Canadian Seal Hunt « Thread Started on Mar 2, 2006, 8:31pm »
In just a few weeks, the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals is set to begin on the ice off Canada's East Coast.
By the end of the hunt, it's predicted that more than 300,000 seals will be clubbed or shot to death by Canadian fishermen seeking to pick up a few extra dollars by selling their fur.
Almost all of these seals will be babies - some as young as 12 days old. Take action!
Last year, The Humane Society of the United States documented the carnage firsthand and what they saw was shocking: Most of these baby seals were cut open while they were conscious and still struggling.
While most Canadians surveyed are against the hunt, the Canadian government and fishing industry refuse to end it.
But this year, there is new hope on the ice. Canada recently elected a new prime minister. With enough public support, there's a good chance they may end this terrible hunt forever.
Tell Canada's new Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, that you do not support the annual slaughter of seals for their fur. Join The Humane Society of the United States in fighting to end the seal hunt now and forever by signing the petition!
It's time to stop this horrific cruelty against Canada's seals...Are you with me?
Call on Canada's New Prime Minister to End the Seal Slaughter! Target: Stephen Harper Sponsor: Humane Society of the United States
Re: Canadian Seal Hunt « Reply #1 on Mar 2, 2006, 8:31pm »
Beatle Backs Seals By Natalie Finn Tue Feb 28, 11:26 PM ET Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills, want Canadian seal hunters to get back. The couple, longtime animal-rights activists, are heading to the icy Canadian Maritimes to spend time watching harp seals frolic in their natural habitat. They're hoping this magical mystery tour draws enough attention to the furry mammals' plight to end the centuries-old annual seal hunt in the region. Rebecca Aldworth, director of Canadian wildlife issues for the Humane Society of the United States, told the Toronto Star that McCartney and his missus will be in touch with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the issue. "They are taking a very strong stand against the commercial sea hunt and are going to be devoting their energies to making this a global issue," Aldworth said. The McCartneys will travel by helicopter Thursday and Friday to the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to reach the seals. The hunt usually runs from mid-March to mid-April, but unseasonably warm temperatures may delay it this year, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Canada. A lack of ice might make the seal-spotting more difficult for Mills and McCartney, as well, since the harp seals use the bergs to give birth to their pups. Whatever they do see will no doubt be adorable. However, the pups' fluffy white coats are what make them so attractive to hunters, who find use for the fur, skin and meat--and have been doing so for years. Ending the clubbing of baby seals was a hot celebrity cause in the 1970s and '80s, when stars like Martin Sheen and Brigitte Bardot appeared in ad campaigns featuring baby seals being bludgeoned in the ocean. In the mid-80s Europe limited seal product imports, and Canada banned the killing of whitecoats (newborn seals) in 1987. But new markets opened in China and Russia in the '90s and the price of pelts started inching back upward. Canada allows 325,000 seals to be killed per year and that quota was promptly filled in 2005, earning fishermen about $16.5 million in revenue. Those who support the tradition think the McCartneys should stick to rock concerts. "He'll go out there and cuddle up to a whitecoat and they look beautiful, you can't get away from that, and it is cruel, you can't get away from that either, but it's something we've done for 500 years," sealer Jack Troake told the Toronto Star. "It's part of our culture, our history." But maybe all you need is protest. In 2004, the Canadian government counted 5.9 million harp seals on the country's east coast, up from 2 million in the '70s. The British government is considering a ban on seal goods. And the European group Respect for Animals, which helped coordinate McCartney's trip, is discouraging taking trips to Canada as a sign of solidarity for the cause. McCartney and Mills have had a standing reputation as friends of animals big and small. In November the rocker vowed he would never perform in China after seeing a BBC report on dogs and cats being killed there for their fur. Mills, a former model, is an avid PETA supporter who launched a boycott of J. Crew last year, calling for the retailer to end sales of fur products--which it did, 11 weeks later.
Re: Canadian Seal Hunt « Reply #2 on Mar 2, 2006, 8:34pm »
"He'll go out there and cuddle up to a whitecoat and they look beautiful, you can't get away from that, and it is cruel, you can't get away from that either, but it's something we've done for 500 years," sealer Jack Troake told the Toronto Star. "It's part of our culture, our history."
"Part of our culture" is not a good enough excuse to bludgeon thousands of baby seals to death, let alone bludgeon anything to death. Slavery was part of our culture, but at least enough people here had the good sense to fight to abolish it. Just because something has been done for a long time does not justify that it is right or good. Many injustices have been brought down upon innocent victims far too long throughout history.
In my opinion, we should HAVE MERCY ON ALL LIVING THINGS!
Racial Obnoxiousness In Canada « Reply #3 on May 22, 2008, 7:56pm »
Racial obnoxiousness in North America: Abuse of Human Rights and Privacy Violations:
BEWARE of racially intolerant white canadian cops and security and their henchmen who claim to be despots; following parasitically in the footsteps of their american counterparts, and wilfully engage in their racial profiling of non-whites, in racial harassment of non-whites, and in racially dehumanizing attempts to racially harass non-whites through intimidating physically, mentally, and spiritually; portraying their racial hatred of non-whites through causing wilfull and dehumanizing disturbance to non-whites through using illegal wall-see-through technologies and audio-bugs on non-whites' homes; through listening and watching through the walls of non-whites' rented and owned homes, through their internet and private telephones, and through using tempest technology to latch on as parasites onto others' computers' hard-drives as well amounting to illegal plagiarism and privacy violations. The perpetuators of these evil deeds do this from the neighborhoods and from their cars using illegal equipment slyly given to them by the unworthy cops, and then accelerating their cars loudly and ntimidatingly near non-whites' homes and driving intimidatingly in presence of non-whites on streets, making threatening u-turns, driving intimidatingly right up and over sidewalks when a non-white is on the sidewalk, and throwing their ugly bullying weight around, in their shameless acts of cowardice. They attempt to judge immigrants through see through wall technological devices in the name of post 911, and use it to harass immigrants living their daily lives. Using these devices, living, breathing, eating, sleeping, toilet, household chores, sexual activities, masturbation and body movements of female and male immigrants is prohibited in the name of keeping a strict watch on the movements of immigrants post 911, that is illegal harassment and racism, the exposure of truths that the wrongdoers cannot bear. For every body movement of immigrants inside their owned or rented homes or apartments, neighborhood nonsense and harassment prevails violating immigrants privacy and human rights; whereas the their bony assed lickers, are given these illegal equipments through connivance of cops and their police state who cannot bear immigrants but only want the money, brains of immigrants and other countries. It is all done slyly, supposedly smartly, either loudly or silently; however, they cannot fool all the people all the time.
As their wrong doings of racism and pre and post 911 intolerance of legalized immigrants, specially of nonwhites is exposed, north americans including canadians cannot bear exposure to truths and use see through wall devices to target and harass immigrants in north america, using see through wall devices from neighborhood and through passing cars to see through walls of immigrants homes and drive and bang car doors loudly at appropriate times, wastefully and arrogantly around for every living movement of the immigrants inside their homes, including females and males, including in bathroom and toilet. However, they attempt to judge immigrants through see through wall technological devices in the name of post 911, and use it to harass immigrants living their daily lives. Using these devices, living, breathing, eating, sleeping, toilet, household chores, sexual activities, masturbation and body movements of female and male immigrants is prohibited in the name of keeping a strict watch on the movements of immigrants post 911, that is illegal harassment and racism, the exposure of truths that the wrongdoers cannot bear. For every body movement of immigrants inside their owned or rented homes or apartments, neighborhood nonsense and harassment prevails violating immigrants privacy and human rights; whereas the their bony assed lickers, are given these illegal equipments through connivance of cops and their police state who cannot bear immigrants but only want the money, brains of immigrants and other countries. This amounts to human rights and privacy violations and sexual and pyschological harassment. The whites are the biggest criminals and terrorists themselves twisting the word of God to portray nonwhites in bad light and themselves in good light. The whole of North America is in heavy debt; however, their media fools them and the world, and they go as merceneries to other countries through their evil colonial tactics of wars, business, and infiltration, to screw the world of its resources, to invite immigrants and then to screw them of their money and happiness through racial profiling on the pretext that obtaining visa is a privilege; however following it with racial harassment is morally abhorent. Their culture teaches them to screw other cultures, look down on other cultures, and to teach other cultures that all cultures are of downtroddens and only North American culture is the right culture! Wow! Nothing more could be farther than truth. This reflects the outright blasphemy and racial obnoxiousness of the North American culture itself! That is the downsliding quality inside of north america, not much of which is portrayed to the outside world through corporate controlled duping mainstream media. While Canada boasts of human rights to the outside world, human rights violations of ugliest nature are committed within Canada itself on nonwhites and legal immigrants whom the whites are incapable of tolerating due to their narrowminded racism. All these are factual happenings to minorities who are nonwhite and newcomers and legal immigrants through isolating them and targetting them. Its a disgrace that in countries of North America, even the phrase 'people of color' is still being used in 21st century! What is the meaning of 'people of color'? Aren't all people humans and don't all humans have red blood in them? Skin color is formed through heriditary, food styles and climatic and weather conditions of snow, cold, mild, warm, tropical, hot, or desert. Are the North American countries that stupid while they boast of high literacy rates. There is a difference between being educated, learned, and literate. They cannot bear the truths being exposed to them and use their evil intellect to twist the word against those who dare to expose the truths.
SHAME on these anti-christ cops who wail their sirens abusively everytime non-white females and males take showers, move and talk inside their rented and owned homes in daily routine living, in addition to having their henchmen and henchwomen, and often, using their non-white gutless henchmen and henchwomen in cars, transport, shopping centers, neighborhoods, etc, to commit these ugly harassing racially profiling deeds at all times day and night. Using non-whites to engage in racial harassment of other non-whites is an obnoxiously evil sinister humanely disgraceful intelligent move of the whites well-known for their ugly divide and rule tactics through their non-white henchmen and henchwomen. The white cops and their racial stooges should be debarred from going to churches for their evil deeds.
It's a SHAMEFUL disgrace when the so called protectors of law turn into abusers of law themselves and throw the weight of their uniforms and law around as cowards disturbing the peace in their attempt to perpetuate their jobs and abuse of power. Racially intolerant white cops should be stripped of their uniforms and jobs and be debarred from all religious shrines. The white christians bloatedness has reached its evil peak and is on the downfall at equally great speed corresponding to their twisting the word in their favor and portraying themselves in good light and non-whites in bad light. While they thrive in their earthly power, when the forces of nature get unleashed on them, they shall be debarred from the book of life. So, they and their henchmen and henchwomen, appear to be very law respecting on the outside; however, they network cowardly to commit sly acts of provocation to non-whites all the time, which is supposed to be legally acceptable. Is watching through walls of non-whites homes, bugging their homes, working in networking syndicates against them, committing human rights and privacy violations against them, supposedly lawful for the whites? Who makes those laws that favor only the whites? The law itself has racism in its clauses. The ugly inner dirt of the perpetuators of these evil deeds of racism do not deserve to step into religious institutions for their ugly deeds - such as, if you ain't white, you ain't right? Oh! Really? Nicely dressed, beautiful people, magnificient concrete jungles, clean roads and lawns, sweet polite talkers on the outside, full of ugly stench in their souls, that is the cause of these racist policies that are outrightly biased against non-whites. What a shame!
Most of these ugly acts of dehumanizing racial profiling depict the cowardice of the doers of these deeds in the real sense, and are done at the behind the scenes insistence of the racially intolerant white cops through their frontline stooges. However, without physical evidence, the white cops, security, societies, and their henchmen and henchwomen are laughing sinisterly at their heinous deeds and the legal system seems to support this evil through its inability to take action without physical evidence. Their racial profiling penetrates public transport systems, shops and stores to do all they can to make the non-whites feel unwelcome in their dehumanizing acts of racial profiling against non-whites and those who don't conform to their nonsense. The white cops, security, and white communities use their henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told and from behind the safety cushion of their oil-guzzling, pollution creating, often dark-glassed vehicles to intimidate and harass non-whites in obnoxious racial profiling that reflects the immoral, despotic, and cowardly behaviour of racially intolerant white cops, security, communities and their dumb henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told, fuelled as they are in their racial frenzy, thanks to the racially manipulative corporate controlled media. The whites are the biggest criminals and terrorists themselves twisting the word of God to portray nonwhites in bad light and themselves in good light. The whole of North America is in heavy debt; however, their media fools them and the world, and they go as merceneries to other countries through their evil colonial tactics of wars, business, and infiltration, to screw the world of its resources, to invite immigrants and then to screw them of their money and happiness through racial profiling, and their culture teaches them to screw other cultures, look down on other cultures, and to teach other cultures that all cultures are of downtroddens and only North American culture is the right culture! Wow! Nothing more could be farther than truth. This reflects the outright blasphemy and racial obnoxiousness of the North American culture itself!
Volunteers are welcome to circulate this information to all they know to put an end to this abuse and violations of human rights committed by immorally misbehaved white cops, security, white communities, public transports, shops, stores, etc, and their dumb henchmen and henchwomen who do just as they are told in their racial frenzy.
Save this information on your computers before any cowards remove it from the websites.
Racism is immoral and dehumanizing behaviour that reflects the "incapable to perform humanely" quality of those who are racist and are being watched from God's court above in ways they cannot be expected to be capable to perceive yet.
It's a shame when obnoxious stench of racism comes from people in so called rich countries. It's even more of a shame when words are twisted by media to influence young minds with lies. It's even more of a shame when so called authorities perpetuate racism and behave racistly and enforce racist policies and behaviour through intimidating means amidst outer sweet and polite talks. Racism seems to be prominent among so called white people in rich countries who cannot bear non-whites from other countries of origin. Planet Earth belongs to people of Earth. Highly educated people of high intellectual calibres, rich bosses and CEOs, etc, of rich countries are a blotch on humanity and their material levels when they haven't yet evolved to basic human concepts of all humans have red blood irrespective of race.
Racism stems from social attitudes that are perpetuated by racist societies, the media, the authoritarians, and the peers. It's time to say, shame on all those who perpetuate racism and racist attitudes. It's time the white rigid narrowminded racist colonialists go back to where they came from. Volunteers are welcome to circulate these informations through cutting and pasting and posting these informations to other message boards for those whom it might be helpful, to be aware and make others aware about these ugly factors prevailing within north america including canada.. It seems the north american forgotten many of their teachings, e.g., 'Thou shalt have no other Gods but one', 'Do unto others as you would have others do unto you', etc.
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