You mean like this?
WSler, are you under the misimpression that the First Amendment applies to this message board?
grienspace, in another thread about this, someone linked to a picture of the guy who did this. It was on the smoking gun, but for some reason, I can’t find it now. FTR, the guy was definitely white.
On a more serious note, how about a version of Megan’s Law requiring on-going registration and monitoring for convicted animal torturers? It’d be justifiable; the majority of serial killers start out killing animals before moving on to human victims. Maybe BBQ boy won’t find it as funny when he has to spend the rest of his life telling people he was the guy that tortured that kitten twenty years ago.
UncleBeer, these fucks showed no regard for the life of a kitten. I see no reason to show any regard for their lives. By my standards, they aren’t human. Thus, anything which you may see as a “disregard for life”, to me is justifiable. They don’t want this punishment, they should have thought about that before torturing the kitten.
The Smoking Gun mugshot.
By the by, I live roughly 25 miles from Liberty. Is that outside the White Trash fallout radius, or am I contaminated?
Little Nemo, that’s a great idea. Actually, there’s an effort right now to get something like that set up for dogfighters – there’s more money in anti-dogfighting law enforcement, since it’s peripherally connected to the war on drugs (dogfights often have drug deals taking place at the same time). But I’d love to see a national database used to track animal abusers.
Main database, though, that I’d like to see would be one that tracks collectors. Collectors are folks who keep fifty or a hundred or three hundred animals in their house, and the animals often starve to death or eat one another or die of disease from the horrific filth in which they’re kept. And collectors (who are probably clinically insane) tend to get caught, pay a fine, and move somewhere else where they’re not known and start the cycle over again.
Daniel
Frankly, anyone who’d do that to a kitten probably wouldn’t stop there. If you’re willing to barbecue a kitten alive (I feel ill just writing the phrase) I seriously doubt you’d hesitate to beat your wife or slap your kid around. That’s a big reason why judges need to take animal cruelty cases much more seriously than they do. Torturing animals is the act of a sick, sociopathic person who needs to be put away before they start torturing human beings.
Hey, Beerman (or some other mod), how about merging this with the other thread?
Not to point out the blatantly obvious, nor to offer any kind of defense for this kind of heinous and sadistic behavior, but kittens, by anyone’s standards, ain’t human either. So, I’m having a bit of trouble grasping your point. You’re justifying torture and killing of humans because they’ve acted inhuman and have thus become inhuman? That makes torture okay in your book? I’d say you are in danger of becoming inhuman yourself.
Perhaps you liked the old practices of our insane asylums? Yes?
My point is, they acted inhuman, thus, they deserve inhuman treatment. Yes, kittens aren’t human. By my standards, kittens are above humans (if you have a problem with this ask yourself this, when’s the last time you saw a tomcat come home to beat the shit out of his mate, or leave his kitten in a place where it will vomit all over itself and die, or hijack planes and crash them into buildings. Cats don’t do that shit, humans do. Therefore, cats > humans). That’s really my point in its entirety.
Oh yes, forgot to say, I like Little Nemo’s idea too.
Well, no, that’s not your point entirely. You’ve stated that cruel and unusual punishment is acceptable for humans acting inhumanely. Which must also apply to yourself if you truly believe torture to be acceptable in any way. This is also an inhumane belief.
How is it inhumane? I don’t see how anyone can be inhuman simply because of what they believe. It’s when they act on those opinions that they become inhuman.
Hmmm, weird. It says the last post is by UncleBeer, even though I posted after his comment calling me inhumane. Ah well, in case my post got eaten, here it is again:
How is it inhumane? I don’t see how anyone can be inhuman simply because of what they believe. It’s when they act on those opinions that they become inhuman.
My visceral response is a desire to rip out his tongue with pliers, his eyes with a potato peeler, and whack his head until it cracks. However, do we really want to base a system of justice on visceral responses? Every week I provide medical care for people who have done worse things than that to children. I can’t afford to spend much time with anger, even righteous anger. I have this unfortunate tendency to start thinking like those people that I hate.
I’ll leave the justifiable anger to those of you better-equipped than I to handle it.
Man, you must live in one hell of a community.
grien, he’s a prison doctor, remember?
And UncleBeer, I don’t know why the hell you’re nitpicking and calling airdisc a hypocrite. The kitten-torturer took advantage of a creature that could not possibly have defended itself. How is it wrong to wish he could find out how it feels to be the victim?
I agree with UncleBeer’s position… it is wrong because nothing good comes out of it except relief for our righteous anger and torture does not excuse torture.
What the hell is wrong with people? I’m glad they put the little kitten to sleep. Better to be dead than to suffer the kind of continual abuse this creature would have endured at the hands of this asswipe.
I hope his community makes this man a fucking pariah. I hope people spit at him when they see him. I hope they mail him boxes of dog shit.