Letter To The Editor

Anyone who cares for animals and their welfare and rights, knows that deep feeling of frustration when reading for the umpth time about  some animal cruelty or animal injustice, and just don't know how to contribute to stopping these injustices.
Organising demo's or petitions is great, i did and do it regularly, from flyering anti fur brochures in front of posh shops selling fur in Tokyo, to monthly demo's in front of the Canadian embassy.
But it takes much time and even more energy to find other dedicated fellow activists to organise such a thing. And sometimes that only adds up to the frustration.

The irony, we organise demo's in the hope media picks it up, while sometimes we just can skip the whole foreplay and just cut the cake where it has to be cut  and directly send a Letter To The Editor and get our message posted directly on prime newspaper space with minimum time and energy and without need to drum up fellow activists !

Last week i saw this idiotic article in the Bangkok Post from some Thai official who is responsible for decimating the water monitor lizard population in Lumpini Park here in Bangkok. These up to two meter long gentle giant lizards, a protective species, are native to Bangkok, they travel around the city in the stinky smelly canals and the underground waterdrainage, and live in the parks in Bangkok. Peacefully.
People are people, and people complain about everything, so also about these reptiles, nothing new, only new thing is that some official did take the complaints seriously and started to catch a few hunderd of these animals and remove them.

from the article:

"their droppings are smelly"
"one woman needed hospital care when a lizard fel on her head."
"the numbers have increased rapidly" (probably isn't true but only scaremongering tactics from officials)
"watermonitors creep behind a bush" (the useage of negative words like "creep" in photo captive)

I've seen this before, if nobody stands up, these idiotic decimating campaigns creep on, but when people speak out against it, these culling programs stop soon.
In short, i have written my opinion about it, and emailed to the Bangkok Post and the next day on a monday it was published. Twenty minutes of my time, not even a stamp needed, and last monday a couple of thousand people did read about the Lumpini Lizard topic. Frustration turned into a feeling of accomplishment
Maximum result for minimum effort.