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Dec 16, 2003 If the "snail darter" dies, we all die. If the "sperm whale" dies, we all die. If the "spotted tree owl" dies, we all die. If the "condor" dies, we all die. NOT! What's going on? So what if the Dodo bird didn't survive as a species? Did the world come to a swift and silent end? No. We moved on. If the last white bengle tiger passed into history tomorrow; if the panda bears currently in captivity never produced offspring, who cares? Are such animal kingdom naturalisms tied to the overall existance of the earth's most dominant species? Some might have us believe that, but if the truth be known, we all don't go grocery shopping for whale meat, caviar and the pelts of baby seals. It is a truism that the greatest enemy of the animal kingdom is man. We kill for sport. We kill for food. we sometimes overkill for profit, are found out for the poachers we are, and are locked away or fined or deported or some such. We actually breed animals in huge quantity so we can kill them to fill bins in our fried chicken shops, fast food resturants and all you can eat seafood buffets. What we do not breed to eat, we plant. We are so good at planting we gain surplus after surplus in grain and oats and corn that we send to starving prople around the world so they do not have to starve. And you know what? They starve anyway because, it turns out, these food giveaways cut into the profits of agriculturalists in the European Union, so they make up stories about the dangers of eating genetically enhanced products from the United States. We can't give our surplus foods away! HUH?! LET THEM EAT SAND! So a French king might say. When all is known, mankind will die because mankind killed itself. Another truism is that man's greatest enemy is himself. We would see nations of people starve before letting them eat surplus grain. We would tie up millions of acres of productive farmland to protect a handful of frogs, turtles, or snail darters. We protect and defend murderers for the sake of peace, allowing people like Arafat, Hussein, Milosovitch, Kim Jong Il et.al., to murder their own people for years without retribution or justice being meted out for the innocent. We permit wholesale abortion in the name of "privacy" and "freedom of choice". The fact is, every man, if permitted a choice, has someone in mind they would prefer to see on the long end of a short rope; especially in an election year. Mankind will die because mankind will kill itself. If it is not the latest epidemic of flu or SARS, it will be AIDS or resurgent polio or some other plague that will fire through millions of humans at a moment's notice. Or perhaps those rascally radical Arabs will finally find a way to mass produce and distribute their biological WMD's among the infidel nations. Maybe those Moldavian Dirty Bombs will be mailed to the DNC. The only way the demic-rats are going to win the White House in 2004 is by nukeing the Republican National Convention. Moldavian Dirty Bombs might be just the ticket. Someone please make sure Barney, Hillary, Chuckie and Teddy aren't sending large crates of congradulatory chocolates to the RNC, O.K.? The only species man needs to concern itself with is the species of man. If we conducted a study tomorrow, we might find that we can well afford this new prescription drug benefit for seniors if we stop spending billions on attempts to salvage the condor or the panda. Seniors are more important, right? Baby humans are more important than baby seals, right? Stopping the spread of AIDS is more important than protecting the habitat of frogs and turtles, right? Deposing mass murderers and ending terrorism is more important than electing a liberal demic-rat president, right? Although, there might be one of us who might say keeping demic-rats out of office is tantamount to deposing mass murderers and ending terrorism. ------------ About the Author: Independent, Conservative, Christian. Married 29 years with 5 children raised and one grandson being raised. 30 year Army Veteran and published poet with www.poetry.com since Y2K. Email Michael John McCrae: michael.mccrae@us.army.mil Comment on this column in the forum. Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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