People say cockroaches are filthy and spread diseases, then, without pause for thought, fumigate frenziedly, even though Chinese cuisine, which is older than ours, values them for the delicacy of their flavour - in a truly oriental expression of respect, I must say.

Be which as it may, people as a matter of course condemn pigeons out of hand as rats of the air and rave that they should be exterminated. Folks actually shoot pheasants and partridges to death just because they are flying and to claim that they can shoot, and beautiful harmless deer just because they are there. Some races even include the little song-birds. For shame. Others kill furry animals because they are led to think they will look better in their skins than the animals did, and bigger beasts just to stick their heads on the wall for them to posture proudly in front of them for the social kudos accorded by idiots.

While I must admit I never welcome mosquitoes whining around my ears in the dark, that is a personal matter between them and me. There is risk involved. The choice is theirs. However, I do think that the generalised reaction against the rest of our fellow-inhabitants of this our only planet home is going a bit far.

For instance, you don't catch colds or pneumonia from cockroaches, or leprosy or smallpox from birds - nor even 'flu until the recent hysterical panic about the few isolated transfers of bird-flu. You don't contract cancer from flies, do you? What newt ever drove anyone to madness or suicide? Name me the pig or frog that ever led your daughter to prostitution or your son to violent crime. What did any elephant do to you that you should want his eye-teeth for billiard-balls or piano keys?

You don't catch myxomatosis from rabbits, do you, though the bunnies have every reason to complain about the humans infecting them, just as every bug and microbe can feel rightly aggrieved about being pesticided off the planet just for breathing.

Mice and rats are not responsible for the thousands slaughtered annually on our roads in the interest of our buying and burning the gas we are also now obliged to war over. Neither fox nor gazelle makes and sells arms for others to use on strategic orders to murder others by the million. The list goes on . . .

Just for once, think about this. When you kill a living being of any kind you are irrevocably cutting and obliterating forevermore a life-line that previously extended back unbroken for three thousand million years. And you just try reconstituting the wreckage of what you killed. You can't. Ever.

I ask you, what is more beautiful or inoffensive than a tree? Yet there are too many presumably family-loving humans who will torch them by the billion, whole territories of them, for cash and for 'kicks'. That sure takes some guts to attack them trees, eh? Another triumph for brave humanity.

When you think about it, the human is not the best thing that ever happened to the planet, is it? Hell, some elements of the human race even prey on the rest of its own kind, selling them every kind of harmful thing or substance in excess just for the sake of receiving the fiction of money - or fundamentally even for malicious spite they bear us. However, the rest of theirs say nothing and don't deny it. So that must be our imagination, right?

No, so far as the planet is concerned, the human is definitely not a very good idea. For the sake of garnering ever more of the same fictional loot, some even deliberately and systematically - for religious reasons, they say, sure - have all the other idiot humans working themselves into the ground for them on a global scale, and the excess energy involved in all the unnecessary work is overheating our entire sole and only planet, but, with their carefully deadened mentalities, much anyone cares, for all they ever do about stopping it.

Can you imagine any other species dumb enough that it would decline to thwart the ambitions of a few perverts of its kind to trash a planet in pursuit of the malformed Siamese-twin illusions of coin and domination?

Every newt, frog and cockroach knows: you don't trust others that want to eliminate you, even when they smile, whisper mantras of unexplained past persecution at you and give you beads: no you do not! But humans . . .? Between you and me, Earnest Reader, I think almost the entire human race went quietly mad five thousand years ago with the invention of money.

So to regain our sanity, firstly, we humans should learn to respect the planet and its other inhabitants. Therefore I suggest it would be a good idea if the humans demonstrated good faith and started by respecting other humans. To this end it has to be made a punishable offence to sell others prejudicial things such as tobacco and drugs and weapons and, worst of all, to inflict on them the perverting delusion of the value of cash, which then spawns and fosters all the other vices and aberrations.

Other nations are not our enemies. Our real enemies are and always have been just a few of our own politicians and the vermin who for their own agenda motivate them to war and other evils.

The all-too-evident criminal distortion of all our administrations via the corruption of all our leaders has to be recognised and punished as the crime it really is. Specifically, it has to be made a capital offence to bribe and blackmail our leaders to submit the rest of us to the merciless hands of the financiers so that we all - as we do - have to overwork for them and thus damage the planet and all its other inhabitants.

Er - but doesn't that mean that we have to start with the Rothschilds and work downwards via the Bilderbergers and all our 'presidents', 'kings', corrupt political systems and distorting toady media?

Yes, that's right, it does.

Then start and let's get working.