RANT: Suffer the Whales

It's been over three weeks since I last blogged. Time has just flown by. It's no excuse - I do know that. There's so much to rant about, I simply don't know where to begin. Current history is a veritable Towering Inferno of catastrophic and near-catastrophic events.

History-making, not so positive events, they're coming thick and fast at present. The times they're certainly crazy.

There is the near-collapsing Greek and Portuguese economies and the ongoing thievery by the global financial Mafia bastards to rant about, not to mention an upcoming (and silly) UK election and yet another electricity fiasco right here in South Africa.

More on some of those another time...

Yet nothing upsets me more profoundly than the growing possibility that the existing moratorium on whaling may yet be overturned in June.

It looks very possible that the current moratorium on whaling, which the International Whaling Commission (IWC) passed in 1986, will be a thing of the past in just a few weeks. Many countries, the United States included, are preparing to vote to allow whaling to be legal once again. Unbelievable.

And back we go yet again as a species.

Of course, this time around spurious 'scientific' and even 'conservation' reasons are being cited for this wish to lift the ban. There's always a godforsaken conservation reason. Guaranteed.
Give me any barbaric killing of any animal, and you can bet your last dollar that there'll definitely be sold-out environmentalist-conservationists cheering it on. It happens all the time right here in southern Africa with the ongoing 'culling for conservation purposes' that goes on in our national parks and 'game lodges' of large animals like elephants. Conservationists abound in their approval of those 'kind killings'. Yes, killing can also be very kind. Come on - didn't you know that?!

Quite frankly, I'm sincerely not interested in whatever 'scientific' or 'environmental' reasons there may be for the slaughter of these magnificent animals of whom we still have so much to learn. What's wrong is wrong...no, in fact, what's amoral is amoral.

And here we have the return to the (potentially) wholesale legal slaughter of the largest and amongst the most intelligent animals on Earth.

The Japanese must be toasting with gallons of sake, what with their ongoing massacre of hundreds of whales each year in the southern ocean. Now it will all be totally legal! Sayonara to that. As will be the Norwegian and Icelandic whaling contingencies, bunch of holier-than-thou Scandinavian hypocrites that they are.

'Save the Whales' has yet again become a necessary mantra of the environmental movement and any remotely compassionate person on this planet. It was a campaign at the forefront of the watershed years of the environmental movement back in the 1970s.

Here we are again, 35 years later, and the same fight must be fought yet again. All over again. Talk about being the most fucking redundant species on the planet.

Excuse my extreme language - but that gives you just an inkling of how angry this makes me.

Imagine being at the mercy of us?

Suffer the Whales. Suffer humanity.

Do you get my point?