Just when you think “It can’t get any more depraved than that”, it does. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the law making videos of dog fighting illegal is unconstitutional and that these videos are a protected form of “free speech”. The 8 to 1 ruling addressed the “overbroad” language of the law and to their credit suggested that a new, more focused law might pass First Amendment muster.Included in the discussion were “Crush Videos”. Huh? Now I know that most of you sophisticates will know about these, but it took me by surprise. A sexual fetish where people get their rocks off watching animals of all kinds getting crushed to death. How sick it that? Pretty sick you say? I agree. There are fetishes that include feces, urine, vomit, spit and menstrual flow. There are fetishes that involve eating anything you can imagine. Who cares if someone likes to be pissed on or eat their own hair? What they do in private is their business.
But crushing a live kitten, or a puppy or snake or any other living thing so someone can watch and, well, you know, is way over the top as far as I can see. I have a generally low opinion of the human species when it comes to degrading behavior and have said in the past that I believe that if someone can think something up, someone has probably already done it. (And yes, there are lots of good folks doing good works too, so don’t get up my nose on that one.) Fortunately the depraved are a relative small sub-set of people. But they are out there and they are your neighbors.
Missing a kitten lately? Contacted your congressman about dogfighting videos and crush videos lately? If not, now is the time to write a letter or email. This is really nasty business.
Image: (There is speculation in the blogs that these images are either photoshopped or used a dead kitten. Does it really make a difference? )graphics2.snopes.com/.../graphics/crush06.jpg
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