Hi Ron & All,

> The best
> course of action was the one that was taken.
>

Maybe, maybe not. I bet the bees would whole heartily disagree with you,
just as I do.  The bees were not given the opportunity to defend them selves
from the bad kids or the tyrants that killed them.


>  The "bad" bees were
> destroyed.

No, the kids were bad and the bees were made example of instead of the kids.
The kids probably still have no idea how bad they were. The "bad" bees were
only defending themselves and only being themselves and the kids were being
themselves and were bad kids. Maybe there should be laws about disturbing
feral honey bees. Oh well, I guess nature has no chance or place with Man
Kind. c]:~)> Seems the bad in this society never gets just punishment.

> If you were to have taken the "save the bees" approach,
> albeit for good reasons, you could have left the impression that the
> bees are more important than public safety.
>

This might well be true. If there were an unbiased official who could have
justifiable authority to determine the correct course of action the bees may
have had rights to be themselves and live in a location other than where
they were killed.


 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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