Get Smart

The BBC have rather belatedly picked up on the fact that some countries are so indoctrinated by their lifestyle and religion, that they can accuse and arrest vultures, and sharks etc, for spying for Mossad, or maybe the CIA (or even India, in the case of Pakistan).

 

The General Caught The Spy Shark

 

Of course we at PC towers have been laughing at this stupidity for several years. Its almost impossible to take these people seriously, until you realise that the idiots who make these ridiculous accusations are the same as those who are in fact in charge of security for the regions. They are also the same people who may one day have a finger on a nuclear button ......

 

The BBC report, while going over ground that this blog has covered (Vultures arrested by the Saudi's, and Sharks of the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in 2010 accused of being radio controlled Mossad agents by an Egyptian governor), it also added a few additional snippets on top of these gems.

By the way, much of this apparent stupidity and backwardness stems simply from the fact that to much of the third world since 1900AD, Trains, Cars, Radio, Telephones, Air-planes, TV's, Computers and now Smart-phones, have appeared from the Western (and Oriental) world, almost like magic .... they of course are ardent users of these wonders, but can't work out why these things all come from a world that they are often told is 'inferior' to their own.

Many of these cultures ceased to have enquiring scientific minds, as their religions took an ever firmer grip on their lives and thought patterns. This was not the case early in one culture, that was first exposed to Greek, Roman, and or Indian and Chinese scholarship, but when inevitably their development of science first butted up against their religion, it was the science and rationality that gave way - unlike for example in the West, where the dead hand of religious dogma had to slowly concede ground to science.

So now the general public, and many of the religious and political rulers of these cultures imagine that almost anything is possible by the rest of the world .... which is why, without blushing they are able to:

• Arrest a stork a couple of weeks ago in Egypt, on the suspicion of it carrying out espionage, after apparently mistaking its migration tag for spying equipment!
• And in in 2007 the Iranian army proudly arrested a team of 14 "spy squirrels" found near a nuclear enrichment plant (which of course isn't making a bomb, therefore has nothing to hide from the world). Iranian officials announced to the world that in another triumph for their security forces, they had succeeded in apprehending the suspects "before they were able to take any action". 

Nutty Nutkins - Super Spy

Remember, that ironically these people often also consider that their ways of life and cultures are superior in every way to the rest of the worlds, so they hang, burn or behead witches and fortune tellers, just to show how enlightened they are ...... they are also the fastest growing immigrant groups in Europe, so the Middle Ages could well be just a few decades away for the rest of us as well.  

 

Update: In 2016 Lebanon returned an Israeli vulture that had been arrested as a spy. While in 2019 Yemen arrested a Bulgarian vulture named Nelson .... sadly the thick Arabs who caught him have probably killed the poor creature.