My response to comments in previous post

I wrote these two comments in the "comments" section, in response to Kate and Chipmonk and their experiences after trying to converse w/ the journalist who wrote the article, who said that he may have played down the dangers, and also said that this is "nature, after all", and after trying to email Tom to ask politely if she could talk to him, and having her own email simply emailed back to her as a response...these were my comments about that. And now, apparently, Carlos is announcing to his very large audience that " 'branching' is a made up word."

Stacey O'Brien said...

I've seen a proliferation of anti-science, anti-truth points of view surrounding this whole thing. The "journalist" who dismisses fact, supplanting that with his own uninformed assumptions and the statement that "this is nature after all". Nature? A box on a pole is nature? We really have a problem if we've got a generation of people who truly think that THAT is nature! I feel sorry for them!

Next thing you know they'll be thinking their swimming pool is a natural lake with all the ecosystems you'd find in a real lake - never mind all that chlorine... Suddenly you'll see signs in front yards advertising that you can go "bass fishing" in their backyards...magical thinking will rule the world! "But sir, the bass can't survive in the chlorine!"...
"Well, kid...it's nature's way!"

-Stacey

May 16, 2010 9:07 PM


Stacey O'Brien said...

Those of you who have tried to talk to Tom, know that you are not alone! Over a period of years, many wildlife experts, workers, rehabbers, and fish and game agents have tried to talk to Tom about his design and have explained to him about branching and how the box is horribly designed and how to improve it, and they've all gotten the same brush off that you got.

Let it be well known that HE KNOWS all about what the problems are. He just doesn't want to hear about it or do anything about it.

That's why the only recourse is to enact laws that can be enforced. When people throw away the moral decency, the desire to do the right thing, the desire to do no harm, then all we have left is the law.

When the greed of man runs amuck and no one cares for the lives of the innocent, we must turn to the law, for these people have no internal law by which to measure themselves - no conscience tugging at them. They do not understand the laws of integrity, so we must give them the laws of the courts, the laws that they themselves live by - force.

But since we do live with a conscience, with our own internal laws of integrity, that force must be contained and bound by the law. So it is to the law that we now turn, to make change on behalf of the innocent.

And we will stand and speak for these lovely, innocent, sentient, intelligent beings with whom we share this earth. We are stewards of the earth and of the lives of those less powerful than ourselves who have no voice with which to speak.

There has always been evil, there has always been greed, but there have also been those who are willing to stand up against that evil and greed and say, "enough is enough".

We've come to love these creatures, these little owls, and we can never go back to not knowing that love, so now we'll defend those we've come to love. Love is stronger than evil and stronger than greed.

-Stacey