{"id":109394,"date":"2021-01-14T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109394"},"modified":"2021-01-14T12:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T17:38:03","slug":"to-kill-or-not-kill-joe-the-pigeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109394","title":{"rendered":"To Kill or Not Kill Joe the Pigeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the risk of getting our web blog shut down, we post about the dilemma to kill Joe the Pigeon or not.\u00a0 That said, if you should happen to feel favorable to having little Joey put down, please do not say “Kill Joe” lest that be construed as hate speech and a metaphor for something else.\u00a0 We do not condone violence or death.\u00a0 We believe in life and second chances… at least I do.\u00a0 We believe that all things can be resolved peacefully and with dialogue.<\/p>\n

That may not be the case with USA’s Joe the Pigeon.<\/p>\n

It seems Joe flew across the ocean to eventually land, exhausted I might add, in Australia.\u00a0 However, Joe is seen as possibly haboring parasites or a disease carrier so therefore the Australian authorities want to put him down.\u00a0 That’s a polite way of saying to snuff out his candle, kick his bucket, feed the flowers, [insert metaphor here].<\/p>\n

Some say the bird may have hitched a ride on a ship.\u00a0 The bird was named for the U.S. President-elect but the metaphor stops there.<\/p>\n

The bird is not a terrorist but they believe he still represents a threat and must be eliminated.\u00a0 The irony of the pigeon’s plight is not lost.<\/p>\n

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Australia to Kill US Pigeon That Made It Across the Pacific<\/a>
\n<\/strong>It considers the racing pigeon a quarantine threat<\/em><\/p>\n

A racing pigeon has survived an extraordinary 8,000-mile Pacific Ocean crossing from the United States to find a new home in Australia. Now authorities consider the bird a quarantine risk and plan to kill it. Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday he discovered that the exhausted bird that arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 had disappeared from a race in the US state of Oregon on Oct. 29. Experts suspect the pigeon that Celli-Bird has named Joe, after the US president-elect, hitched a ride on a cargo ship to cross the Pacific. Joe\u2019s feat has attracted the attention of the Australian media but also of the notoriously strict Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, reports the AP. Celli-Bird said quarantine authorities called him on Thursday to ask him to catch the bird.<\/p>\n

“They say if it is from America, then they’re concerned about bird diseases,” he said. When the bird arrived “he was pretty emaciated so I crushed up a dry biscuit and left it out there for him,” Celli-Bird noted. “Next day, he rocked back up at our water feature, so I wandered out to have a look at him because he was fairly weak and he didn\u2019t seem that afraid of me and I saw he had a blue band on his leg. Obviously, he belongs to someone, so I managed to catch him,” he added. Cellis-Bird, who says he has no interest in birds “apart from my last name,” said he could no longer catch the pigeon with his bare hands since it had regained its strength. He said the Oklahoma-based American Pigeon Union had confirmed that Joe was registered to an owner in Montgomery, Ala. He said quarantine authorities were now considering contracting a professional bird catcher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Why can’t Trump pardon Joe?<\/div>\n
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GENERAL BILLY<\/strong><\/div>\n
…<\/span><\/div>\n
There was a similar incident during the US intervention in Lebanon.\u00a0 The Marines adopted a small black goat and there was a news story about it.\u00a0 “General Billy” loved attention and would always seek it out – in addition to his next meal.\u00a0 He especially liked ponchos and poncho liners – go figure. People were fascinated and arrangements were made for the goat to be transported to the US to participate as an honored guest in the Rose Bowl Parade and live out the rest of his life on a farm in California.<\/div>\n
…<\/span><\/div>\n
Someone forgot to mention all of this to U.S. Customs as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the goat was put down upon arrival in the U.S.\u00a0 So, Billy could have lived out his life in a third world country or die free in the United States – which he did.\u00a0 That is the story of “General Billy,” who was featured in Soldier of Fortune magazine, but the rest of the story was not well known.<\/div>\n
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Billy survived bullets and bombs in a war-torn country, only to be killed by bureaucrats in the U.S.<\/div>\n
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Here is the Soldier of Fortune photo of General Billy in Lebanon…<\/div>\n
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So, what will become of Joe the Pigeon?<\/div>\n
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