{"id":2412,"date":"2012-07-15T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2013-03-23T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T19:03:07","slug":"the-shed-men-on-cape-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-shed-men-on-cape-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The killing&#8217;s underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be able, to read a mind<br \/>\nthere has to be a mind to read<br \/>\nThose who are sentient enough<br \/>\nand  can understand and feed<br \/>\ninto what the public want<br \/>\nand really how they tick<br \/>\nkilling little babies<br \/>\nmakes everybody sick<\/p>\n<p>The seals so many out there<br \/>\nand how they came to be<br \/>\nA sanctuary,it is a place of calmness<br \/>\nNear the sea<br \/>\nWhere we see the wild folk&#8217;s wildness<br \/>\nTourists get the  tour<br \/>\nand begin to understand<br \/>\n really a lot more<\/p>\n<p>and wouldn&#8217;t they be upset<br \/>\nto know that very soon<br \/>\nThe babies that they just observed<br \/>\nwould be beaten by some loon<br \/>\nwe were here to rest and look around<br \/>\nexpectations high<br \/>\nbut the truth was<br \/>\nsadly this was just a whole lot<br \/>\nworse<br \/>\nFor the babies every season<br \/>\nas their suckling<br \/>\nare beaten to a pulp<br \/>\nwhich seems perverse<\/p>\n<p>nobody would expect that<br \/>\nof a sanctuary<br \/>\nBut Namibia has its sights<br \/>\non other things<br \/>\nEach pelt provides some revenue<br \/>\nand money is the key<br \/>\non the one hand<br \/>\na creature competing<br \/>\nwith fishermen  who be<br \/>\ncomplaining that their catch is down<br \/>\nall the while these creatures feed<br \/>\nand so the Namibian Government<br \/>\nthinks, some just have to bleed<br \/>\na bit who cares, that&#8217;s reality<br \/>\ntheir competitors after all<br \/>\ncompeting in the ocean<br \/>\nfor  shared fish<br \/>\nwhich does gall<\/p>\n<p>a sadness permeates<br \/>\nthe whole agenda<br \/>\na tragedy created<br \/>\nfrom the crowd<br \/>\nthe weather has been very cold<br \/>\nand windy and thunderstorms<br \/>\nhave hung down like a shroud<\/p>\n<p>The shed men live their miserable existence<br \/>\nwet, covered in the blood and snot and pain<br \/>\nthey&#8217;d been paid a measly sum and told<br \/>\nto kill them all<br \/>\nexactly where they sat<br \/>\nto bash their brain<br \/>\nand 80 or so thousand<br \/>\nsouls are slaughtered<br \/>\nin a peaceful cove<br \/>\na Sanctuary<br \/>\nit really is a lie<br \/>\nof such proportions<br \/>\nthat all these<br \/>\ntiny babies tragically<\/p>\n<p>The seals are clearly really<br \/>\ngoing through it<br \/>\ntheir numbers being depleted<br \/>\nby the day<br \/>\nsoon there won&#8217;t be any seals<br \/>\nto speak of<br \/>\nand then I bet the Namibians<br \/>\nwill say<br \/>\nthey upped and left<br \/>\nand we now are the victims<br \/>\nwe have lost our bounty<br \/>\nand the goals<br \/>\nBut th0se of us who know<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s really happened<br \/>\nmurdered by the gangs<br \/>\nof half cut trolls<\/p>\n<p>mercenary types<br \/>\nwho tear and rip them<br \/>\nheartlessly<br \/>\nthey do it and<br \/>\nThey grunt and sniff all day<br \/>\ntheir nails so broken and bloodied<br \/>\nfrom the dead souls<br \/>\nwho let the Turk just steal<br \/>\ntheir life away<br \/>\nClearly there are those<br \/>\nwho would now film us<br \/>\nclearly there are some<br \/>\nwho come and cry<br \/>\nclearly there are some<br \/>\nwho try to stop us<br \/>\nbut clearly we are here<br \/>\nand will defy<br \/>\ngun toting armed assassins<br \/>\nthey now guard us<br \/>\nwe thrash and bash and stash<br \/>\nthe bodies red<br \/>\ntheir pelts torn off their body<br \/>\nthey display their twisted sinews<br \/>\nthe sea birds cough and splutter<br \/>\nand are led<br \/>\nswallowing the carcasses<br \/>\nand choking<br \/>\nfighting for the remnants<br \/>\nthat remain<br \/>\ndropping bits of broken seal<br \/>\nback down on the sandy shore<br \/>\nand flying off<br \/>\nand coming back again<\/p>\n<p>like rats with wings<br \/>\nthese bloody awful vermin<br \/>\nvomit from their back ends<br \/>\nspluttering so<br \/>\nblood and snot and bones<br \/>\nwhere once a baby was<br \/>\nthe skeleton coast<br \/>\nis aptly named<br \/>\nyou know<\/p>\n<p>&#8216; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>its started, the lowest forms of life now congregate to glare to eat to defecate and to fly away suitably gorged <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-shed-men-on-cape-cross\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}