Posted on 11/22/2013 9:06:16 AM PST by Kaslin
Hunting show hostess Melissa Bachman recently shot a lion in Africa, posted the triumphant picture on Facebook and now ABC (among many other enlightened parties) are all over her. An ABC World News segment shows New York-based Lana Zak petting a tame and cuddly cub on location in a South African zoo, while purring that: “lions like these are beloved in Africa.”
Maybe by some of Zak’s yuppie counterparts in places like Capetown and Nairobi. But not by Africans who live among wild ones. Lions are certainly beloved in Hollywood, the Upper East Side, Georgetown, etc. It’s a different story in the African bush.
Ask hunters who’ve been on Safari what happens when they whack out a lion or leopard or elephant. Sure, in Hollywood, Manhattan, London and Paris they moan and wail. But in the immediate vicinity of this form of pest-control the locals REJOICE! There’s a "Lion Dance" a "Leopard Dance" an "Elephant Dance." “Let’s celebrate!” cheer the locals. “A pest is dead!”
Go ahead and call them crazy because they rejoice when a menace to their livelihood and lives is gone. We wouldn’t understand. We only rejoice like that when our team scores a touch down.
Imagine the bug-spray man coming to your house: "Tell ya what," he says. "I’ll give ya 100 bucks for every roach I kill, $200 for any rats and a cool 500 semolions for a whack at the raccoon messing up your attic."
You’d be dancing the Watusi too. And the The Twist and The Hustle and The Bump and the Boot-Scootin’ Boogie. You’d also make sure to have a few of these creatures around for his next visit.
Turns out that those yahoo hunters who visit Africa from flyover America (Bachman hails from Minnesota) are much more “culturally sensitive” than most Greenies on a Starbucks counter in Manhattan or Georgetown. Here’s Paul Funston of South Africa’s Endangered Wildlife Trust: "The real solution to preserving lions lies in giving the local people incentives to tolerate lions on their land."
“To tolerate,” got that, Greenies-Weenies? In brief, given their fondness for the flesh of African natives’ cattle (and that of the natives themselves) Mr Funston infers that, among rural Africans, lions are normally considered intolerable. But this comes from a person actually familiar with the views of rural Africans. (i.e. not the type of person ABC saw fit to showcase on their show.)
And you’d be amazed at the tolerance the $20 to $100,000 (what it costs a tourist hunter in total fees to shoot an African Lion) generates in a country like Tanzania where annual per-capita income runs around $500.
"Welcome Mr Bwana hunter! I know of a real BIG Simba, sir (or madam!) Let me lead to him, most gracious Bwana hunter sir!" Far from being "threatened" (as a whole) by legal foreign hunters lions have, in these “yahoos” and “troglodytes,” their greatest champions.
In 2001 Botswana banned sport hunting for lions. In 2002 "animal-control" officers in Botswana killed more lions (because of cattle and human depredations) than sport hunters had killed the year before — and those had brought in a cool $30--50,000 in foreign exchange each from Melissa Bachman-type hunters.
In California, where animal rightists got cougar hunting banned in 1990, government "animal-control officers"(supported by hunter license fees) have killed more "problem" cougars than hunters themselves ever killed when they were allowed to hunt. And this was apparently fine with the same greenies who lobbied to end cougar hunting.
In brief, for humans to thrive a certain number of animals must die. They’ll either be killed by people like Melissa Bachman with smiles on their face or by government drones punching a clock and frowning. Either way the animals are just as dead. Hunters will pay out the wazoo for the privilege and take out the beast in a blaze of glory, then honor his memory with a dinner party or rug. The government performs a sordid (and expensive to taxpayers) execution then dumps them in a mass grave, like Fidel or Che Guevara’s execution victims.
"Wealthy trophy hunters, many from out of state, will pay for the pleasure of shooting a lion so they can hang mountain lions over their mantelpieces." Thus ran, word for word, the “scientifically- based” campaign to ban cougar hunting in California backed by the Sierra Club.
So now more "problem" (eating Californians' pets, and starting on the Californians themselves) lions are killed in California by frowning (taxpayer- and hunting license fee-salaried) wildlife officers than were killed previously by (tax-and hunting license-paying) hunters! But at least none get hung over a mantelpiece. Instead, they're dumped in an incinerator. Yippee! Happy now, Greenies? "The Puritan hates fox-hunting,not because it brings pain to the fox, but because it brings pleasure to the hunter." "Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be enjoying himself."
- Lord McCauley
- H.L. Mencken
“Well Christians did sacrifice goats for thousands of years for the purpose of a tonement”
Jews did that in biblical times. But after Jesus shed His blood as the Lamb of God, animal offerings were way out of favor.
You are thinking of the Jews. The Lord Jesus Christ made atonement by His blood. Once and forever. Done. He is both High Priest AND He was our ransom sacrifice.
Hebrews 7:26-27 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:11-12 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
I.e., No goat sacrifices for Christians. The blood sacrifice was made once and forever at Calvary.
He ascended on high, led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men...
See your own tagline. Plus, lions are at the top of the food chain. If humans don't cull them, the population gets out of control. Usually these places have rules for age, size etc. It is fairly well regulated.
I assume you are not a hunter.
You're thinking Michelle Bachman. This is Melissa Bachman. Not the same person.
Join the liberal, you’ll fit right in.
“I assume you are not a hunter.”
Fishing is more my thing. But I’m not some PETA loon either. And I don’t get freak out by hunting; there are plenty in my neck of the woods. Culling is a good reason, and I hadn’t thought of that. Where I am (PA) I wish the deer season was much longer than it is. There are so many of them that they’re a menace to drivers (I know from sad experience). And there are no wolves or cougars hunting them, so someone has to.
Thanks. You said it better. One and done, as they say.
Wild animals are good no matter what, and anyone killing them is evil no matter what.
My area has been without (non human) dangerous predators for a couple hundred years, but now we have coyote. People’s pets are disappearing, and I see and hear of coyote strolling around with no fear of people. A toddler is going to get killed, then there will be a change. It used to be there was a culture of farmers and “poachers” that took out these problem animals, modifying their collective behavior by eliminating the more aggressive ones. There are no more farmers, and poaching is right up their with terrorism. Sorry for the family of the inevitable toddler victim, but there is nothing I can do to help these people.
Conservation reasons? Too many lions on the available land? She had 60k and there isn't a lion shortage? The villagers did eat it. I wonder if you'd have the same objections if lions were a part of your daily life. While you contemplate your first two objections, the lion will have completed its work.
What work? Eating some animal that his lionesses killed. Sleeping most of the day? Like I said before, if the lions needed culling, that was a valid reason. Calm down.
I think that if the toddler of a Lib were killed by a coyote, the Lib might, just might, develop a different attitude about coyote control. But it would take that degree of reality for reality to sink in.
Even in liberal states like Cali, it’s pretty much open season on Wiley and his friends:
California
Season? Coyotes are defined as nongame mammals and may be hunted throughout the year.
Hunting License? A California hunting license is required.
Daily Limit? No.
Night Hunting and/or Spotlighting allowed? Lights may be used but there are location specific regulations regarding light use, lighting type, locations, night hunting and vehicle use in California. Contact the California Department of Fish and Game for exact regulations and locations.
Big problem with coyotes is that they tend to mate with feral dogs. The resulting “coydogs” are often bigger than coyotes, and have no fear of humans, as they’re part domestic dog. A bad mix.
Its ok when the government kills things. Lions, tigers, wolves, or conservatives...er people.
> You’re thinking Michelle Bachman. This is Melissa Bachman. Not the same person.
My bad. Relative?
You know what I meant...
But the earlier blood sacrifices were commanded and instituted by God to teach the point that only a blood sacrifice is adequate. That in turn pointed to the ultimate once for all sacrifice by Christ. God is the same yesterday today and forever.
No, he was just trying to understand.
I remember when the alphabet networks all had hunting and fishing shows on them back in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Then, in the 1970s,the anti-hunting-anti-gun groups started to scream.
You can get a pretty good price on winter pelts so long as there isnt too big of a hole in the coyote, and yes the coydogs are becoming a problem in some urban areas mostly in southern Cali.
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