Email received:
" Pass it on to your friends around the world! It is OUTRAGEOUS!!!!! Make Denmark STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! " DENMARK 'S SHAME " This is what happens in Denmark .
DENMARK: A SAD SCENE. THIS MAIL HAS TO BE CIRCULATED. THERE IS NO WORSE BEAST THAN MAN!!!! While it may seem incredible, even today this custom continues, in Dantesque, - in the Faroe Islands, [autonomous province of]( Denmark ). A country supposedly 'civilized' and an EU country at that. For many people this attack to life is unknown?V a custom to 'show' entering adulthood. It is absolutely atrocious. No one does anything to prevent this barbarism being committed against the Calderon, an intelligent dolphin [whale] that is placid and approaches humans out of friendliness. And then there are bozos that complain about Canadians killing seals.... Please, circulate this . Make this atrocity known and hopefully stopped. "
DENMARK: A SAD SCENE. THIS MAIL HAS TO BE CIRCULATED. THERE IS NO WORSE BEAST THAN MAN!!!! While it may seem incredible, even today this custom continues, in Dantesque, - in the Faroe Islands, [autonomous province of]( Denmark ). A country supposedly 'civilized' and an EU country at that. For many people this attack to life is unknown?V a custom to 'show' entering adulthood. It is absolutely atrocious. No one does anything to prevent this barbarism being committed against the Calderon, an intelligent dolphin [whale] that is placid and approaches humans out of friendliness. And then there are bozos that complain about Canadians killing seals.... Please, circulate this . Make this atrocity known and hopefully stopped. "
All i can hope for is that our voices of protest will prevent such outrageous massacre from happening in the future; i am positive that they will.
ReplyDeleteI am not at all chock with this tape of human ritual; man hunger to kill is much greater than their hunger to love. Destruction has been the climax, the greater fear of not been able to put down the barrier of whatever is on our way. Stopping us human of such destruction is not the attention to whatever stopping us to be part of it. For now, I rather see it done on the animal the on my fellow human bee. Pray! “God keep me away from this tape ritual”. I don’t have to be part of it.
ReplyDeleteThis article is a joke. The Faroe islands has nothing to do with denmark. it supervises itself. and those whales aren't dolphins... the level of stupidity in this article is really high. No offense though, I like that you take interest in this.
ReplyDeleteYou should concentrate on Japanese instead, they're way worse off.
I introduced this post by saying that the islands are an autonomous province of Denmark and the title says whale massacre. The text after the photos was of the email I received and is being circulated on the net - I posted it as it has been written. Ok, I will change the title from "whale massacre in Denmark" to "whale massacre in the Faroe Islands" and correct text with square brackets.
ReplyDelete1. I am completely against this senseless massacre.
ReplyDelete2. I am also against knee-jerk reactions that spread like wildfire through the Internet, without due care.
3. This original posting closely resembles an email I received recently, which was so riddled with grammatical and factual errors that I did some quick research to clarify things. Check out my blog, and you'll see what I mean.
http://yardyyardyyardy.blogspot.com/2009/11/gotta-get-it-right.html
Don't misunderstand me. I too am very much against this outdated custom. But I warn those who attempt to change the mindset of the Faroese: it's a total waste of time swearing, cursing, saying they should all be shot etc etc.
You need a considered approach, perhaps offering solutions, showing a mature understanding of their situation (not AGREEING with them at all, just being aware of their traditions and their thinking).
Generate a global groundswell with reason, clarity, purpose, calmness. Write to the Faroes Government, not the Danish one (it's not the Danes issue, it's the Faroes killings).
Aggression will only run off their backs and entrench their behaviour (they are after all descended from Vikings!!).
Good luck read my blog and you'll see what I mean.
PhilBee, NZ