5-year old shoots bear; CNN 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; and his
friends, family; even all the news media just praises and pets him
and 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!
Original News Article
December 10, 2007
Arkansas Channel 7 KATV
An Arkansas County boy killed a black bear Sunday weighing more
than 400 pounds.
(Tre Merritt, Five-year-old Hunter) "I was up in the stand and I
seen the bear. It came from the thicket and it was beside the road
and I shot it."
Tre Merritt's grandfather was in the stand with him at the time.
He says Tre did it all by himself.
(Mike Merritt, Tre�s Grandfather) "He came in about 40 to 50
yards, and when he got in the open. I whistled at him and he stopped
and I said, �Shoot Tre.�"
And that�s just what Tre did--he fired his youth rifle.
(Mike Merritt) "I said, �Tre, you missed the bear.� He said,
�Paw-paw I squeezed the trigger and I didn�t close my eyes. I killed
him."�
The bear turned out to be 445 pounds--twelve-times the size of
Tre. Mike Merritt said tears rolled down his cheeks when he found
out his grandson killed the enormous bear.
(Mike Merritt) "His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett. And
Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five
and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he
was three."
Tre�s dad says he started teaching his son to shoot when he was
just 2 � years old. Last year, Tre killed three deer.
The family plans to get a life-sized mount of the bear, but
they�re not sure right now where they�ll put it.
