Don't look at me like that!
Posted on 03/24/2006 1:19:19 PM PST by Clive
Sick, sick, sick. There is no other way to describe the grotesque, over-the-top spectacle put on in Ottawa this week by a past-her-prime French actress.
Brigitte Bardot made her way from the land of berets and baguettes with a deluded sense that she would somehow meet with our prime minister and plead for Canada to stop the annual seal hunt.
The PM didn't bite.
Neither did the fisheries minister or anyone else with a full-time job that doesn't involve a flash and a notepad.
So, Bardot was left to do what she does best, play for the cameras.
And that's where the true sickness unfolded.
Tears welling in her time-weathered eyes, Bardot stood before a giant backdrop of a human baby -- yes, a human baby --lying dead on the blood-stained ice.
In the background is a seal holding a bloodied club between its teeth, eyeing up the youngster for another strike.
The grotesque image is enough to make you lose your breakfast.
It is so repulsive, that every major newspaper in the country bowed to good taste and chose to not run the self-serving insult to humanity.
In the end, the do-gooder celebrity's sick stunt was as effective as a wet match -- the annual seal hunt starts tomorrow.
But the bad taste left behind by self-important busybodies such as Bardot will linger long after the seal hunt is over.
It has unfairly tarnished our nation in the eyes of all those who see crusading celebrities as experts or even worse, role models.
With that in mind, here are some facts on the seal hunt you won't get from Bardot or any other radical animal rights group on the planet.
Canada's seal population is at nearly six million -- three times the level it was the last time Bardot could legitimately call herself a star.
It is illegal to kill those pretty white-furred baby seals that Bardot uses on her website to argue that Canada's annual hunt is an atrocity. Since 1987, only seals that have shed their baby fur are open game.
And finally, the majority of seals killed during the hunt are not clubbed to death, they are shot -- which makes for far less sensational imagery.
It's appalling any celebrity with too much time on her hands would try to tell Canadians what they can and can't do to feed their families.
Or tell Natives their rights to hunt seals should be sacrificed.
The fact Bardot, Sir Paul McCartney and other celebrities would come to the Great White North and wag their fingers at Canadians trying to make a living or practise their tradition, is insulting.
But most alarmingly, here's the thing Bardot and all the fur, fin and feather fanatics around the globe just don't get.
Animals are not humans.
We can love them. We can call them a member of our family. We can pet them and play with them and -- if their species is threatened -- we can rally to save them.
But at the end of the day, make no mistake about it, they are animals.
It is a fallacy to equate the worth of an animal's life to that of a human being.
And likening the seal hunt to killing babies is just plain sick.
That's what the ASPCA (?) is for.
In her book, she also attacks homosexuals as “fairground freaks,” condemns the presence of women in government and denounces the “scandal of unemployment benefits.”Bardot’s attacks on Muslims prompted anti-racism groups to launch legal proceedings against the former star, who turned her back on film after 46 films to concentrate on animal welfare.
Bardot, who in her 1960s heyday was the epitome of French feminine beauty, was fined $3,250 in January 1998 after being convicted of inciting racial hatred in comments about civilian massacres in Algeria.
Four months earlier, a court fined her for saying France was being overrun by sheep-slaughtering Muslims.
Don't look at me like that!
I think I like the before pictures better!
Is it wrong to kill a baby seal?
Of course it is. With the allotted amount set at 320,000 dead seals there’s no excuse for bagging just one.
No, I mean morally. Is it wrong?
Don’t fool yourself. If these seals had half a chance, they’d not only kill you – they’d eat your liver and drink it down with a bottle of Seal Chianti.
;)
What I don't understand is why she would think this would offend any of her Lib friends.
The killing of human babies is their religion.
Tofu takes on the flavor of whatever it's cooked with.
Wow. She gets fined for writing the truth. Guess France doesn’t have Freedom of the Press.
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