File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9907, message 440


Date: 19 Jul 1999 02:06:00 +0200
From: ASWAD-AT-anarch.free.de (catkawin)
Subject: Re: Urgent (a)



carp said:

> Jeeez, Cat, first you blame me for your rain because I wrote about it, and
> then last night I respond to this post from you. So's then this morning
> the mate and I are walking through the local farmers' market looking for
> treats and we walk past the political tables at the end of the market area
> where the dimmycrats and weepubeecans register voters and the
> anti-pollutiongroups usaly have a spot and what do I see?   An Earth
> First!  table with no one at it.
Shit happens, I suppose....

Just make sure you're quicker to nick papers next time around.

> Anyways, Cat, I have a feeling we are karmatically linked.
So let's see what else may happen...... On the other hand, it might be  
some idea not to mention earthquakes, volcanoes etc., don't you agree?

> Mike Lewis?  You're an EF! kind of guy.  Is this normal behavior for that
> crowd?
There's some people from animal protection groups who signed the  
declaration against racism. I actually discoverd a sign-on reading  
"Michael A. Lewis, Alaska" and thought it was him.


> I thought the idea was to get in touch with the
> wilderness/wildness of both the nature of earth and humynkind.
Yup: patting whales' heads is how to get in touch.
> I see the
> reaction to whole Makah whaling issue as being WAY out of proportion to
> the actual event.   Part of wild living is killing.
The thing *is* out of proportion. SS (some say they're Sea Shepherd) of  
course picked the Makah to run wild about. The Makah stopped whaling in  
the 1920ies since other nations (guess who) had hunted so many whales the  
species was endangered. So nobody *told* them to stop. The Makah have  
wahling and fishing rights under the treaty they signed. The quota now  
given to them does not mean IWC just writes off another 5 whales per  
annum: IWC took the Makah quota from a Siberian native nation.

As an aside: one should think that this completely ruins one of SS'  
arguments, but they still claim the *USA* have joined the pirate whaling  
nations the day the Makah had their successful hunt.

I suppose SS thought that was going to be a piece of piss - in the movies,  
it's always the white guys to win in the Indian wars. I also do miss SS'  
engagement in further anti-whaling activities since they claim they take  
action against any whalers regardless of their resp skin colour: the  
Norwegian whaling season has started, and up to now, we only had reports  
about Greenpeace getting into brawls with them. Seems that SS is afraid of  
the Vikings being tougher to fight than the Makah.

> Further, (but not directed at you, Mike) the Washington Peoples What Were
> Here Before The White Guys Got Here are pretty much locked in a perpetual
> state of conflict with the liberal/radical environmental groups.  Sea
> Lions congregate at the some of the canal/navigation locks and decimate
> the salmon runs.  So occasionally a PWWHBTWGGH will kill a particularly
> vicious salmon-killing Sea Lion because the PWWHBTWGGHs +rely+ on the
> salmon runs as treaties give them 50% of the run fish, and except for
> selling firewirks, tax-free cigarettes, and wirking at the casinos there
> ain't much making-a-living to be had if you're a unassimilated PWWHBTWGGH.
>
> Anyways, you'd think killing a sea lion was like killing the last Dodo
> bird; people just go apeshit.  Most wirking class white-folk in Washington
> and Oregon can't stand the native americans; adding pissed-off
> environmental groups and the warm-and-fuzzy animal lovers into the mix
> just further fuels the hatred.
There's been enough going on over native fishing rights in that area.
I suppose now we're seeing the incredible alliance of SS, EF etc people  
with the people who do fishing as sports - they're both against native  
fishing. And as Grand Dragon Watson and his SS say they're "a-political"  
and accept the support of any politician, no matter what's his political  
views, as long as that person supports an issue/issues close to their  
hearts, there's a lot more possible alliances....

> Uh, where was I?
Indy-by-gawd-anna, I hope.

> Oh, yeah, what's up with this stuff anyways?
Nothing more happened so far. SS-Europe's bureau is open Mon, Wed, Fri  
between 9-13, as they advised me in their letter, so I don't expect  
anything much from them for a few days.

I must say I admire their attempts to get more of me than the email- 
address, which is anonymous enough: they're inviting me to phone them  
(yup, ve haff vays...).

I do feel tempted to send them something written, though. I mean, they  
demand an apology for the untruthful things I said, and for having ruined  
their repuation unjustly...

Funny thing is, the Grrman letter they sent me is full of racist comments.  
First of all, they are talking about "Red Indians" and "tribes" all the  
time. Then they describe the Makah whaling crew as "wellfed Red Indians  
wearing gym-shoes". Quite right, if the Makah intend to live up to SS'  
image of "Red Indians", they should look they'd die from starvation within  
the next minute or so, and they should probably be wearing mocassins made  
from buffalo-hide instead of gym-shoes. Not mentioning that paddling a  
cedar canoe will supply you with enough muscles not to look too starved,  
and for that purpose, the Makah won't look for weak individuals either, I  
believe. On the other hand, believing SS owns the ultimate truth, then the  
cedar canoe was only used to make believe they were following traditional  
ways, as they chose to enlighten me.

Oh, and SS-Europe (they're writing in Grrman and the names of the  
undersigned persons are Grrman, so this must be a case of "yessterday  
Chrrmoney, tomorro Europa"...) also gives us the truth about the  
motivation for hunting whales: of course, it's a greed for profit and a  
lust to kill. Nothing more, because the "Inuit (Eskimo)" nicknamed the  
gray whale "The whale which makes you empty your bowels". This, according  
to the gospel of SS, clearly indicates that the meat of the gray whale is  
in no way suited for humyn consumption, and therefore they claim "it must  
be strongly doubted that the whale will make it to the tribe's pots", not  
mentioning Makah bellies. Makes one wonder how the Makah, the Inuit et al  
managed to survive for thousands of years, but this is nothing SS would be  
too concerned about.

Mike - if you happen to read this: is there anything you can say as  
regards the Inuit name for these whales?

Anyways, after having read and digested their letter, I feel like writing  
them something like: "sorry, folks, after reading your stuff, I do not see  
myself in a position to regret having damaged your reputation unjustly, as  
it's a long time ago since I last saw people trying to fight off a racist  
image by spurting out racist comments. And thanks anyway for providing me  
with some excellent first hand material, yours ever xxx"

I reckon myself in good company, though, as another person - IWW member !-  
who also signed the declaration and does some work for it, has been  
libeled by a person called Andy from EF Seattle as being a "socialist  
parasite" and an "ex-communist who turned socialist" when Soviet Union  
ceased to exist as their fatherland.... I suppose the animal  
protectionists coat of arms reads: Nothing is too low for us.

Which makes a good closing line.

catkawin
## CrossPoint v3.11 ##

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005