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Cecil the lion and some inconvenient truths for North Americans raised on a Disney diet 1
Calgary Sun ^ | 08/02/2015 | Ian Robinson

Posted on 08/02/2015 12:29:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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1 posted on 08/02/2015 12:29:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Slings and Arrows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJ9jZ-_fFc

2 posted on 08/02/2015 12:34:16 PM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh good grief.

I do not believe for one iota that this seasoned big game hunter just thought this was another “legal hunt”.

Who wrote this article? A defense atty? Talk about something not passing the infamous “laugh test”.


3 posted on 08/02/2015 12:37:31 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: RIghtwardHo

Why not?


4 posted on 08/02/2015 12:42:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree with everything in this article and thought that FR had turned into the Sierra Club for awhile. The lion was old and too many city folk here on FR don’t know squat about hunting.


5 posted on 08/02/2015 12:42:51 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t like the fact that the guy baited the lion, but if the authorities thought he was that valuable why wasn’t that area fenced off?
I don’t hunt anything that I am not going to eat, so that pretty much takes all predator animals off the list.
That being said I will kill any bear, mountain lion or other critter that becomes a danger to my family or my live stock.
When I have to do that, I use the meat from predators as dog food.


6 posted on 08/02/2015 12:43:28 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: RIghtwardHo

I’m not buying it either. The dentist knew what he was doing. You’re in a foreign country shooting at something. You better know what you’re shooting at. He knew. The people who helped knew too. I hope theirs butts are in a sling too.


7 posted on 08/02/2015 12:46:38 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It isn’t fair to blame Disney.


8 posted on 08/02/2015 12:49:09 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
People who claim to “love” animals more than people are emotionally damaged individuals incapable of weathering the difficulty required in a real relationship with something that can talk back.

I wish I had a dime for every time I've thought something like that. Kudos to the author for putting it so succinctly.

9 posted on 08/02/2015 12:50:40 PM PDT by ProfoundMan (Time to finish the Reagan Revolution.)
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To: virgil

Exactly. His excuse is right up there with “I only had a couple of drinks officer” and “I was jut holding it for a friend”.

Of COURSE he knew what was up. Prosecuted too many liars to not know a BS excuse when I hear one.

I think they did arrest the guides.


10 posted on 08/02/2015 12:52:13 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Blame Rousseau and his concept of the NOBLE SAVAGE.
That concept is the basis for not only leftist politics, but also leftist entertainment.


11 posted on 08/02/2015 12:53:38 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: RIghtwardHo
Isn't there something called “Buyer Beware’?
12 posted on 08/02/2015 12:56:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
People who claim to “love” animals more than people are emotionally damaged individuals incapable of weathering the difficulty required in a real relationship with something that can talk back.

LOVE this article.....has loads of truth...ESPECIALLY the line quoted above.

I say the same thing. Loving animals instead of people GUARANTEES that you won't have to compromise, fight, struggle or examine your own faults and shortcomings. In short, it ensures that you'll never ever truly learn how to love.

13 posted on 08/02/2015 12:56:18 PM PDT by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: PghBaldy
Yup. It's Bush's fault. Most definitely.
14 posted on 08/02/2015 12:57:10 PM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiECWKxgD-Y


15 posted on 08/02/2015 12:57:35 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: Captain Compassion

Oops. Wrong video.


16 posted on 08/02/2015 12:59:08 PM PDT by Captain Compassion
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To: spintreebob

Nice to see a sensible article on this matter.


17 posted on 08/02/2015 12:59:15 PM PDT by citizen (America is-or was-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
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To: KC_Lion; All

Re: Simba’s death.

Walt Disney gave me MANY pivotal, Life Lessons through his films. My kids, too. When they’d find a dead bird or a squished raccoon or rabbit on the road, their first comment was usually, ‘Circle of Life, My Friend.’

Don’t even get me STARTED on the lessons learned from watching TV’s Lassie, LOL!


18 posted on 08/02/2015 12:59:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Don’t even get me STARTED on the lessons learned from watching TV’s Lassie, LOL!”

Timmy should stay away from the well?


19 posted on 08/02/2015 1:01:44 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
There can be two legitimate points of view not mutually exclusive: the guy can be a jerk, and many of the people criticizing him can be hypocrites.

That's my view. I support hunters, and even big African beasts have to be put down at times. But this hunting experience sounds screwy. Like when LBJ tied up a deer on his property and asked Hubert Humphrey to shoot it. Humphrey refused.

However, at the same time many of the people not only criticizing the dentist but threatening to kill him sound like people who love humanity but hate humans.

20 posted on 08/02/2015 1:03:13 PM PDT by driftless2
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