The fight against the predators

Reinfeldt vs. the Wolves

The dangerous wolf, also known as the 'Four-legged Osama from the Woods', has been threatening struggling farmers and horrified school kids for centuries. But now, Frederick Reinfeldt comes to the rescue.

Photo: Pressens bild As it is now, people who defend themselves from attacking wolf packs could be subject to prosecution. People have actually gone to jail for shooting wolves! And as the wolf population grows rapidly, the need to shoot more blood-thirsty beasts is skyrocketing.

The M leader Reinfeldt wants to revise the laws that protect the four-legged, fur-clad sadists terrorizing the rural areas of Sweden. Wolves behaving 'unnaturally' should be considered 'fair game' for farmers who feel the need to defend themselves and their animals, said Reinfeldt in a televised interview.

It has yet to be defined what unnatural wolfish behavior is, but according to common farmer sense, wolves that are hunting cattle, killing dogs and trespassing private farmland are doing stuff that could be considered inhumane and unnatural.

Mr Reinfeldt also thinks that it is better that the people who live in rural areas get to decide whether the wolves living there should be shot or not. As usual, he is right - this isn't an issue for some weepy environmentalist in Stockholm. Let the farmers who everyday endure a round-the-clock 'wolf siege' decide when wolves are to be shot.

Photo: Pressens bild A very bad thing about wolves is that they're living threats to the economy. Wolves kill animals that otherwise could be killed by humans and then sold as meat, thus oiling up the economy. Every lamb slaughtered by a wolf is a small loss for the world economy.

If one considers the impact of laws designed to protect large predators, it's easy to see that the wolves themselves are suffering from the overprotection. As it is now, Swedish wolves don't compete on a free habitat market. They're just doodling around with no-one expecting anything from them, and thus they're not stimulated to earn their right to their habitats. If humans were allowed to compete with the wolves for the lebensraum, things would be much more natural and fair. So let's scarp some unnecessary laws and let the kids walk to school again, without fear for the blood-thirsty four-legged terrorists.

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