Kenya is lying to itself...

The current spokesliars in the Kenyan government will probably never get an accurate headcount on the number of chumps who bought into their concocted story of demonstrating the valuelessness of the 100 tons of tusks and horns they destroyed...Whatever that number is, it was lost among the people who could have benefited from a different end to the now destroyed products...

Watching the vacuous smile on CNN reporterette Robyn Kriel's face as she described the burning of several tons of priceless ivory made me wonder if the associated losses ever entered her mind...There may have been plenty of room behind her smoke-irritated eyes for thoughts of how many hungry mouths could have been fed with the estimated $172 million she just watched reduced to ashes...

Eating dinner that night on her CNN expense account, she may not have had much time between bites to consider what impoverished Kenyan's were enjoying at their tables on their estimated $1.25 income per day...To be fair, the approximately 17.7% of Kenya's population who subsist on that amount were probably too busy dying from hunger to worry whether her coffee was sweetened to her liking...

The jet fuel used to sustain the fires might have found better use in the cookfires of Kenya's kitchens for their non-existent meals, or if nothing else could have helped tank up the jet for Kenya's most traveled president...The tallies are not yet in as accountants toil feverishly to figure how many years were shaved from the backside of Earth's life from the smoke and ash which filled the air over the African savannas from the torched ivory adding to that worrisome global warming...

Speaking from behind their comfortable desks in their sumptuously appointed, air-conditioned government offices, Kenyan spokesliars would have gullible observers believe that the burn was meant to prove to the world that ivory, horns, antlers and all other appendages removed from donor animals have no value, when in fact the proceeds gleaned from the potential sale of these items could have funded a number of worthwhile projects...Aside from feeding Kenya's impoverished millions, the poachers who gained the illegal harvest could be more aggressively sought, tried and punished...

The animal products which could have been profitably transformed into pistol grips, knife handles, paperweights and sundry other items, giving useful employment to many, have instead been turned into airborne pollutants and carcinogenic irritants...The value of existing ivory and other corneous accoutrements continues to rise, pleasing its investors, while the lure of wealth from illegal poaching goes forward unabated...

Please note that I am not in favor of poaching under any circumstance, although I might have made an exception for medieval English serfs feeding their families from the bounty of feastables in the King's forests, but I am equally opposed to cutting off one's nose to spite one's face by destroying what has intrinsic value for the sake of making a political statement...

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