A good parable, but it leaves out a few elements of the story.
Like the chief sheep who denounces sheep with teeth and claws but keeps a few of them around as a bodyguard for himself, alone. Like chief sheep Bloombaaaaahberg. Or Rosie OBaaaaahnnell.
I don't know which is worse. The hypocritical chief sheep or the herd that refuses to see the hypocrisy.
There is also the time of the flood when the wolves ran among the herd in great numbers and the chief sheep Ray Naaaaaaahgin demanded the concealed teeth and claws be taken away from the sheep with teeth and claws. He then lied about taking them away. When it was proven that he'd done it and was ordered to return them he still refused to obey the ruling.
I don't know which is worse. The lying chief sheep or the herd that voted to put him back into office when he was a proven liar and disobeyed the court.