Klarinet Archive - Posting 000561.txt from 2003/12

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] PETA terrorism?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 10:03:48 -0500

At 09:34 AM 12/31/2003, Dan wrote:
>Jim, because I live just up the street from you, so to speak, in Los
>Altos, I was also struck by the bomber's implicit assumption that humans
>do not have the same rights as animals.
>
>Such vicious and destructive ideas are often found in people who hold view
>so strongly, that they presume them to have the same truths as Euclidean
>geometry. I see such people as anarchists who also achieve their politial
>and/or social goals through destruction of those who oppose them.
>
>This appears to be the operative element of small scare thugs and large
>scale ones as well such as Hamas and Al Queida.

I really don't want to get into this, but I just looked at the PETA
website. First, their "movie" doesn't load. Maybe that's just as well
since it's something called "Your Mommy Kills Animals," and it's aimed at
little kids whose mothers wear--horror of horrors--furs. But the PDF file
is bad enough

Well, if Mommy croaks animals to keep Antonovich in business, I guess that
makes me an animal killer too because I eat meat and wear leather
shoes. Hell, I've even got a few pairs of Western boots: more
leather! There seems to be no differentiation between the actions that
generate this rabid-dog response from PETA. Eating or vanity: same difference.

I know about the horror-house conditions of chicken farms and pig
slaughterhouses: Michael Lesy wrote about this stuff 20 years ago. Why
doesn't PETA go down to the kosher abattoir in Elizabethm, NJ to picket
against the shochets who perform ritual slaughter on the animals
there. It's not quite the Hormel plant, let's say. In other words why
doesn't PETA select its targets with some discretion instead of pouring
buckets of animal blood or red paint on everyone from the fur renderer to
the guy who goes into Burger King for a Whopper? Because a Stalinist
mentality is incapable of differentiation. The same fate fell on someone
who plotted against Stalin, and on Osip Mandelstam, who wrote some poetry.

"Your Mommy Kills Animals"? Would you like to talk about attacks on
Nature? How about pitting a child against its mother? How about scaring a
kid with a vision of someone torturing his or her pet cat or dog in order
to make a coat for Mommy? What kind of people dream up this filth except
people with profound psychological disturbances who devalue their own
species and have completely overturned their priorities? Maybe PETA ought
to take their act on the international highway and go over to parts of
China and Southeast Asia where what we think of as domestic animals are in
fact killed and eaten. Probably they don't because they lack the stomach
to face the consequences. Not everyone suffers from the American sense of
guilt for everything.

Ken

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Kenneth
Wolman
http://www.kenwolman.com

"i had not really expected to find any of the art world populated with
ex-murderers fascists green berets and now i know that you can find
anything in the art world and they can even become prophets' -- David
Antin, "Tuning"

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