#p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows THE GUY BEHIND FSA KITTENS HAS LITTLE HOPE FOR SYRIA http://www.vice.com/read/syria-fsa-cats-mahmoud-khatib-oscar-rickett-471 Video footage online shows Syrian government troops massacring cows, killing horses and torturing cats and goats. In the torture scenes, the men “interrogate” the “rebel” animals, sadistically re-creating scenes that have no doubt been played out with human victims. These aren't the worst atrocities carried out during the conflict, but to Mahmoud Khatib, they seem to underscore the dehumanizing effect of years of war. In August 2012, Mahmoud, a Syrian-American living in Atlanta, saw a Guardian report that noted the kindness shown to stray kittens by fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of the main rebel forces battling the regime of president Bashar al-Assad. He started digging and realized that the FSA’s treatment of animals contrasted sharply with the cruelty shown to defenseless creatures by Assad’s forces. He thought this was an obvious, internet-friendly indicator of how much better for Syria they were than Assad and his animal-torturing thugs. In a bid to draw the world’s attention to the cause, he set up FSA Kittens, which collected photos of FSA fighters and kittens, first on Tumblr and then on Facebook...