They’re naked, they’re Spanish, they’re lunatics
They had a lunatic convention in Madrid yesterday. They weren’t certifiable lunatics, of course, but they might as well have been. No matter what their mental state, it certainly made the media sit up and take notice.
One hundred or so senors y senoritas threw off their clothes and threw themselves on the ground in the Spanish capital to protest Canada’s annual seal hunt. We’re pretty sure there’s some sort of symbolism involved here, but we haven’t quite zeroed in on what it is.
The lunatics smeared themselves with a red liquid that represented the blood that’s spilled during the “massacre” (their word) of seals. Most of them were bare ass naked, but some of the more modest protestors wore red underwear.
“We want to sensitize people to the fact that animals are capable of feeling and suffering like us,” said Silvia Toval, “and to protest against the massacre of hundreds of thousands of seals which is about to begin in Canada.”
The seal hunt has