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March 15, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
14:26
Justice for Harambe the gorilla… a senseless killing
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So I've got to chime in on the killing of Harambe, the gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo.
Like many of you, it saddens me immensely to learn that this gorilla was shot intentionally, deliberately by zookeepers as he was in close proximity to this child who, I guess, climbed into the gorilla section of the zoo.
And like many of you, in my heart, I feel like this is entirely unjustified.
There's something horribly, horribly wrong with the killing of this gorilla.
And I've seen people talk about it.
I actually watched this story unfold for almost two days before I decided to comment on it because I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was, but I think I finally nailed it and I want to share that with you.
And maybe you're thinking the same thing.
And it simply comes down to this.
You've got a child and a gorilla.
The child maybe, maybe possibly could have been harmed by the gorilla, although there are many video shots, scenes where the gorilla is protecting the child.
He clearly wasn't attempting to be violent or malicious toward the child.
That's clear.
But here's the big upshot.
There are 7 billion people in this world.
There are only maybe 100,000 to 200,000 gorillas.
Period.
Now you might think that's a huge number.
It's not that huge for a population of a primate that we hope to keep alive on this planet.
And there's this assumption in the minds of the zookeepers, which I'm going to challenge here, even though it's politically incorrect to do so.
There's this assumption that human lives are always infinitely more valuable than the lives of these animals.
And it is this assumption that I think is the perfect metaphor for humanity's absolute near total destruction of life on this planet.
The murder of Harambe is a reflection of the murderous intent of the human race that seeks to destroy and kill everything for its own selfish survival at any cost.
No matter how many animal species have to be wiped out.
No matter how many ecosystems have to be crushed, destroyed, poisoned.
The overfishing of marine ecosystems.
The destruction of life there.
The destruction of the coral reefs.
The destruction of soil microbial life in farmlands through the spraying of glyphosate and chemical pesticides.
The destruction of habitat with the endless expansion More deforestation to grow genetically modified soybeans in Brazil.
Cut down the rainforest.
Cut down the forests and the fields of the Great Plains of America to build more housing in Broomfield, Colorado.
Just kill all those prairie dogs because they've got to build more sidewalks and more homes.
For what?
To have more of these little four-year-old brats running around.
More humans!
Well, I guess the system values the most above anything and everything else.
To hell with the animals.
This is the message of humanity today.
We've got to grow and raise more of these little brats who basically are going to grow up to be nothing but cogs in a system of absolute obedience to a totalitarian state.
And again, I told you this was going to be politically incorrect.
I don't give a crap.
Unless there's something amazingly genius and special about this particular child, and I don't know.
There may be.
I don't know the kid.
And every life is valuable, so don't misquote me on this.
I believe every life is valuable, and I don't want to see any life harmed.
But is this kid really going to add anything to the future of our world?
One more child that's going to grow up and be an obedient child?
Servant to the system and probably almost 99.9% this person will grow up and do nothing to contribute anything to humanity.
Is it worth murdering a conscious living primate out of the chance that he may have harmed this child even though there was no direct evidence that he was doing so?
I don't think that's justified.
In fact, I'm going to go George Carlin on you here, and I'm going to say I think that there should be a big sign at the zoo.
When you enter the zoo, you walk under a big sign, and the sign says, Hey, stupid parents, there are real live animals in this zoo.
Animals that are five times stronger than you, five times bigger than you.
Animals with horns, animals with hooves.
Animals that can rip you and your children apart.
So maybe you should keep your eyes on your children.
How about that?
Because what I see in society today is I see these parents walking around with these kids that are totally isolated from the natural world.
They don't know how to start a fire, a little campfire in the forest.
They don't know anything about camping.
They don't know where food comes from.
They think it comes from Taco Bell.
They don't know that food grows out of the soil.
They've never been in a forest.
They grew up in a city.
They grew up in a concrete jungle.
They think medicine is whatever pharmaceutical companies create.
Everything is synthetic and artificial.
They're living on their mobile phone devices and their Snapchat worlds and their Twitter social media realms.
To them, that's real.
And so they go to the zoo.
"'Oh, Mommy, look at the cute gorilla!
I want to pet the gorilla!' And this is what happens.
And what does the zoo do?
Shoot the gorilla!
There's something wrong with this.
Yeah, I have a problem with this.
I remember when I used to go visit Yellowstone National Park.
And in Yellowstone you have bison.
You know?
Running around.
They're wild, of course.
Yellowstone's pretty wild.
You've got wolves, actually, there.
You've got bison.
You've got deer.
You've got some serious wildlife going on there.
And If you go to Yellowstone, I want you to watch the other tourists because they're incredibly stupid.
They think the bison are part of a petting zoo and they want to get their pictures taken next to the bison.
Right?
And so they have someone, here, hold the camera, and they run up.
They run right next to this, you know, 1,500-pound animal with giant horns, and they smile for the photo.
And then this animal thrusts its horns through this person's torso, snaps their spine, blood and guts are spewing out everywhere, and everybody stands around, shocked.
Right?
Really?
Are you that stupid?
You think this is a petting zoo?
These are wild animals, people.
This is called nature.
This is yellow freaking stone.
This is not some theater of tame animals.
This is what people misunderstand, even when people go to the zoo.
They think these are all little pets.
They look down on these animals.
Oh, they're all little pets.
Obedient, nice little, cute little...
And they don't take these animals seriously.
And it's because they're disconnected from reality.
They're disconnected from nature.
They don't take anything seriously that's in the natural world because their whole world is an artificial construct.
And this is why.
This is why little kids get into the gorilla section of the zoo.
And this is why the gorilla...
Ended up being shot because people don't take this...
They don't take nature seriously.
That's the problem.
And so now this beautiful creature, this conscious being, this Harambe gorilla, who has a memory, who has social connections, who has almost family ties with other humans, this beautiful being...
This experience is the ultimate betrayal, to be shot and killed by the people who are supposed to take care of you, the people who raise you, the people who feed you, to be shot and killed by those people because some stupid parent let their kid get loose and fall into this guerrilla section?
To murder a conscious being like that?
It's the ultimate betrayal and it's the perfect example of why humanity is so doomed to its own destruction.
Because humanity doesn't respect life of any kind.
Humanity is a selfish species.
Humanity is willing to kill anything and everything to protect even a probably most likely useless member of the human race who's not going to add anything to our world except another person consuming and flushing toilets and purchasing Nike sportswear and who knows what else.
This is the problem.
And I realize this isn't politically correct.
The politically correct response is, every human is infinitely valuable and animals are secondary.
That's the politically correct, I guess, answer to this.
And I reject that.
I completely reject that.
I think that if we keep killing every animal, if we keep trading out, let's say we trade one gorilla's life for one child's life, one to one, we're going to end up with no gorillas.
We're going to end up with no primates.
If we keep destroying all the animals and all the ecosystems and all the habitat just to protect one more little kid...
We're going to end up with a destroyed world that ultimately means death for all future generations.
We can't live, we can't survive in a world if we've destroyed everything else that isn't human.
Where do you think all these weird diseases come from?
They come out of the destruction of rainforest habitat.
When you start destroying habitat, you create different vectors of evolutionary pressure on viruses and bacteria and imbalances in the ecosystem that give rise to these superbugs and these infectious diseases that now threaten humanity in many different ways.
Some people think that's where Ebola came from, for example.
Some people think that's where variations on superbugs are coming from.
It's this destruction of habitat that imbalances the very delicate homeostasis between mankind and animals and marine ecosystems and environment and so on, soils, microbes, all these things.
And...
The average person, even the average zookeeper, is totally clueless about any of this stuff.
The education of the average person is a shameful, pathetic nonsense.
It's just a collection of nonsense.
They don't know anything about the real world.
The average person knows nothing about history, nothing about ecology, nothing about finance, nothing about anthropology.
They just know absolutely nothing except their favorite hashtags and how to tweet their best friends and just whatever is necessary to survive on social media.
Those are their only skills.
That's the only thing they know.
They are useless to humanity.
We've got to get past this idea that it's okay to destroy every other form of life to save one more human being.
No, it's actually not.
There has to be a balance.
If we're going to live with any kind of a future as a human race, we have to live in some kind of harmony with the animals and the environment and the ecosystem around us.
Otherwise, we commit suicide and we kill everything else at the same time.
Yeah.
Humanity is a suicidal race.
Let's just say it like it is.
Right now, humanity is committing chemical suicide through the pesticides and the herbicides, the food additives, the chemotherapy, the vaccine adjuvants of the toxic chemicals, the mercury that's being injected into children.
Actually, I meant to cover that.
That's another really important point.
Why is our society saying, kill the gorilla to protect the child, because the child's life is so valuable, and then the next week they're going to say, hey, let's take this child down to the clinic and inject him with mercury.
Well, if this child's life is so valuable, why are you poisoning the kid with mercury injections that are going to damage his brain?
Is the gorilla any more of a risk to this child than the CDC, really, when it comes down to it?
Is the gorilla any more risk to the child than the psychiatric industry that wants to put this kid on ADHD drugs and turn him into a little suicidal maniac?
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