Re: Amazon.com sells "Cannibal Ferox" - a film with torture of animals

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

> Amazon.com is a very large US bookstore which
> sells books and movies on the internet.  They now are selling a film
> called "Cannibal Ferox", which shows cruel killing of real
> animals as well as simulated torture, mutiliation, and murder of
> people.  This movie is banned in many countries.  ....... 
>  I hope you and others will e-mail them to protest this horrible film:
> feedback@amazon.com

Hmmm - that would be asking Amazon.com to censor what they sell, wouldn't
it?  Not only do I not believe in censorship, I don't even know if
the allegation is true.   I haven't seen the movie and believe
me, am not likely to ever see it - so I don't know if the killing is
actually cruel or not.  Wouldn't it be hypocritical to ask
Amazon.com to censor a movie that has scenes in which animals are
killed?  After all, we kill animals here in the US all the
time.  Happens at the pound, in slaughterhouses, and in barnyards
all over this country.  What's illegal about filming the killing of
animals?  Now if the animals were *tortured*, that's another thing -
but I don't know if they were.  

That's why I can't just protest to Amazon.com about that film. 
Think about this - anyone who had enough people to protest selling a book
or movie or whatever on those sites could protest to get it
removed.  Just think about if some organization decided to get it's
membership to protest the selling of books or videos on endurance racing
because maybe their version of cruelty to animals makes endurance
cruelty.  It could happen.  Don't encourage censorship.

Amazon.com lists the director as Umberto Lenzi.  Why not contact
him?  It won't work, of course, because there's probably nothing
illegal in what he's done - so what needs to be attacked *if actual
cruelty to animals was filmed*  is the fact that this stuff CAN be
done and IS being done (and I do believe it happens -there's sickos
everywhere).  

Note that I DO NOTcondone the selling of books/movies that show sick
subjects, but censorship isn't the answer.  Lif

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