human sacrifices?

 alito really IS funny ain't he? the deal here is dog fighting is ILLEGAL in almost all if not all states. it's cruel and people who participate in it have something very wrong with them. people who watch cock fights (we even recently had a case of FINCH fighting here in connecticut) or even bull fights (fuck being a part of 'our culture') in my personal opinion have something wrong with them.

i just don't see how ANYONE can hurt an animal or watch an animal being hurt or pay to see which animal wins a fight. something isn't quite connected inside of someone who enjoys watching an animal (or human) suffer. (i'm going to address the bdsm s&m world in another posting when i'm good and ready. i have lots to say on that and i have the background to say it)

yes, i think hunting and fishing is wrong. yes, i think we shouldn't tear into the flesh of other creatures (i don't preach as a rule, except for now of course AND i don't think i'm  'better' than someone who DOES eat the flesh and bones of other creatures).

i'm not a judge (or lawyer obviously) but can someone 'splain to me, how come if dog fighting is illegal why a video of dog fighting (unless it was educational) as sport SHOULD be legal?

am i for free speech? of course i am EXCEPT when a person or animal is being abused or otherwise hurt against their will

anyway, i'm getting off of my soapbox now

Court Wary of Ban On Cruelty Videos
Animal Rights Law Finds Little Support

By Robert Barnes

Washington Post Staff Writer 

It has been 25 years since the Supreme Court decided that a category of speech -- child pornography -- was so unredeeming that it did not merit the protection of the First Amendment. Justices gave no indication Tuesday that they were ready to add another.

In an oral argument on animal cruelty that touched on bullfighting, cockfighting, fattening geese to make pate de foie gras and even a hypothetical "human sacrifice channel," the court searched for the limits of the Constitution's guarantee of free speech. The justices indicated that Congress had gone too far in its attempt to protect animals from abuse.

The Obama administration asked the court to reinstate a 10-year-old federal law that bans the production and sale of videos that show torture, mutilation and death of animals. The primary focus of the law was to ban "crush videos," which appeal to a sexual fetish by showing women stepping on or otherwise torturing small animals............