Dear Coldplay fans,

 

I am one of you, but also like Pet Shop Boys. Following Morrissey example, who won't be touring Canada to protest against annual cruelty of seal-hunt, we are trying to convince PSB to do the same. Please, click the link and support our action by signing our petition online. You don't have to put your full name, any help will be appreciated, and don't forget to approve the signature while proceeding. Sign and make your friends sign too. Big cheers for any help.

 

Regards.

This whole seal hunt thing is pretty petty IMO. There are much worse things happening around the world than seal hunting, millions starving in africa for example. The whole seal hunt thing seems redundant when you compare it to more important issues. Why dont some of these bands not go to the US because they invaded Iraq, it seems like that would have been a better protest than seal hunting. If people dont want to come to Canada because of this, its simple dont come.

^You read my mind.

 

 

This is stupid. No offense. I am a vegetarian and I DO believe in animal rights. I don't, however, respect PETA or extreme organizations such as that. Protesting against all of Canada because of this is just lame. Do you know if the people killing the seals ARE Canadian? Seems like one big stereotype for me. How do you think the Pet Shop Boys fans in Canada like you would feel if their band was denying them a chance to see them because of some seals getting killed? I'd be pretty friggin' pissed off.

 

I've heard Paul McCartney's insane, militant wife babbling on about this on television. Basically demonizing anyone who eats meat or supports the hunt. Well, some of the people who do this LIVE on the selling of the furs, or meat, or whatever. This supports their economy, and just because it happens to be an animal... welll... That's too damn bad. There are worse things happening in the world. A band not going to a country like my own, the USA, because of Iraq would be more justified than this. It'd be commercial suicide, but it'd make a lot more sense.

 

 

 

 

/done. (wrong forum, by the way)

This whole seal hunt thing is pretty petty IMO. There are much worse things happening around the world than seal hunting' date=' millions starving in africa for example. The whole seal hunt thing seems redundant when you compare it to more important issues. Why dont some of these bands not go to the US because they invaded Iraq, it seems like that would have been a better protest than seal hunting. If people dont want to come to Canada because of this, its simple dont come.[/quote']

 

Yeah this seal hunt thing has been blown out of proportion. COme on the seal hunters do it for a living. They aren't evil people.

I like both of your comparisons to the US and the war in Iraq.

 

 

And also would it not make more sense to come here and do concerts and use it as an oppurtunity to tell fans about the seal hunt, sort of like what Bono does with the U2 concerts as a thing for the ONE campaign?

 

Just not touring in an entire country does not make sense to me.

This whole seal hunt thing is pretty petty IMO. There are much worse things happening around the world than seal hunting' date=' millions starving in africa for example. The whole seal hunt thing seems redundant when you compare it to more important issues. Why dont some of these bands not go to the US because they invaded Iraq, it seems like that would have been a better protest than seal hunting. If people dont want to come to Canada because of this, its simple dont come.[/quote']

 

 

well said.

Yes! Instead of taking this out on the poor fans who haven't done anything wrong, then make this a legitimate campaign. If you want to stop something, you can't force change upon people. You have to give them the opportunity to change their minds. They should pass out flyers (non graphic, NOT PETA militant ones that force extreme info down your throat), or whatever. Just do something so people can know what's going on, and change that way.

 

 

Baby Fur seals

Alanis Morisette

Celine Dion

 

Why oh why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(P.S - I have visited Canada and loved the place & people)

Well said Cloudnine.

It was hillarious at the Junos when Pam Anderson made a joke about the seal hunt (saying that she was glad her musical friend Seal wasn't here, because he might get killed.. or something not funny like that) and the whole audience booed. Not because everyone agrees with what's going on, but because who the hell is she to come here and judge something she only sees as pretty little animals getting clubbed to death and not as someone's job (as well as the only way the local fisheries are able to stay afloat...). She doesn't understand anything about it. And, I'd venture to say that most of these bands don't either. They only see/hear a cause and figure they're big enough celebs that not touring a country will change everything. Trust me, if Pam Anderson asking the Prime Minister for a "private meeting" doesn't work... Morrissy not playing here probably won't make a dent (neither will the Pet Shop Boys). Sorry.

 

Yea, and stop touring the US if you're upset about something. Frig, they're killing people... where are our priorities?