Peanut the Squirrel and Nuclear Waste

New York State recently sent armed officers to a home in New York to remove a Squirrel and a Raccoon from homeowners. The entire effort was considerable. It was deplorable by all standards.

While they did that they continue to secretly ship Toxic Nuclear Waste from Lewiston, New York, a close neighbor to Niagara, New York and near the Niagara River, to the Charter Township of Van Buren in Michigan.

The people of the United States have a long history of dealing with and interacting with wild animals. Wild animals play a deep seated role in the lore and culture of the United States. We are united in many ways through the animals, our understanding of them and our stories about them.

Much of this lore and history is being set aside and ridiculed by those who believe themselves above nature, common sense and science.

Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon had a place in the community in which they lived. That story and their real lives created a bridge between communities, friends and families across great distances in the United States.

Simply put, in a world gone mad, the antics of Peanut and Fred were a calming influence that allowed conversation and socialization that is being actively attacked and stripped away by forceful and violent individuals who are intent on subjecting everyone to a single rule that exclude nature. In fact, it is becoming clear that in a bizarre way that one world vision Peanut and Fred become victims of is showing signs that it is not only intolerant of people with differing views but is becoming steadily more intolerant of human life. Clearly, human dignity and the dignity of life is something that they have crushed beneath their boots. They seem intent on driving goodness away with the barrel of a gun and the sharp point of a needle.

Sterling North was an American author. He grew up in the United States and saw World Wars shake the very foundation of civilization leaving us with a blood soaked, radioactive hate filled world that has no time for children, kind people or small animals.

He wrote a book called 'Rascal' which was published in 1963. It was about a young boy who raised a raccoon. The details in the book clearly illustrated life on what was still then an American frontier. A farm life on the outskirts of a town that was still growing. Growing then at a normal pace and not dependent on weapons, digital money that cannot be touched, work that has no meaning, unemployment levels and the Forever Wars.

It was a world in which people could work to get ahead. It was a place where if you did right then good things may happen to you and for you. It was a society based on trust, hard work, dignity of self and self-reliance.

Today's entertainment and even political leaders talk as if they believe that world never existed. It did.

Rascal lived a life in the woods on the edge of civilization. The line between the wild wonderland that used to be the larger part of America would be blurred to us but it was so clear and vibrant then. Now we have to ask people to imagine the difference between good and evil, between right and wrong, between what is wild and what is civilized.

As I looked at images of Peanut the Squirrel living in his home and saw Fred the Raccoon I could believe that there still was that wild place in this nation. That safe place where lives were intertwined with what we all pretend to be some sort of civilization and the very real world of nature and the world and universe around us.

Then, in a horrible turn of events the very symbols and agents that are supposed to be the vanguard of this supposed civilization showed up on the scene and with weapons, guns, a show of force, threats of violence, the intrinsic threat of physical harm, the threat of lost wages, legal sanctions, the seizure of a home, vehicles - perhaps even facing death - the people who were caring for Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon were forced to step aside in their home to allow armed agents access to everything they own and their own lives.

I am pretty sure that most of the people in the United States are unaware of the serious issue that took place at that home. It was worsened by the seizure and extermination of the animals. If they had seized a dog, a cat, a cow, a horse, a goat, a chicken, a duck, a hamster - what difference would that be? None.

What if they entered the home and seized their couch? Or their television? Or radio? Or books? Or their clothes? Or took them away in the night along with the Squirrel and Raccoon to a place only the officers know - and we never see them again?

You know that the armies of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Peru and many others are armed with American weapons. They are given training at American bases. They do what those agents did in New York. They enter the homes of citizens and seize their goods. Of course, in those countries, the agents, police and soldiers take people away as well. What do you think happens to their goods and their homes?

New York State Troopers are armed with Glock 21 Gen 4 .45 ACP semiautomatic pistols.

Game Wardens carry that as well and may be, if they request it, be issued a second handgun which they are allowed to conceal along with a .308 rifle. They would also likely have a 12-gauge shotgun with them.

As I mentioned, most Americans wouldn't have any idea as to what happened here. I am convinced, that because of the nature of the evil in the world today, that very, very few people outside the United States would aware that they had seen the light of freedom snuffed out when the eyes of Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon were shut forever.

New York has been on a long trajectory leading to mayhem and chaos. A few months prior to the assault by heavily armed Game Wardens against a Squirrel and Raccoon the State of New York under Governor Hochul had arranged to ship more and more toxic nuclear waste, in secret, to what clearly appears to be a poorly prepared landfill in the Charter Township of Van Buren in Michigan.

The State of New York has opted to poison their neighbors rather than dealing with the problem at hand. Unfortunately their wild behavior is looked on as normal because Governor DeWine of Ohio has also reached an agreement with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Republic Services and the tiny little Charter Township of Van Buren in Michigan (with the knowledge of Governor Whitmer) to move toxic nuclear waste from Cuyahoga, Ohio to a heavily populated area in Michigan.

The main point being that in Michigan, people who are against the importation of these toxic radioactive nuclear materials to Michigan are in very real danger of losing their civil liberties, the protection of their homes and possibly even their lives.

If you don't believe me, ask Peanut the Squirrel.

In a country like the United States, if the poor and weak are not safe then no one is.

I think that should make it clear now to everyone in the United States and around the world just what Peanut the Squirrel has hown to us all.