On Jun 29, 7:12=A0pm, Rupert <rupertmccal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I'll just explore the topic of bullying and the right to free speech a
> bit further. A good friend of mine, about my age, just fini****ng off
> an accounting degree and with a fairly small salary working for Animal
> Liberation NSW, was recently in court facing a seven-figure lawsuit
> because she went to Pitt Street Mall a couple of times and handed out
> a few leaflets discussing a practice that quite a lot of Australian
> sheep farmers do known as "mulesing". With this procedure a large
> chunk of flesh is removed from a sheep's backside with a pair of
> gardening shears, for the purpose of preventing blowfly strike. At the
> time of the protests my friend was doing it was usual to do this
> procedure without any anaesthetic. There is now a legal requirement to
> use anaesthetic and the wool industry has made a commitment to phase
> out the practice, I think our campaign can take some of the credit for
> that. We made the statement that mulesing is cruel, there was some
> discussion of that in court, apparently they found the statement in
> some way objectionable. Anyway, Australian Wool Innovation claimed
> that we had violated the Trade Practices Act by calling for a boycott
> of Australian wool (which we hadn't, although PETA had done that, but
> they had to bring us into court along with PETA because it's an
> Australian law and they had to get an Australian organisation
> involved). They sued two Animal Liberation NSW activists and claimed
> that they should be liable for $5 million to cover the costs of an
> advertising campaign that they had to do in response to our campaign.
> They kept Animal Liberation NSW tied up with the initial hearings for
> many months. This of course meant that we had to devote time and money
> into arguing our case that the matter shouldn't go to court, thereby
> preventing us from functioning effectively as an organisation. I
> myself was involved in these protests and it is only a matter of good
> fortune that I did not have to go to court myself. As you can imagine,
> for individuals like myself or my friend the idea of potentially being
> liable for seven-figure amounts, even if the possibility is fairly
> remote, is fairly stressful. I think at the time we were handing out
> the leaflets we had this crazy idea that we lived in a liberal
> democracy and were allowed to publicly express our opinions about
> practices that concerned us.
>
> That may help to clarify the concept of "bullying" for you.
>
> The McLibel trial is another example, though that one backfired.
>
> Understand? That's what bullying is. A public expression of an opinion
> that it's immoral or in some other way undesirable to eat meat is an
> exercise of the right to free speech, phenomena like the above two
> examples are what you call bullying.
I have meat for eating. Maybe I FORCE MY WILL on the public and SHOW
HOW YUMMY MEAT IS.
OR maybe I act like a FORCEFUL SISSY, like PETA does. Be gentle to
nature, Have a salad, don't add bacon bits, be gentle, enjoy the
greens, destroy your economy and be sissies, have a salad, your
economy will survive without meat, try to conserve, use grass and
dandelions, earth likes gentleness, HEY THANKS FOR THE SISSY IDEAS
Take that **** to the retards that already follow your stupidity.
We'll take your retards back with the smell of delicious cooked meat,
and you'll be broken and back to your pamphlets.
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