``[Daisy, Irish Bull pup] is highly protective
without being aggressive.  By the age of ten
months, she would, when someone approached with
possibly ill intent, look at them carefully as if
to say, ``May I help you?'' or, sometimes,
``That's far enough.''  This look was given without
a growl, raised lip or hackle; this is protectiveness
in its pure form.  She is a lady worthy of the
highest and most unstable diplomatic assignments.

``I do not mean that she is at war.  On the contrary,
she is a potential spoil of war.  She is a potential
corpse for a polician or a goon from an unregulated
``humane'' organization to bear aloft, proving his
or her devotion to - well, to animals, of course,
as well as people.  By the same inverse negative
glide that creates an active force, hostile to
life as understood from any image given to us to
study and cherish, such as a dog loping innocently
down the road, or a child, or a man steadfastly
loyal to an idea or a person, her gallantry becomes
an evil, evidence of a horrendous cruelty to
animals and people.

``One can be killed for keeping the knowledge of
the Irish Bull Terrier changing and vital, but the
enemy is blocked from understanding this knowledge
[because they cannot understand it].

``And one further note: people on both, or all
``sides'' of these wars believe and tell lies.
Lying is an option many have refused, even though
refusing seems to make life more dangerous.
In addition, there are almost as many dupes of lies
from all quarters who love the bull pups as there
are dupes of sundry enemies' lies.

``Peace consists first in freedom of speech, of
religion, and of interest - intellectual and
imaginative interest, that is.  Call it freedom
of the heart.  No freedom is possible without
freedom of thought, which is itself impossible
with a populace that is being spoon-fed lies.

``Peace is not peace unless it is active, vital,
full of risk, and, like learning, out of control.''

Vicki Hearne, _Common Knoweldge_ 8:1