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Rights of Children vis-a-vis Pups and Kittens

2008-06-11 17:43:15

By Margot Schulzke

 

In I Perceive
Being a packrat of information, new or old, I happened this a.m. on a February 1994 American Spectator. I was bemused to read in R. Emmett Tyrell’s column, The Continuing Crisis (p 8-9), a report of “child” abuse. In the continuing FLDS crisis, it contains food for thought. Consider: 
“Three men in Adelaide, Australia, who employed a three-week old sea lion pup as bait to catch a record-breaking 3,344-pound shark, were ordered to pay $21,000 in fines and court fees because, in the words of Magistrate Fred Field, ‘the act of taking such a young sea lion pup must have been a cause of distress to the pup and its mother.’”
No doubt. Especially for the pup, when it (almost certainly) became dinner for the shark, since “the whereabouts of the pup were not disclosed.” Tyrell continues:
“In what appears to be a multicultural debacle, two young men in Stuart, Florida, have been severely punished for individual acts of violence against kittens. Eight-month jail sentences were meted out to Mr. Edward Lee Harrell, 19, for butchering an unnamed kitten after it evacuated on his rug, and to Mr. Miqueas Perez, 21, who stomped and kicked and hurled another unnamed kitten into a tree. Mr. Perez explained that ‘I was drunk and the animal came across my path,’ but Stuart is not Washington, D.C. and Mr. Perez is neither a congressman nor a senator. So it is off to the hoosegow with him.”
The parallels are many. Stuart, Florida is not El Dorado, Texas, either, so — while Texas may frown on animal abuse, it abets CPS child abuse. One might also be inspired to ask what Judge Walther drank for lunch on the days she treated the FLDS like animals, after they “got in her way.” Or in the way of her constituents (who not only did not like the FLDS religion, the locals fretted about them drawing down the water supply. In their way, indeed.)
While no reasonable, decent person is indifferent to animals suffering, surely human children deserve protection under the law at least equal to that given the young of other species. Does anyone really think a sea lion pup and its mother are more deserving of that protection, and their abuse of our outrage, than the 460+ children and scores of women of the YFZ Ranch? Is their distress of so little moment that the State of Texas, with its governor’s knowledge and consent can violate its own constitution, march into private property without adequate cause (per the rulings of the Texas courts) and brutally traumatize hundreds of women and children?
Penalties should be proportionate to the crime. What penalties are Judge Walther, Sheriff Whoever and Governor Perry going to pay for the distress they have caused?
If one multiplies the 1994 fines paid for the distress caused by three men to one mama sea lion and her pup by, say, 460, my desk calculator says the three Texans named above owe (for starters) roughly $9,660,000. Because each child, thrown as they were to the CPS sharks, is worth at least as much as one sea lion pup. Even if only awarded in 1994 dollars.
Alternatively, we could accept the eight month sentences meted out in Florida to the above-referenced Harrell and Perez, for brutalizing kittens. Keep in mind, it was not kids these men abused, as CPS did. That sentence should be assessed per child, of course. CPS claims repeatedly that it is treating each child as an individual. Both of those gentlemen got eight months in the hoosegow for abusing one kitten, not a kid, per perpetrator. Times 460 kids, that works out to 3,680 months, or 306.67 years. Each.

While this is ALL absurd, it may bring needed perspective to the enormity of the crime that has been committed by the great State of Texas and its underlings.


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