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https://barsoom.substack.com/p/squirrel

Seven years ago Mark Longo found a baby squirrel orphaned when someone ran a car over its mother. Longo brought him into his home and named him Peanut. Peanut imprinted on Longo as his new mother; when Longo tried to release him back into the wild, the little guy had no idea how to survive in the wild, returned frightened and injured to the only home he knew, and thus their relationship became permanent. ...

Longo and Peanut went on a journey together. Over the next several years Longo turned Peanut into a social media star with a half-million Instagram followers. A year ago, Longo moved to rural New York to open the P’Nuts Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary, which currently houses 300 rescue animals.

Their bucolic coexistence was shattered when on October 30th Longo’s house was raided by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Armed agents showed up with a warrant they’d obtained after receiving an anonymous complaint. They held Longo and his German wife outside for five hours. While their home was ransacked in a search for their illicit animals, his wife was interrogated about her immigration status, because everyone knows German women are a big illegal immigration problem, Germans being infamously bad at following rules and keeping their paperwork in order,

In the course of the search, Peanut reportedly bit one of the agents.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?" – Solzhenitsyn

The DEC agents invoked Peanut’s exercise of his castle doctrine rights as an excuse to euthanize him, dissect his tiny brain, and test for rabies, rabies being a known problem with house pets. They also kidnapped Fred the raccoon, who met the same dark fate.







Allegedly, the tip came from one Monica Keaser, who lives all the way down in Texas, and who has since deleted all of her social media.



I don’t know if Keaser is really the snitch. If she is, it beggars belief that she could harbour any genuine concern about paperwork irregularities in a small town on the other side of the country. I’ve seen people speculate that this could be some kind of Internet beef, the animal control equivalent of SWATing, and this wouldn’t surprise me.

The director of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, under whose watch this farcical tyranny unfolded, is apparently named Karen, which is just a bit too on the nose.

Apparently Longo didn’t have a permit to have wild animals in his house. He claims that the paperwork was all in order, the documents all signed, and he was simply waiting on approval for some last-minute detail. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it sounds entirely plausible.

This isn’t the first time that the dead hand of the zombie state has murdered innocent animal friends for the crime of being cared for without a permit.









The obvious line to take on this is that the government can’t seem to prevent illegal migrants from pouring across our various borders (indeed, it subsidizes them), while it will go all hands on deck to assassinate an illegal squirrel and his raccoon friend, but this is just anarchotyranny for you. This story isn’t really about the prefix of that portmanteau. It’s about the suffix.

We live in a society in which a vengeful busybody on the other side of the country can anonymously harness the implacable machinery of the state to ruin the lives of people they’ve never met, who are generally powerless to do anything to obtain satisfaction from the faceless bullies hiding within the miasma of the permanent bureaucracy.

We live in this kind of society because we have allowed our natural liberties to be nibbled away at, a little bit here and a little bit there, until there is practically nothing left of them. Like Gulliver, we are held down by thousands of tiny threads, a net of laws and regulations, all of them enacted ‘for our safety’.

We have put Safety First, and if safety comes first, it necessarily follows that everything else comes after safety. There is no price too high for safety, and so we pay everything for it.

No one believes that Peanut’s death made the world any safer, including the anonymous stool pigeon that sicced the NYDEC on him, or the mouth-breathing toughs sent by the NYDEC.

Peanut’s death was about power. The state’s goons got to rip apart someone’s house and snuff out the lives of helpless cute animals, which made them feel powerful, and the snitch got to snicker from the sidelines, which made her feel powerful.

Safety is just the excuse. It is a very effective excuse, one that the managerial state and its cultists and clients in the general population adore, because it morally disarms all opposition to their tyranny. It gives them all the cover they need. “I’m doing this because I like ripping the wings off of butterflies” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “I’m doing this to keep you safe from the butterflies”. No one has ever been hurt by a butterfly, you say? Well, perhaps, but you never know. If it saves even one life!

This plague of safetyism infects everything.

The left has used the doctrine of ‘safe spaces’ to turn schools, universities, workplaces, and most of the Internet into one giant censorious Maoist playpen for gay race communism, screaming that it traumatizes gay race communists to hear hate facts that challenge gay race communism, that it makes them feel ‘unsafe’. Safety at any price. If it saves even one feel.

The carbon cult is safetyism writ large, on a planetary scale. To head off hypothetical dangers that might happen if anthropogenic global warming is real – the reality of AGW, the extent of the AGW, and the consequences of AGW all being the output of unreliable computer models, mind you, with uncertainty compounding on uncertainty until it expands into a cloud castle of vaporous what-ifs and maybes – in order to prevent this postulated apocalypse, no damage to the economy, limitation on technological progress, or fetter on human health and freedom, is too great. Each your plant-based diet and shiver in the dark, climate criminal. If it saves even one tenth of a degree!

The COVID debacle was safetyism on rampage mode. To keep us safe from the sneeze, we were locked inside for a year, swaddled in masks, children were prevented from socializing with their friends, the economy was nuked, and untested gene therapy juice was shoved into our bloodstreams to prevent the spread I mean prevent infection sorry uhh slightly reduce hospitalizations just take it or we’ll fire you.

Those migrants flooding into formerly civilized countries which the government can’t seem to do anything about (although it can kill a squirrel)? They can’t be remigrated because bad things might happen to them in their homelands – they might be oppressed by homophobic governments, endangered by violent crime, or prosecuted for their own violent crimes. Remigrating migrants is unsafe for the migrants; (the migrants’) safety comes first!

Note that none of these keep you, or anyone else, safe. They do not increase human life expectancy; they do not reduce the rate of injury; they do not improve quality of life; they do not clean the environment. To the contrary, they reliably make everything much, much worse.

The left’s rabid assault on discourse merely poisoned the social environment, destroying public trust in institutions, dissolving the natural bonds of affection between people, dividing society down the middle, and leaving everyone angrier, more afraid, more anxious, and more on edge than before. ...

The COVID lockdowns left children emotionally and socially stunted, while the jab crippled and killed so many people we still don’t know just how bad it was. Turbo-cancers, anyone? ...

Most of the mismanagers’ myriad impositions are like the safety band on a Bic. They aren’t life-threatening, just little annoyances and frustrations, each of which makes life just that little bit more expensive, onerous, joyless, and ugly, but which compound together into a gargantuan burden of soft despotism that smothers the life out of life.

Economists like to point to the example of car seats, which prevent some very small number of child deaths per year – the number I’ve seen is under 100 – while preventing many thousands of children from being born at all, because when every child must have a bulky car seat, more than two children necessarily demands a larger and more expensive car. ...

This has become intolerable. Beyond a certain point it’s time to go to war with it. Not with this or that pointless regulation or officious busybody or pernicious little tattletale, but with the entire rotten system. We need to drain the swamp, as it were. We need to do snap the safety band off of the ignition wheel, so we can light the fire of civilization again.

In life, Peanut the squirrel spread joy to millions. In death, he has become a martyr – the innocent victim of a blundering machine built of the inept, the useless, and the cruel, a clumsy blind killer robot that stomps out lives and dreams and hope and beauty and love as it seeks to perfect its control over a world that it is gradually crushing out of existence.

All while simpering that it’s keeping you safe.

Don’t listen to it.

Nothing is safe when safety comes first.

When you hear them say ‘safety first’, remember Peanut.

And bite the bastards.

https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-first-they-came-for

The New York State police raided Mark’s home this week:

A total of 10 officers raided his house

He and his wife were not allowed to use bathroom alone

He was not allowed to feed his other rescue animals

They interrogated his wife about her immigration status

There were search warrants from 4 bureaucratic departments, including FISA.

This week, despite massive public outcry - both Peanut and Fred were murdered by the New York State Environmental police. Their crime was living in captivity.

To be clear:
"Based on the search results, it is extremely rare for squirrels to contract rabies. The data suggests that squirrels are not considered vectors of rabies and have never been known to transmit the disease to humans."

Type thoughts guys. This photo shit is getting annoying. I won't leave the site, but it gets really annoying. Write something worth reading. If you can't, don't post it.

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

I guess Shatner never had a dog? There's a difference of insane magnitude. Time doesn't matter. Dogs are bred to be pets. You can say their name and they respond. Do tricks and obey. Show me a squirrel or raccoon that can do that. I don't think anyone can.

This is an election ploy. I'm voting Trump but my overall point is this a stupid story and makes Trump voters seem dumb. These animals were not pets. My neighbor growing up had a squirrel and got his arm mauled and he ended up killing it. I was 5 and there when it happened. Don't need to be a zoo keeper to know this.

This one is weird: in one breath we demand all illegals to be deported and in another we cry about illegaly kept squirrel? "But it was adorable!" So what? It's like saying "deport all illegals except for cute chicks". We need to get back to being the country of laws. Don't like the law - change it using legal methods. The only exception should be for clearly unconstitutional stuff, but the right to keep and bear squirrels was not in the Constitution last time I checked.

RWSGFY says

This one is weird: in one breath we demand all illegals to be deported and in another we cry about illegaly kept squirrel? "But it was adorable!" So what? It's like saying "deport all illegals except for cute chicks". We need to get back to being the country of laws. Don't like the law - change it using legal methods. The only exception should be for clearly unconstitutional stuff, but the right to keep and bear squirrels was not in the Constitution last time I checked.

I don't want illegals. Come here respectfully and legally. I'm just not a fan of people putting wild animals in their home. Hell a zoo. I think it's bizarre. Just let the animals do their thing. I don't think zoo's should exist. As I've said I'm independent, but this topic is the leftie in me. Chickens, dogs, cats, cows, pigs, goats, etc. Animals bred to produce meat/eggs, be functional or a family pet.

Cats are only one or two generations from being feral. Experiments on wild foxes showed they too, with selection for low aggression, could be domesticated in three generations. Our terms of pet vs not are somewhat arbitrary.

This was a blatant case of government overreach. And anarcho-tyranny, where major crimes are overlooked (or abetted) by govt, while small infractions are hammered down. The outcome hinges on whether you’re in a favored group. This would be Harris’ DEI govt.

It’s like the dog that sees a “squirrel!!” and gets distracted. Don’t be that dog.

WookieMan says

This is an election ploy.

We know the woman who called the authorities, she's an artsy Kamala voter. She simply couldn't stand seeing a happy man with a pet; all leftists are killjoys.

The man tried to restore the squirrel to the woods several times but the squirrel refused to go back. There was also a raccoon.

Both squirrels and raccoons can be domesticated.

The same government that will invade your home to kill your pets will do that over other things.

BTW, squirrels have NEVER transmitted rabies to a human in medical history. Smaller rodents aren't generally vectors, which is why they generally don't give rabies protocol for small rodent bites anymore. The only smaller rodent that passes rabies to humans are the Golf Course Destroyers, Groundhogs, and Ferrets, but in the latter case it's vanishingly rare.

AmericanKulak says

Both squirrels and raccoons can be domesticated.

The same government that will invade your home to kill your pets will do that over other things.

Gotta read what I wrote. I'm not for government interference. I don't think people should have squirrels and raccoons in their home. That's level 10 retardation. Both sides of this are retarded. Government shouldn't be involved and a thinking person shouldn't have those animals in their house. This was a lose lose situation. I don't like those.

WookieMan says

This is an election ploy. I'm voting Trump but my overall point is this a stupid story and makes Trump voters seem dumb. These animals were not pets. My neighbor growing up had a squirrel and got his arm mauled and he ended up killing it.

On the one hand, yes, the murder of a squirrel is being used as political fodder right before the election.

On the other hand, the squirrel was legit raised from a pup and very tame, definitely not rabid, so murdering it is a perfect illustration of how Democrats don't care if ten million criminal aliens swarm over the border, but somehow do care if someone is defying the Democrat bureaucracy, even if just in a trivial way.

Ceffer says

This is like the joke about Serbians and Ottomans.

The Pasha says "I demand your son as a Janissary"
Serbian hands him over.
The Pasha says "I demand your daughter for my harem"
Serbian hands her over.
The Pasha says "I demand you eliminate that filthy animal, your pig."
Serbian grabs his sword.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/early-exit-polls-show-peanut-the-squirrel-with-commanding-lead

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/new-york-authorities-announce-peanut-the-squirrel-died-of-covid

https://thefarcefeed.substack.com/p/local-karen-awarded-outstanding-citizen

Local Karen Awarded Outstanding Citizen Honor for Heroic Squirrel Complaint

City officials praised her valiant commitment to civic duty, despite the unfortunate outcome of the raid.

PINE CITY, NY — In what experts are calling an unprecedented act of civil vigilance, local resident Karen McCarren, known as the "Karen of King's County," was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Citizen Award for reporting a pet squirrel. Top New York officials praised her “heroic act of civic duty” in reporting internet sensation squirrel Peanut and his owner for lacking a proper wildlife license. McCarren’s actions led to a dramatic raid on the home of Mark Longo, a respected animal rescuer, and the seizure—and eventual euthanization—of the beloved furry pet.

The Pine City ceremony lauding McCarren’s vigilance featured applause from state officials and a heartwarming acceptance speech from McCarren herself, who has since been appointed as the city’s “Urban Wildlife Safety Czar.” “I was just doing my part to help to keep NY safe, sane and classy,” McCarren stated humbly. “It’s easy to ignore these seemingly minor infractions, but the rules are the rules. I’m just grateful I could be of service to my community by snuffing out that little fucker.”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/getting-squirrely

meet peanut and mark. peanut is a squirrel. his mother died. he was taken in by mark who raised him and turned him into a social media celebrity. it’s a happy ending disney story of the kind disney used to make before peanut would have had to be gay and biracial.

(video)

well, at least it was until the wicked witch came along in the form of obersturmbannführer karen monica keasler who was so offended by this fluffy tail fairytale that all the way from texas (peanut was in new york) she called down the wrath of the public health agencies.




these health agencies went after this squirrel like pike hitting a baitfish. they stormed the house (with a warrant), detained the humans for over 5 hours, tore the place apart, and then killed peanut the squirrel and a rescued raccoon named fred who appears to have been collateral damage.

nothing about this is OK.

what’s fascinating is what an astonishingly bad issue this winds up being for the “progressive left” because it’s just another in the long litany of inhuman outrages that come from the dictatorial regulatory state they all champion. past a (quite small) size, bureaucracy becomes monstrous and anti-human.

and this is way past that point.

this is hideous violation wrapped up in a ridiculously powerful avatar.

and symbolism matters.

you want a “mascot” for big government intrusion? well here is a martyr. ...




... respect for "home as castle" is a foundational idea in rights and common law. surrendering this notion for any reason enables the next intrusion. you no longer have rights, just privileges subject to revocation.

and people who fail to respect the sanctity of your home will take more than just your squirrel.

lest you think i exaggerate, let us ask them and hear them in their own words: (video of kamala)

this is not veiled threat. this is overt, porn on the coffee table threat broadcast in proud arrogance on national TV.

it’s about as subtle as cancer and every bit as metastatic.

“Just because you are in the sanctity of your home, doesn’t mean we’re not going to walk into your home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.”

this is a horrifying idea, a monstrous idea.

it’s also staggering hypocrisy. “well, unless you’re one of us,” is the embedded implication. the same state that cannot find or arrest illegal immigrants wanted for violent crimes unless it’s time to give them a new cell phone or refill their EBT card can somehow send actual shock troops to take down the scourge of errant sciuridae for the heinous crime of “being cute on the internet” or “having political views we do not like.”

this issue is about more than squirrels. this is about your right to breathe free in your own abode secure in your liberties and possessions from unreasonable search, seizure, intrusion, and yes, even murder.

and enough is enough.

they just broke down doors to kill an orphan squirrel.

pause to consider:

someone thought this was not only OK, but a good use of resources. whole systems sprung to life to enable and abet this. courts, health agencies and agents, layer upon layer of systemic purpose bent to this end and saw no flaw or failure.

it was concerted action, output from a machine.

one would think that in such a time perhaps everyone could pause and take a beat and say “ok, too far. that was hideous and broken and wrong and whatever partisan poo-fest i’ve been flinging, well, we can all agree not to do insane stuff like this.”

lol. you must be new here.




... the power of the outpouring once more leads me to believe that there is so much pent up discontent looking to ground in some sort of lightning flash.

and there is plenty to be upset about.




... a riled up karen from 1500 miles away makes a call and an actual SWAT team of health agents break into and wreck a home, detain the humans, and kill the animals all for what? in service of what? in mitigation of what?

who in their right mind would want to live like this and to leave this kind of inhuman, unaccountable power lying around in the hands of the kinds of people who would use it like this? ...

and while we’re dropping truth bombs, here’s another

Jeremy Kauffman @jeremykauffman
Peanut the squirrel contributed substantially more to society than George Floyd

go ahead, pick holes in that one.

if i sound pissed, well, it’s because i am. this is a sign of a very sick situation, one that can go very bad, very fast. a state that can do this and walk away is not one you can trust to have near you. you want to control dangerous animals? well that’s the one to get a leash on. not squirrels that jump into your arms. not raccoons that eat whipped cream. the feral bureaucratic state and its armed agents who stand ready to break down doors and take and ravage that which is yours for the flimsy pretext of “because the law says we can.”

DemocratsAreTotallyFucked says

Looks like Peanut & Fred will be avenged!