April 2, 2012
Scapegoating + Bad Math = Devastation for Federally Protected Sea Lions at the Bonneville Dam
Article by guest columnist and activist Sandy McElhaney
File photoThe concept of scapegoating has been around since the times of the Ancient Greeks. They used the term “pharmakos” to describe a person (often a beggar or criminal) who was cast out of the community following a natural disaster. In some accounts, the pharmakos was stoned or beaten. In others, he was executed and the ashes were spread to the ocean.
It surely does ring true that some of mankind finds something that can’t defend itself to blame for the woes that we have created.
It sickens me. We have many food choices, we can choose to not eat something that is food for another life if it will help in some way. And we wonder why we are now reaping the whirlwinds of what we have set in motion.
Yisraela