RECENTLY IN GEORGIA (USA) a man who owns a turtle farm ran into a little problem, experienced a slight difficulty, in fact a major one; namely, nearly all his turtles escaped. something like twenty five hundred got away, out of a total of four thousand or so.
they had been intended to be sold as pets in the U. S., or sold to the chinese as whatever the chinese use turtles for, which, knowing the chinese, aint pets.
it seems likely that the turtles were freed, albeit slowly, by PETA types. as always this conjures the moral question: to what degree do we have the right to force our beliefs on others?to a very limited degree, one must respond.
are the PETA people, who fundamentallly should be admired by all, perhaps a bit too full of themselves? are most of the rest of us in america similarly afflicted, perchance? does this american tendency have anything to do with the world's perception of america as a bully?
maybe the good people of PETA should intelligently present to a candid world the reasons why farming turtles is a crime, and leave enforcement to the grater society, through proper legal channels?
and maybe the world should have greater respect for the position of russia and china with respect to syria. did the american people want a foreign coalition of diplomats, politicians, and military deciding the outcome of the american civil war? hardly.
maybe, just maybe, the syrians want to work it out themselves, for themselves, without american or united nations intervention. the great american thomas jefferson taught us that liberty and freedom often come with a cost, a high cost of life and treasure.
such seems to now be the case in syria, as it hasen been the case, at one time or another, nearly everywhere, the united states of america included.may the forces of freedom, liberty, equality, and justice prevail, wherever they are. presumably, they will.
Bb
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