The story of the squirrel and the raccoon is more complicated than it seems at first glance. Both animals were used to generate money for their keepers.
Please reload the article, Jeffrey posted the NY statute on Notes, and I added a screenshot to the article. If you haven't read it yet, do so now. That, alas, is the law in NY. Hopefully it will be changed, but it is too late now for Peanut and Fred.
For many of us, It's a culmination of anger that keeps building against the managerial state that can manifest their power to destroy innocent creatures-yet cannot keep our nation and her people safe. A cruel exercise of tyrant behavior. The full power of the State in the form of SWAT, judicial decisions, and the petty bureaucracy that can do this, but cannot keep the streets bereft of druggies, thugs, and illegals. Aside from what the owners were doing, this was the biggest point I took away from the story. Anarcho-Tyranny in full effect.
I usually agree with you Morg, but not in this case. I really do not care if the couple had a porn site or not. Almost unrelated. They took good care of these creatures who needed it at the time they needed it. They clearly were well adjusted and happy as opposed to dead of starvation or inattention. They adopted the squirrel years before they had a porn site.
I cannot tell you how many animals have been exploited and not nearly as well treated. Flipper? Lassie? But our big departure is the deference you give to some absurd law and criticize the couple for not hiding out until some absurd rules were followed. They were both running their video business AND keeping quite an extensive animal rescue operation. One does not vitiate the other. If they cross-promoted, so what? As much or more than any cross promotion, the fact is that most people looking at squirrel videos are more likely to want to support your animal rescue than your OnlyFans site. If some do both, great.
I appreciate learning these additional facts -- it is (among other reasons) why I subscribe. But I would reorder your culpable parties list by putting the government first (there are 100 things they should or should not have done differently), the idiot whistleblower (even worse if it was just jealousy) a close second, then 1,000,000 other random bad people, then the couple who have been caring for these animals for years clearly kindly (whether they like to tumble in the hay or not).
Like the other commenters, I appreciate knowing more of the backstory. That said, the absolute ridiculous exercise of taxpayer funded state power is indicative of the modern state. New York can’t police their own border with Canada but they can send a SWAT team for a squirrel and a raccoon. Such irony. Do I laugh or weep?
Mark and Daniella didn't even cut Fred or Peanut royalty checks. What a couple of scoundrels. The fact still remains that the animal loving porn stars gave love and care to the mascots of their revenue streams, and still did nothing to deserve getting raided nor did Fred or peanut deserve an execution. Why is it when large sums of money is factored in there's someone online offering a new perspective demonizing victims of state tyranny?
I think the issue here is that a SWAT team showing up at a house, holding the owners in terror for five hours, and to top it off by killing their pets is a bridge way too far. Porn page or no.
It wouldn't have to be because of the eye of the public. Maybe your neighbour reports that your dog barked too much last night. Or maybe the government just doesn't like you.
It was one hell of a show, I admit that. The powers that shouldn't be proclaiming that they can do anything to anyone. Anytime.
See the NY Post story, towards the bottom, a legislator has introduced a bill to muzzle the dept of environment in NY by forcing them to do things differently. I doubt much will come from it, but who knows, maybe some changes will happen.
State tyranny at its finest. They showed up at these peoples house like the ATF looking for David Koresh but instead they were looking for rocky and rocket and they tore these peoples house apart looking for two small animals that were treated very well. It's absolutely horrible that this happened. Calling the two animals a grift doesn't excuse this unnecessary aggressive display of force.
I did not excuse the behavior of the gov goons. Go back and reread my article, David. They should not have killed the animals. Possible rabies was their excuse, but all they had to do was take a blood sample and put them in quarantine until they had a definitive answer. Instead they killed them.
You did rank the gov goons third in your list of the guilty, behind the snitch and the owners. That’s a very strange ordering for me, putting the people who did a Bad Thing behind the people who snitched and the people who merely did a thing that should not have resulted in the Bad Thing. Seems like that should have been reversed.
We must agree to disagree. For me, the Longos deserve first blame for exploiting the animals and exposing them to public scrutiny before making sure they were legalized. The rat deserves the second, and the gov goons the third because they were acting on the NY statute (reload the article, I just added a screenshot of it).
I see what you mean about it being dumb to do something exposing that you are doing something illegal particularly when getting caught has consequences for another. However I hold that Sauron is the problem, more so than activities that expose one to his eye.
Frankly, I don’t care if they were “exploiting” P’Nut. The owner rescued him and gave him a home where he was safe, until a b-tch from TX stuck her nose in and NY chose to kill him. Judicial discretion is a thing, no? Are all laws enforced equally, all the time? Seems to me illegal immigrants fall right into that category. But not a squirrel? The NYDEC could decline to pursue it. The judge could decline to provide a warrant.
..a detail that the government overreach department used as a "fear factor" against the squirrel, was "RABIES". One problem, squirrels are NOT vectors for rabies. What happen to the world of empathy and compassion?
Thank you for clarifying, and you are correct. For me, the culpability (and degeneracy) of the owners doesn't obfuscate the vileness of the snitch nor the petty tyranny of the state. There are two innocent victims. Outrage is justified.
Great article Morg! I definitely got emotionally swept up. I appreciate your digging to help me u sweat and the fuller picture. Spot of assessment, if there is something or someone you care deeply about, don’t expose it to the public eye, or the eye of Sauron.
I honestly don't care that they are degenerates, as far as the relevant issue goes. The animals weren't mistreated as far as I can tell - nobody's alleging that - and there's nothing wrong or exploitative about profiting from cute animal videos.
The issue as far as I'm concerned remains that some psycho witch ratted on someone across the country for something that shouldn't even be a crime, because she thought she'd get away with it, because she wanted to generate some loosh, because it satisfied her dark craving for exercising petty tyranny, whatever. And the Karen State of NY gladly obliged with a massive overreaction. The perpetrators deserve every last bit of hate and opprobrium they're getting over this. I hope they reconsider their life choices.
As for the couple victimized, if the sordid details of their double life hurt one or both of their businesses, well maybe they'll do some thinking too.
Well damn. Good to know, thanks for keeping us informed. It's still a wast of taxpayer money and an example of government overreach and anarcho-tyranny. Peace
Thank you for issuing a voice for animals. It has been a while since I got in touch with an animal protection agency; what comes out is that it takes time for a person "not into it" to figure things out:
- animals have no voice, at all
- they "are", and a lot is happening to them - as they don't have a voice what happens to them does not "grasp" the public's mind
- an important concept: things are fine and dandy as long as the basics are met, namely "wild animals" = "in the wild"; as soon as this fails, there is a "cosmic" imbalance. thinking of delphinariums, circuses, etc etc. This matters a lot
So "disposition" was at the discretion of the Department. And they chose to kill the animals for no good reason. No proof of rabies. Looks and smells like anarcho-tyranny to me. And we have have PLENTY of experience of that recently here in the former democracy of the UK. I would have the list reversed as well for what it's worth. Animal rights activists can get really, really nasty. The authorities might live to rue their actions here.
Please reload the article, Jeffrey posted the NY statute on Notes, and I added a screenshot to the article. If you haven't read it yet, do so now. That, alas, is the law in NY. Hopefully it will be changed, but it is too late now for Peanut and Fred.
For many of us, It's a culmination of anger that keeps building against the managerial state that can manifest their power to destroy innocent creatures-yet cannot keep our nation and her people safe. A cruel exercise of tyrant behavior. The full power of the State in the form of SWAT, judicial decisions, and the petty bureaucracy that can do this, but cannot keep the streets bereft of druggies, thugs, and illegals. Aside from what the owners were doing, this was the biggest point I took away from the story. Anarcho-Tyranny in full effect.
I usually agree with you Morg, but not in this case. I really do not care if the couple had a porn site or not. Almost unrelated. They took good care of these creatures who needed it at the time they needed it. They clearly were well adjusted and happy as opposed to dead of starvation or inattention. They adopted the squirrel years before they had a porn site.
I cannot tell you how many animals have been exploited and not nearly as well treated. Flipper? Lassie? But our big departure is the deference you give to some absurd law and criticize the couple for not hiding out until some absurd rules were followed. They were both running their video business AND keeping quite an extensive animal rescue operation. One does not vitiate the other. If they cross-promoted, so what? As much or more than any cross promotion, the fact is that most people looking at squirrel videos are more likely to want to support your animal rescue than your OnlyFans site. If some do both, great.
I appreciate learning these additional facts -- it is (among other reasons) why I subscribe. But I would reorder your culpable parties list by putting the government first (there are 100 things they should or should not have done differently), the idiot whistleblower (even worse if it was just jealousy) a close second, then 1,000,000 other random bad people, then the couple who have been caring for these animals for years clearly kindly (whether they like to tumble in the hay or not).
Just one man's opinion.
Thank you.
Like the other commenters, I appreciate knowing more of the backstory. That said, the absolute ridiculous exercise of taxpayer funded state power is indicative of the modern state. New York can’t police their own border with Canada but they can send a SWAT team for a squirrel and a raccoon. Such irony. Do I laugh or weep?
Nicely put. Thank you.
Mark and Daniella didn't even cut Fred or Peanut royalty checks. What a couple of scoundrels. The fact still remains that the animal loving porn stars gave love and care to the mascots of their revenue streams, and still did nothing to deserve getting raided nor did Fred or peanut deserve an execution. Why is it when large sums of money is factored in there's someone online offering a new perspective demonizing victims of state tyranny?
I think the issue here is that a SWAT team showing up at a house, holding the owners in terror for five hours, and to top it off by killing their pets is a bridge way too far. Porn page or no.
It wouldn't have to be because of the eye of the public. Maybe your neighbour reports that your dog barked too much last night. Or maybe the government just doesn't like you.
It was one hell of a show, I admit that. The powers that shouldn't be proclaiming that they can do anything to anyone. Anytime.
See the NY Post story, towards the bottom, a legislator has introduced a bill to muzzle the dept of environment in NY by forcing them to do things differently. I doubt much will come from it, but who knows, maybe some changes will happen.
State tyranny at its finest. They showed up at these peoples house like the ATF looking for David Koresh but instead they were looking for rocky and rocket and they tore these peoples house apart looking for two small animals that were treated very well. It's absolutely horrible that this happened. Calling the two animals a grift doesn't excuse this unnecessary aggressive display of force.
I did not excuse the behavior of the gov goons. Go back and reread my article, David. They should not have killed the animals. Possible rabies was their excuse, but all they had to do was take a blood sample and put them in quarantine until they had a definitive answer. Instead they killed them.
You did rank the gov goons third in your list of the guilty, behind the snitch and the owners. That’s a very strange ordering for me, putting the people who did a Bad Thing behind the people who snitched and the people who merely did a thing that should not have resulted in the Bad Thing. Seems like that should have been reversed.
We must agree to disagree. For me, the Longos deserve first blame for exploiting the animals and exposing them to public scrutiny before making sure they were legalized. The rat deserves the second, and the gov goons the third because they were acting on the NY statute (reload the article, I just added a screenshot of it).
I see what you mean about it being dumb to do something exposing that you are doing something illegal particularly when getting caught has consequences for another. However I hold that Sauron is the problem, more so than activities that expose one to his eye.
Frankly, I don’t care if they were “exploiting” P’Nut. The owner rescued him and gave him a home where he was safe, until a b-tch from TX stuck her nose in and NY chose to kill him. Judicial discretion is a thing, no? Are all laws enforced equally, all the time? Seems to me illegal immigrants fall right into that category. But not a squirrel? The NYDEC could decline to pursue it. The judge could decline to provide a warrant.
..a detail that the government overreach department used as a "fear factor" against the squirrel, was "RABIES". One problem, squirrels are NOT vectors for rabies. What happen to the world of empathy and compassion?
Also, all had gloves on…
*What happen to the world of empathy and compassion?*
Dead decades ago. In Deep State America, at least.
Thank you for clarifying, and you are correct. For me, the culpability (and degeneracy) of the owners doesn't obfuscate the vileness of the snitch nor the petty tyranny of the state. There are two innocent victims. Outrage is justified.
Great article Morg! I definitely got emotionally swept up. I appreciate your digging to help me u sweat and the fuller picture. Spot of assessment, if there is something or someone you care deeply about, don’t expose it to the public eye, or the eye of Sauron.
Thanks for clearing that up. I feel much as you do.
You are most welcome. It is a sad story and I wish it had turned out otherwise for the sake of the two animals.
I honestly don't care that they are degenerates, as far as the relevant issue goes. The animals weren't mistreated as far as I can tell - nobody's alleging that - and there's nothing wrong or exploitative about profiting from cute animal videos.
The issue as far as I'm concerned remains that some psycho witch ratted on someone across the country for something that shouldn't even be a crime, because she thought she'd get away with it, because she wanted to generate some loosh, because it satisfied her dark craving for exercising petty tyranny, whatever. And the Karen State of NY gladly obliged with a massive overreaction. The perpetrators deserve every last bit of hate and opprobrium they're getting over this. I hope they reconsider their life choices.
As for the couple victimized, if the sordid details of their double life hurt one or both of their businesses, well maybe they'll do some thinking too.
Well damn. Good to know, thanks for keeping us informed. It's still a wast of taxpayer money and an example of government overreach and anarcho-tyranny. Peace
RIP Peanut and Fred, you both deserved better.
Thank you for issuing a voice for animals. It has been a while since I got in touch with an animal protection agency; what comes out is that it takes time for a person "not into it" to figure things out:
- animals have no voice, at all
- they "are", and a lot is happening to them - as they don't have a voice what happens to them does not "grasp" the public's mind
- an important concept: things are fine and dandy as long as the basics are met, namely "wild animals" = "in the wild"; as soon as this fails, there is a "cosmic" imbalance. thinking of delphinariums, circuses, etc etc. This matters a lot
- "hunting meat" has taken an outrageous proportion, and it's closed farms with wild animals being raised. Again, the wild imbalance. Have a look at the French map for hunting meat: https://www.lachasseunproblememortel.fr/carte-des-elevages-de-grands-gibiers-en-france/
As you can see there is something that went through the drops.
The problem is that what's happening to them does not simply karmically vanishes.
I already thought it was the perfect US story of 2024. This is just the cherry on top. Chefs kiss peak 2024.
State of NY is still some a-holes tho.
So "disposition" was at the discretion of the Department. And they chose to kill the animals for no good reason. No proof of rabies. Looks and smells like anarcho-tyranny to me. And we have have PLENTY of experience of that recently here in the former democracy of the UK. I would have the list reversed as well for what it's worth. Animal rights activists can get really, really nasty. The authorities might live to rue their actions here.
I guess the lesson here is to not mix pornography with animals.