Pedomazema 1 & 2

'Pedomazema 1' - 1986                                                                                                                                                        snake

'Pedomazema 2' - 1986                                                                                                                                                      snake

Bowhunters truly dislike poachers.  Poachers will cheat to kill a deer, going outside the rules of fair-chase which are written by local lawmakers for their departments of conservation.  Poachers are, simply put, an arrogant bunch, completely disregarding the laws and regulations of a higher authority and acting on their own selfish desires.

While out photographing, I came upon the man in the pieces titled Pedomazema 1 & 2. He was sitting on the side of the road waiting for a ride and allowed me to take his picture. As I was photographing, he began to tell me of his brother, who was taken by the communists during the Greek civil war in the late 1940’s. The operation was called ‘to pedomazema’ or ‘the gathering of children’. During this operation, children were taken from families …voluntarily or involuntarily. They were removed to nations behind the Soviet iron curtain (such as Romania, where this man’s brother was taken) and re-educated as young communists, never to return home again. This man wept, as he told me that he hadn’t seen his brother since he was scooped up those many years ago.

Communists (international socialists) or their left wing cousins…fascists (national socialists) are no more than poachers. They invent their own laws of nature to fulfill their ‘deer tags’ … or ideologies.