Posted on 08/02/2015 4:50:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Unless you live under a rock, there is no way in Hades that you have not heard of Cecil the Lion’s dreadful demise.
Matter of fact, there has been such an international uproar over his killing that Obama is now slated to do the eulogy at Cecil’s funeral. It’s also been reported that Michelle has already contacted Cecil’s pride to give them her and Barack's condolences. It’s true. Tell everyone.
Now, before I give you my two cents as a big game hunter on the Cecil situation, right before I sat down to bang out this screed my editor pointed out to me that she just posted on my entertainment site, RedHotChaCha.com, pics of two male, Cecil-looking-lions, catching and killing a magnificent kudu bull.
It was disgusting. How could lions team up on such a gorgeous antelope and be so mean? How could this happen? I’ve never beheld lions behaving like that in a movie. According to Disney and the like, lions, warthogs and various plains game animals sing “Hakuna Matata” together.
As you will see (if you clicked the link) the lions chased the kudu down, weaving in and out of vehicles, as car loads of animal lovers with their children watched in horror as The Ghost and The Darkness broke the noble kudu bull’s neck and then commenced to crunch and munch on it in front of them like Larry The Cable Guy would a platter of nachos at a Hooter’s Macho Nacho Blow Out.
It was so sad, folks. It almost made me renounce my religion. I felt led to start a Twitter hashtag campaign I titled #KuduLivesMatter in homage to the murdered bull. It also made me say to my self, “Self, I wonder if the sweet, tender, lovable and damn near human-like lion that we call ‘Cecil' ever scared, bit and/or ultimately murdered, in a grueling and truly terrifying fashion, the food he masticated upon?” Surely not, because Cecil is our official Saint Hello Kitty and he would never ever harm or hunt an animal down like he was hunted, would he? Huh?
Being an inquiring mind I wanted to know if lions' chasing down game, scaring the crap out of it and then viciously killing it is common practice amongst the Panthera Leo's; and boy, oh boy … did I land on a stack of vicious videos of lions doing some uber-nasty shenanigans to their fellow four footed fauna.
Some PETA reps would call what the lions did “evil“ because it sure as heck wasn’t an ethical way to treat an animal. Nature is a serial killer. Fo’ real, y'all.
Befuddled, I continue to investigate further and watched several other videos of lions' eating cape buffalo calves, cows and older bulls; blue wildebeests and helpless zebras; some were actually still alive. Hello! That ain’t right. I’ve never seen that bloody display on Nickelodeon or Saved By The Bell re-runs. How can this be? Because … apparently … it be. And it be bloody, filled with suffering, screams and death bellows all doled out to innocent, beautiful animals, via some dead-ringers of Cecil The Lion. Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?
Speaking of being not nice, my buddy Shaun sent me a link to man-eating lions actually killing black Zimbabweans around Lake Kariba. That was heinous. I thought #BlackLivesMatter? Apparently not to lions or Twitterers because I haven’t heard squat from them regarding these jacked up fatal maulings. We should ban lions because they’re vicious to the animal kingdom and to blacks.
Ok, I’ll stop being a cheeky douche in pointing out how daft the PETA types are and give you what I really think about the Cecil scenario.
This is what I’ve been able to deduce from true sources who are “in the know” and not some Facebook warrior going hashtag nuts with the Cecil movement while also viewing fetish porn.
Check it out…
According to my sources, professional hunters with boots on the ground in Zim, it looks like the professional hunter and the black Zimbabwean landowner did not have a lion on quota and therefore the taking of Cecil, or any lion for that matter, on the Antoinette farm that bordered The Hwange National Park was illegal meaning … he poached it. And hunters, especially, hate poachers. I. Mean. Hate,
So, did Palmer know? Heck if I know. That said, the ultimate onus is on the professional hunter and the landowner. If, in fact, Cecil was poached then the PH and the land-owner should be summarily crapped on to the fullest extent of the law because what they did was illegal and it gives true hunters a bad name.
However, if we find out, as the investigation unfolds, that the landowner, PH and the hunter did not shoot Cecil illegally then I think they're due a massive apology from Matt Lauer, Jimmy Kimmel and all the other Twitter # warriors for ruining their reputations before waiting for all the facts to come out.
Finally, if one wants to really get pissy, they should seek to overthrow Zim’s President Robert Mugabe because that son-of-a-bitch, along with his generals and ministers, have truly decimated Zimbabwe's wildlife with his brutal and greedy, iron fist.
what if like Barack Obama, Cecil left the reservation?
It won’t make any difference, the narrative has already been established and the Dentist, for all practical purposes, destroyed.
#FactsDon’tMatter
#TheNarrativeIsEverything
Poor dentist, he paid thousands to dozens of corrupt people to go hunt illegally not giving a sh@# about the laws of the country he went to hunt.
F the Dentist, F the narrative, F Zimbabwe.
Cecil's demise has brought about one small benefit. In my classes, I have a discussion where I present to my students the lives of Patrick Tillman and Robert Mugabe. This summer term has been the first where the universal reaction of the class has not been "who the [expletive] is Robert Mugabe?": they knew him as the guy who took care of Cecil.
P.S. The purpose of the assignment is essentially to mess with their brains. I begin by pointing out that Tillman was scrupulously ethical, gave up everything for his country, and died from friendly fire at 27, while Mugabe has been scrupulously unethical, and at 91 has lived a very long, very successful, very happy life. I then ask the students whom they would rather be. Everyone says Tillman. Then I point out that Tillman was an atheist which means (if Christianity is correct, see tagline) he is not only dead but in eternal hell, while Mugabe is a practicing Catholic, meaning if he's been keeping up with his confessions and gets extreme unction, he not only will have had a wonderful life but (perhaps after some time in Purgatory, I will allow my Catholic friends to sort that out) will obtain eternal bliss in heaven. I then ask the students again, based on the new information, whom they would rather be, at which point I get to sit back and enjoy the rest of the discussion.
And what if the non-poacher turns out to be a non RICH AMERICAN? Heads exploding across the globe.
Cecil was not poached...BBQ’d
All the obvious BS to come out of this non story certainly throws it all into question.
Broiled lion is so much better than poached lion.
—bflr—
Poor dentist, he paid thousands to dozens of corrupt people to go hunt illegally not giving a sh@# about the laws of the country he went to hunt.
F the Dentist, F the narrative, F Zimbabwe.
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Has this been published somewhere half-way reliable? The last I read he paid $55,000 to two well-known licensed hunting guides to go on a licensed hunt.
Or is this very veiled sarcasm?
about the laws of the country he went to hunt.....Zim hasn’t had laws since it was de-colonized. Except “ PAY ME!’ Lions are a scourge on the people, as witnessed by the article yesterday where the people of Zim just couldn’t believe white people gave a shiite about about it, never heard of Cecil and said “Another damned lion dead? Meh.”
Facts don’t matter. Feelings do.
Still trying to get all the facts on this. What does Caitlyn Jenner have to say about it?
What a waste of time doing that research. It is common knowledge that lions get their meat from the same place everybody else does: The meat section of the grocery store.
Lions are very cute, adorable and huggable just like our indoor kitty cats are.
Even Bible pictures show a lion laying next to a lamb. Lions are sweet and docile.
Meanwhile, obama eats dog meat.
I am all for hunting most hunters are the best stewards of the forest really caring about nature. This guy is not one of them this is a trophy hunter only in it to show what a big prick he is....this is not the first time he has been accused of poaching. there is a big difference between someone who hunts dear ad Elk to that of someone who goes after a endangered species.
There’s still the issue that the animal was tagged and not reported. You’re supposed to report it to the authorities if you’ve killed a tagged animal there, irregardless of whatever property you shot it on. They didn’t just ignore that, the guide admits that after they found out it was a tagged animal, the decision was made to actively cover that up.
This dentist has gotten in trouble before and previously had his license suspended for a year. No sympathy here.
Oh,no,you didn’t! WhiteRhodesianLivesdon’tMatter!
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