Weblog Entry - 11/10/2002: ""Hunting" Porn - Sign the petition to Ban it"

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11/10/2002 ""Hunting" Porn - Sign the petition to Ban it"

There are too many "hunting videos" that promote Animal Cruelty inappropriately called;"instructional videos" in our living rooms thanks to the profit driven station owners. The television stations show these videos early in the mornings when children are getting out of bed and in the evenings when children are going to bed, almost as if they are targeting children. Whether they do it purposefully or not, they desensitize children to torture and teach them to enjoy the cheap thrill of horror just to sell commercial time to advertisers.
Rabbit Video
One of these "hunting videos " depicts men standing around with shotguns and sitting on four wheelers. . A rabbit " suddenly" is seen running behind the hunters.
One of the hunters' is shown shooting at the rabbit (in a man-made clearing), wounding the animal.
The camera pans towards the rabbit which is still moving with the back legs, gradually moving away from the hunters. The camera then pans towards the hunters and shows ALL of the hunters laughing. The younger hunters are shown laughing also, standing by their four wheelers.

The camera pans back towards the rabbit which is then shot again. This time, the rabbit is slaughtered showing the rabbits' skin peeling backwards exposing the rabbits' muscle tissue. Blood splatters as the rabbit rolls over the other direction in very slow motion (camera slowed down on purpose), still attempting to flee the killing field. The rabbit is left laying there as the camera pans.
Wearing camouflage clothing as if they are engaged in some difficult test of skills, all of the hunters' are still laughing while turning their heads away from the camera, looking towards each other.
Is it part of hunters' "ethics" to laugh at a dying animal? Yes.
Inadvertently, these videos show the truth behind all the hype and babble about hunter "ethics". That spin just covers the truth that hunting is a gang of bullies laughing at the pain of a weaker and defenseless victim.
Normal people, non-hunters, find nothing funny about suffering. These perverts do not show their true colors when they are forced to interact with normal people. But when they are sure they are with their own kind, their real nature is exposed. And they take their children with them at the earliest possible age to corrupt them. So they laugh at cruelty and shame the young men who do not join in the laughter. They normalize sadism. They minimize suffering.
That rabbit video was staged and this rabbit was placed behind the bullies to be shot several times, allowed to suffer in panic, make efforts to escape and then to be butchered.
The agony is what sells the video - there is nothing instructive in the entire segment. This is what the film makers sell - the filthy appeal of the videos is that they legitimize the infliction of pain on those less powerful. In fishing videos, the filmmakers will place a bass on the end of the hook to make "catch and release" videos, for the viewer who likes to watch the flapping and squirming of an entity suffocating and yet feel morally superior because they do not kill what they torture.
These offensive videos are what the networks, local access channels, public television and cable are promoting on their stations.
By signing this Ban Televised Hunting/Fishing Promotional Videos petition you will help to determine what type of "entertainment" will influence children's values. By removing these "hunting videos", children can live without becoming hardened to the slaughter of animals.
We are telling the Federal Communications Commission and any/all television stations affiliates of NBC, CBS, FOX NETWORK, & ABC News Stations that these hunting videos are CRUEL, BARBARIC, INHUMANE, AND SADISTIC as are any that show people or animals being tortured.
We, the viewing public, are demanding these videos that corrupt children, be removed from the TV networks. These are the public airways. Just as broadcasters are not yet allowed to present hard core pornography for profit, they must not be allowed to profit from hard-core sadism.
Or we can stand silent and allow this culture to be defined by the lowest common denominator.

Remove"hunting videos"That Promote Animal Cruelty!
Recipients:
Federal Communications Commission; Director, ANY/ALL Television Stations and Cable Stations That Promote Animal Cruelty Through > "Hunting Videos"!
Sponsor of Petition:
The Non-hunters' Rights Coalition
Green Consciousness reminds you:

How we treat children when they are between 0 and 12 years of age determines what they will do as adults. They will do to others what has been done to them.
Abuse of animals by children is an indicator that they have been abused or they have witnessed abuse that was condoned or ignored. Abuse of animals is an indicator that they will abuse others if they are not re-directed and resocialized.
The older children are in age when rehabilitation is first attempted, the less successful will be the rehabilitation.
To teach children to laugh at cruelty is to create very dangerous adults who you may meet someday in an ally or a locked room.

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