Parable of the Chickens and the Fox's

Their once lived a bunch of chickens out in the far yonder who were in need of security to keep them safe and secure. So, one day the head chicken went into town and went to a contractor who dealt with security work. Mr. Chicken walked all proud into the contractor's office, and said, "We need some security guards to protect us and keep us safe. Do you have any who would be willing to protect our residence and keep us safe? We will pay them with some of the eggs we produce." The Security Contractor said to Mr. Chicken, "We do have some who would be willing to do this for you, but you will need to give up some of your liberties for us to do this." Mr. Chicken thought this was kind of odd, but a deal was worked out and a security contract signed wherein the Chickens would have security around the clock.

The security contractor happened to be friends with some in town who did security work and who did it at a reasonable price. Since he needed security guards for this new contract, he went to this group and asked if they would be willing to protect the chickens. This group, who happened to be foxes, told the Security Contractor, "Why yes we would be more than willing to protect the chickens because they live right in the same vicinity as our favorite fast food restaurant." The Security Contractor thought that to be an ideal situation so a deal was struck wherein the Foxes would guard the Chickens.

The work started and the Foxes started guarding the chickens. There were some stipulations on the agreement though; one of these was that the Chickens could never see who it was that was really guarding them.

Well some time went by, and the Chickens lives starting CHANGING for the worse. Chickens started disappearing, and the Foxes started placing heavy restrictions on the chickens’ lives. Foxes started breaking in through the supposed Fox security presence and wreaking havoc. To compensate for this, the Security team decided they needed more eggs from the chickens to continue to keep them safe. The Chickens gladly agreed and they began to pay more and more, but the only problem is that it seemed their problems only seemed to get worse. Their were more and more attacks and with each attack, the Security team would come back and tell the chickens they were going to have to give up more and more of their rights and pay more so that they would be protected. Each time the Chickens reluctantly agreed to do so and yet their problems continued to get worse and the restrictions placed on the chickens began to make less and less sense.

A year later, after the contract was signed, there were no more Chickens left at the farm. They had "mysteriously" all disappeared. The fast food restaurant frequented by the foxes however was doing very well with lots of food for all.

(By the way, we are not the foxes, we are the chickens)