For Obama re wolf massacre

President Barack Obama October 16 2009
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C 20500

Dear President Obama,

In many parts of the world our power as a nation is connected to a perception of us as killers, a perception that some of our policies re-enforce. When does the time come to step up the essential morality in stead of the high-flown language?

Have you thought about what it actually means that we conduct and encourage wholesale massacre of the “animals” that live on our American lands? First, consider the other man-decided deaths. Conducting war with its unthinkable killing is an activity that humanity in its most enlightened thinking has moved beyond. The question is in the air: Why stay in that primitive past?

Almost more horrible is the ongoing decision to kill those who have no voice: the “animals” who are our co-inhabitants in America and on the earth. American representatives work in many parts of the world to encourage local peoples to stop killing local “animals” because such short-sightedness blocks their opportunity for tourism, one of the most effective forms of infusing money into their economies.

We, including you -- President Obama -- speak continually of our high ideals and our humanity. How can you reconcile these ideals with allowing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to sit motionless during the murders of an entire wolf pack in one of our revered places, Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies? What was the wolves’ undoing? They ate a sheep. What is the cost of a sheep compared to killing an entire pack which had become known throughout our country and the world? One of the pack’s mothers was radio-collared. The wolf cubs have been left to die.

The transition time of humanity’s life on the planet is not arriving or coming in a distant future. It is here. Will we live in the transition or cement our feet into the unknowing past? How do we measure the interests of emperor-rich ranchers with those of our disastrously dwindling fellow creatures? According to a god or to mysteries the planet exists as a living organism with its own life, necessities and essential patterns. Wiser ones talk about the tipping point for the planet and therefore for humanity. Why would we think the killing of fellow “animal” inhabitants does not figure into the question?

In as much as we must eventually use means other than killing to figure out how to exist with our fellow human beings, why would it not be the same thinking for “animals”? Why is all land on the globe owned by humans or human-sourced entities?

Does anyone think the planet can exist denuded of “animals” except for those imprisoned in zoos and laboratories for our entertainment and experimentation?

Is it the destiny of humanity to kill all life because the human mind can not do other than consider “animals” as a momentary or permanent obstacle to human power and aspiration?

Please.