We're as native as you are!
- From: amacmil304@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:51:14 +0000
We're as native as you are!
By a grey squirrel
Save the native red squirrels and kill us, the "alien" greys, is the
message being churned out by so-called conservationists in a cynical
and concerted hate campaign aimed at gaining public approval for the
mass slaughter of thousands of us throughout Britain.
So is this justified? Of course it's not!
What I can't understand is why you call us "aliens" and our red
friends "natives". Our Squirrel Natural Heritage (SNH) recently
carried out a study and was surprised to find there is no evidence of
the red squirrels natural range extending north of Derbyshire in
England. It would therefore seem reds are not native to the North of
England or Scotland - except in the minds of your politicians. It
seems they were introduced to the north by you, in much the same as we
were. Why all the fuss?
We are also accused of carrying a disease to red squirrels called
"pox" which doesn't seem to affect us. Your scientists say, "The
origin of poxvirus in red squirrels is unknown". However, it has been
discovered that some generations ago many of us were ill with this
disease and died. But some survived and developed antibodies, which
now makes us immune from the disease. Red squirrel scientists have
now discovered antibodies in their population, so it looks as though
in time the reds will be protected as well.
Your conservationists claim we are extending our range and threatening
the reds. But the same people are planting trees in the form of
deciduous woodlands that suits us much better and chopping down the
conifers the reds like, so it is wrong to blame us for our advance and
the red's retreat. I think you have a saying, "get your own house in
order". Our house is; yours' isn't!
We don't object to you trying to save our friend the red squirrel but
not to the extent of slaughtering us. Improving the their habitat,
which could include planting appropriate tree species such as Scots
pine, larch, Norway spruce, lodgepole pine, Douglas fir, yew, hawthorn
and even the North American Sitka spruce are all measures that can
favour red squirrels. Other native and non-native species can be
planted to act as barriers to us - we don't like them - in areas
inhabited by reds. These solutions are well known to your
conservationists but intensely disliked because it goes against their
obsession for all things native.
Now for the grizzly bit. You pay some nasty people to kill us in a
number of ways. They shoot us in the trees and damage the bark they
accuse us of destroying. They poison us with a chemical called
Warfarin, which makes our blood so thin that we bleed out of our eyes,
nose, ears, mouth and other orifices that I am to polite to mention.
It can take us days to die and yet you call it "humane" - meaning not
cruel. What strange words you have! They also trap us in cages and
bludgeon us to death in a sack placed over the exit. We call that
murder; you call it humane.
We are very lucky we don't have such nasty individuals in our society.
There is no question our ancestors came from America, but many of you
also have overseas ancestors and are rightly regarded as British if
you are born here. All we ask is to be left alone to live our lives
in peace and not be persecuted because of our ethnic origins. I'm
sure that's what you want for your kids. I want that for mine. Is it
too much to ask?
When you shoot, poison, or bludgeon one of us to death, it is not the
"species" you're murdering - it's a native individual whose family
heritage goes back about 45 generations in this country. We're hardly
newcomers!
So the next time you see one of us, remember we were born here and are
as "native" as you are - and forget the nonsense that these nasty
conservationists want you to believe, that we are some form of alien
beings.
We are harmless, amusing, friendly and social animals and want to be
your friends - if you'll let us
Professor Acorn
www.grey-squirrel.org.uk
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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