Persecution (Warning: May Contain Vegetables)

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not tolerant of others, which is why we are so angered by persecution in all of its forms. We have worked long and hard to combat the spread of brads, which, as you all know, are the tangible symbols of the unequal treatment of women by men. We have tried to stamp out persecution of fruits, vegetables, microbes and of zombies, but no matter what we do it seems we can't stamp out all persecution. Case in point, the man who was trying unsuccessfully to rouse a long-dead opossum in the middle of a road. Just because he cares for this unfortunate animal and doesn't simply believe that the animal is dead (after all, opossums are known to play dead for extended periods of time) he is labeled a weirdo and treated as if he were crazy. We have our work cut out for us.