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GRINDER VIOLENCE DENOUNCED
Debate rages at Indymedia:
There are other safer, more peaceful ways to cut chains without using the excessive violence of an angle grinder.
UN sanctions, maybe?
(Via Rob at SemiSkimmed, who observes that “the World Meat Congress is just one of many events run by the International Meat Secretariat.”)
Id settle for the nice Gaia friendly oxy torch, or rust.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 01 at 04:03 AM • permalinkIt was always going to be a couple of weeks of fun in Queensland.
The “World Meat Congress 2006: Meat, the road ahead.” was on last week and this week sees Beef Week in Rockhampton and the Pan Pacific Pork Expo on at the Gold Coast.
Looks like they may need to call in reinforcements to attend both events.
the quote
“We did delay the slaughter for a few hours and that would have cost them some money,” said Mr Hannibal. “It’s continuing to let the world know the cruelty of animal slaughter.”
strikes me prima facie as sounding a wee bit like a conspiracy to inflict economic harm on the abattoir. Any lawyer readers able to confirm or deny this?
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 05 01 at 04:22 AM • permalink“As Kim Beazley said today in relation to the Beaconsfield mining disaster, the workers survived a cave-in because they knew about occupational health and safety. Under the evil Howard junta, those rules have been scrapped.
These abattoir workers have taken those disgusting new laws to heart and don’t care about safe workplaces anymore. I reckon the next protestor to disrupt them will be gutted and boned”
Oh, it was all about making the workplace safer.
I reckon what would have made this side-show even more entertaining is if the meat workers had been wearing basebull caps.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 04:41 AM • permalinkProtester Angie Stephenson says it was terrifying: “The workers, they were standing around cheering and whooping and yelling and making lewd comments so we had to call the police and tell them to get out here straight away,” she
god, they are good for a laugh aren’t they?, comedy gold. I wonder if they are going to protest a Halal slaughter house?
Protester Angie Stephenson says it was terrifying: “The workers, they were standing around cheering and whooping and yelling and making lewd comments
Why is that terrifying? Is she the cosseted only child of elderly parents? Was she never allowed to hold a sparkler on cracker night? Was she advised repeatedly to stay away from those rough looking working-man types?
Whatever happened to her it’s obviously turned her into such a fragile little flower that she’s unfit for life in the real world.
Fellas, this is fun!
I just went all Trotskyite over there as ‘Comrade Mark’, with the diatribe below (guess who had to listen to Radio Moscow during the Cold War?).
A fun new game. Go as crazy lefty as you can over there and see how they react.
MarkL
Canberra” This despicable treatment of the working class in Ipswich by the reactionary neo-fascists of the bourgeoise should sicken all comrades of the revolution! The workers are oppressed enough by the capitalist pig hoWardian Chimpster W. Neoconazi filth owning the meatworks without having their employment threatened by childish dole bludging patchouli-oil dripping petit-bourgeoise tools of the imperialist lickspittle running dog aggressors!
The judgement of the people should have seen the righteous rage of the working class slaughter the foul tools of the plutocrats.
Death to fascist animal liberationist scum! ”
There are other safer, more peaceful ways to cut chains without using the excessive violence of an angle grinder
Excessive violence would have been using shaped charges to slice the chains.
Posted by perfectsense on 2006 05 01 at 06:00 AM • permalinkThat indymedia site sure has a lot of unhinged people on it (and I am not talking about you, Amos, MarkL, etc.etc - you guys sure have made indymedia popular today!).
There is also a glowing endorsement of nanotechnology (NOT) which somehow morphs into an argument about flouride in hte comments (apparently concerns about its use in water supplies is suppressed by oil companies - until today, who knew?).
And an article about the pentagon 9-11 conspiracies which attempts to debunk them, but the local lads in comments will have none of that.Completely unhinged.
or even better, this thoughtful article, complete with Brazilian cartoon, in the Indymedia Arts section highlighting the stifling of debate in America about that pesky Israel Lobby.
OK, I’ve raised the steaks! Try to play hide the sausage, will they? What a pack of rissoles.
So Comrade Mark has struck again (with a right load of tripe), and it should tickle your ribeyes!
So, we are now going to have a total solution to the animal liberationist question. The programme is clear. It reads: total separation, total segregation! What does this mean? It does not only mean the total exclusion of the animal liberationist from the People’s economic system. It means much more! No Comrade can be expected to live under the same roof as animal liberationists. The animal liberationists must be chased out of our houses and our residential districts and meatworks and made to live in Byron Bay organically sensitive yurts where they can keep to themselves and come into contact with the Comrades as little as possible. They must be clearly identified as vegan vermin! And when we compel the rich parents of running dog fascist animal liberationists to provide for the `poor’ of their kind, which will certainly be necessary, they will all sink together into a pit of criminality. As this happens, we will be faced with the harsh necessity of eradicating the animal liberationist underworld, just as we root out criminals from our own glorious socialist state: with fire and sword. The result will be the certain and absolute end of animal liberationism in the People’s Republic of Australia; its complete annihilation!
Wonder if they’ll recognise it as a genuine socialist rant? Hitler, in Das Schwarze Korps [SS Newspaper] 24 November 1938 - on a topic all lefties love, murdering those of the Jewish faith.
MarkL
CanberraTowering Barbarian:
But cows and other meat animals aren’t people. Just so you know. ^_~
Barbara Towers:
Just so you know ... people are animals
i hope this was one of you guys :) or else i fear greatly for the future of humanity
Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2006 05 01 at 06:59 AM • permalinkMy wife just came downstairs and asked me why I was laughing hysterically (SCD’s contribution - I think it’s SCD as ‘Drifting Continentally’) is just bloody hilarious. She was so anxious to stop me laughing that I just had a tumbler of Laphroag handed to me. As a bribe. To stop (well, for tonight). She reckons I am going to rupture myself. As my sides are aching, she may be right.
MarkL
CanberraMeat Baaaa-naby on Austrayan Story on ABC tonight as he sashays into the Antarctic for an ADVENTURE…
Haven’t viewed it yet but I assumed it was the usual warm and wet welcome from the Publically funded Media for feisty floor crossing -Lefty -inclined- pollies.
Was Aunty diddled out of a half hour’s hero worshipping political capital though?
Did a plainly shaken and shocked news reader on ABC radio really say that
BAAA -NABY HAS ANNOUNCED HE FAVOURS MINING
ANTARCTICA!#21 KK: I have not laughed like that since Grandma died, and Aunty Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle…
I love the Drifting Continentally, SCD.
And Comrade Mark, sometimes I worry about you LOL!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 07:56 AM • permalinkSo what are the other ways?
1. Gnawing off limb
2. Crash course in Houdini escapism
3. A 44 gallon drum of Vaseline or other lubricant (expect even more lewdness)
4. Boltcutters
5. Oxy
6. Hacksaw
7. Rusting until disintegration
8. Acid
9. Freeze and then splinter
10. Cold cutter (i.e., water cutting)
11. Laser cutter
12. Straight grinder (umm….)
13. Brute strength (but limited to a few superheros)
14. Anti-matter ray gun
15. Shrinking device (but must have access to increasing device)And other ideas?
Heh. Aaron, I prefer butter to margarine, but now I’m feeling a bit queasy lol.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 09:08 AM • permalinkI expect it will be a while before any of them feel like chaining themselves up in an abbatoir again. Probably the next
exhibitionprotest will be someplace a bit safer, say, the meat aisle in the local supermarket. The best that stockboys can do is maybe lob a few cans of peas at them. Hmm. Maybe we should suggest that at Indymedia.My own humble effort at mocking the mentaly ill!
“Meat is murder
by mole 2006-05-01 9:13 PM +0800
We at plankton watch feel the protesters pain. For decades we have been fighting to ensure that this magnificent creature is allowed to roam the worlds oceans without being cruely harvested for their meat by giant mobile slaughterhouses. Some of these mobile facilities kill literaly billions of innocent protozoa every year, and the vast majority of uncaring, selfish people just turn a blind eye to this oceanic genocide.
Some sick perverts even visit these slaughterhouses and take photos of them in operation to show their friends!
Please join us and we can protect these poor, innocent, defencless, gentle, good natured, harmless, loving one celled creatures.Thank you for reading
Yours sincerely,
Takashi Hammoto,
Centre for cecation research
Okinawa Japan. ”Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 01 at 09:15 AM • permalinkDamn. Can’t comment any more. LOLOLOL! Speaking as a potplant, it looks like somebody got upset at the plague of deathbeasts descending.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 09:25 AM • permalink#34: Lovely! :-D
I just posted the following over on their site, and am hoping to drum up some flames:
WTF?! I can’t believe you animal liberationists are serious. Here’s the deal; I won’t bother you while you cook up some hippy crap involving lentils for dinner, and you don’t bug me with your self-righteous cries for attention while I fry up some tasty animals on the barbie. Fair enough? As long as the animals are killed as humanely as possible, then I’m happy to keep eating them. Actually, even if they weren’t killed that humanely, I’d still be firing up the barbie. I’ll bet you people are against beer too! Get a job, you freaks!
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 05 01 at 09:29 AM • permalinkWell, the workers could have pissed on the chains til they rusted through. Woulda took longer, but if the goal is to hear swampies howl…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 01 at 09:33 AM • permalink#37: Yep, they’ve “hidden” the article:
The following story has been hidden by the editorial collective. Please see our editorial policy for possible reasons. If you believe a story or comment was removed in error please contact the editorial collective.
Editorial comment: Hidden as per request by authorI’m guessing they don’t want any of their readers “upset” by reminders of the real world. It annoys me that my taxes are paying the unemployment benefits of these “activist” types. Editorial collective. Pffft! Wankers!
Posted by Mr Snuffalupagus on 2006 05 01 at 09:34 AM • permalinkBugger. Just when Leeianne was hitting her stride.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 09:39 AM • permalinkentropy
Bugger your right, swapped a couple of letters around.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 05 01 at 09:41 AM • permalinkIs this one of ours? I’m cryong with laughter:
by Leeianne Nilk
Which question, aaron? About the bears or the dogs? Or the trolls?
As for those links about the panda and the horse abuse. I can’t believe some of the comments.
People are upset that a 17 year old horseabusser gets his face on the tv? Well, if you go around damaging defenseless animals you should expect to get outed. There is no excuse for it and there should be no condoning of it ever.
Just like the protesters shouldn’t have been damaged by the meat workers.
Um, if it’s hidden (Indymedia on meat), how come we can still see it?
Absolutely wonderful site - I must visit some of their other pages. if anyone spots a good one, please let us know.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 01 at 10:03 AM • permalinkIf they wanted to get the protestors free from the chains the old meat axe would have been best. Doubt if it would work on the chains but…, well they are free then.
Just need to say that the bloke with the axe was dealing out Islamic justice as they were stealing time so they needed their hands cut off.
Side benefit, less time for harassment by lewd comments.
UN sanctions are a good first step. Then, an Oil-for-Meat Program.
Posted by Paul Zrimsek on 2006 05 01 at 10:32 AM • permalinkThat was one helluva thread while it lasted.
I like Leeianne and her creative use of vowels (“abuseively”), a trait that she obviously inherited from her parents (“Leeianne”).
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 05 01 at 10:44 AM • permalinkThe posts on the Perth Indy page are hilarious. I’d bet money they wouldn’t be able to pick out an angle grinder from a tool line-up. Yet, they go on about the “violence” of the angle grinder. A guy, attempts to voice reason, and the silly little lefties attempt to dogpile him. As expected, they simply come off like the sniveling, whinning, cry-babies they are. I didn’t realize Australia was such a haven for Berkley rejects.
Had some nice lamb chops on the barbie tonight, finished off by the smoke from gum leaves over an open grill (yum) and then got to this. Wonderful stuff at Indymedia, you took over the pace.
But O/T - followed the SemiSkimmed link. We may have been a little harsh on our Islamic friends and their contributions to the arts, science and literature. Especially science it would appear, as one Mohammad-Reza Mehdinia has conclusively proved that pi = 25/8 and not 3.141592653… Mohammad’s rational number versus the infidel irrational number. It says it all really, doesn’t it?
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 05 01 at 10:50 AM • permalinkI meant “took over the place”, but pace is apt
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 05 01 at 10:57 AM • permalinkWell done, Death Beasts!
Haven’t laughed this much since we used to bugger up the Greens polls.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 05 01 at 10:58 AM • permalinkThat has to be the funniest Indymedia comment thread ever! At least the most intentionally humorous one ever.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 05 01 at 01:28 PM • permalink#52 Follow Aaron’s links. The first is to a zoo thing, and the second is to a thread abouta 17 yo caught on video having his way with a horse.
Sod it. Try
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 01 at 05:41 PM • permalinkFrikkin’ priceless, I checked out the Indymedia link first and immediately rushed over here to tell you all to check out the comic geniuses, I should have realised.
So congratulations to SCD, MarkL, James Waterton and the Mole, you guys should consider writing comedy for a living, best laugh I’ve had in ages.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 05 02 at 12:20 AM • permalink#44. Nic, yes. Leeianne is sort of one of ours.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 02 at 06:13 AM • permalink
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Holy cow, they really are named the International Meat Secretariat…I thought that was a joke. At least they’re not the Central Committee For Meat Distribution, I guess…