{"id":1489,"date":"2005-04-21T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/21\/protect-the-roosters-to-hell-with-domestic-violence-victims\/"},"modified":"2005-04-21T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T16:45:46","slug":"protect-the-roosters-to-hell-with-domestic-violence-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Protect the Roosters! To hell with domestic violence victims!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a victim of domestic violence living in South Carolina, guess what?! Cockfighting is a felony, while domestic abuse is just a misdemeanor! From the President-for-Life Sheelzebub of Pinko Feminist Hellcat<\/a>…<\/p>\n

The South Carolina Judiciary Committee passed legislation that turned cockfighting into a felony. The same committee tabled a bill to protect victims of domestic violence–beating up your spouse is still just a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

And if you question this logic, you’re obviously not very bright, at least according to SC State Rep. John Graham Altman III.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s a little spat between Altman and a reporter named Kara Gormley who dared to do her job and ask why the fuck would anyone place more value on a rooster’s life over a domestic violence victim.<\/p>\n

Rep. Altman responds to the comparison, “People who compare the two are not very smart and if you don’t understand the difference, Ms. Gormley, between trying to ban the savage practice of watching chickens trying to kill each other and protecting people rights in CDV statutes, I’ll never be able to explain it to you in a 100 years ma’am.”<\/p>\n

News 10 reporter Kara Gormley asked Altman, “That’s fine if you feel you will never be able to explain it to me, but my question to you is: does that show that we are valuing a gamecock’s life over a woman’s life?”<\/p>\n

Altman again, “You’re really not very bright and I realize you are not accustomed to this, but I’m accustomed to reporters having a better sense of depth of things and you’re asking this question to me would indicate you can’t understand the answer. To ask the question is to demonstrate an enormous amount of ignorance. I’m not trying to be rude or hostile, I’m telling you.”<\/p>\n

Gormley, “It’s rude when you tell someone they are not very bright.”<\/p>\n

Altman, “You’re not very bright and you’ll just have to live with that.”<\/p>\n

In the follow-up interview, Rep. Altman commented, “I wanted to offend that snippy reporter who come in here on a mission. She already had the story and she came in with some dumb questions and I don’t mind telling people when they ask dumb questions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh and what dumb question was that? Why the SC Committee tabled a bill that would increase the penalties for domestic abusers, but readily passed a law that would make it a felony to hold cockfights?! Yeah, real stupid question.<\/p>\n

Oh Amp, maybe we should add a “douchebag politician zaniness<\/em>” category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re a victim of domestic violence living in South Carolina, guess what?! Cockfighting is a felony, while domestic abuse is just a misdemeanor! From the President-for-Life Sheelzebub of Pinko Feminist Hellcat… The South Carolina Judiciary Committee passed legislation that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}