... a decent respect ...
dispatches from Wild Turkey America to the Imperialist Eagle one
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"... the Declaration of Independence, whose greatness owes nothing to its natural law philosophy - in which case it would indeed be 'lacking in depth and subtlety' - but lies in the 'respect to the Opinion of mankind', in the 'appeal to the tribunal of the world ... for our justification', that inspired the very writing of the document ..."
Hannah Arendt
Wild turkey are highly intelligent and resourceful, they know how to look after themselves and each other, they are not predators. In summer they form groups of up to twenty, in the more difficult conditions of winter, up to two hundred. Ben Franklin wanted the wild turkey to be the national bird of the USA. Imagine the difference in our collective psyche if the Wild Turkey, not the Imperialist Eagle, had been our bird (he took a very dim view of the Eagle). Towns from Colorado to Massachusetts have discovered have discovered that wild turkey are very willing to defend their territory.
all of us or none
