Barleycorn keeps saying he said it's NOTHING COMPARED...
Morrissey said,
"Despite the love, we do live on a murderous planet,
as you will have seen over the last few days in Norway.
Murder murder murder.
But really, every single day, worse things happen in KFC and McDonalds.
Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder..."
He did not reduce the events of Norway to NOTHING. He commented on the magnitude of life extinguished as being a daily occurrence. His theme was murder of LIFE, a comment on the antithesis of peace and harmony. It wasn't humans vs animals, it was DEATH VS LIFE.
That is simply NOT what was reported and accepted (as he did not sue) as being said that night in Warsaw. In article after article after article it was reported as "We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Shit every day."
He even got the number of dead wrong because the authorities were still unsure themselves.
Even the TTY statement he felt compelled to issue afterwards compares the events in the last paragraph.
"29 July 2011
MORRISSEY STATEMENT
The recent killings in Norway were horrific. As usual in such cases, the media give the killer exactly what he wants: worldwide fame. We aren't told the names of the people who were killed - almost as if they are not considered to be important enough, yet the media frenzy to turn the killer into a Jack The Ripper star is .... repulsive. He should be un-named, not photographed, and quietly led away.
The comment I made onstage at Warsaw could be further explained this way: Millions of beings are routinely murdered every single day in order to fund profits for McDonalds and KFCruelty, but because these murders are protected by laws, we are asked to feel indifferent about the killings, and to not even dare question them.
If you quite rightly feel horrified at the Norway killings, then it surely naturally follows that you feel horror at the murder of ANY innocent being. You cannot ignore animal suffering simply because animals "are not us."
The first paragraph is fine, and I broadly agree with him, except, of course, how does he expect the roll call of the victims to be publicly released so soon after the attack? That isn't down to the media, which, by the way, he has spent the last three decades courting and castigating as it suits him.
But how is that second paragraph anything other than another comparison between the Utoya victims and poultry?
It's very strange to hear people who have argued long and loud that there is a comparison between human life and animal life suddenly decide that he didn't say what they've been defending.