dharma mann
22-02-2007, 01:21 PM
Hi all,
Here we go again with the 'animal rights are terrorists' blag.
I have just read that police have closed down animal rights stalls due to them allegedly being 'extremists'. The police have offered no proof to this and I fear that it is just another extension on the smear campaign on people who support animal rights and object to the routine murder, torture and abuse of animals. I am not an animal rights activist by the way, however, there is no denying that this is what happens. I may not agree with many policies that animal rights group support but as a free-thinking human being I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that animals have the same consciousness as humans do, who are animals after all is said and done. They feel pain, they have an awareness of death and have distinctly unique personalities, a fact which anyone who has any spent any length of time with an animal will tell you. Even insects have their own personality and I do not mean a projected 'humanisation' of personality, I mean definite characteristics to each individual being.
With regard to the police closing down these animal rights stalls with no apparent evidence showing the alleged links is just wrong on all levels. The police would be better off closing down other 'charities' such as Help The Aged because while many people assume that this money goes to help the aged, it does not.
They spend more money on organising fundraising events and selling goods (£37.6 million in 2006) than they do on actually helping the aged (a paltry £32 million, £8.2 million of which was spent abroad). Even when they do 'help' it isn't directly for the aged's benefit, it is spent on research and lobbying government.
Generally, and I mean extremely generally, most charities operate like this and are nothing more than corporations and big business at the highest levels. They are run by business men looking for a way to earn tax-free money. The sooner this bunch of real criminals are exposed the better because the general public are being taken for a ride and are genuinely donating because they think that they are really directly helping those they are donating for, which was true once upon a time. Nowadays it isn't like that and the intended recipient receives no direct benefit at all.
They would be better putting money in people's hands and making sure they have enough food, warmth and care.
Check out Help the Aged's site and financial information at
http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb/WhatWeDo/FactsAndFigures/WhatWeveAchieved/default.htm
Let us shift the balance away from these corrupt, business minded people and back to the ordinary folk.
Here we go again with the 'animal rights are terrorists' blag.
I have just read that police have closed down animal rights stalls due to them allegedly being 'extremists'. The police have offered no proof to this and I fear that it is just another extension on the smear campaign on people who support animal rights and object to the routine murder, torture and abuse of animals. I am not an animal rights activist by the way, however, there is no denying that this is what happens. I may not agree with many policies that animal rights group support but as a free-thinking human being I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that animals have the same consciousness as humans do, who are animals after all is said and done. They feel pain, they have an awareness of death and have distinctly unique personalities, a fact which anyone who has any spent any length of time with an animal will tell you. Even insects have their own personality and I do not mean a projected 'humanisation' of personality, I mean definite characteristics to each individual being.
With regard to the police closing down these animal rights stalls with no apparent evidence showing the alleged links is just wrong on all levels. The police would be better off closing down other 'charities' such as Help The Aged because while many people assume that this money goes to help the aged, it does not.
They spend more money on organising fundraising events and selling goods (£37.6 million in 2006) than they do on actually helping the aged (a paltry £32 million, £8.2 million of which was spent abroad). Even when they do 'help' it isn't directly for the aged's benefit, it is spent on research and lobbying government.
Generally, and I mean extremely generally, most charities operate like this and are nothing more than corporations and big business at the highest levels. They are run by business men looking for a way to earn tax-free money. The sooner this bunch of real criminals are exposed the better because the general public are being taken for a ride and are genuinely donating because they think that they are really directly helping those they are donating for, which was true once upon a time. Nowadays it isn't like that and the intended recipient receives no direct benefit at all.
They would be better putting money in people's hands and making sure they have enough food, warmth and care.
Check out Help the Aged's site and financial information at
http://www.helptheaged.org.uk/en-gb/WhatWeDo/FactsAndFigures/WhatWeveAchieved/default.htm
Let us shift the balance away from these corrupt, business minded people and back to the ordinary folk.