Tilikum has gone home

In his last days, Tilly was barely moving

He
remained a float in a semi-comatose state behind the grid of his
medical pool, at the back of the show pools. He watched the others
dance to the thunderous music that had twisted his skull for
twenty-four years. Never again would he come back on stage. Never
again would he obey. He was going away and we can imagine that, far
from being afraid, this idea soothed him.

The
drugs blurred his mind, the fever made him shudder. Sometimes the
young Kayla came out of the fog and held him on the other side of the
bars. Or it was Trua, his grandson, or little Unna … No, his
daughter was dead, he could not remember when. He confused them all
now. But he was happy that we cared about him. He felt death and it
did not matter.

Then
he plunged back into his waking dream and saw before him the vast
open seas of Iceland and the fjords of his childhood. Far over
there, on the edge of the horizon, his mother called out to him
louder and louder, the piercing eerie cry of the orcas to call those
who are far away. And he was swimming towards her.

SeaWorld will do everything to clear Tilly’s memory

The
company will continue to tell us that thirty-six years is very old
for an orca, and that everything has been done to treat him at best.
But this time, it will not work anymore. People know. And if they
know, it’s thanks to Tilikum. The whole world knows today the
atrocious fate of this little orca snatched from his mother, locked
in the dark with two mad females, who went mad and who killed three
times before being lobotomized by drugs. They know that pneumonias,
such as ulcers or “bowel twists,” are diseases directly
related to captivity. Stress, hunger, fear causes a massive immune
system failure among these giants in jars, opening the door to all
types of infection. They know the lies of this industry. In no case,
ever, anywhere, can a cetacean live happily in slavery.

Anyway, no one is listening to what SeaWorld is saying

The
group of amusement parks can publish all the videos they want, pay
for the most expensive advertising campaigns, for them it’s over. The
mask has fallen off and the king is naked. Through the magic of the
movie Blackfish, Tilly revealed everything about this hell of
sadness, boredom and shame that he suffered like all captive orcas.
He showed us that slaves can revolt and turn into killer orcas, who
can kill humans, a species that exists only in pools.

Keiko was the first orca whose fate moved the public thanks to the movie Free Willy

His
tragic death in the wild was a windfall to SeaWorld and its clone
companies, who then repeated in a loop that freedom was killing
orca’s. But it’s Tilly who opened the eyes of the world to the true
face of captivity. And SeaWorld will be his fourth victim.

Beyond
his death, the powerful memory of Tilikum will continue to guide us
towards this goal that we will reach: free all orcas from their
concrete pits!