Land of the Free?
The other day, this outfit, Tunnels to Towers, sent me this handbag I didn't order to beg for contributions. Emblazoned on it was the slogan: "Land of the free because of the brave".
This is a flat out lie.
Peanut Euthanized
“His mom was hit by a car, and he was walking into a busy street in Downtown Manhattan,” Longo told the New York Times Slimes. “He ended up crawling up my leg.”
So Longo decided to bring P’Nut back to his home and bottle-feed him for eight months. (So what else was he to do? Just leave him to get run over too?) That’s when he claims he released the squirrel into his Pine City, NY, backyard, only for the critter to return a few days later with half of his tail missing, apparently after an attack by another animal. From that day forward, P’Nut was an indoor squirrel, Longo telling the Times of the rodent, “he’s 24/7 cage-free his entire life.”
When I was 10, I did the same, although that was a chipmunk, not a squirrel. My aunt, though, did rescue a squirrel and kept him for a good long time. The idea that gov't pigs could kick down our doors for the "crime" of rescuing helpless baby animals unthinkable. It was not a possibility back then.
As it was unthinkable for Sterling North (subject of the biopic Rascal) and his raccoons back in 1918.
As it was unthinkable for Gavin Maxwell and his pet otter, Mij, back in the mid '50's.
As it was unthinkable for Dorothy Wisbeski and her pet otter, Okee, back in the early '60's.
Like Wisbeski, I thought about getting an otter. I know where I can get one and it's not too gar from my QTH, maybe 30 miles north. My state didn't have any laws against it, or any other restrictions on the types of pets you can have. The deal breaker is that the state just over the state line is one where an otter would be confiscated and murdered just like P'Nut.
I see no legitimate reason for this.
The Instagram and TikTok accounts for the animal gained thousands of followers, and Longo and Daniela announced plans for a wildlife sanctuary, P’Nuts Freedom Farm (sometimes with an apostrophe, usually without).
Be very careful what you upload these days. If you keep squirrels, chipmunks, or other animals, keep it to yourself.
Then, on October 30, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation came a-knocking with a warrant and seized both the celebrity squirrel and a civilian raccoon named Fred. According to Longo, government agents trashed the house.
“Following multiple reports from the public about the potentially unsafe housing of wildlife that could carry rabies and the illegal keeping of wildlife as pets, DEC conducted an investigation,” a statement provided to the Times read. The DEC requires permits to keep both squirrels and raccoons as pets.
Two days later, the bureau euthanized both animals, explaining that one had bitten an agent, and that they needed to be tested for rabies.
This is absolute bullshit. You can't get rabies from rodents. A few years back, I got a mouse bite and went to the emergency room. They put some Mercurochrome and a bandaid on it and sent me home. Even if the mousie had rabies, I couldn't catch it. The only reason to euthanize the critters was pure spite. This is how evil these self important gov't assholes really are. They are so petty they can't tolerate any show of defiance and must strike back.
More from The New York Post
“Have you seen the videos of this squirrel? He’s, like, a genius. Or he was,” the Ohio senator [J. D. Vance] continued at a campaign rally in Sanford, North Carolina.
“The same government that doesn’t care about hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant criminals coming into our country, doesn’t want us to have pets. It’s the craziest thing.”
Let me explain it to you, J. D., peaceful, squirrel loving, law abiding citizens are highly unlikely to be slinging lead at these Dept of Environment assholes. Tren de Aragua gang bangers, not so much. Fentanyl runners and dealers? Not so much. The same reason why the LAPD arrested Korean shop owners who were protecting their property with rifles during the 1992 Rodney King mostly peaceful protests instead of those destroying homes and businesses. It's the same with Fibbies: they'd rather go after parents who complain too much at local school board meetings or Trad-Cats: both highly unlikely to be answering that knock on the door with flying lead. They are all cowards. Now do you understand, J. D.?
I will never thank these assholes for their "service". Tunnels to Towers sends me their shit in vain: I will never donate so much as a penny. I have said it before: the one, the only, thing the left proposes that I support is defund the police. I have long gotten sick and tired of hearing Levin's and Hannity's saying there are well meaning Fibbies and cops. No, there are not, any more than there were "well meaning" agents of the Stasi, Gestapo, or NKVD. "Well meaning" cops wouldn't last very long when they refused orders to shoot paint balls at people for Minnesotans' sitting on their front porches for the last warm evenings while screaming "Light 'em up!" (a military expression that initiates a fire fight). They would tell their "superiors" to go to hell when ordered to take a man's pet squirrel. They would tell their "superiors" to fuck off when ordered to forcibly take a young child from a mother's arms. Truly well meaning cops and Fibbies aren't cops and Fibbies any more. If you haven't turned in your gun, badge, and resignation letter you have sold your honour, if not your very soul.
Mr Longo isn't the only one: Man Who Showers, Dances With Raccoon in YouTube Video Fights to Keep Pet. Another rescuer of a raccoon in distress, another state, same results.
Here is another post I did awhile back about the same subject: The Sixties were Better
Freedom is dying in America. This has been going on now for a very long time, perhaps before the ink dried on the Constitution. Land of the free? My furry foxie ass! Land of the fee, home of the slave -- that's more like it.
Donald Trump talked a lot about the "American Dream". Remember what George Carlin said: "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it".
New York: fuck you.
Tennessee: fuck you.