If only Cubans were seals, then maybe Spain would be more concerned about the brutal treatment Cubans suffer through daily at the hands of a murderous dictatorship. One hundred people stripped naked in a square in Madrid, Spain on Sunday to protest the annual seal hunt in Canada.
But alas, Cubans are not seals but just merely Cubans, and therefore they are not worthy of protection.
“We want to sensitize people to the fact that animals are capable of feeling and suffering like us, and to protest against the massacre of hundreds of thousands of seals which is about to begin in Canada,” said [Equanimal] spokeswoman Silvia Toval.
I guess Cubans are not capable of feeling or suffering like Ms. Toval is, or seals, for that matter. But the best quote comes from Jose Antonio Polo, a participant of the protest on TVE television.
“It is very sad because I put myself in the skin of these animals who are treated like objects and they are not objects, they are individuals who have the right to be born and live in freedom.”
If only Cubans were seals, then they, too, would be individuals who have the right to be born and live in freedom.
Unfortunately, Cubans are just Cubans.
Seal hunting is a horrible brutal and unnecessary cruelty. Of course, Canada–a country that has done so much to sustain the Castro tyranny that is also horrible and brutal–is responsible for this yearly, bloody, horrible massacre of baby seals.
So, perhaps the Canadians can wear their bloody pelts and then go to Cuba and enjoy an apartheid beach and a mojito made with slave labor. It’s all the same to them I’m sure.