Posted on 11/25/2019 11:25:50 PM PST by knighthawk
Why do I have the feeling that this well intentioned law will morph into something that will crush us.
Happened before?
Twenty years ago I accidentally spooked a baby quail into a teddy bear cholla. Still bothers be.
Never ever a reason to be cruel to an animal. They have that universally recognized status. Give them personhood, like the shit left wants to do, and they lose it. Then to heck with the new identity group.
Check a male chick video.
Thank you. That totally explains why what seems to be a state matter is now federal law.
There are some truly sick people out there.
I saw one in a news report, in which someone gave a cat to a large dog to “play” with. Although parts were censored, what remained was horrific.
With entire generations raised on the concept that it is not only acceptable, but desirable, to kill your own children as a form of birth control, it should be no surprise that such videos have an audience.
Mouse traps are humane when they work properly. The mouse never feels a thing. Poisons, on the other hand, cause significant suffering. Glue traps are cruel, too.
The insane interpretation of the “Commerce clause” to include every human act, has to stop.
in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
I had no idea it was an issue, but if it is, I'm all for letting Fedzilla go after the perps.
Most states can’t/won’t afford to go after criminals who prey on humans.
If Fedzilla wants to go after perps who prey on critters, I’m not having a cow.
So this is what—regulating commerce? Or have we finally dispensed with that quaint old notion of enumerated powers? Some years ago the subject would have come up. Perhaps even convervatives now see the notion as tedious and pedantic.
So if I squash a bug, it’s a federal crime?
Maybe Trump has walked the Dems into a trap here.
“Is this extended to insect life?”
We had this one young liberal mom that lived across the street. She caught her three year-old son playing with an ant with a twig.
By that time the ant was injured. The mom was mad at the son and trying to move the ant with a blade of grass into the lawn. The ant wasn’t moving much. Crying, the mom covered her son’s eyes and turned his head, then smooshed the ant to put it out of it’s misery.
Crazy!
[It seems to me that this would fit the constitutional definition of being a State Issue.]
Why should this be Federal? Why?
There are videos of everything. That your friend decided to look one up doesn’t prove any trend or ‘growing epidemic’. You know what actually is a big problem? Its overzealous societies that needs to pass laws governing every aspect of human behavior. There are more and more laws everyday restricting man to a smaller and smaller sphere of freedom. Man needs to learn to behave himself out of his own will be it to handle animals or to handle guns properly. Laws should be the absolute last and not the first resort period. Animal abusers are right up there with child molesters in the eyes of society and you’d be hard pressed to find these videos without going out and specifically looking for them and there are already tons of state laws. Seems to me things are pretty covered so far. Anybody who is abusing animals can go on doing it. What is more likely the result is that this law will mostly turn into censorship of ‘cruel videos’ and then when they will look around desperately for a target to justify their existence and turn into a stepping stone for banning hunting videos and beyond. This law is unnecessary specifically and a bad thing on general principle.
There are also calls to ban glue traps as cruel to mice, small lizards, and even roaches.
(B) so it is still permissible for muslims to slice open animals’ throats and let them drown on their own blood.
What the actual f***.
If you think about it, what really is the objective difference we could draw between cruelty and regular hunting/meat production aside from degree?
a PETAphile under this law could easily argue that you should be put in jail if you throw away the porkchop instead of eating it since the pig suffered unnecessarily. Heck meat production/hunting period could be banned under this logic if opinion shifted enough since nobody really needs to do either anymore so its all unnecessary suffering right???
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