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Kill them all

helmut kphl | 24.03.2007 11:57

The cubs first

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BERLIN – Little Knut, the baby polar bear who took his first public walk here Friday, didn't attract much controversy before the call for his execution by firing squad by Angela Merkel.

For the German public, the 20-pound baby polar bear was too cuddly and cute to deserve to be shot but Merkel said the European Constitution did not allow for this undermebchen of an animal to live.

"We are Germans and dat is dat, " she said.

Then came animal-rights activist Frank Albrecht, who a week ago also told Germany's largest newspaper, Bild, that Little Knut should be put to death.

"Raising him by hand is not appropriate to the German ideals, but rather a blatant violation of what we know to right for undermenchen like animals," he said. "In actual fact, the zoo needs to kill the bear cub, immediately, Sieg Heil."

School children took to the streets, chanting, "Knut must live." The headlines called him "The Polar Bear of our Hearts," but Merkel said the European Constitution is the European constitution and that’s it, she said.

"We must now get on an draft a proper German constitution for the slackers of the EU, " she said.

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Basil Fawlty and Basil Brush ?

24.03.2007 12:35

Apart from the unnecessary and unfunny racism implied in your article, which only demeans yourself, you miss the point about the bear cub. I've seen polar bears in my local zoo when I was a child. They had company and food and a pitiful enclosure and they were about the most miserbale creatures I have ever seen, swaying from side to side like the mentally damaged creatures they had become. If you was a bear cub in Berlin then you would be facing a long, unnatural and unpleasant life. I hope this focusses attention on why wild animals are permitted to be kept for human entertainment. All zoos claim to be contributing to the survival of endangered species but few if any are. The circus element could easily be done away with. The way a society treats animals reflects on the brutality and inhumaity of that society as much as any other measure and it is no coincidence that more big cats are kept as pets in domestic homes in the US than are free in the wild.

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