It's not just about a squirrel

Photo of a different squirrel by Niilo Isotalo on Unsplash

By now, you’ve probably already heard about Peanut the Squirrel and Fred the Raccoon. If you haven’t, then your blood pressure is probably thankful.

The short version is a man from New York rescued a baby squirrel, named him Peanut, and raised him. The squirrel became an Instagram star, apparently, thanks to cute pictures of him wearing cowboy hats and so on.

A woman from Texas, apparently, reported the man for having Peanut and a raccoon named Fred. Anonymously, at the time.

As a result, state officials stormed the house, took Peanut and Fred from their home, interrogated the man and his wife as if they were terrorists, tossed the house like officials were raiding a drug kingpin’s house, questioned the wife’s immigrant status (she’s from Germany), then euthanized both animals, supposedly to test for rabies.

And as a result, a lot of people are pissed.

I’m pissed.

Now, I’m someone who has put meat in the freezer by my own hand. I have no delusions about where meat comes from and I’m not some crazed animal rights activist that thinks animal lives are the same as human lives.

But that doesn’t matter because none of the outrage is really about the squirrel.

No, it’s about justice.

See, the issue with Peanut here is the uneven application of the law.

For Peanut, the letter of the law had to be applied. An animal raised inside of a home with other animals raised inside of the same home, none of which showed even an inkling of being diseased were taken from their loving owners because of some BS regulation that shouldn’t have applied in this case.

This after four years of more uneven application of the law.

For example, we’ve seen George Soros-backed district attorneys vow not to prosecute people for some crimes. Some of those are victimless crimes, which doesn’t bother me, but it also includes things like shoplifting, which is anything but victimless. As a result, shoplifting got so bad and brazen in some places that many chains just shuttered locations because they couldn’t make a profit.

It wasn’t all that long ago that we were locked in our homes and told we couldn’t go to church, to school, to visit our dying family in the hospital, to do anything except for approved activities, and even then, there were rules we were forced to follow.

All of that went out the window when a career criminal died at the hands of a police officer and mobs throughout the nation set fire to entire neighborhoods. At that point, the deadly virus that was akin to ebola and the Black Death really wasn’t that bad and people should totally be fine with rioters destroying communities.

Very few of them were arrested and even fewer were convicted over their actions during those riots.

But then people went on an unguided, unapproved tour of the Capitol and suddenly it was a threat to the very republic.

Our southern border is wide open. Many of the illegals crossing that border then go on to commit various crimes here in the United States, many of which are horrific. One of the latest appears to be the murder of a young woman in North Georgia.

Meanwhile, it seems federal law enforcement was trying to undermine our elections by “investigating” the Trump campaign back in 2016, among other things they pulled.

See, on every level, our nation of laws has been corrupted so that only some people get a pass while others don’t. Peanut and Fred didn’t have to be seized like they were. While the law is the law, anyone could see that there was no threat to people or the animals. There was absolutely no reason for any of it, but the law was suddenly the law whereas New York is notorious for giving certain parties a pass when it comes to the law.

Then we have them questioning the wife’s immigration status, whereas they turn illegal immigrants back out onto the streets after committing actual crimes. It’s rank hypocrisy at best.

But the truth is that while the law itself provides equal protection, the application of that law is anything but equal. There, some animals are more equal than others, and so Peanut and Fred were murdered by the state.

We love our pets. We cherish them. We understand the sense of loss when people lose a pet.

Think about the movie John Wick for a moment. The Keanu Reeves character lost his wife to cancer, then lost his car and the dog she gave him to help him deal with the loss of her to a punk and he went on a murder spree taking out the entire Russian mob, and people focus on the dog. That’s for a reason. People get that.

Now, people are talking like a civil war might spark off because of what happened to Peanut and Fred. I totally get it.

But it’s not just about the squirrel or the raccoon. It’s about the principle. It’s about how they treated this couple like criminals, destroying their homes and their family, based on an anonymous report from a woman thousands of miles away—who has since been hounded off social media, by the way, and I can’t muster the least bit of sympathy for her.

No, what this is about is that our government doesn’t serve us. It doesn’t seek to protect us. It doesn’t try to do anything except expand its power and flex that power where it can, but only against those who have been conditioned to accept it.

Well, those days are coming to a close for a lot of us and Peanut’s murder—and yes, I’m going to call it a murder and do so for the simple reason that it’s the right term—is just the last straw, the move that galvanized many of us to stand up and say no more.

Rules for thee but not for me is a terrible way to run a nation, state, or city. We the people will not tolerate it for long.

But it’s not about a squirrel, a raccoon, or anything like that. It’s about what’s right, what’s wrong, and why many of us will no longer accept the latter.

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