Fight Fire with Sapphire!

Fellow travellers, sometimes an event that seems unpleasant or distressing at first is actually cause for joy!

Take this story, about a Chinese schoolboy having his arm bitten off by a circus lion.  

Clearly, the non-human person was making a political statement.  And I believe this was three-fold:

Firstly, he was venting his rage at being made to perform tricks in the circus.  Imagine how this former "King of the Junge" must feel to be so routinely humilated!  Appalling.

Then there was his choice of a schoolboy as a co-performer for his impromptu act.  This was significant.  Of course, children are symbols of the future.  Without doubt he was warning of the environmental destruction that will result from the Chinese Government's plan to build 550 coal-fired power stations.

And interestingly the boy's left arm was taken.  No accident there.  Our feisty feline fellow traveller was pointing out that the nation's communist voice was being drowned out by the capitalist cacophony.

These motivations are obvious to anyone with any sensitivity.  But of course the usual suspects will blame "brutal" nature, wring their hands about it and call for better security.  But they will never, ever address the root causes.

Sound familiar, fellow travellers?    

Fellow travellers, with so many people worldwide finally coming round to our Gaia-friendly, culturally sensitive worldview, it's depressing when you see a return to the outmoded paradigms of the past. 

The latest example is the global outpouring of grief and admiration for the late "Sir" Edmund Hillary.  I mean, the way people are carrying on, you'd think he was some kind of hero! 

Even some on the green left have expressed admiration for him!  But it must be remembered that "Sir" Edmund Hillary was not a friend of Nature; he was a peenie waving rapist of Her. 

He deliberately set out to conquer Everest, remember. 

Why the belligerence, Edmund?  What had Everest ever done to you?

Well, he can't answer that.  And just as well.  So I'll answer for him:

You see, Hillary hated mountains for the same reason all men hate all women: merely because they are there.

And not only did he hate mountains and women; he hated our six-legged fellow travellers as well!  You see, this appalling testoseroid was a bee-keeper before becoming a mountaineer.  So, he funded his Himalayan expedition exploitation by incarcerating non-human persons and harvesting their abdomens.

The fact that so many people are lauding this monster is appalling enough.  But most disturbing is this reaction from the Sherpas he so cruelly oppressed. Sadly, yet another case of the colonised participating in their own oppression. 

Appalling.  Just appalling. 

Fellow travellers, as you well know appalling reactionaries are fond of denying the link between our -- sorry, their -- appalling consumerist culture and the commodification of women.

Well, if they were to read this story about disturbing harassment of women at Summernats in Canberra then they would have to accept the undeniable truth of our argument. 

Fellow traveller Kevin Rudd has shown he is serious about addressing climate change by ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.  And I hope he will also work at deconstructing the appalling patriarchal, sexist, Gaia-phobic culture that still dominates in this country.  As the Summernats frenzy shows so clearly, oil is at the root of both these scourges. 

He really has no alternative but to ban the use of all fossil fuels immediately.  He'd be killing liberating two birds with one stone, then.