I understand that NY State killing Peanut the squirrel involves the death of a rodent, and to some people that seems unimportant, but when you bond with an animal as a pet, there’s a sentimental and emotional connection that should be respected. That New York state would allow some bureaucrats under the umbrella of a “conservation” agency to take someone’s pet and kill it, just displays the vindictive sociopathy that is a defining feature of so many (democrat-controlled) govt agencies today. None of this is an accident. The mentality of the Democrat-bureaucrat is much more similar to the statist-sadists described in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago” than we want to believe. But just like then, they demand you submit to the whim of the machine, even when vicious, random, and unfair. Thats because the underlying premise of the machine is that it cannot be wrong, by definition, and your “rights” are just in the way. Solzhenitsyn described the frustration that Soviet officials would feel with the outrage of those innocents arrested- it didnt matter that the victim of the state had done nothing wrong, the machine was a system and anything slowing it down was friction, to be treated as waste. So it is with many of the statist-bureaucrats today. They have low-show jobs, often of little or no productive value, so they wield whatever authority they have in a vindictive, mechanistic way. Now an employee of the state of New York pretending that a beloved pet, one that raised money for animal rescue, is a “rabies risk” is the worst kind of petty tyranny. Everyone knew it was bullshit, but the state goons went along with it anyway. The govt, and public at large, had no real interest or benefit from the machine’s actions in this case, but its assembly line of pointless cruelty continued. Yes, Peanut was just a squirrel, but a state agency that would confiscate and kill your harmless pet for no reason is also one that would lock you up for refusing to take an experimental vaccine- and in the name of “the system,” under certain circumstances, do things far more monstrous and cruel under the guise of necessary and right.
Well put and absolutely in line with my own reactions.
...the vindictive sociopathy that is a defining feature of so many (democrat-controlled) govt agencies today. None of this is an accident. The mentality of the Democrat-bureaucrat is much more similar to the statist-sadists described in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago” than we want to believe. But just like then, they demand you submit to the whim of the machine, even when vicious, random, and unfair. Thats because the underlying premise of the machine is that it cannot be wrong, by definition, and your “rights” are just in the way. Solzhenitsyn described the frustration that Soviet officials would feel with the outrage of those innocents arrested- it didnt matter that the victim of the state had done nothing wrong, the machine was a system and anything slowing it down was friction, to be treated as waste. So it is with many of the statist-bureaucrats today.
Is it irrational to want a prison sentence for the agents who seized and executed the little squirrel? Someone needs to be accountable for this horrible act of mean behavior. And that is what this was -- being mean for the sake of being mean.
it's emotionally rational, i think. It's like hoping someone crashes their car after you see them throw a bag of food out the window. The punishment doesn't REALLY fit the crime, but the act being so unquestionably mindless and selfish seems to require punishment or correction in some sort. Even if the harm, at least in my example, is minor.
Vindictive sociopathy, i.e. female mentality, is why tyranny is defined as feminine governance my the great historical philosophers. Solzhenitsyn did indeed describe this perfectly.
I understand that NY State killing Peanut the squirrel involves the death of a rodent, and to some people that seems unimportant, but when you bond with an animal as a pet, there’s a sentimental and emotional connection that should be respected. That New York state would allow some bureaucrats under the umbrella of a “conservation” agency to take someone’s pet and kill it, just displays the vindictive sociopathy that is a defining feature of so many (democrat-controlled) govt agencies today. None of this is an accident. The mentality of the Democrat-bureaucrat is much more similar to the statist-sadists described in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago” than we want to believe. But just like then, they demand you submit to the whim of the machine, even when vicious, random, and unfair. Thats because the underlying premise of the machine is that it cannot be wrong, by definition, and your “rights” are just in the way. Solzhenitsyn described the frustration that Soviet officials would feel with the outrage of those innocents arrested- it didnt matter that the victim of the state had done nothing wrong, the machine was a system and anything slowing it down was friction, to be treated as waste. So it is with many of the statist-bureaucrats today. They have low-show jobs, often of little or no productive value, so they wield whatever authority they have in a vindictive, mechanistic way. Now an employee of the state of New York pretending that a beloved pet, one that raised money for animal rescue, is a “rabies risk” is the worst kind of petty tyranny. Everyone knew it was bullshit, but the state goons went along with it anyway. The govt, and public at large, had no real interest or benefit from the machine’s actions in this case, but its assembly line of pointless cruelty continued. Yes, Peanut was just a squirrel, but a state agency that would confiscate and kill your harmless pet for no reason is also one that would lock you up for refusing to take an experimental vaccine- and in the name of “the system,” under certain circumstances, do things far more monstrous and cruel under the guise of necessary and right.
Excellent explanation. It really is all about control and submission. The machine wants us to live in a perpetual state of fear and anxiety.
He should have told them he was a gay squirrel here illegally from south America.....
Well said.
Well put and absolutely in line with my own reactions.
Is it irrational to want a prison sentence for the agents who seized and executed the little squirrel? Someone needs to be accountable for this horrible act of mean behavior. And that is what this was -- being mean for the sake of being mean.
it's emotionally rational, i think. It's like hoping someone crashes their car after you see them throw a bag of food out the window. The punishment doesn't REALLY fit the crime, but the act being so unquestionably mindless and selfish seems to require punishment or correction in some sort. Even if the harm, at least in my example, is minor.
It's not easy to raise and tame a squirrel. That's a pretty special pet
Vindictive sociopathy, i.e. female mentality, is why tyranny is defined as feminine governance my the great historical philosophers. Solzhenitsyn did indeed describe this perfectly.
They did very little about the rats found in tunnels a few months back. Memory holed.
The only thing rabid in this story is the Democrat