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fwd: Cat-skinning movie at Film Festival?
The following was posted to the newsgroup tor.general by someone
calling himself "News Guy". It should interest readers of these newsgroups. ____________ Apparently, the Toronto film festival is planning on showing a documentary movie showing footage from a video that three sadistic youths took of themselves as they skinned a cat while it was alive. Here is the story from the Toronto Star: http://tinyurl.com/6nlsm I urge all rational, compassionate people to contact the festival organizers and express how outraged you are about this tasteless decision to screen this film. The organizers may be contacted at the following e-mail address: News Guy |
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Further to the post I forwarded earlier, another Toronto Star article
on the film in today's paper gives a different slant on the proposed Toronto Film Festival showing of the film about the perpetrators of the crime against a cat. If, as the writer Geoff Pevere states, the film reveals the culprits in their true light, it puts a different light on the controversy. But what all this does bring up again in the light of the ridiculously lenient sentence the guilty parties received, is that Canadian laws should be introduced and existing laws strengthened to increase the punishment for cruelty to animals. Here's Pevere's article: http://tinyurl.com/59hra "Bobcat" wrote in message ... The following was posted to the newsgroup tor.general by someone calling himself "News Guy". It should interest readers of these newsgroups. ____________ Apparently, the Toronto film festival is planning on showing a documentary movie showing footage from a video that three sadistic youths took of themselves as they skinned a cat while it was alive. Here is the story from the Toronto Star: http://tinyurl.com/6nlsm I urge all rational, compassionate people to contact the festival organizers and express how outraged you are about this tasteless decision to screen this film. The organizers may be contacted at the following e-mail address: News Guy |
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Further to the post I forwarded earlier, another Toronto Star article
on the film in today's paper gives a different slant on the proposed Toronto Film Festival showing of the film about the perpetrators of the crime against a cat. If, as the writer Geoff Pevere states, the film reveals the culprits in their true light, it puts a different light on the controversy. But what all this does bring up again in the light of the ridiculously lenient sentence the guilty parties received, is that Canadian laws should be introduced and existing laws strengthened to increase the punishment for cruelty to animals. Here's Pevere's article: http://tinyurl.com/59hra "Bobcat" wrote in message ... The following was posted to the newsgroup tor.general by someone calling himself "News Guy". It should interest readers of these newsgroups. ____________ Apparently, the Toronto film festival is planning on showing a documentary movie showing footage from a video that three sadistic youths took of themselves as they skinned a cat while it was alive. Here is the story from the Toronto Star: http://tinyurl.com/6nlsm I urge all rational, compassionate people to contact the festival organizers and express how outraged you are about this tasteless decision to screen this film. The organizers may be contacted at the following e-mail address: News Guy |
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Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how
badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to vomit and then not being able to stop crying. I know you mean well, but a lot of people in this newsgroup just can't take hearing or reading about cat abuse - not even in the subject line. So, when we want to post a story here about that subject we put "Abuse Warning" in the subject line and DON'T put any details about the abuse in the subject line. That way people who can bear reading about this an who may want to join in doing something about it can still read the post, but those who can't, or who are just temporarily feeling a bit fragile, can avoid even thinking about such a horrific act. Again, thank you for trying to bring about positive change in the world. Hugs, CatNipped |
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Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how
badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to vomit and then not being able to stop crying. I know you mean well, but a lot of people in this newsgroup just can't take hearing or reading about cat abuse - not even in the subject line. So, when we want to post a story here about that subject we put "Abuse Warning" in the subject line and DON'T put any details about the abuse in the subject line. That way people who can bear reading about this an who may want to join in doing something about it can still read the post, but those who can't, or who are just temporarily feeling a bit fragile, can avoid even thinking about such a horrific act. Again, thank you for trying to bring about positive change in the world. Hugs, CatNipped |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to vomit and then not being able to stop crying. I know you mean well, but a lot of people in this newsgroup just can't take hearing or reading about cat abuse - not even in the subject line. So, when we want to post a story here about that subject we put "Abuse Warning" in the subject line and DON'T put any details about the abuse in the subject line. That way people who can bear reading about this an who may want to join in doing something about it can still read the post, but those who can't, or who are just temporarily feeling a bit fragile, can avoid even thinking about such a horrific act. Again, thank you for trying to bring about positive change in the world. Hugs, CatNipped I am so sorry. I thought of just what you've said right after I posted it here, and regretted what I'd done. I apologize to everyone, because the contributors and readers of this newsgroups I sent it to are delightful, sensitive groups of people whose joy in cats match my own, and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt their feelings. It's just that I've been so angry at the neanderthals who committed that atrocity that I let my emotions swamp my good sense. Bobcat |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message
... Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to vomit and then not being able to stop crying. I know you mean well, but a lot of people in this newsgroup just can't take hearing or reading about cat abuse - not even in the subject line. So, when we want to post a story here about that subject we put "Abuse Warning" in the subject line and DON'T put any details about the abuse in the subject line. That way people who can bear reading about this an who may want to join in doing something about it can still read the post, but those who can't, or who are just temporarily feeling a bit fragile, can avoid even thinking about such a horrific act. Again, thank you for trying to bring about positive change in the world. Hugs, CatNipped I am so sorry. I thought of just what you've said right after I posted it here, and regretted what I'd done. I apologize to everyone, because the contributors and readers of this newsgroups I sent it to are delightful, sensitive groups of people whose joy in cats match my own, and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt their feelings. It's just that I've been so angry at the neanderthals who committed that atrocity that I let my emotions swamp my good sense. Bobcat |
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"Bobcat" wrote in message
... I am so sorry. I thought of just what you've said right after I posted it here, and regretted what I'd done. I apologize to everyone, because the contributors and readers of this newsgroups I sent it to are delightful, sensitive groups of people whose joy in cats match my own, and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt their feelings. It's just that I've been so angry at the neanderthals who committed that atrocity that I let my emotions swamp my good sense. Bobcat I totally understand, as I said in my other post, no apology necessary. These attrocities make me crazy and make me want to do to the perpetrators worse than what they've done to their victims. Hugs, CatNipped |
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"Bobcat" wrote in message
... I am so sorry. I thought of just what you've said right after I posted it here, and regretted what I'd done. I apologize to everyone, because the contributors and readers of this newsgroups I sent it to are delightful, sensitive groups of people whose joy in cats match my own, and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt their feelings. It's just that I've been so angry at the neanderthals who committed that atrocity that I let my emotions swamp my good sense. Bobcat I totally understand, as I said in my other post, no apology necessary. These attrocities make me crazy and make me want to do to the perpetrators worse than what they've done to their victims. Hugs, CatNipped |
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Bobcat wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Bobcat, I also saw this in another newsgroup and wrote in this newsgroup how badly this upset me (to the point of having to go to the ladies room to vomit and then not being able to stop crying. SNIP I am so sorry. I thought of just what you've said right after I posted it here, and regretted what I'd done. I apologize to everyone, because the contributors and readers of this newsgroups I sent it to are delightful, sensitive groups of people whose joy in cats match my own, and the last thing I'd want to do is hurt their feelings. It's just that I've been so angry at the neanderthals who committed that atrocity that I let my emotions swamp my good sense. Bobcat I understand your anger, and I thank you for the apology. Just so you know, I just sent an e-mail to the organizers and asked them to please pull that film from the festival. I get upset just thinking about it. Especially now, as I see my three wonderful cat friends lounging on my bed. My urge to protect them is running at peak efficiency. Melissa |
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