Nature never stops amazing you. A minute in your life can be a lifetime of another creature. Just like last year, and the one before that, and who knows since when, the willow butterflies have flown along the Sakarya river, to the same bridge over the Istanbul-Ankara highway.
Sphere: Related ContentI have first read about Japanese bloggers Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki’s arrest in Sheryadi.com. According to Greenpeace, Sato and Suzuki have been arrested for the crime of exposing the truth [greenpeace.org]. They were writing about the whale meat embezzlement in Japan.
Frankly, I am really surprised. Had this been in Turkey, I would not have been shocked, it would have been an ordinary day. After all, we have a beautiful (get used to my choice of adjectives) government, smart business people disposing of dump a spoonful at a time, and fishermen attacking the Greenpeace vessel. But you see, unlike Japan, we are poor. Even with the new calculation method of our high-IQ government, the per ca pita income can not reach usd 8,000; this being temporary, though. I have been informed that they are devising a brand new method so that the figure will effortlessly (how about this adverb?) reach usd 10,000 in no time.
But Japan? One of the richest countries in the world? No, I am not talking about the two bloggers, if you talk too much you end up in jail, right? Why does a rich country like Japan depend on whale hunting for income? We have cows (not the mad ones, ours are smart) in Turkey, they can buy some, instead.
Look at Canada! They also kill those seals but nobody is arrested for blogging about it. Does whale meat taste that good that nobody can stand criticism? Apparently I’ve got to get some and taste it before I can make an objective decision about it.
No? You don’t want to taste it? Maybe you can write to bigger-than-whale-authorities for release of the two bloggers [Greenpeace].
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