised and a little disappointed.’

Bookworm will surely know the female officeholder better than those of us outside California.
Yet I still remember the grave judiciousness with which Feinstein delivered her verdict on the possible impeachment of Bill C. She had put on quite an extended consideration, all, we were assured, in the name of a fair and impartial judgment. And she found Bill not guilty of lying.
She abused us.

I found her completely guilty of misusing her high office for partisan purposes. And a openly flagrant dishonesty.

]]> By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4566 Earl Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:49:43 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4566 Hard as it is to choke out when speaking of "la Feinstein": Good for her! I hope she can get it passed. Hard as it is to choke out when speaking of “la Feinstein”:

Good for her! I hope she can get it passed.

]]> By: J http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4565 J Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:38:53 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4565 "When she puts her head down and does her job, I often like her" I'm a lot surprised and a little disappointed. I agree with the spirit of the post though. “When she puts her head down and does her job, I often like her”

I’m a lot surprised and a little disappointed.

I agree with the spirit of the post though.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2006/09/09/making-the-world-safer/#comment-4564 Ymarsakar Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:45:56 +0000 http://proto2.webloggin.com/?p=760#comment-4564 Domestic Terrorism, such a bother. But no state sponsors them, so they are a nuissance and a criminal activity at best. Islamic Jihad, if they were more cosmopolitan, could benefit much from co-opting domestic terrorist organizations that are already inside the US. Ideology, however, is self-limiting in some circumstances. Domestic Terrorism, such a bother. But no state sponsors them, so they are a nuissance and a criminal activity at best.

Islamic Jihad, if they were more cosmopolitan, could benefit much from co-opting domestic terrorist organizations that are already inside the US. Ideology, however, is self-limiting in some circumstances.

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