“The Drone Operator
can kill dozens of people with a flick of the wrist
then walk down the hall for
a meal at the cafeteria.” The Guardian: "In the US, Patrick Ventrell, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said: 'If confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the regime.'"
He was speaking about North Korea, naturally.
Notion 23.6.2013
There is something wrong in three of the men's tees (the image is not centered), and I seem to be unable to edit them, for now, I mean. I'll inform when the problem is solved.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
This
Democracy Now's news video teaches usit is legal to abuse farm animals by
kicking and slowly strangling them to death in USA. Still, some abuse is
considered illegal, but how to expose the abuse happening? Amy
Goodman and her collegue interviewed "Pete", who is a professional
exposer of farm animal abuse. He has been doing this by working as an
undercover investigator for years. He's taken video footage to show the
evidence. Hurray to him! Article and video here. However,
today the corporate money is lobbying for the so-called Ag-Gag Law which would
make the exposition of the abuse illegal - by criminalizing the act of taking
footage of surroundings, happenings, and circumstances on a farm. For real. So,
if you take a picture of a hog with a strangling metal string around one's
neck, you go to prison. This law would protect criminals and criminalize the
exposer. Now,
even without the now lobbied law, it is unbearable that any kind of violent
abuse is legal. Laws should exist to guide us to ethical behavior, to encourage
us to do the right thing, shouldn't they? What is the ethics of this already
existing law that enables people treat animals with cruelty? Whose interests
would Ag-Gag Law be? And why the h*ll does it take so much effort, time, and
battle to lay down laws that benefit both man and her fellow creatures - and
most likely the Earth itself? Just think about the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act - is it still waiting to come into force? Do
you see the irony? One can violently abuse animals and nevertheless be seen as a law-abiding
citizen. But a person having one smoke of cannabis, the cure and/or the harmless joy, is a villain to be
put in jail immediately. Let
us say, you smoke half a cannabis cigarette on Sunday and the next Friday you
have a car accident because someone with a hangover bumps into your vehicle. There might
probably still be some cannabis byproducts shown on your urine, even though it has
no effect on your normal abilities or behavior anymore, and hasn’t had for at least several days. With the zero tolerance policy lobbied by DuPont, you are judged to be "driving under the influence" and so to
be punished. Jail away, my friend. The
Land Of The Free has become a phrase to mean money can
practise evil and harmful business freely. Common sense doesn't have
a voice anymore. Every sh*t business must be fought against years in court
before it can be put to a stop. (If this ever happens.) Yet the seemingly harmful,
already existing laws stay in force with corporate money that people have no
means to oppose. No
common sense, no decency. Lawyers and corporations get richer, politicians become
more corrupted. We the people get sick and jailed.