Even if you share his hardcore views on animal rights, decisions like that surely affect the wrong people! I'd be TOTALLY pissed off, if I'd live in Canada. On the other hand, he's not too concerned about playing the US with it's even worse government, eh? Ah, I forgot about market sales, and their likes, or about, where you can't afford to miss out on touring, and where you can. By the way, I absolutely do understand why "Passions-Just-Like-Mine" has -temporarily?- stopped. I often wonder why David Tseng is still putting his very heart into this site, after having all this shit thrown at him from the man himself. "Steven, yes, you're older now, and you're a clever swine!"

isimply cannot understand how so many can agree with Morrissey's boycott of Canada. even if you agree with his views on the seal hunt, his boycott makes no sense whatsoever.

to single out Canada from all of the countries in the world that slaughter animals or to single out seals as being the animals that are most precious and in need of defence defies any logic or reason.

in effect, his boycott is only really aimed at those who hav nothing whatsoever to do with the seal hunt- Morrissey fans in the Toronto area (and possibly in areas surrounding other major Canadian cities which Morrissey has not been to for years, but couldve potenially toured).

his boycott will hav absolutely no effect on the seal hunt itself as those involved in the seal hunt will likely take no notice of his actions.

he and his cause would be much better off if he came to Canada and intelligently and diplomatically tried to persuade Canadians to change their views and practices. some hav charcterized his stance as "courageous", but nothing could be more cowardly than to simply sling insults from a far while never facing the situation head on.

this, on top of the indecent way in which he announced his boycott, make the whole thing, if nothing worse, completely foolish.

clearly, the only reasonable explaination for Morrissey's actions is to garner more publicity heading into the release of his new album. he is willing to make the small sacrifice of Canadian album and ticket sales in exchange for more face time with the media, to raise his profile. he has simply exploited his Canadian fanbase for net personal gain and he should be ashamed of himself for that (though im sure that is something he is quite incapable of).

if you agree with Morrissey's boycott than this what you are agreeing with and if you cant see it you are terribly naive.

Morrissey is being such a drama queen about this. It's not exactly like Morrissey fans are the ones clubbing the seals, and I also doubt that the sealers will think, "Oh no, Morrissey is refusing to come here because of us! We should stop right now!" It's completely unfair to punish the fans for something that they have no involvement in whatsoever, and he's being incredibly arrogant to think that this one gesture is going to do anything other than make him lose fans.

I agree that killing all these seals is wrong in itself, but there are about a million better ways Morrissey could help to make a difference, like donating some money to help stop it, rather than being a bitch to his fans.

this isn't the onion story i was looking for but it's still funny:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29533

and more harmless fun-poking at canada:

http://www.theonion.com/content/search/onion/advan ced?search=canada&restrict=.site:onion

so we know you get your panties in a wad over boycotts but lets see if, at the very least you have a sense of humor....