Friday, August 08, 2008

WFT is Wrong With People?

I'm sure you all have heard plenty about the murder of Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus. I haven't talked about it previously and won't really talk about it now except to say - Seriously! What the fuck is wrong with people? It appears that two different groups, both with political agendas, saw the murder as an opportunity to publicize themselves.

The first shouldn't be a surprise I suppose: the Westboro Baptist Church (based in Kansas) had planned to picket at McLean's funeral "to tell Canadians his slaying on July 30 was God's response to Canadian policies enabling abortion, homosexuality and divorce and remarriage." Fortunately most of these people were turned away at the border, a few might still show up though. I can't say this group has lost any credibility, they never had any - they have been picketing the funerals of AIDS patients for decades now.

The second group is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
An animal rights group has posted an ad on its website comparing the recent stabbing and decapitation of a young Winnipeg man to how humans kill animals for food.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the advertisement is meant to make people understand how animals suffer when they are killed in slaughterhouses. The group posted the imageless advertisement on its blog site Wednesda
Look, I'm a vegetarian and everything but to use a grizzly murder to promote your politics is completely beneath contempt. Whatever credibility PETA had is completely and totally gone.

There are only two things I can say about it beyond what I've said
1) The church group has nothing whatever to do with God (maybe the other guy though.)
2) PETA is no better than the church group.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Exactly, PETA is just another cult group like that of the Church of Scientology and for them to use this horrific death as a parallelism for their cause is just beyond understanding. And this Stephen Allison dude who just wrote an article about the incident has some nerve to call Tim a hero. If you read about it, Tim was trying to save his life but no one came to his aid.

Just a really sick society that seems to get sicker as more humans enter this world.