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5-year old shoots bear - National Media Celebrates

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5-Year Old child shoots Bear

NEWS VIDEO BELOW:

http://www.cnn.com/video//video/us/2007/12/11/katv.5yearold.kills.bear.katv

This appalling, unbelievable video is about a sweet, innocent looking 5-year old child who brutally murdered a black bear in cold blood for a nothing more than a trophy. His family and the news media celebrates what he did to that poor innocent creature as if he's set up a darn lemonade stand for cancer research donation money or something... Unbelievably, they said nothing the least bit critical of a child whose parents claimed taught him to use deadly weapons at the age of 2! Can you believe that blonde news woman standing over the child patting him on the back as he stood on that beautiful bear's ruined, desecrated remains? All lighthearted smiles, like they were at some sort of freaking bake sale... What in God's name has happened to humanity?

I won't blame the child; for I know he doesn't know what he did and he certainly doesn't realize what he did was wrong; the damage has already been done to his mind forever I fear. But that bear he murdered and desecrated was a breathing, thinking, living animal with feelings and emotions astonishing intelligence we do not even yet understand the capacity of... slain, left to rot in the field with little more than his epidermis taken away to be tread upon, denigrated and defiled as a symbol of man's complete domination and rape of nature...

If that child had killed a poodle the news report would have taken on dire condemning nature seeking harsh punishment for the child and especially his parents, but since it was just a worthless bear, a pathetic, useless, dangerous animal whose only worth is a rug, some lousy meat or a brief thrill a hunter gets from killing it, that child deserves a pat on the back and 15 minutes of news media fame.

I sit shocked and sickened to the core that this sort of thing is shown on public airwaves and that we are such a society that people would find this sort of thing.... cute? an impressive achievement? attaboy? kill that big bad bear? How incredibly stupid, ignorant, heartless and barbaric is our society???

Please, if you're a civil, modern decent human being who is appalled by the nature and mentality of this news story take a few minutes to write about this to give your thoughts on it ...

We have to fight and counter this wicked propaganda! we cannot stand for this evil, heartless primitive mindset that this news story attempts to bring out in Americans, if rational civilized humanity ever has any hope! This news story and the lighthearted 'attaboy' message it gives to praising children who slaughter these magnificent animals for fun is a slap in the face to everything we animal advocates stand for and a stab in the gut to anyone who has the least bit of sympathy for animals. If you have time to read this email you have time to write an essay in protest to the news media propagating the bear hunting "Davy Crockett" mentality.

Write to CNN and KATV telling them you will not watch a news network that propagates and celebrates such despicable sub-human bottom-feeding values.

According to the CNN site with the video,

http://www.cnn.com/video//video/us/2007/12/11/katv.5yearold.kills.bear.katv

...this despicable news report video is originally from KATV Channel 7 in Arkansas, and the reporter covering it is Heather Crawford. We should search her out and majorly come down on her and their whole channel. Here is their site:

Arkansas Channel 7 KATV:
http://www.katv.com/

KATV CONTACTS:

By Mail
KATV-TV
Box 77
Little Rock, AR 72203

By Phone
Voice: (501) 324-7777

News Department
Main: (501) 324-7760
Phone in a news tip!

KATV Contact Page:
http://cfc.katv.com/contact.cfm

...but CNN is also responsible for featuring this story, here is their contact page for feedback:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/dotcom/

...send your outrage to whatever department/address on their site seems appropriate, I sent shit all over the place; I want them to get the message I"m pissed!

Forward this message with these contacts out to some of your friends if you can!
 

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