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Through soulful eyes we see ourselves these creatures sad and splendid. For though they be confined to bars. Flesh bodies crushed, tormented. Their spirits burn with freedom's fight. Mad, somewhat demented, like the rusting strands of mental twine that hold their fate suspended. Cruelty is an irony, a stage for man, to play his hand in wickedness or wonder. After a long ordeal this Asiatic black bear in China will soon be free. The bear had a catheter implanted in its gall bladder to drain bile, which was sold dried in Asia to treat maladies like liver disease. "These bears have suffered the most terrible physical and mental impacts " says Jill Robinson of the Animals Asia Foundation. Last year AAF signed an agreement with the Chinese government to release 500 bears and over the next 20 years phase out its 247 "Bear farms" until then, about 6,500 bears remain caged in such facilities.