Dolphins or Dollars

Here is the article submitted to the local paper. Please join your intentions with mine that it be published, and the public educated about this atrocity!
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Dolphins and Dollars***

Life is more precious than money. Even the most ignorant fool in the
world knows this. But men in power behave as if it were not so!
For example, the U.S. navy is now working with low-frequency active(lfa) sonar-devices that create such loud bursts of sound that thesinuses and eardrums of whales and dolphins explode! This is agonizingly painful! The devices also cause bleeding in lungs and brains a thousand miles from a lfa device.
Yet the U.S. Navy opposes plans to restrict this deadly technology. In this, it flies in the face of international efforts by Nato and the E.U. In fact, the Pentagon has drafted a policy that allows for the murder of these beautiful creatures-- by destroying the Marine Mammals Protection Act. In supporting this murder, the current administration has resisted the entire world-community! Again, the clock turns backwards.
Since these creatures are mammals, much like us, not fish, they are sensitive and intelligent creatures. They are able to love, think, communicate, create, and organize, showing a level of intelligence that approaches the human. Further, these are friendly, helpful, harmless, and joyful creatures. To continue to use devices that make the insides of their heads explode is the height of insensitive obscenity. When deafened, these sweet creatures starve.
The current administration has always valued money over life-- even human life. It has proved this so many times that even true supporters can no longer deny it. In killing, carelessly and needlessly, mammals nearly as intelligent as we, we are lowering ourselves to subhuman levels of behavior. It is time that we demand the development of alternative technologies that are silent, and harmless to our friends in the seas. It is time that we demanded that our government be more than a wallet, but that it gain a heart!
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Written by:

Richard Francis,
5100 Liberty-Fairfield Rd.,
Hamilton, Ohio 45011
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Ph. 513-737-5683.
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Email: rmfrancis@juno.com