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For years, the main tools of the animal rights movement have been opportunistic politicians in Europe and the United
States, an unquestioning media and mass unrelenting propaganda. One would have thought that European politicians,
particularly those in Germany, would be very wary of propaganda given their past history with the campaigns of Dr.
Goebells.
Ms. Hohn has convinced German politicians, through fabricated information, that the Canadian seal hunt is inhumane
despite the fact the vast majority of independent veterinarians from Canada, the United States and Europe have found
the killing techniques employed by Canadian sealers to be humane. One has to question whether there may be ulterior motives
behind such a transparently ignorant decision. One has to question Germany’s political environment when not one of the
over 600 parliament members question fabricated information. One has to question a silent media.
The role of politicians is to analyse the “facts” and the “science” of any issue to make sound decision for their
constituents. Not to be the puppets of single issue groups who further their own ends through propaganda.
There is an old poem which has been attributed to anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran Pastor Friedrich Gustav Emil
Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). Niemöller narrowly escaped death while imprisoned by the Nazis in Sachsenhausen and
Dachau concentration camps. In an abstract way this poem relates to the inactivity of politicians while minority
animal rights agendas are forced on the majority. If decisions like this are made based on fabricated information,
whats next?
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When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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