THE US AND THEM CONUNDRUM

 THE US AND THEM CONUNDRUM — WE MUST PROTECT OUR WILDLIFE AGAINST WANTON KILLING

Madamoiselle Woden is moving her chairs around upstairs as thunder booms and heavy rain bounces on the road in Costa Blanca. Will there be any reverberations in mainland Britain as the commoners think long and hard on many things that should not be.  Treason is not my thing but institutions have and should move out of old fashioned unnecessary normality. How much shock and horror needs to be published for those who think they can do what they want — to change!

And now my comments to the post by Protect the Wild

It goes again the grain of perceived normality to ask this question. How will the British Broadcasting Corporation handle or not handle at all the ‘glaring-in-the-face fact’ that the nation is divided. There is a class divide, (although apparently there is no class with designated title of ‘workingclass’) wealth divide, power divide, political divide and the aristocratic divide that and every one of these labels shrieks division.

One does not to have be that knowledgeable to know it is about us and them. Nothing is more obvious about what people are allowed to do and those en-chained by the passage of time. From the Norman Conquest onwards the control has been there and continued onward through feudality with reverence to the monarchy that still holds to this day.

Rob Pownall of Protect The Wild on his post proclaims ‘The future King is a hypocrite’ and says  we need to talk about it. The future king with his stance on wildlife protection as a world ambassador and his hereditary right to own vast estates and go hunting is absurd. The two do not sit cosily together as I believe they are two opposites.  Royals, it appears, entertain themselves with the full gambit of blasting  ‘reared-for-the-purpose-fed pheasants’ out of the sky assisted by their gamekeepers. The same goes for Red Grouse  too. Add into that the royal patronage of Cirencester College and their pack of beagles, others riding to the hunt for both fox and stag  and we have gentlemen and ladies who kill for their own pleasure.

Add into his idea that trophy hunting is permissible in that funds can be ploughed back into helping wildlife. That is not the way I see it. Euthanasia maybe but an old lion shot for a trophy? Oh, come on it’s abhorrent isn’t it?

My own blog carries posts of perpetrators who shoot, poison, disrupt nesting birds and add fire to  heather to encourage growth for the grouse to feed on. Peatland vandalised for a rich persons pursuit. The very ecosystem we must preserve as a harbour for invertebrates and to hold in CO2. I wrote these few words below sometime ago and they say all that is needed, I think.

smokesmudges

smokesmudges drift

as winds free power

blows the deceit somewhere else

to hide natureswargraves

amongst wild grasses and purple heather

as invertebrates incinerate

and the bodies of the fallen

drift away

never to be lodged

in the minds of killers

Prince William, heir apparent,  has brought himself to the attention of the world by his ambassadorial role. But he is not alone as member of his family and all those in the hierarchy of monarchal life are supporters of maintaining their ‘status quo’. 

Rob is correct —we need to talk about it and keep on talking.