The
director of Tiger King was a well respected ecologist and conservationist and even had a species of tortoise named after him. Apparently he was making a documentary exposing the illegal wildlife trade for pet reptiles when he met that person trafficking a snow leopard and that caused him to change gears. Making a show glamorizing an animal abusing sex predator and wildlife trafficking as a whole is arguably not as bad as raping dogs to death yourself, but it just goes to show how even people who've dedicated their lives to studying and helping animals will switch to exploiting and harming them for their own interests, regardless if it's for monetary gain or sexual fulfillment.
Considering we've got people like Joshua Lockett/Kintari and Dr. Scott Ford exploiting their professions to abuse animals I hope this sentencing will cause people to hold those in animal-related jobs to a higher standard and recognize that being in these kinds of fields doesn't necessarily mean someone isn't capable of harming animals. Everyone is aware of how pedophiles and child abusers often gravitate towards jobs involving children, yet don't consider how zoophiles and animal abusers often do the same.
What really gets me, and what I'm upset that no one is reporting, is that none of this shit exists in a vaccum.
The bbc like last year, made a long exposé about the monkey torture community (good documentary tbh), so you'd think that as an organisation they'd be clued in to the fact that there are networks of this kind of thing.
Practically no act of extreme violence is perpetuated in a vaccum, especially not when it's being done over and over again.
An astute reader of the news ought to ask: why was he filming himself? Why particularly was this uploaded online, and how was it that a snuff film of him raping several dogs came to be a widely disseminated video?
But the thing is, when it comes to matters like this, people are so revolted by the story at hand that unless theyre explicitly told something, most people will never ask or wonder, because they'd rather not know about such terrible things.
The fact that it was reported as if he was just some lone freak pisses me off. There were consumers there were distributors, there's always a network of freaks. If the news only ever reports on these things like they're isolated incidents, no one will know of the hoards of people that are just like him, who egged him on.
The bbc even writes:
"I was sadistic as a child to animals, but I had repressed it. In the last few years I let it out again, and now I can't stop. I don't want to.
," he
wrote in one message tendered to the court.
People ought to ask: who was he messaging? Where did this conversation take place?
There will always be more Adam Brittons if it is never addressed as a problem that isn't just 'this one individual is disturbed'
Sorry for being so MATI but I'm really not happy with the way this is being reported in the media
