England OCT-02-2004-1624g Pet owners fear serial cat killer

[AmyStrange]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3710324.stm



What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion.

This is also political or atleas should be political that all of us pet owners in the DU want our pets to be safe,

d

[soothsayer]

1. Does Frist have an alibi? n/t

[AmyStrange]

2. There's a hammer murderer on the loose in London...

maybe he does cats on the weekend,

d

[fedsron2us]

3. Serial killers often start out on animals

before moving on to human victims.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/cats_5.html

Police forces should take this type of ritualistic slaughter very seriously. Unfortunately, even when human beings are murdered it appears that the agencies of the law do not start to get fully engaged until the killer starts to target people in the more privileged levels of society. It is a sad fact that the savage killing of the pets of the well to do is more likely to attract media attention than some murders of vagrants, prostitutes etc.