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California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry
An anonymous reader writes "California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this the slippery slope to further government mandated lists and registries?"
vivisection, it's called
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"By doing this it allows them to exert control over people who have served their time. These registries are bad news."
Not to those of us who want to ensure they never hire or patronize such folk.
What SHOULD be included is specific case info so viewers can sort bullshit convictions from appropriate punishment.
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You first. The entire American Dream was founded on vigilantism, from Colonial times right up to the present day.
Try reading up on the Regulator Movement, or the Montana Vigilantes whose last victim was hanged because he expressed an opinion that previous men might be innocent, or the Ranch Rescue in the southwest, who evict illegal aliens. Not to mention KKK and all that.
Not forgetting of course the per capita gun ownership stats. Guess who's number one on the list with a shocking 90 handguns per 100 residents ?
You all still believe you're in the Wild Wild West. Sort out your own house first, then you can come back and preach to the rest of us.
Funny I would have thought that [California is bankrupt] because California and Californians basically pay the federal government a shitload more money than they get back in benefits.
I thought it was because the law in California requires a super-majority vote to increase taxes, and the Republicans control enough votes to prevent any tax increases from passing, but at the same time they don't want to cut popular spending programs.
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Spoken like a true sheepfucker.
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It was 6 million, and there called "Jews" you insensitive prick!
On a side note: Dude? Seriously? WTF? This was a humorous comment and you go all fucking PETA on my shit?
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
I have worked with spics and niggers. I grew up on a plantation, worked at a KFC, and occasionally helped out a friend who worked at a McDonalds. Niggers are not very bright beasts. The niglets will drink their mothers' milk until their innards burst, and the adults are content, so long as they know where to find the food. As for spics... I just cannot feel remorse for any alleged suffering that has been applied to a creature whose behavior does not change, after its head has been removed, leaving only a portion of its brain stem.
In my experience with these creatures, I have not seen any evidence of sentience. They have no ability to behave outside of instinct, and insofar as I can tell, memory is only established through repetition.
These animals are not people. They are food.
Now, I can understand the concept of a "Sex Offenders" registry. Victims of rape or pedophilia experience a lasting and significant impact on their lives, from the events, impacting everything from their feelings of personal security and self-confidence, to even grander things such as sexual orientation (and all of its permutations). The desires that inspired sex offenders to perform the act(s) which got them on the list are generally not the sort of thing that one leaves behind in his life, but rather, something that (s)he must live with, indefinitely. Therefore, keeping a publicly accessible registry of these people is, more or less, a fair thing to do.
Slave abuse, however, is generally not driven by hormones that are persistent through life, but rather, the adolescent hormone cocktail, or general ignorant belligerence. It's really not the sort of thing that needs a registry, because the behavior can be effectively turned off with minimal effort, or may even go away on its own. Normal punitive measures are generally sufficient. To require people involved in this sort of crime to add their names to a public registry is ridiculous.
What? It is simply property. I'm not going to be pissed if my neighbor steals my shovel and pays me back for it. Yeah, its not going to be my favorite thing in the world to have happened to me, but its not a huge deal.
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