Thank you, all of you who replied to my post, for sharing your thoughts about the squirrel story! I appreciate your thoughts, also because I couldn’t make any sense of how a swat team could show up to someone’s door like that, just because a lad made friends with a squirrel. It seemed like a Psyop to me. Some speculative musings came to mind from your posts, and, given that much action takes place on this Forum, I hope you don’t mind my replying to you all, in one (longer) post.
First, Morrisville: Thanks for the info re: people needing relief help in NC. That may get buried in this thread (about the squirrel) – and if you like to share that info more widely, then might a separate thread on Hurricane Helene Relief help reach more people (who would otherwise skip this thread and might also wish to help out)? A few weeks ago, I was heartened to read about some amazing relief efforts.
Robert, you are a wonderful poet, and I used a quote from you to inspire my speculative thoughts! “Narrative warfare - to see who controls the framing.”
Justawhoaman, you are spot on about any Department X (you name the department) telling us what we can and cannot do, and then charging us for doing what we want to do! And, then, on top of it all, we pay taxes for that department to exist and create and enforce those policies in the first place. Where we live, up in Socialist Wokada, you need a license (and certification paper) for just about everything – even to paint people’s fingernails! Businesses here are feeling stifled. Soon one may even need a license to pick one’s own nose, the license/certification creep has advanced that far. But in this case, where a young fellow simply made friends with a little animal in need (and the animal was offered freedom but chose to return and stay with the human family instead)– the State stepped in and said: “Verboten – you need papers!" and exterminated the creature for no good reason.
What jumped out at me in that article was not that the squirrel belonged to a class of beings that are considered “pests” or that the young fellow “owned” the squirrel (as a “pet”) – what I saw was that there was a genuine and mutual and unique friendship between him and that particular individual animal, and the State felt it had every right to interfere, and with violence. The violence is there to transmit a not-so-subtle message to other people that unauthorized mutual friendships are considered Verboten. During WWII, any German caught having friendships with people of the Verboten Class, was also likewise dealt with. When the State steps in and controls your friendships, then there is something behind that – an unspoken “Warum?” hiding behind a dark curtain.
Making friends with an animal – here’s my Hypothesis: The ruling technocratic pushers do not want that. OK, for “pets”, as, in their books there is still a “Master–Underling” relationship (besides the massive $ industry behind pets), and that industry is useful for a widespread public mind-mapping program. But, absolutely no friendship with any other kind of animal individuals – as the ruling class needs animals to be seen either as “commodities” or as “pests” (their gargantuan commercial enterprises depend upon both scenarios). If people are living harmoniously with animals, the ruling technocrats will never find people to kill and process animals, nor will they find people willing to exterminate them. And from that point, they will never find people who will be willing to harm or kill other people or interfere with their freedoms – something on which the ruling class absolutely depends for their unrelenting and absolute power.
About “invasive” species – I have, for some time, wondered if this is part of a mind-mapping psyop. I have seen such policies for decades, and, wonder if this too – just name the wildlife in a given area, and fill-in-the-blank – is a blueprint for an “invasive species – must be managed/exterminated” mind map. At some point, I get the sense that anything that is not a human is mapped in our minds as being invasive, anywhere the human decides he wants to settle. If it’s not the grey squirrel, then pick your species – bullfrog, wolf, seal, dolphin, vole, gopher, raccoon, cormorant, goose, rodent, rabbit, cat, horse, fox, cougar, bear, crow, sheep, boar, kangaroo, elephant, pigeon– you name it. Every year, Canadian and American “Wildlife Management Services” (and worldwide) killing agencies are on a widespread rampage killing whatever they can (this killing spree is big business). I wonder if this is a blueprint for a perpetual exterminator culture, and if it is kept going year by year, generation by generation, then once the call comes to cull other “different classes” of people, one readily finds people ready to perform those services, as the minds have been thus mapped. (In Wokada, a certain race of people are now being perceived as invasive species to be dealt with via Diversity-Equity-Inclusiveness programs and are being guilted and shamed, owing to the colour of their skin, into bearing sole psychological responsibility for the invasions and brutal colonization history that happened a few centuries ago.)
We, ourselves, don’t invite wildlife into our home, as we like a clean home, and know that feces harbour bacteria that we don’t want. And, we tolerate the squirrels and raccoons that raid our garden. This year, raccoons ate all the grapes. (Justawhoaman, it sounds like you’ve found a seed decoy to help with the fox squirrel raids at your place!) Any friendships we’ve made with wildlife outdoors are on the individual’s terms, at least those who don’t flee from us, often just amounting to being peacefully in a mutual space at a given time. We don’t restrict their freedoms or even touch them – just maybe talk with them and give them eye contact. We respect that other people do develop unique inter-species relationships, on an individual basis, often after helping injured animals to recover, and these things are by chance, and we don’t like to see permitting systems and swat teams getting in the way of what would otherwise bring authentic joy into peoples’ and other creatures’ lives, and make our beautiful world a more humane place for all.
It comes down to Robert’s phrase: “to see who controls the framing”. And how does framing get controlled? My guess is via large-scale mind-mapping like the swat team psyop and policies that designate animals (and ultimately also people) as “pests” that must be “managed”.
