Save The Terrorists
Even in this day and age, there are people who are willing to overlook terrorism. The are people who want to blame terrorist behavior on us, saying it is our policies that drive the terrorists to their actions. Those same apologists decry efforts to fight back against terrorists and denounce those efforts at every turn. Much of the opposition comes from Europe, not just America. That's why these people are signing petitions denouncing efforts to control terrorism.
What the heck are you supposed to do with squirrels that attack humans?
As of Wednesday, 682 people had signed an online petition that asks the city of Mountain View to abandon plans to kill squirrels in Cuesta Park, the site of numerous squirrel attacks starting in May of last year.
Late last month, a woman from Fallon, Nev. signed the petition and posted this comment: “These people want to kill the squirrels for being aggressive, so what are they going to do about their own aggressive tendencies? … Maybe the squirrels are just reacting to the aggression they see around them?''
Some of the people who recently signed the petition, located at www.thepetitionsite.com, are based in England and South Africa. The petitioners' goal is to gather 1,000 online signatures and forward the message to Mountain View City Hall. The petition site is powered by care2.com, a Redwood City-based “environmentally-responsible'' networking site.
The online outrage was sparked by a proposal from city staff to place traps in trees to catch and euthanize aggressive squirrels. The proposal was put together following a string of attacks last fall that received local, and subsequently, international attention.
After the plan was announced in October, city staff and council members were hit with a barrage of e-mails and calls from squirrel aficionados. City staff, in turn, put the trapping plans on hold in favor of warning park visitors against feeding squirrels and trying to limit the amount of food trash left behind for the squirrels.
I originally noted the reports of the squirrel attacks back in September and noted then that the entire debate was an exact analog of the debate over terrorism of the human sort. It still is. If not more so. The squirrels have attacked little kids and inflicted injury, yet they have vehement defenders and apologists. Interesting, isn't it?
By crosspatch, Monday, 22 January , 2007 @ 1:35 pm
“What the heck are you supposed to do with squirrels that attack humans?”
Feed the homeless?