{"id":36322,"date":"2018-04-03T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36322"},"modified":"2018-04-03T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T13:12:45","slug":"paradise-for-the-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/paradise-for-the-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise for the taking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have Paradise to play with<br \/>\nYet with arrogance your choice<br \/>\nIs to take tourists out whale watching<br \/>\nWhilst in essence giving voice<br \/>\nTo the dolphin killing monsters<br \/>\nThat frequent old Taiji<br \/>\nTo the dolphin enslaving profiteers<br \/>\nWho exert such infamy<\/p>\n<p>BROOME In Western Australia<br \/>\nHow come you cannot feel<br \/>\nThe utter animosity<br \/>\nThat people do reveal<br \/>\nTowards you and your mental state<br \/>\nAnd prodigality<br \/>\nThe wastefulness of murder<br \/>\nAnd what goes on in Taiji<\/p>\n<p>What is your insensibility<br \/>\nYour total lack of care<br \/>\nRunning an unconscious council<br \/>\nCreating such despair<br \/>\nBeing unresponsive<br \/>\nTo the tourists you engage<br \/>\nAnd take their precious dollars<br \/>\nWatching whales in watery graves<\/p>\n<p>The suffering its awful<br \/>\nLive streaming from Taiji<br \/>\nWatching pods of beautiful souls<br \/>\nStolen tragically<br \/>\nBeaten up and left in anguish<br \/>\nAs each sees relatives die<br \/>\nSwimming in each others blood<br \/>\nAnd you do that on a lie<\/p>\n<p>The purgatory you are  causing<br \/>\nDamnation every day<br \/>\nThe screaming of the babies<br \/>\nAs you take away<br \/>\nTheir mothers to be cut to ribbons<br \/>\nBy your butchering class<br \/>\nSo much gloom and wretchedness<br \/>\nThats whats come to pass<\/p>\n<p>And with Paradise to play with<br \/>\nWith sunshine and with sea<br \/>\nYour cloak and dagger existence<br \/>\nBurns a great big hole in me<br \/>\nI am just a warrior<br \/>\nQuite away away<br \/>\nWho sees the butchering bastards<br \/>\nOperate in Taiji bay<\/p>\n<p>The woe and the displeasure<br \/>\nThe bitterness abroad<br \/>\nInnocent familes torn apart<br \/>\nAnd slaughtered by the sword<br \/>\nCut up on the pavement<br \/>\nAnd no sign of remorse<br \/>\nIt does leave me uneasy<br \/>\nThat you contribute your force<\/p>\n<p>Australia is better than this<br \/>\nI have to say<br \/>\nWhat goes on behind closed doors<br \/>\nAnd the poor cetaceans pay<br \/>\nAs you lot visit taiji<br \/>\nWith your false attitude<br \/>\nAre you being paid to do this<br \/>\nIs this your stock in trade?<\/p>\n<p>And look out at their faces<br \/>\nThe fisherman who drive<br \/>\nSqualor and defacement<br \/>\nHow dare they survive<br \/>\nFrightful repellent odious scum<br \/>\nWho need to be in jail<br \/>\nNot threatening cove guardians<br \/>\nFor that will always fail<\/p>\n<p>Taiji stands for tastelessness<br \/>\nBarbarism they<br \/>\nAre artless they are vulgar<br \/>\nAnd tawdriness at play<br \/>\nThe world watches on camera<br \/>\nThe grossness you proclaim<br \/>\nbroome supports these killings<br \/>\nYes Broome you are to blame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have Paradise to play with Yet with arrogance your choice Is to take tourists out whale watching Whilst in essence giving voice To the dolphin killing monsters That frequent old Taiji To the dolphin enslaving profiteers Who exert such &hellip; 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