Black on White Crime: The Pope's DOVE attacked by CROW

It's so uplifting, such a spectator delight, seeing white doves "freed" by The Pope...or is it?

It must be horrifying for children and animal lovers to see the beautiful doves released...only to be taken down by crows.

According to the ENPA, an animal rights group, ""Animals born in captivity, not being wild animals, aren't able to recognize predators as such and are thus incapable of fleeing from possible dangerous situations." And so it was, that when two doves were tossed from an open window at the Apostolic Palace on January 26th...both were attacked by predatory birds. Fortunately, the doves weren't instantly killed. They apparently managed to withstand the attacks and flew out of sight. Only to be ultimately pecked to death?

Religious rituals tend to be nutty. Think about the Orthodox Jewish assholes who know just the "right way" to slaughter a chicken...and also insist that the dead bird must be waved around and around in a particular way. Like, God is watching to see how some ugly in-born moron waves a dead fowl over his head?

The dove-tossing ritual began with Pope John Paul II. You can understand his good intention...the symbolic release of captive birds to give them freedom...and the image of the Dove of Peace flying over the land...then sitting on a window sill and shitting in the eye of some Italian moron looking up. Actually, the last time John Paul II tried to give Italy the bird, it was in 2005, on a cold January day...and the dove refused to fly off, preferring the warmth of the room it was in!

Ex-tourism minister Michela Brambilla told the Associated Press that the Pope (named after St. Francis of Assisi) might listen to those who object to this good-hearted but ultimately stupid ritual. "It is clear that traditions of many years reach a moment where they have to be reconsidered," she said.

Animal lovers might be sated if the doves (pigeons, actually) were captured in the wild, and then released back into the wild with only a few days detention. To keep these animals in a coop, and then literally fling them out into the world after having been hand-fed and coddled, is like handing them a death sentence. Then again, Americans think nothing of having a national holiday that revolves around slaughtering turkeys.