I personnally have pretty mixed feeling about this issue... I thought I might balance things out here with something a friend told me... peace, Liam -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:51 PM Subject: [FN] Fw: [recoznet2] Makah Whaling up-date >Liam, thanks for posting this. I, too, have mixed feelings. But, >let's consider some things... > >The Makah are not responsible for the near-extinction of the whales >they have hunted for eons. Western "civilization" [including the >US and Japan] and its free-market economy are responsible. The >Makah Treaty rights of 1869 should be honored regardless of the >predicament of the whales. Let's let the Makah worry about the >whales; I have far more confidence in them than I do in the >United States in seeing to it that whales are here for another >40,000 years... > >The only angle the animal-rights group has on the Makah is *their* >claim (the animal-rights folks) that the Makah Tribal attorney >said in 1995 that the Makah planned to sell whale meat and blubber >to Japan. Their Treaty rights, according to the animal-rights >people, grant them hunting rights only for subsistence. But in >this day, "subsistence" has a different meaning than it did in >1869. Food may have been all subsistence was about back then; now >there are light bills and phone bills and gas and electric and >plumbing the Makah must pay, in addition to feeding their families. > >Now, I am a supporter of animal rights. The animal who has my >most serious attention right now are not the whales but the >hunters. Them I support... > >dave > [Liam's note: Dave said to say "I mean great respect when I say animal. Now when I call you a human, them's fightin' words<g." He was talkin about "The animal who has my..."] ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
