[Editor's Note: This last weekend, a youth hunt was held
at the Brady Ranch in Indiantown, Florida. These children were
guaranteed a kill because the ranch is completely fenced. All proceeds
were to go to the evangelical ministry group that used the hunt to teach
kids about God and nature.]
There ‘it' is, little David Jones. Do you see that
extremely aware and sensitive creature with slightly upturned nose,
sniffing an invisible scent in the mid-day air? He is standing over
there in the mulberry bushes, near the moist fir tree, with a beating
heart of gold.
Now, David, I'm gonna stand behind you and help you line
the cross hairs up just so. Don't move, David. Stay perfectly still.
Don't take your eye off the target because you are gonna pull the
trigger real soon. Now on the count of three, I want you to pull your
small, innocent finger toward your chin. Make sure you get ‘it' on the
first shot, little David. You wouldn't want to make the 'thing' suffer.
It is an animal, but always bear in mind that God says we have the right
to kill them because we are superior. We have the nature of God more
than they.
Don't worry about those animal rights people with the
tough tattoos on their calves, holding their silently loud signs out
front, who protest just beyond the unforgiving fence. They need to get
lives. They need to stop being concerned with saving the lives of mute
animals who cannot defend themselves. They should instead be concerned
with saving the minds of children who are taught by calloused, ignorant
adults they think they can trust, to perpetuate the ritual of speciesism
under the guise of religion. Some of us do penetrate through the
brainwash storms of life, little David, and learn that religion, along
with culture and tradition, may eventually reconcile people who possess
the same mindset, to band together to invoke any atrocity, as long as it
is legal!
‘Canned' hunts are as premeditated and as cold as they
sound. Let the child feel the thrill of the kill, so when he wants to
feel the same power and control again, he will have already gotten
practice on an animal. When he premeditates killing again, perhaps it
will be a human. At least he will be versed and prepared. He has gotten
practice by an adult he loves. He will know that old black magic; the
excited, tingling feeling; the rush of snuffing out a substantial life
to the individual who possessed it.
When this child grows up to have the kind and benevolent
eyes of a grandfather, will he tell the tale of how a band of
bloodthirsty people with the same mindset, all set out one hot summer
day in mid July 2000, to terrorize a select number of victimized
animals? Will his grandchildren learn speciesism; being careful to carry
on the family religion?
Will he walk away from this experience knowing it is
okay to kill the shiny mockingbird on the bough, who imitates and
recites so many melodious sounds with all of his/her heart? "Train up a
child in the way he shall go; and when he is older he shall not depart
from it."
Someday, the lion shall lay down with the lamb. Perhaps
both these animals, who sit in security now, were murdered by a
handicapped child. When the LionLamb Day evolves, no creature will ever
suffer again because of human ignorance. We hope for this day soon. It
is a much needed day. It will be a day for global celebration; for it
will be the first day the Earth is healed of the things which don't yet
exist; the things we pray for the most.
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