Nsala Malongo everyone well I was trying to absorb that past weekend of the Pantheacon 2013 where I spoke to a receptive audience and fantastic group of panelists then I wake up to reality. So the ARMS advocate the “Yuppie rambo” CBS decides to give him a plug about animal cruelty and the promos show nganga’s and orisha tureens and it is promoted as we are the indirect problems of a horse meat consuming community. Why does not he advocate KFC and the genetical monsters they create for human consumption? Well let’s get back to the point at hand. We are protected under the law for the right to sacrifice and dispose properly of livestock poultry and other meat of consumption. When an ignorant individual like Richard Couto starts becoming the Martyr for livestock that legally can be sold and used for consumption what will happen to the communities of people who like the taste of fresh animals and not processed meats in the supermarket? What will happen to the religious organizations that have sacrificial offerings like muslims and the jewish population? Those animals that are kosher and Halaal well santeros and paleros have their strict ritual forms of sacrifice and butchering that would amaze even the most expert butcher. I understand the point of wanting to save animals that they are treated in a Humane way. Transported in cages handled like animals and not treated like an old pair of shoes maybe stopping the whole illegal horse meat trade. But when you start categorizing religious groups like Palero’s and Santero’s and attacking us for illegal activities then the scope has to be put on you and your inability to understand the culture and practices of both groups. Many whom are into the ethical value of animals. Your arch nemesis Oba Pichardo who is a lawyer has been very outspoken towards you. We have a lot of Professional people police officers, firefighters, teachers, psychiatrists, artists, singers, activists the list goes on and on. Most who are tax payers and do not have a blemish on their records and you have put us under the scope of religious fanaticism where we are being branded as killing dogs and livestock which is so far from the truth. Not all of us can be put under the same umbrella.
This is taken from the Religious ritual exemptions” In 1958, Congress passed the Humane Slaughter Act, 2(the Humane Slaughter Act or the Act), thereby implementing a public policy that the slaughtering of livestock be carried out by humane methods only. 3 Specifically the Act required that animals be made unconscious prior to slaughter. 4 The new rule conflicted with the requirements of Jewish dietary law that the animal be conscious when slaughtered .’ Thus, the Act accommodated this requirement by, on the one hand, listing the Jewish of slaughter as humane,and on the other,by exempting ritual slaughter from the specifications of the Act. 6.The inconsistency resulted from the fact that while the ritual method of slaughter was humane, it necessarily required a method of restraint by which fully conscious ani-mals are shackled by a rear leg and hoisted off the floor to await slaughter. In the city of Hialeah, Florida, city ordinances prohibit cruelty to animals.7 No exemption accommodates the Santeria religion whose religious ceremonies involve animal sacrifice. Members of the Santeria Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye are challenging the ordinance on the grounds that it infringes on their free exercise rights under the first amendment of the United States Constitution.
In Palo Mayombe we use this constitutional right so we can perform our ceremonies we do not have to apologize for our beliefs and what this type of propaganda by CBS Miami and Richard Cuoto is and actual Media coup to start the new Satanic Panic era in 2013. We need to start a group to start combatting this bad media or we will be persecuted by the christian authorities of this machine we call the United States of America. I want to practice my religion without repercussions or fear of my own government due to lack of using misinformation and hatred and all out profiling against all religions especially paleros and santeros. Blessings all… Tata Musitu