Sarah Palin: What is it about killing that you enjoy?
posted by: Angel Flinn 300 days ago
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
- Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
When last year's presidential election campaign ended, I would have been happy if I had never heard the name 'Sarah Palin' again. What scares me the most about her is the attitude she holds toward animals. Unfortunately, despite her defeat in the presidential election, as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin still has the power to kill wild animals on a massive scale. Now, she and her friends are gearing up for an escalation in their slaughter of wolves.
According to the Care2 campaign team,
"…defenseless wolf pups and their families will soon face death from deadly snares and poison gas in and around their dens in Alaska. It is part of an escalating attempt by the Palin Administration to slaughter wolves at record numbers via helicopter, spotter planes, aerial gunners... and the unprecedented and extreme method of gassing wolf pups to death in their dens in the weeks ahead."
The e-mail circulated by Care2 announced that during Alaska's recent spring Board of Game meeting, the board approved a proposal to allow the use of gas bombs to kill wolves and wolf pups in their dens.
"The Board has consistently voted for unprecedented and increasingly extreme methods of killing wolves, and many in Alaska now question the make up of the board and the magnitude of their vendetta against wolves."
At the end of March, 66 wolves were slaughtered in one week, shot down from helicopters, spotter planes and aerial gunners. Even wolf packs that live near a National Park Service preserve were targeted, despite the risk to wolves in the preserve that have been studied for nearly two decades of research.
”Governor Sarah Palin and her allies have worked to expand the aerial killing program by removing the few remaining scientific requirements from the program."
There is something terrifying to me about someone who is so completely heartless when it comes to animals. I think it is a sign of something deeply disturbing, not just on a personal level, but on a societal level as well. To me, the hatred of animals that Sarah Palin demonstrates is not a simple matter of an individual being unwilling to feel compassion for members of another species. I believe it represents something much bigger. She is a public symbol of the part of us that has shut off the essential human qualities of kindness, empathy and compassion.
Indifference toward the suffering of other creatures is an accepted societal norm that is alarming to contemplate, but I'm starting to recognize something that is even more troubling. I'm beginning to believe that there is a part of the collective human consciousness that actually hates animals. If this sounds hard to believe, readers should make an investment in the small amount of time it takes to watch some of the more controversial footage of animal exploitation, where people have been filmed treating animals with abhorrent callousness, and seem to actually take sadistic pleasure in it. If that seems extreme, consider the famous picture of Sarah Palin smiling proudly beside the blood-soaked body of a moose that she had slain and was preparing to disembowel.
Why would this be, when so many of us feel such a strong bond and love for animals? Animals remind us of our own connection with (and separation from) the natural world, a world we once shared with them, where we constantly struggled to survive. Out of our intense desire to leave behind a way of life where daily survival had to be fought for, we managed to climb out of the world of nature, and thereby transcend the food chain, leaving behind the animal world and the terror of being preyed upon.
Rather than using our position of advantage to help our fellow animals, we have used it to further oppress them, and to push them into lives of even more fear, more pain, and more suffering, this time at the hands of those who claim to be creatures of moral conscience. It is for this reason that we feel guilty when we look at animals, because something inside us knows that we have betrayed them, and we continue to betray them, on a grand scale. What do we do in response to the guilt that nags at our conscience? We keep killing them, keep hurting them, keep terrorizing them, and keep oppressing them, perhaps in the hope that we will convince ourselves that it is simply what they deserve, what they were made for.
As long as we keep treating animals as insentient objects that were put on this planet to serve our desires, we will continue to oppress them, continue to hurt them, and continue to torture them. This causes us to be plagued by the guilt that lies like a blanket of anguish over the collective conscience of humanity. All over the world, animals are imprisoned, enslaved, tortured and killed violently, and all over the world, people go on as if this is just fine with them. Everyone is complicit in this crime, except for those who reject the products of the animal holocaust, embrace the vegan ideal, and choose a life where harming others is not an option.
- Immanuel Kant, German philosopher
When last year's presidential election campaign ended, I would have been happy if I had never heard the name 'Sarah Palin' again. What scares me the most about her is the attitude she holds toward animals. Unfortunately, despite her defeat in the presidential election, as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin still has the power to kill wild animals on a massive scale. Now, she and her friends are gearing up for an escalation in their slaughter of wolves.
According to the Care2 campaign team,
"…defenseless wolf pups and their families will soon face death from deadly snares and poison gas in and around their dens in Alaska. It is part of an escalating attempt by the Palin Administration to slaughter wolves at record numbers via helicopter, spotter planes, aerial gunners... and the unprecedented and extreme method of gassing wolf pups to death in their dens in the weeks ahead."
The e-mail circulated by Care2 announced that during Alaska's recent spring Board of Game meeting, the board approved a proposal to allow the use of gas bombs to kill wolves and wolf pups in their dens.
"The Board has consistently voted for unprecedented and increasingly extreme methods of killing wolves, and many in Alaska now question the make up of the board and the magnitude of their vendetta against wolves."
At the end of March, 66 wolves were slaughtered in one week, shot down from helicopters, spotter planes and aerial gunners. Even wolf packs that live near a National Park Service preserve were targeted, despite the risk to wolves in the preserve that have been studied for nearly two decades of research.
”Governor Sarah Palin and her allies have worked to expand the aerial killing program by removing the few remaining scientific requirements from the program."
There is something terrifying to me about someone who is so completely heartless when it comes to animals. I think it is a sign of something deeply disturbing, not just on a personal level, but on a societal level as well. To me, the hatred of animals that Sarah Palin demonstrates is not a simple matter of an individual being unwilling to feel compassion for members of another species. I believe it represents something much bigger. She is a public symbol of the part of us that has shut off the essential human qualities of kindness, empathy and compassion.
Indifference toward the suffering of other creatures is an accepted societal norm that is alarming to contemplate, but I'm starting to recognize something that is even more troubling. I'm beginning to believe that there is a part of the collective human consciousness that actually hates animals. If this sounds hard to believe, readers should make an investment in the small amount of time it takes to watch some of the more controversial footage of animal exploitation, where people have been filmed treating animals with abhorrent callousness, and seem to actually take sadistic pleasure in it. If that seems extreme, consider the famous picture of Sarah Palin smiling proudly beside the blood-soaked body of a moose that she had slain and was preparing to disembowel.
Why would this be, when so many of us feel such a strong bond and love for animals? Animals remind us of our own connection with (and separation from) the natural world, a world we once shared with them, where we constantly struggled to survive. Out of our intense desire to leave behind a way of life where daily survival had to be fought for, we managed to climb out of the world of nature, and thereby transcend the food chain, leaving behind the animal world and the terror of being preyed upon.
Rather than using our position of advantage to help our fellow animals, we have used it to further oppress them, and to push them into lives of even more fear, more pain, and more suffering, this time at the hands of those who claim to be creatures of moral conscience. It is for this reason that we feel guilty when we look at animals, because something inside us knows that we have betrayed them, and we continue to betray them, on a grand scale. What do we do in response to the guilt that nags at our conscience? We keep killing them, keep hurting them, keep terrorizing them, and keep oppressing them, perhaps in the hope that we will convince ourselves that it is simply what they deserve, what they were made for.
As long as we keep treating animals as insentient objects that were put on this planet to serve our desires, we will continue to oppress them, continue to hurt them, and continue to torture them. This causes us to be plagued by the guilt that lies like a blanket of anguish over the collective conscience of humanity. All over the world, animals are imprisoned, enslaved, tortured and killed violently, and all over the world, people go on as if this is just fine with them. Everyone is complicit in this crime, except for those who reject the products of the animal holocaust, embrace the vegan ideal, and choose a life where harming others is not an option.
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I have a BS (at the rate it's going, that's all it's turning out to be) in Wildlife Biology emphasis in Wolf Husbandry from Univ of Montana and the wolves were making an excellent comeback. A lot of the ranchers were coming round and things were falling into place. I can remember hearing the when Yellowstone National Park's ecosystem was just beginning to return to it's natural state before the white man came and began killing off species of this and that...mainly of course, the predators. Why is it that people can not understand the chain reaction of things? It's not like it takes a rocket scientist to know that if you roll a ball from top of a hill, its going to roll "downhill". Right??? Kind of like the old saying goes, "s@&t runs downhill"...kill off the predator, ungulate, bison, etc.. population goes up, native plant life suffers along with the overall health and well being of that part of the ecosystem. The vegetarian critter numbers explode or disappear, insects, fish and on and on and on. Soon...POOF...America's next generations are, well, basically screwed. The only place they can see hundreds of these animals that once roamed the earth, and I'm NOT talking the dinosaur era, are in museums or TV or online. Mom's and Dad's, Grandma's and Grandpa's are telling them stories about how they remember back when...I was taught to watch out & be kind to animals & little ones. Maybe that's why since I was a kid, I always wanted to be Grizzly Adams except I wanted
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Betty
This woman is nothing but a self evolver. She has her own agenda. If you do not live in Alaska, then it is harder for those in the lower 48 to understand. So if it is just a guess on your part Betty, thenit is best just to learn about the damage she has done to our wildlife here in Alaska. It is nothing but a slaughter, and greed.
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Maybe there is more to this than we know about. Did anyone ask why she is doing such a thing? Why say these things with out knowing why?
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Alaskans elected Sarah Palin, Ted Stevens, the Murkowski family members; ALL these people have been horrendous for Alaskan wildlife/beauty, none more than Stevens. There are nice people in Alaska but it is the neanderthals who keep voting for the crooks & winning. I believe it boils down to the money each person living in Alaska receives from the oil industry. If you keep giving me money to foul my own property & I happen to be a lazy low-life who doesn't like government meddling in my business, then I will foul my own property for that free money. See how that works? Ted Stevens has wielded power over Alaska for many DECADES & they keep RE-ELECTING THE SCUMBAG. He has committed so many crimes, yet the idiots who tried to prosecute him broke the law to further their case, so the b@stard walks free to continue influencing those still in power. The oil/timber industries run the show, they used to clear-cut in the interior so that the tourists wouldn't see it but it's now so blatant they clear-cut little islands the cruise ships pass. I have photos.
An Exxon tanker ship came into Valdez last month with a dead humpback whale on the bow, the captain didn't even know he hit the whale! - with all the 21st century gadgets that are supposed to detect that type of thing. Every tourist in town could see the dead whale. I sent the story to many outlets after I read it in the Anchorage Daily News. Not ONE person has commented on it. Alaskans won't vote for clean candidate
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Felicia & Narisha & Glyn P.,
The battle of trying to keep the whole state of Alaska has to wake up and smell the human garbage waifing behind Palin. She leaves and awful taste in my mouth just saying her name because she is such liar and a fraud.
I applaud all your ideas and speaking out against this phoney who pretends to be a good political representive of the people of Alaska....SHE IS NOT.
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Seems every week Palin does something that pisses off the rest of the nation. I hope Alaskans take heed to Narisha's post, and Stand up and Against Palin and her groopies.
The environment & wildlife can't hold on much longer while she and her hunter hungry clan have such power.
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Sarah Palin's power isn't created by her but by her supporters. These kinds of people don't give themselves power. We give it to them. We can also take it away by showing disdain for her actions wherever we go to whomever we please. The power of the WORD is a great thing. Use it.
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WOLFWEEPS , you hit the nail on the head , Palin is a total moron !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amen to that wolfweeps
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Claire,
Please go backand read previous comments on this topic. I can repeat until the cows come home but until people from the lower 48 stop coming here and from around the world to trophy hunt this madness will neer stop. Palin is in it for her fame and political career, and cares not one wit for animals. She will never wake up because she has her own agenda. We are speaking up and out, and she will NOT be re-elected for govenor, and if there is a hope in hell she will not gain any higher office including the presidency. She is a stark raving idiot with an ego the size of her brain.
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