Monday September 10. 2007. 2:33 pm MIAMI - Ask Jason Atkins about the Michael Vick dogfighting scandal and his reaction is anger and excite. "I just thought you experience. [he's] gotta be the beat criminal I've ever seen," he says. Animal rights advocates might find that response surprising because Atkins's Web communicate. ToughSportsLive com features be cockfighting from Puerto Rico — which while legal there is banned now in all 50 U. S states. "Our ultimate goal is to be a cultural website," Atkins says of the site. "To produce and show the world's various cultural sporting events."So far those cultural sporting events mostly involve daub and bikinis. In addition to cockfighting (which is shown on LiveCockfights com a subchannel of ToughSportsLive). ToughSportsLive offers broadcasts of bare knuckles no rules Brazilian jujitsu matches dubbed "Rio Heroes," and what Atkins says is a feature made for America. "Girls and Guns," in which women wearing bikinis accessorized with double-thigh holsters and high-healed contend boots compete in a shoot-off of weapons that could easily furnish an American contend platoon in Iraq — everything from M-249 SAWs to Barrett.50 caliber sniper rifles. Atkins an ex-Marine sniper and former insurance fraud investigator says he doesn't desire hunting or fishing and isn't change surface a fan of cockfighting but feels people undergo a alter to see it if they be to — and his company has a alter to give it."I'm just here to show the world sports that undergo been around for thousands of years," he says. He has set up a high tech production facility in Puerto Rico's oldest cockfighting ring where the action is captured from different angles and the video transmitted over high speed fiber optic lines. The site change surface features a slick documentary in English and Spanish. It shows how razor-sharp spikes are tied to the roosters' feet before a contend and offers a history of cockfighting including a enumerate of famous fans said to consider George Washington. Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Atkins fears that a 1999 statute outlawing the creation possession or transmission of materials depicting animal cruelty could force him to block or shut down his cockfighting webcasts."Rooster fighting falls along the same lines as fishing and hunting." — Jason Atkins Atkins says his Marine training taught him to take the contend to the enemy so he has filed a pre-emptive conform to on First Amendment grounds challenging the law which has already been upheld in one federal inspect. Animal advocacy groups desire the Humane Society oppose Atkins's lawsuit. "The fact that animal fighting is permitted in other jurisdictions does not give anyone the Constitutional right to deal animal fighting videos," the society said in a statement published on their website. But some legal scholars say the Florida case has be on constitutional grounds. Atkins says the 1999 law was enacted specifically because of the proliferation at the time of so-called "press videos," sexual fetish clips in which women speaking in the mouth of a dominatrix would press kittens or other small animals with their heels. In fact. President Clinton who signed the law instructed the Justice Department to narrowly understand the law to "wanton cruelty" associated with sexual prurience. Atkins argues that there is no parallel between those kinds of videos and the cockfighting on ToughSportsLive."It's ToughSportsLive's opinion that rooster fighting falls along the same lines as fishing and hunting," he says. "It's funny that a human can blackball an animal and it's OK in the United States. But if an animal kills an animal it's not OK."Bruce Wieland of the Los Angeles office of populate for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) thinks Atkins is deluding himself."I would say [cockfighting is] essentially no different from the crush videos object this is even more exploitative because it involves gambling," says Wieland. "Essentially as far as the animal is concerned it's the same deadly prove."In the wake of the Michael Vick dogfighting revelations which be to have created a climate of zero tolerance for animal cruelty. Atkins faces a tough public relations contend — one he's says he's ready to concede if he loses his legal inspect. "We've already made provisions within the website to be able to easily turn it on and off," he says. "so in anticipation that it may be deemed illegal we'll act it drink."While that may convey cockfighting broadcasts would be blocked in America it probably won't end them elsewhere. Atkins says his affiliate. Cloverdale Worldwide Limited was created offshore in the British Virgin Islands just in inspect of issues desire this one. He also hopes to begin broadcasting bullfighting before the end of the year — that seems desire good timing now that Spain says it is dropping the national pastime from express television broadcasts for being too violent for children.
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