Unethical treatment of animals

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not committed to equal rights for all, including our animal, vegetable, undead, and bacterial (assuming they ever ask for it) friends.  This commitment is not without challenges, however, as many times the benefit of one individual or group of individual is in direct conflict with the rights of some other individual or group.  The resolution of these conflicts is our mission; we aim to create a New Future where all will be treated fairly.

At the same time, some of these conflicts are easily resolved, such as the recent case in which a woman was attacked with a moose.  The mainstream media have steered clear of the more controversial (and more correct) interpretation of the facts in the case and have stuck with the story that the woman struck and killed a moose with her vehicle and then drove 25 miles further with a severely damaged car and absolutely no memory of the incident.  The facts, however, show that the damage due to her car was not random happenstance, but a direct result of a weapons test by none other than operatives of the New Company.  While no official statement of responsibility has been issued, the trail is clear.  Operatives of the New Company, posing as operatives of the GPD, set up an experimental moose cannon in the Canadian forest, leaving leaflets about the dangers of brads strewn around the forest floor (on a side note, the GNU Public Dictatorship is also nothing if not against litter, and had those been our operatives they would have been subjected to the feared refrigerator-door jamb torture).  Anyway, the cannon apparently requires a live or recently killed moose, so they brought one along and loaded it into the cannon.  They took aim at several vehicles, and, according to the forensics clues, the cannon misfired at least twice, killing the moose.  On their last try they were successfully able to hit the passing vehicle of the unlucky Michelle Higgins, whose subsequent story has been reported fairly well by the mainstream media.

We don't know what we find more disturbing: the use of a live moose as ammunition, or the pitiful attempts at shifting the blame to us.  We do not think the New Company's operatives are that inept, which is why we believe this is part of some larger plot that we have not yet uncovered.  Rest assured, however, that no matter what you read, the GPD is not creating or considering the creation of cannons that use live moose or any other animals as ammunition!