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Bruno

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The outrage over the “execution” of the bear Bruno (according to Italy’s Minister of Environment, Tecoratio Scanio) has not yet died down, as further details have become known about his “murder” (according to guest book entries at Bavarian vacation resorts) and further plans for execution are made by the Bavarian government under the leadership of Prime Minister Stoiber’s Minister for Environment, Health and Consumer Protection, Schnappauf.

The magazine “Focus” describes in no 27/2006, how public servants of the District Administrative Office of Miesbach – with the cooperation of a police head commissioner from Bavarian Oberland and an official of the District Office – only four hours after the order was given, carried out the death sentence ordered by Minister of the Environment Schnappauf on the bear as it peacefully and quietly stood on its hind legs. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” gave a sarcastic note to this event by writing on July 14, 2006: “Only a dead bear is a German bear.” With this, it was alluding to Minister Schanppauf’s refusal to return the bear to Italy, from where it had originated. The newspaper continued to say: “Other than in the case of their human fellow Italians, it is sufficient for bears to cross the border and let themselves be shot, to be naturalized.” What at first glance seems a joke has, however, a bitter aftertaste. For on July 16, 2006, the “Berliner Umschau” carried the headline: “Bruno’s Family In Bavaria’s Sights. Bavarian politicians are greedy for the next bear shooting.” And under a picture of Bruno could be read: “The trigger-happy tendencies of Bavarian officials apparently has no end. The animal rights organization, ‘Pro Wildlife’ reported that apparently Bruno’s mother, Yurka, and her other offspring are now threatened with being shot. The same experts responsible for the shooting of brown bear Bruno (JJ1) are planning to kill his mother.”

It is astounding how long barbaric medieval customs can last in Germany. There has been enough great minds who have repeatedly given warning.

For example, Theodore Heuss, the first President of the Republic of German, said: “Hunting is merely a cowardly circumlocution for the especially cowardly murder of fellow creatures who don’t have a chance. Hunting is a variant of human mental illness.”

Or the great Russian author Leo Tolstoy: “It is only one step from the murder of animals to the murder of humans.”

Many citizens have realized that Bruno is merely the tip of the iceberg:

Meanwhile, animal-rights advocates are regularly holding a solemn vigil across from the state offices, in memory of Bruno and the millions upon millions of animal victims that are to be mourned every year in Germany.

This action has triggered a lively echo in the press and among the population:

“The bear, a guest of friends! A bear comes once to Germany and they shoot him down,” remarked a passerby.

“Until now, I have always voted for the CSU (Christian Social Union), but now I won’t vote for it again,” said another.

“For me, this shooting is the greatest monstrosity of the past 30 years.”

A foreigner: “These German barbarians killed the bear.”

Another passerby: “Actually the churches are to blame. They say that animals have no souls and no feelings. With Bruno, more will come. Things are not at an end by far.”

The facts: Alone in Germany every year, 5 million wild animals, 4,000 to 6,000 dogs and about 40,000 cats as well as over 40 people fall victim to the murdering instruments of the hunters. And this is all justified with hunter-lie no. 1, that without hunting the animals would overrun the land. However, the opposite is the case: In hunting free areas, the number of wild animals levels off at a natural level.

The sacrificial death of Bruno reminds us of the suffering and torment of these animals. Not to be forgotten are the millions of animals kept imprisoned in the jail-like barns and slaughterhouses of factory farming and the millions of animals in experimental laboratories. Their suffering and torment must finally come to an end!

Now is the time to do something –

You, we, can bring an end

to the hunting administration of Edmund Stoiber

with its hunting in fields and woods,

with the brutality in the barns,

slaughterhouses and laboratories.

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