Puppy thrown off the cliff....and more.

UPDATE (3/21/2008; 11:08PM CST)

www.popgive.com/2008/03/since-…

Alright, so speaking of animal cruelty, while we're on the topic of it for this entry, I'm afraid there's a new one that came up.  I'd like to see someone talk about the incident behind the link.  Call me an ignorant patriot if you must, but I think this one's worse.  It's disgusting.  And why is it happening?  For "art".

What we are learning here, ladies & gentlemen, is that people are so fucking stupid anymore.  What is this world coming to?  If everybody around us is a fucking idiot, then how are we supposed to survive?
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UPDATE (3/14/2008; 9:25AM CST)

It sounds like, for now anyway, the video has been confirmed as legitimate, therefore that was a real puppy being thrown off the cliff.  I may continue researching whatever I can of this news, but it sounds like the marine deserves what I described earlier (see entry below).  Nonetheless, I still find it disgusting that his personal information was disclosed to the public so they can commit their acts.  Some claim they are proliferating his address and personal information so they can enact lawful protest, but we all know that giving out his personal information everywhere online will conceive millions of different types of angry people, some of whom could be extremists.

Lord knows that just because one marine does it apparently means that the entire USMC does it.  If any other nationality did such a thing, there would probably be less of a protest, but that's to be expected when the United States of America is being watched and "justly" persecuted for whatever act her soldiers might carry out.
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3/9/2008

www.liveleak.com/view?i=621_12…

My mom spoke to me of news of a marine throwing a puppy off a cliff back in Tuesday when we were having brunch at the relocated, further-away Country Kitchen restaurant.  Well, on Thursday, I finally saw the clip for myself; I ran into it by accident on LiveLeak.  The link above shows it.

Well, it goes without saying, but I ended up disgusting a lot of people when I showed them this video.  I ended up ruining one's day.  I am in no way saying I'm proud of sending her that link.  I didn't expect it to hurt her that deeply.  Well, she's not the only one who was devestated by the video.  An international incident was pretty much made out of the event.  People have already begun to treat it like it's worse than the Holocaust.  The United States Marine Corps has launched an investigation in order to, basically, get to the bottom of this incident.  The pitcher's personal information, including his home address and the address of his parents, were disclosed, and the marine has already received numerous death-threats.

Now comes the part nobody wants to hear.......the concept that the video could in fact be a fake.  I'm sure you're screaming at me to shut up and watch it over and over and see that it is legit.  Well, guess what?  I can't be the judge of that.  Welcome to the world of editing.  With being able to edit videos, it does become more difficult to determine the legitimacy of such shocking videos.  Therefore, we will have to use our most basic senses, such as our eyes, in order to figure things out....
....there is one thing I noticed about the puppy in the video, and I also heard such similar claims about it.  How come the puppy's limbs are stiff like that?  Shouldn't they be dangling downward?  As you know, it doesn't hurt a dog when you hold it by the back-neck, not even when you clutch it (don't clutch puppies, though; it may hurt them).  Come to think of it, shouldn't the puppy be wailing its limbs everywhere while it flies off the cliff?  Also how can a living, breathing puppy be thrown that far, what-with spinning?  Shouldn't it be heavier if it's alive?  Naturally it would have rigor mortis if it were dead, hence the stiff limbs, but still.
Another thing just hit me.  How would that breed of dog be common in Iraq?  Or Afghanistan for that matter?  I saw one video of an emaciated dog in Iraq; it was feasting on a soldier's spare MRE's, growling fiercely as it did, snapping at anyone who came near it.  Well, some say the incident took place in Hawaii.  The reason I included Afghanistan was because Afghanistan is more mountainous than Iraq.

If the puppy were truly alive, then the marine should get slapped upside the head.  I like dogs, so naturally puppies are just adorable.  Nonetheless, I am against the idea that his personal information was disclosed for all the public to procure and carry out their death-threats and overzealous, over-reactive cries.  It reminds me of the political mind-set of people today, especially kids my age or younger.  They cry about how this country is Orwellian, like something out of 1984.  And yet, when someone does something terrible like throwing an animal off a cliff, his personal information is released to the public, and then the angry masses act Orwellian in their own right.  Hypocrisy much?  Lord knows a similar thing happened after the UCLA Taser Incident; the personal information (address, etc) of one of the guards was released after the incident, which was displayed on a YouTube video once.
I mean, is it right to disclose even an authority-figure's private information all because of something he did, even things that many personally deem as horrific (like UCLA)?  Jesus Christ, you guys.  You want your Oceania-style United States of America?  It will happen soon enough.  You'll get your God-forsaken Orwellian wet-dream-come-true probably around next year or two, probably when Hillary takes 'Office.  Your choice and all, but if you cry about an invasive government in the future, you'll be shocked to realize who truly is to blame for its inception.

youtube.com/watch?v=a2OjbDo4ud… This is the CNN report that partially shows the horrible, God-awful event, an event that will be charred forever in the minds of the masses.
youtube.com/watch?v=N0xjY-4CMd… This is a YouTube video that not only explains the possibilities of it being a fake, but also the ways of how people could turn it into America-hating propaganda, because God knows there's never enough media to provoke & encourage the world's hatred toward us, right?
youtube.com/watch?v=5SNxOcAyKX… This YouTube video is some guy's take on the incident, speaking of things which I at first thought took place right after the incident, but in fact he meant this one, not the puppy-throwing incident.
Oh shi-youtube.com/watch?v=KYsn0LE3XJ…