Justice for Peanut the squirrel and Fred the raccoon!
The two furry victims, beloved by online viewers, were left without mercy after the state Department of Environmental Protection raided the home of their owners, Mark and Danelia Longo of Pine City. He was also euthanized.
DEC initially argued that euthanasia was necessary. Panicked, Peanut chomped on the staff member's fingers during the hours-long attack, insisting that a rabies test required decapitation.
But the agency has clearly turned its tail, uh. story, To be free from loud and swift public backlash.
That explanation has now been proven to be a fabrication. On Tuesday, the Post reported that DEC was already planning to fire poor P'Nut and Fred. in front Raid.
So the agency has nothing better to do than send 10 agents to track down a creature that resembles a Disney supporting character? Is this what hard-working New Yorkers want their tax dollars spent on?
In fact, the state is nervous about the whole incident. The DEC gave Post reporters a tough time with easily accessible public information, such as rabies test results, and Governor Hochul's office declined multiple requests for comment.
Spoiler: When the Post finally learns the results (reports from the county, do not have DEC), P'Nut and Fred were found to be free of rabies. It wasn't a danger to DEC's big, tough employees or anyone else to begin with.
So the only violent characters here were state thugs who broke into a house with the intention of brutally killing two beloved pets, and then lied about it.
Peanut and Fred's deaths are a tragedy for animal lovers around the world, but the state's dishonest avoidance and cover-up is the real scandal.
That is exactly the kind of behavior one would expect from a bureaucrat. They overreact, cause confusion, and then rush to cover it up.
They usually ignore this issue. Will Congress investigate this outrageous act?
If the Peanuts murderers are acquitted, count it just another price to pay for being a one-party state in New York.
