Remember this family? I posted their picture a few days ago.
Well, they deserve another look.
Today they lost their freedom.
I just found out they got captured from their wide open prairie home and taken out by helicopters and boys who get paid for being cruel.
This little wild family got split up. The Cremello mare with all the wisdom and character of an older and happy wild horse. Her grey stallion; an old guy, too. They’ve obviously been together for a very long time. And then there’s their little Palomino yearling....
needlessly torn apart and put into separate cramped iron pens, never to see each other again.
The BLM is heartless. Their program is a failure.
Today is just another sad day in America.
Freedom for the stallion
Freedom for the mare and her colt
Freedom for the baby child
Who has not grown old enough to vote
Lord, have mercy, what You gonna do
About the people who are praying to You?
They got men making laws that destroy other men
They make money, God, it's a doggone sin
Oh Lord, You got to help us find a way
~Boz Scaggs
I know I just posted this comment on Flickr, but there are not words for the horrendous behavior of the BLM. As if their treatment of the mustangs wasn't horrible enough, the BLM has decided to sell off parcels of land for oil and gas extraction in our little corner of the high desert. Shameful.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, WTF is the BLM thinking?? They are destroying and selling off our history, our wild lands, and our wild horses.
It is time!!!!
DeleteHayduke time!
And I’m not joking around.
Thank you, Sagey. You sure are a good comrade.
Yes, it IS time. Hayduke lives!! (I'm not joking around either.)
DeleteWTF. that's all i seem to be *thinking saying feeling* these days.
ReplyDeletemuch love to you, dearest red dirt prairiegirl.
xO