The Canadians are at it again. Yes, there they go again, clubbing thousands of innocent baby harp seals in the most cruel and the most barbaric manner possible.
The annual hunt of harp seal pups will get under way very soon and, yet again, the Canadians have chosen to do nothing about it.
I lived and studied in Canada for two years from 1996-98. I found it to be a beautiful, civilized and amazingly friendly country. I made such good friends there. I found Canadians to be compassionate, helpful and just basically very nice people. 'Nice' in the very best sense of the word. I have lived in five different countries and, for years since, I would always tell anyone who cared to ask about my time in Canada that it was the loveliest and most civilized country I had lived in to date. There's that word again -
civilized.
But there is nothing
remotely civilized about the brutal, bloody and disgusting way in which these seal pups are bludgeoned and battered to death every year, as spring starts to rise again in the great, white Canadian north. The images are sickening - nothing can justify what goes on in those killing fields.
Nothing.Well, I say enough is enough!
Canada should be ASHAMED of itself. And, I'm sorry to say, and with all due respect, each and every Canadian should be utterly ashamed of themselves for living in a country that allows this year in and year out.
Every year the international community shouts louder and louder in its opposition to this butchering in the snow - yet every year Canada allows it to happen.
I don't give a damn about your reasons, Canada. Your reasons are parochial and political and petty and not even worth mentioning in this post.
Canada and Canadians consistently hide behind their 'Mr. Nice Guy' image on the world stage. It was easy to like such a laidback and gentle giant that made their neighbours to the south look like a bunch of gun-toting, crazy hooligans. And, boy, have they milked that image for a long time. Don't make me laugh! The Canucks don't even deserve to be called civilized, if this is how they treat wild animals within their country and entirely at their mercy.
And it's been going on for way too long...
Therefore, I say...
Support PETA, IFAW and other organizations that are doing such a fine and valiant job of trying to get this annual murder frenzy banned - once and for all.
Speak OUT against this Canadian carnage in whichever way you can - and if that means rubbishing all things Canadian, then so be it.
Spread the message around about this murderous carnage to all your family, friends, colleagues, anyone...please. And don't hold back.
Petition the fashion industry and those vacuous fashionistas who insist on still using baby seal fur just to make their fashion (mis)statements.
And, yes...
BOYCOTT CANADA AND ALL THINGS CANADIAN! This is long overdue, people. Canada has had it coming a long time.
I hate to petition people to boycott and to vilify a country that I have always (mostly) admired and for which I still have such good memories. But Canada needs a wake up call.
You cannot play the 'nice' card when you're playing anything but nice with thousands of innocent and defenceless animals every year. Game over.
Remember that hilarious "South Park" song called "Blame Canada" from a few years back? Well, that had a really funny, tongue-in-cheek and ironic feel to it. Except now the song would be ironic in a most unfunny way - now that Canada continues to insist on this annual baby seal hunt.
Nothing very funny or
nice about being barbaric.
Do you get my point?
