A Vampire Rights Amendment

Tru Blood and the Face of the Modern Vampire

Tru Blood, HBO's upcoming series, features a race of the closet vampires who are liberated from the need to snack on human blood by a synthetic variety known as tru blood. Naturally there is a Vampire Rights Amendment being debated to protect America's newest oppressed minority

A Vampire Rights Amendment? Next thing you know those blood suckers will be demanding to be called "Undead Americans" and terms like "Vampire", "Nosferatu", and the like will join the "N word" among the words we cannot say
A Vampire Rights Amendment
 ever.

Tru Blood, based on a series of novels by Charlene Harris, is set in Louisiana. Tru Blood is centered around a romance between a psychic, human waitress named Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, and a vampire named Bill played by Stephen Moyer.

The Vampire Rights Amendment and vampires in general are opposed, of course, by the Religious Right, one of Hollywood's standard villains. "God hates fangs" indeed. And what about all of those centuries of treating people like happy meals on legs, to quote another vampire in another series.

Tru Blood, with its obvious metaphors about gays and African Americans and any other victim group, is just the latest in a line of franchises about undead blood suckers. There was the brief and unlamented Moonlight on CBS that had a vampire character who could walk in daylight solely because the show couldn't be bothered with filming at night.

Before Moonlight, there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel. There was no nonsense about vampires being an oppressed minority in those shows. Vampires, except for Buffy's true love Angel and-later-her other lover Spike, were soulless monsters who not only fed on the blood of the living but did anything they wanted because, lacking souls, they also lacked moral sense. Buffy, who started the series as a fashion conscious high schooler, was their relentless hunter. No nonsense about a Vampire Rights Amendment here or any kind of rights. Vampires needed only one thing and that was a wooden stake where it would do the most good.

 
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everyone thinks this a big ass joke We don't need help we like the help but when it comes down to it,Senator Bradford is giving us hope in this world that we know people need to realize We are people to and other Vampires are to. to contact me withh more info email me at: Cperdue91@hotmail.com

Posted on 04/27/2009 at 4:04:38 PM

HI THERE COOL COOL A VAMPIER BILL OF RIGHTS JUST WAIT TOO YOU EARTH SEE A HYBRIDE STAR SHIP VAMPIER POWER OF A GOD BUILT WITH HALO RING ANTI-BUY BUY TECHNOLGY WICH WOULD LET THE SPACE TRASFORMING STAR SHIP VAMPIER OUT LIVE THE UNAVERSE WITH ZERO LOSS OF VAMPIER WITH TRASPORTERS TRACTOR BEAMS REPLICATORS SHIELDS FORE FILEDS RADATION SHILDS CLOAKING DEVICE FOOD PLACES BUILT IN GAMING SYSTEMS MOVIE THEATORS BRIGES ENGINERING IMPULSE WARP DRIVE LUDICRUSS SPEEDS STRUTRE CAN GO BEYOUND INFINITY G FORCES GETS INFINT UNAVERSE PER GRAM AND INFINT DIMINSIONS PER GRAM TOO OH BIO FILETERS AND CLOAKING TECHNOLOGIES TOO A MACHINE VAMPIER DONT NEED FOOD OR SNACKS BUT HAVE CARGO AREAS REFRGERATORS FREEZERS SEE THERE IS ENOUGH FOR ETERNATY THE FASTEST THE GREENEST AND MOST ADVANACED VAMPIER IN THE UNAVERSE PROBS SATLITES GPS TRASPONDERS COUNT LESS BUILT IN ANTANAS TOO.

Posted on 03/24/2009 at 10:03:40 PM

twilight is a prude pg13 movie that tweens can go and watch in groups of 5 or more and then go buy cheap movie merchandise at some hot topic store...tru blood is hardcore and gritty. good plot and i used to live in the south so i laugh when i see these hicks from the show but thats another this so everyone stop posting stupid compare and contrast shit for these two shows.. twilight is for the children... and true blood is for the adults... its as simple as that... fuck.

Posted on 12/01/2008 at 11:12:05 PM

I dont rally care about wat they think. let em be. NO! let us be! some Vampires dont even drink alldat blood. i only like a scratch once every two weeks. my "normal" friends are depressing. I love anime.i forgot...is there such a thing as a pureblooded vampire...im very forgetfull. i alsothink that im too joyfull... the only reason i evebother doin dais might be cause i dont know wat to do with my life... due to the fact that im stuck inside cause my parents are scared that i may kill someone/somethin. for some reason i like noodles...my mom bought them for my siblings once and yeah... itwas good i just noticed that i type in a weird way. like in anime...how it looks like they're just typin hiuwuhfoq8ufiuo but they're really typin somethin like "the cat jumped over the sun... and somehow managd to survive..." i tried to type like dat once... insted i typed "wumcmcan8hf e;..." it was weird. wat are "humans" to say that Vampires are NOT "normal" we could be normal... or not...HaHa...IDK

Posted on 10/20/2008 at 4:10:05 PM

Its about time we got some kind of rights! We have been persicuted for to long! With rights we wont be as blatently subjected to the open hatred by religious groups and fools who simply cannot understand our way of life. We need to show all of them that we will NOT tolerate this kind of treatment and that we must have change! We have to stand up and let the world know that our times of hiding in the shadows of fear and abuse are over! Let my fellow Nightwalkers hear my voice and be rallied to the cause of freedom! WE WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING! The Vampire Phear P.S If any of you want to be men about this E-mail me at Raven_darksoul@yahoo.com. This is one of my dummy accounts so I dont check it to often. But you never know, I might have time to hear what you have to say...

Posted on 10/01/2008 at 7:10:20 AM

none of you under stand the true meaning our culture and you will never know what it is truly like to be what we are and to live like we do .Fools

Posted on 09/30/2008 at 12:09:59 AM

we need vampires rights. this its me close eto home b/c i am a vampire. and for the record I DO NOT DRINK BLOOD!! oh and Dracula (Vlad) was an angry ruler that liked to stick wooden stakes up peoples asses

Posted on 09/29/2008 at 7:09:15 AM

THIS IS FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE FIRST TRADITION!!!! this "bill" will be hunted down and given Final Death!, the Kine are our FOOD. Our CATTLE. and their blood is ours to take, we are the predators they are the prey. Vampire Rights? Anyone who steps on my toes is a smoothie. end of discussion..... Vampire rights..... indeed.

Posted on 09/09/2008 at 9:09:41 AM

Fuck...ok basically what i was saying was that This Show Tru Blood Sucked major Ass in comparison and was down right stupid in all ways relating to vampires....Dont let this show give you the impression of what a Vampire is...its stupid and not even close to being right...

Posted on 09/07/2008 at 8:09:51 PM

Differences between Twilight and Tru Blood. In Tru Blood, "Bill" is referred to as being "Old Fashioned"...thats a direct statement from what "Bella", the main character of The "Twilight Saga", says about her Vampire lover, Edward. Also with the southern accents (this is more personal opinion on the matter) the name "Bill" sounds an awful lot like "Bell" which is a nickname for Bella in The "Twilight Saga". Also Sookie has dreams/nightmares about Bill...This is EXACTLY the same as The "Twilight Saga". Bella has dreams/nightmares about Edward being outside her window. However, unlike in Tru Blood, Edward is actually outside listening to Bella's nightmares. In Tru Blood, Bill is a Vampire, and In Twilight, Edward is a Vampire....however, the ability of Sookie is actually possessed By Edward...in short, Edward can read minds, BUT NOT Bella's, and in Tru Blood, Sookie can read minds of Vampires (im guessing, didnt even bother to watch the 1st full episode...after 45 mins. i d

Posted on 09/07/2008 at 8:09:11 PM

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