These are
human beings you're wishing death on, not animals -- which seem to get more respect around here anyway, at least the cute ones.
Pretend these men have families. Wait -- most of them they DO have families. Some of them, I'm sure, have adorable little blonde daughters who would cry if Daddy were to die while trying to earn a living, even if a bunch of "information workers" parked on their warm, well-fed butts crack wise about how they deserved it.
Let's look at that final paragraph again, with the pertinent section given special (formatting) attention:
MP Gerry Byrne wants Ottawa to extend the EI program for sealers who cannot take part in the fishery due to ice conditions. Byrne says a number of boats were stuck in port by the extraordinarily heavy ice conditions off the northeast coast and southern Labrador. He told VOCM Backtalk with Bill Rowe it's time for the federal government to extend EI benefits as they did for cod and lobster fishermen in 2003.
It seems that Ottawa has made few or no financial provisions for the seal hunters' existence, let alone a change of career, eh?
I'm not crazy about the commonwealth of Virginia, either, but I didn't cheer when Mr. Cho went on his rampage of death last week.
You want to save the cute baby seals? A worthy cause, that. So petition the Canadian Parliament to outlaw the seal hunt and to re-employ these men, perhaps in environmental protection work. As seasoned outdoorsmen and sailors, they could help save the cute polar bears threatened by the breakup of the northern ice sheet. And I'm sure they'd be happy to not be the butt of outrage from intellectuals, armchair environmentalists, bourgeois "activists", and the Internet.
Hooting for the mass death of seal hunters is Freeper-think. Please reconsider your wishes.
:wtf:
--p!