Animal rights activists are nuts!

[Mycroft]

Convicted triple murderess as calendar girl

The Bergen branch of Norwegian animal rights organization Dyrebeskyttelsen uses the convicted triple murderess Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland as a calendar girl, something which not at all sat well with everyone.

Dyrebeskyttelsen in Bergen has now issued this year’s calendar for sale, and it is full of celebrities’ pictures with and without animals.

Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland, convicted triple murderess, is one of the people pictured in the calendar. She is pictured with her three dogs, a picture taken when she was out on leave this summer. Her three German Shepherds are currently living at her father’s as she is serving a prison sentence for being an accomplice in the murder of Harald Orderud’s uncle, aunt and cousin.
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What is the matter with these people?!

I love animals too, but I can't fathom the mind of someone who's moral compass is so screwed up that they choose to honor someone whos only claim to fame is being a convicted murderer.

[quote]Løtvedt said that what Kirkemo Haukeland is convicted of has nothing to do with why she was chosen as a model. She assures that the choice was made independent of her current life situation.

“The people we selected for the calendar, we selected because they love animals,” Løtvedt explained.

What, they couldn't find twelve people who loved animals who were not convicted murderers?

[peptoabysmal]

Once you understand that animal rights activists don't love animals, they hate people, it makes perfect sense.

[jj]

Originally posted by peptoabysmal
Once you understand that animal rights activists don't love animals, they hate people, it makes perfect sense.

That surely sounds like the ALF maroons who used to infest the fishkeeping newsgroups on USENET, and tried to get laws passed that would have required fishkeepers to KILL the fish they had, fish that were extinct in the wild.

[The idea]

Originally posted by Mycroft
What, they couldn't find twelve people who loved animals who were not convicted murderers?
People are mammals. The murderer killed mammals.

[shemp]

We must kill all the animals before they kill us!

Seriously, the animal rights movement is like a lot of other special interest groups. The people who are the most active and gung-ho about a cause are also sometimes the same people who are several cards short of a deck.

Maybe they should use Hitler on their next calendar. He loved animals.

[TillEulenspiegel]

Sounds like the pro-life nuts who think murdering a doctor or two is a good way to demonstrate thier credo.

[Troll]

Originally posted by TillEulenspiegel
Sounds like the pro-life nuts who think murdering a doctor or two is a good way to demonstrate thier credo.

Yeah. One advocates killing nothing and the other advocates killing. Boy they sure do sound the same.

[jj]

Originally posted by shemp
Seriously, the animal rights movement is like a lot of other special interest groups. The people who are the most active and gung-ho about a cause are also sometimes the same people who are several cards short of a deck.


I though it was "3 beers short of a 6-pack". :)

[Luggage]

This case is just an example of really poor judgement. "Dyrebeskyttelsen" (Literally, The animal protection) has sensible views on most issues. When it comes to nuts we have other oranizations like "Dyrenes Frigjøringsfront" (The animal liberation front). They do nice things like letting minks out of their cages so that they can die, usually within a week, out in nature.

We got both our cats from Dyrebeskyttelsen in Bergen. They do a great job with stray cats. We had to promise to have them spayed within a year I think, so that our cats would not contribute to the increasing cat population.

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Luggage