Thanks for the voice of reason within this Feast in Time of Plague.
Here's my "orwellian" view at the Durban II. It's a fable from my new book "FablePolitik: Politically Incorrect Wisdom of the Wild for the XXI Century".
I'd like your opinion, if possible.

THE BEAVER IN THE COURT
By Anatoly Tsaliovich

When judges are unfair,
Then Justice is the victim in despair.
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Hard working Beaver built his lodging in the wood:
A den from sticks and mud, amidst the river,
To house and protect his kits and store food
For winter, when it comes with cold and quiver.
The family is glad, enjoys its luck;
Yet nobody knows when luck
gets stalled in muck.
Soon, comes a legal summons from the Court
Of Forest Justice, Truth, and Virtue,
of a sort:
Defendant Beaver is to face three judges at the chair,
All with credentials as erudite and fair:
— Judge Wolf has punished suspects in the herds,
— Judge Fox was praised for loyalty to birds,
— Judge Ass compressed all Laws in two bellows.
You don’t believe of course those nasty fellows
Who spread ill gossip in the press and in the street
That Wolf has punished not for justice
but for meat,
That Fox was neither kind nor nice,
but rather sly
And loved the chicken just as stew or fry,
And that the only sounds Ass knew
were “E-e” and “A-a”,
Which he would generously bellow night and day
To everyone’s dismay?

In court, the plaintiffs Rat and Skunk
joined measly Roaches
To claim that Beaver’s den encroaches
On their land, obscuring holy sights,
Producing hardships, and infringing civil rights.
“Indeed, defendant,” — stated Rat and raised his tail, —
“Refused to sell his den to pay my bail
When I was thrown in jail
For stealing and for posing sanitary danger.”
Then Skunk claimed Beaver’s fence along the way
Would block the flow of his spray
Intended to convey
Love to a friend and to a stranger.
And little poor Cockroaches complained
That they tried very hard but never gained
The access to the Beaver’s den
they planned to squatter,
Since evil owner built the entrance under water!
In short,
The plaintiffs asked the Honorable Court
To read the gripes in the submitted cavil list
And order criminal to cease and to desist.
“For Goodness sake, “ — says Beaver, — “No disregard
Intended,
but I labored hard
To build my lodge and dam and save the food supply,
While plaintiffs stole and robbed,
but work they didn’t try.
And with respect to stuff the skunk would douse,
Who in the world might like this smell in-house?
And so I pray….”

Here Judges interrupted Beaver’s speech,
Because each
Had special and important reasons for the breach:
Rapacious Wolf craved Beaver’s meat as prey,
Fox wished for Beaver’s lodge as rental income stay,
And Ass dreamed of a hat from Beaver’s fur, — “Ee-Aa.”

No wonder, Fair and Balanced rule came with a slam:
“TO EXECUTE THE BEAVER,
SEIZE HIS LODGE, AND RAZE THE DAM.”
As for the plaintiffs, they were granted by decree
The right to rent from Fox the lodging,
for a fee.

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Thus Justice triumphed and the fairness could rejoice.
“Vivat!” — the plaintiffs bawled in one exalted voice;
“Gott ist mit uns,” — prayed Legal Bar;
“Ee - Aa,” — howled happy Ass, —“Les Court Akhbar!”