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Rick Sanchez Shows ‘Animal Crush Video’ That Supreme Court Ruled Is Legal

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Today the Supreme Court struck down a law, 8-1, that prevented video footage of animal cruelty from being bought or sold. While the acts, such as dog fighting, are illegal themselves, marketing the footage no longer is. What kind of videos could you now legally buy on the market? How about this footage Rick Sanchez wants you to see of women crushing kittens to death with their stilettos?

Sanchez mercifully only shows the clips before the actual killing, with the women tossing kittens and rabbits about on their feet with their five-inch heels clearly visible. Remarkably, these videos are not only in demand in some markets, they are, essentially, a type of pornography– yes, there are people who get what Sanchez calls a “Freudian thrill” out of this. The Supreme Court ruled the trafficking legal since the videos are separate entities from the crime, which is already accounted for.

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  • NORBIT

    This is insanity to allow this kind of barbarism under the guise of free speech!

    I don’t often agree with Sanchez, but he’s correct to be outraged by this!!!

  • Olby Sucks

    These losers should be tracked down and imprisoned for life. This should not have been aired by sanchez or posted here because these sick losers are getting publicity, imo.

  • Jamestaylor

    Hey, Rick, why don’t you show the video of your running over that man you hit while you were DUI?

    there was no need to show this.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court was a great victory for the First Amendment. It was an excellent 8-1 decision by the Chief Justice. True, the underlying speech here is appalling, but you don’t the First Amendment to protect popular speech.

  • ImNotBlue

    AnonymousFinch says:
    April 20, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    I’m gonna disagree with you here, Finch. This stuff is no different than showing a person get actually hurt on video. The act seen on camera is illegal, therefore I’m not sure how selling video of an illegal act is legal.

    I understand what you’re saying… but I just don’t think this falls under “free speech.”

  • WilsonTheHeretic

    It’s awful, disgusting, and I’d never willingly watch it, but it still most definitely falls under the protection of free speech. In my opinion, the Supreme Court was 100% right in their ruling.

  • Olby Sucks

    The video in question is murder. How anyone could call this “free speech” is beyond me.

  • Munch

    This is a disgusting video and the people who did this should be charged for their heinous acts. However, years ago there was a video series called “The Faces of Death” which was a video sensation that showed nothing but deaths, some real, some reenactments and that was never considered illegal.

  • batgirl2010

    Exactly what kind of free speech is this? Religious? Political? Freedom of the press? What? What is the purpose of this swill? Who actually believes that our founding fathers would have offered protection to the psychopaths peddling these wares? ( I did not watch the video, but will assume the article is truthful in it’s depiction) I think I’ll have to send a letter to my Supreme Court Jesters to express my discontent.

    “Only Justice Samuel A. Alito dissented from Tuesday’s decision. He faulted the court for striking down “in its entirety a valuable statute that was enacted not to suppress speech, but to prevent horrific acts of animal cruelty — and in particular, the creation and commercial exploitation of ‘crush videos,’ a form of depraved entertainment that has no social value.”

  • pyrope

    Although it is heart rendering to do so, I must agree with you Finch. I would also like to have a few minutes alone with the sub-human slime who do this sort of thing. Heck, I’m an old man and would probably get hurt taking out my anger on them but I think I could still probably get in a few good licks before they took me down. They’d damn sure know they’d been in a fight!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joe-Crollard/1317040237 Joe Crollard

    LOl @ Free speech. That was laughable.

    If anything it would be freedom of expression, and even that’s iffy. The fact is, it’s disgusting, and being that we DO have animal abuse laws, it should be illegal.

  • Jyc205

    Those responsible live in the philippines,

  • Anon

    can someone skin those girls alive
    that would be really great to hear
    them scream in pain. GUILTY human
    cries are much better really.

  • http://www.facebook.com/iLoveSHEandFRH 安娜

    I would gladly to that to those girls!!! >:)
    They have no heart!

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