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>To The Editor:
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>The application of a little intellect might have helped John Schauble
>realise that I was saying that you can't cure by killing cats, only by
>removing imposed farming from the Australian environment, and by
>admitting that we are all responsible for the crisis of environment in
>Australia. His Howard comment is simply dissembling - I believe 'sorry'
>is not
>enough, I believe substantial tracts of farming land should be returned
>to
>indigenous people. The Howard bogey is so often wheeled out to as a
>negator,
>to signify 'genuine' social concern, even by those of the right. Being
>challenged
>is healthy, being read so inadequately is disturbing.
>
>For the record, as a vegan, I oppose all forms of violence. Killing is
>killing. As an
>anarchist, I don't even accept Schauble's model of comparison.
>Furthermore, I feel it is impossible to separate the disregard with
>which we treat
>our environment from the indifference and even aggression with which
>we treat those who are different from ourselves - wherever they come
>from,
>whatever their circumstances. If we don't start connecting the dots, we
>will
>blithely go on our way destroying - out of ignorance AND malice.
>
>Regarding the latter, I have no doubt the guys swinging half-dead cats
>around
>their heads and hooting were a mixture of both. I'm writing this from
>the country,
>where I live when in Australia - not long ago three foxes were impaled
>on a signpost
>as a sign of victory and warning. The landowners of the district have
>not returned land to the rightful custodians, and many of them sing the
>praises of One Nation. I reject this nation, I reject its ignorance and
>malice, and most of all its xenophobic self-righteousness.
>
>John Kinsella
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Alison Croggon
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