There was a chain letter about a video made of a cat killing. But it is not the Toronto International Film Festival that's being sick, despite what the chain letter would have us think. They did not film or kill the cat.

But the chain letter is an email address and info collecter for spammers. If you are outraged by the Toronto International Film Festival's airing of an animal rights propaganda film, contact them by regular mail or at their web site. Sending the chain letter along will only put your email address out there for spammers to harvest, and if there's in instruction to send to a specific address, don't do it. It's an address collector.

from what I understand of the site I'll post here,
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2004/filmsschedules/description.asp?pageID=filmlist&id=54

-Content of that url:

Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat

the Toronto International Film Festival

Film Description

Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat

Programme: Real to Reel
Director: Zev Asher
Country: Canada
Year: 2004
Language: English
Time: 91 minutes
Film Types: Colour/Digital Betacam

SCREENING TIMES:

Tuesday, September 14 06:00 PM CUMBERLAND 3
Friday, September 17 03:15 PM CUMBERLAND 3

Production Company: Rough Age Projectiles
Producer: Linda Feesey
Written By: Zev Asher
Cinematography: Zev Asher, Linda Feesey
Editor: Zev Asher
Sound: Zev Asher, Linda Feesey
Music: Roughage, sic

"I never got to eat this cat, but a lot of other people are feasting off it."

- Jesse Power, cat killer

"I know a lot about artistic freedom and it matters to me. But, I think that killing a cat as an art project is a crock of shit."

- Christie Blatchford, columnist

You'll find the word "casuistry" (pronounced kazoo-istry) in most dictionaries, just above "cat." It refers to a method of ethical analysis which takes into account the unique circumstances of particular cases. The term is often used disparagingly, in reference to specious justifications. Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat scratches its way beneath the surface of an infamous Toronto animal cruelty case, deftly exploring the opaque logic surrounding this macabre act.

Jesse Power, ex-vegetarian, was an art student when he conceived a new project. In May 2001, he enlisted two friends, Anthony Wennekers and Matthew Kaczorowski, to help him kill a cat. The intention was to make a video that protested the unthinking consumption of factory-slaughtered animals by killing, cooking and eating a cherished domestic pet - a feline posthumously named Kensington by animal-rights activists. Alerted by an outraged roommate, the police found the skinned and decapitated cat in the beer fridge. Kaczorowski fled and was apprehended in Vancouver two years later. All three eventually pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and mischief charges.

Fair warning: this is not an easy film. Incorporating interviews with the cat killers, as well as journalists, artists, animal activists and concerned citizens, Casuistry also contains disturbing imagery - though, mercifully, not the notorious cat video. Filmmaker Zev Asher eschews rote advocacy; rather, his documentary lurks curiously in murky terrain, playing like the punk B-side of an Errol Morris film. He places us in a unique space, one which vacillates between serious reflection, horror, transgression, banality, righteousness, humour and - mostly - paradox. This may be one of the most political films in this year's Festival.

- Sean Farnel

This film has been selected in consultation with the Festival's Canadian Film Selection Committee.

Zev Asher was born in Montreal. He made his directorial debut with the short documentary Rat Art: Croatian Independents (97). His first feature documentary, What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band (00), played as part of the Festival?s Perspective Canada programme in 2000; Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat (04) is his second feature film.

® Toronto International Film Festival is a registered trade-mark of Toronto International Film Festival Inc.

End of Article

the cat was killed by beheading and then skinned.

And it is proof of what I've been saying all along about animal rights extremists staging abuse and killing animals in order to make some sort of sick statement about the human race and their hatred for it.

The cat killers were two animal rights extremists who killed the cat in order to compare it with the killing and eating of animals from what the animal rights people continue to prattle on about as 'factory farms'. And a factory farm could be any farm, not just suppliers for fast food companies. If you happen to own too many animals for your animal rights nutzoid neighbor's liking, he can call you a 'factory farm' and sick all his demented PEta drones on you.

This cat killing was an animal rights group's way of saying that eating meat is as bad as killing your pets.

These same wackos also say things like, feeding meat to your kid is child abuse, and PEta's founder compared broiler chickens with Jews killed by Hitler.

Ingrid Newkirk, PEta's co-founder wants to be cannibalized when she dies, because she thinks if we're going to eat animal meat, we should eat human meat, because in her mind, we are cannibals if we eat animals!

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The chain letter doesn't talk about the dark motives and twisted, sadistic mind of animal rights extremists, nor does it mention that there is no footage of the actual cat killing in the video. It's a documentery about the killing, which, in my very strong opinion is already sick. But it never would've happened if it were not for animal rights intolerance, hypocrisy, sadism, and hate of the human race.

it's proof that ars are sadistic, with demonic minds filled with un-natural hate for the human race, they keep yelling that humans are cruel and are doing their best to live up to that vitrial. Animal welfare is about care for animals and humans, and does not condemn people for what they eat, wear, or keep as pets. Animal rights is about hate for humans first and foremost. Animal rights wants to stop meat eating by the human race only, other animals can eat meat. They want to stop pet ownership and the use of all animal products. Some ars are more extreme than others, but the basic component is always there - animal rights says humans are evil and cruel and shouldn't eat this, wear that, keep x as a pet, animal rights is a sick, sick cult that has as many branches as the racest movements. Some ars focus on fur while others worry more about what goes on your plate and into your mouth but the agenda is to take away human rights, even if some of them have to kill a cat to do it.

Now, here, for your curiosity only, is the chain letter.

Begin chain letter

>On 9/27/04 12:36 PM, "Sam Park"
wrote:
>
> > This disgusts me to no end. Please read and sign
the petition (and
pass
> > along as instructed) ---Sam
> >
> > Hello everyone:
> >
> > I am sending the letter below to the organizers of
the
> > Toronto Film Festival in protest of their decision
to air
> > the live footage of a cat being skinned alive by
two young
> > men (yes, it happened here). I feel that their
actions are
> > irresponsible and will only serve to glorify the
two men
> > who tortured the cat, as these two men will be
there at the
> > filming and will consider themselves stars,
instead of the
> > sick criminals they so obviously are.
> >
> > Please copy and paste the entire body of the email
into a
> > new email, then sign it and forward it on.
> >
> > and
> >
> > PLEASE SEND IT BACK TO ME AT
catworks.art@sympatico.ca AS
> > SOON AS IT REACHES 100 SIGNATURES SO THAT I CAN
FORWARD IT
> > TO THE FESTIVAL!!
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your support.
> >
*rest of totally misguided chain letter deleted*

-End of chain letter

The truth:

The subject of the petition was the Toronto International Film Festival's airing of "Casuistry, the Art of Killing a Cat"

First, killing a cat is not art by any stretch of the imagination, but that wasn't the point of the petition.

The chain letter railed on about how this film was of a cat being skinned alive, and the criminals who did it watched the film being made and participated. The chain letter went on to imply that the Toronto International Film Festival glorified such acts by showing the film, and the petition was supposed to stop it.

The petition, in truth, is nothing but an email address collector, because the chain letter doesn't tell you to write the TIFF, but to sign the letter and send it to everyone plus to the email address of catworks.art@sympatico.ca

Oh yeah, like I'm going to send my name and email address to some chain letter originator so they can send me spam or sell my email address on a list for spambots. Right, sure thing!...NOT! Gah!

The chain letter is typically extremely inaccurate. It makes the TIFF out to be the villain, without mentioning much of anything about the guys who actually killed the cat. It claimed the cat was skinned alive when it was described in the article as being found decapitated and skinned. I wouldn't personally put it past the animal rights extremists who carred out the butchering to have tortured the cat first.

The chain letter does its best to imply that the TIFF film shows the footage of the actual killing. Not true. "Casuistry" is a documentery about the sickening act and its animal rights perpetrators. But though there is disturbing imagery (animal rights propaganda) there is no video of the cat killing being shown in the film.

The chain letter does not but should explain why the cat killers did it and put out a call to beware of and put a stop to the animal rights AKA human-hating cults before they decide to try this with a human victim.

The chain letter wants you to hate the TIFF for showing tasteless content, But it misses the big picture entirely, animal rights is about hatred of the human race, not love of animals.

The chain letter may have been started by an animal rights person wanting to conceal the hypocrisy and blood on the hands of their activists. How better to do this than by blaming another party for merely showing a film, and taking it a step further by claiming there is torture in that film?

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