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Homero

Disappeared = Dead

Lessons & Reflections from the National Butterfly Center

Homero Gomez Gonzalez, Monarch conservation educator and activist, disappeared on January 13, 2020.

Disappeared?  As in magically vanished? 

NO.

“Disappeared” is a soft, stupid, sanitized way of saying he was abducted and murdered. This sterile word for a bloody crime is designed to prevent righteous indignation and hard-core realization that people working to protect and preserve our planet—something we should ALL work toward—are targeted, taken and executed.

In 2018, at least 164 environmental activists were murdered because they stood up and spoke out for sea turtles, polar bears, their river/safe drinking water, and yes, butterflies.

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Gray Cracker Craig Lipski resized

A Natural Education

Lessons & Reflections from the National Butterfly Center

Friday a man walked up to me, hand extended, and introduced himself. He said he was a “good Christian from North Dakota,” and "don't hold me [accountable] with those people,” i.e. his criminal business associates who have launched a smear campaign against me, personally, the National Butterfly Center and the North American Butterfly Association.

As I stood with my eldest son and Fr. Roy Snipes, who is also a target of their wicked campaign, two things came to mind:

First, a lion never has to tell anyone he’s a lion. While humans are capable of artifice and deceit, it is easy to discern who and what a person is by observing their behavior. It’s the same in the wild. For example, a butterfly may employ camouflage in the open in an attempt to conceal their true identity, but as soon as they take flight there is no mistaking, “Flutterby!” Similarly, a rattlesnake may or may not declare itself as such, but look carefully; you cannot mistake what it is.  

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