I was going to write this yesterday. I couldn’t do it. I was still crying. I was going to try and ignore it. But then a report, with photos, popped up on my FB page. And my heart sank, my stomach turned, my grief re-surfaced. And the result is the headline above. Slightly edited. And my own “report” below.
Despite everything else going on this week in DC and thus on TV, I managed to tune in to C-Span in time to watch another incredibly sad but predictable Republican assault on America.
I watched a few good Dem speeches (Udall, Booker, Polis apparently) against the Republican HJRes 69, which rolls back protections for wildlife in Alaskan wildlife refuges — the Republicans’ latest bill to kill OUR NATIONAL TREASURE — not theirs, dammit; ours — our wildlife on our wild lands. ALL Americans own our wildlife and wild lands. Most love it. Congress is tasked with PRESERVING it.
Then I watched the sadly predictable vote REPEALING the law that protects OUR NATIONAL TREASURE, for the benefit of the few privileged killers and the detriment of everyone, and everything, else. Making us less human, humane.
All Democrats voted NO. Do not repeal protections. DO NOT return to aerial slaughter, slaughter of bears and cubs, wolves and pups, asleep IN THEIR DENS. Do not reauthorize the most painful agonizing slow-death traps ever devised.
All Republicans voted YES. One and two at a time, they meandered in, wandered up to the bar, and gave a Thumbs Up to this latest PRO KILLING bill. As did Angus King (I). Most of them probably didn’t know what it was about. Just rubberstamped it. So careless about their killing. So unconcerned about the pain and suffering and deaths they vote to impose. Psychopathic killer mentality. Cruel. For the sake of cruelty.
You can read more about it here. or here.
Here are the sponsors: Lisa Murkowski (AK) (907) 271-3735
Dan Sullivan (AK) (907) 456-0261
Jeff Flake (AZ) (602) 840-1891
Angus King (ME) (207) 945-8000
No, I wasn’t surprised (except by King). It strikes me that hate-filled Republicans love killing, or at least inflicting misery and suffering. It’s all over their “policy” statements. And it is without reason or need. We all know they are drooling over their plans to get rid of seniors, the disabled, the poor, immigrants, and anybody else who can’t support them as they demand. We’re just the help. Soylent Green. Expendables. So why would they care about wolf pups or bear cubs? Why would they care about NOT killing as painfully as inhumanely possible? They don’t! They seem to have psychopathic emotional content and conscience. I still do not understand WHY they are so CRUEL. But I have come to understand that they are.
It doesn’t make me grieve any less deeply. I can barely stand the sadness.