Animal cruelty DVDs as free speech: Will the Supreme Court buy that?

Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Animals & Law, Business, Culture, Dogs, Mammals, Pets on 04 23rd, 2009 | no responses

Sadly, there's a market for everything. There's even a market for videos of dogfights, in which animals brutally and painfully rip each other apart. A man convicted of selling these videos will appeal his case before the Supreme Court, and will argue that selling the videos is an expression of his freedom of speech.

Patt Morrison expresses my attitude toward the video seller's argument perfectly: "So to say these videos can be sold and distributed even though the acts they show are against the law -- you might as well do the same for human ''snuff'' films depicting murders, because that's all that these are. Snuff films of animals."

Read the full article here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/04/animal-cruelty-dvds-as-free-speech-will-the-supreme-court-buy-that.html