On Jul 3, 6:59=A0pm, Watcher of MarxoFascists and EnviroFascists
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> On Jun 29, 7:12=A0pm, Rupert <rupertmccal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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.
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> > That may help to clarify the concept of "bullying" for you.
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> > The McLibel trial is another example, though that one backfired.
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> > 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.
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> I have meat for eating. =A0Maybe I FORCE MY WILL on the public and SHOW
> HOW YUMMY MEAT IS.
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> OR maybe I act like a FORCEFUL SISSY, like PETA does. =A0Be 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
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> 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.-
Sweet Baby Jeebus!! Another clown like Boobs.
How many clowns can these newsgroups sup****t at one time?
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