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davidt
on Monday October 14 2002, @09:00AM
ellen writes:
Morrissey will hold a press conference in Melbourne on Tuesday 15th October. Published in a Melbourne street paper today: 'UK singer Morrissey will hold a press conference in Melbourne tomorrow to highlight cruelty to elephants in Thailand. The former Smiths frontman- in Melbourne to perform at Saturday's Livid festival-will join People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals' call for a tourism boycott until the Thai government protects elephants.'
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Morrissey to hold press conference in Melbourne on cruelty to elephants in Thailand (Oct. 15)
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What about the Elephants? (Score:1)
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circuses, zoos, etc (Score:1)
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Yet ANOTHER great thing about Morrissey. (Score:0)
Bless you.
party headly (Score:0)
i love andrew wk
-easymeat
Huh??? (Score:2, Funny)
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Yay! You go, Morrissey! (Score:0, Flamebait)
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Re:so it seems . . . (Score:2, Interesting)
in jainism, there resides the idea that we cannot have anything without denying something to someone else. i cannot eat meat without robbing an animal of its life. i cannot wear a shirt from some retailer without necessitating that some child in indonesia has to work in a sweatshop for a nickel a day. while i do not follow jainism, i believe that it is an inescapable fact of life that my having certain things means others must go without. nevertheless, it is important to try to alleviate the suffering of others. hence why i do not like capitalism. capitalism worsens the effects your and my needs have on other people, on animals, and on the environment.
of course, i need food and clothes (although heat is not necessary, given the fact i live in so cal - sucker!), but these things were obtainable before the evil that is capitalism was unleashed upon the world. it's great in principle, but corrupted horribly by human weakness.
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Re:so it seems . . . (Score:2, Interesting)
(Goodness! Are we having a conversation here without calling eachother names and nit-picking??? Am I still on Moz-solo??)
Cheers!
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Abusive Thailand Elephant Cruelty (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.peta.org/feat/thaielephants/index.html
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Top geezer (Score:2, Insightful)
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More... (Score:0)
precious elephants (Score:0)
I support the boycott!
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No such thing as bad publicity (Score:1)
A bit callous, i suppose- but think how often you see articles and programs featuring Bono, based on his extraciricular activites- but as long as people are taking notice of Moz, he stays vital.
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Good On Yer Moz! (Score:1)
I think it's quite good for Moz to use his celebrity to highlight this subject. Maybe something can be done for the Elephants.
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what about (Score:1)
My point, why now? why elephants in Thailand?
Why a pressconference in Australia?
There are so many animals whose populations
are increesing fast.
I mean it's okay Morrissey does this, but have
we ever have this sorta item when he's in LA
not touring?
[yeah we know he's a vegetarian and supports
PETA, but he could do pressconferences a lot
more about animals who suffer and should be
protected]
[bearshooting in USA/Canada for an example]
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when and where (Score:0)
wow... (Score:0, Flamebait)
elephants are cool. its always fun when they start trying to stomp circus trainers.
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i disagree (Score:0, Flamebait)
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ethical treatment of humans (Score:1)
If they are made in a sweatshop in south east asia, then he needs to consider the ethical treatment of humans in asia as well as animals.
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im confused! (Score:1)
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mozza (Score:1)
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So then this has to be posted here! (Score:0)
There is an air of celebration in the village as the baby elephant, unable to move in any direction, awaits her fate. Young and old come to watch and participate in the spectacle before them.
One by one, additional ropes and steel cables are wrapped around her belly, legs, and feet—even her tail is bound. She desperately tries to thwart off her tormentors to no avail, using her trunk to push the ropes away and to defend herself from their painful blows. But there is no mercy. Her trunk and the sensitive skin between her toenails are hit with clubs and punctured with nail-studded sticks, and nails are inserted into her ear canals.
Bound and exhausted, she can no longer stand. Her legs give out, forcing her to hang by the ropes choking her neck or wrapped around her belly or to collapse against the sides of the cage. A jab to the ribs sends her momentarily upright again.
A village elder climbs on top of her and straddles her neck. He holds a stick attached to a long, curved, and pointed blade. Speaking in Thai, he delivers a message to the baby elephant, “Remember, if you don’t go against us, we won’t hurt you.” He raises the blade, spits on it, and sinks it into her head, directly between her ears. Each time he drives the blade into her head, he strains to work it back out of her tortured and bloodied flesh. Later, it is discovered that she has lost her ability to hear, most likely the result of this elder’s sadistic lesson.
The elder dismounts and two young men take his place. They casually sit atop her back, one smoking a cigarette. His cigarette break over, the man fervently works the pointed end of a stick into the wound in her head, placed there by the village elder. She roars in inescapable agony, lifting her head in a futile attempt to shake off this instrument of pain.
Dusk has fallen upon the village, and through the smoke of a campfire burning beside her cage, her sorrowful eyes reveal the fear and confusion of a baby elephant whose world has been turned upside down. Her mother is gone and she has been bound, beaten, and abused by those she trusted. However, her ordeal is far from over. For the next several days, she is denied food, water, and sleep. Taking shifts, the villagers beat her day and night, ensuring that her subjugation is absolute and complete.
A week later, witnesses to the beatings discover her tied to a tree outside the village. Her eyes are swollen shut, blood and pus run down her large, torn ears, and her body is covered with raw wounds. Footage of other caged baby elephants with diarrhea coating the backs of their legs is graphic evidence of the pure terror that they endure. Beatings will be used regularly for the rest of their lives to remind them “who’s boss.” Some will eventually snap from the strain of relentless abuse, attacking and killing mahouts and tourists. Click here for a partial list of elephant incidents in Thailand."
the westren disease (Score:0)
no word about the IRA in his beloved ireland, no word about the ridiculous campaign against iraq, no word about people dying in the middle east.
i begin to think that all his coming down on the queen and thatcher was because he saw them as personally responsible for his childhood poverty.
he could never relate to human suffering that he himself hasn't experienced. his only sympathy is mercy-like sympathy, to ones he feels are weaker than him - animals, immigrants, foreigners.
i'm his biggest fan when it comes to his introspections, but i feel he should robbed of his title as a social radicalist, as a political preacher. he contradicts himself so much when it comes to wealth and poverty, england and america, foreigners and national culture, i don't feel like moz himslef know why he likes certain things and others not. surely most if it is irrational.
noam, israel.
Morrissey is SOOO clever (Score:1, Insightful)
-Jonathon Hyde
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Planned holiday to Thailand cancelled (Score:0)
Yay for Morrissey! (Score:1)
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Pictures at Morrisseytour.com (Score:1)
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