Posted on 08/03/2015 8:02:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The first question any logical person would pose upon hearing the Cecil the lion story should be along the lines of whether or not that lion meat (presuming it is edible) was used to feed the people of Zimbabwe. Too bad the story didn’t attract any logical people, those who might give two cents about the suffering of the people, not the animals of Africa. For Western, middle-class and celebrity animal-rights activists, it is simply easier to leave Africa to the Africans, many of whom don’t really get why killing a lion in a nation largely without running water is such a big damned deal:
Outside Zimbabwe’s environmental and activist circles, however, the reaction been muted.
“It’s so cruel, but I don’t understand the whole fuss, there are so many pressing issues in Zimbabwe — we have water shortages, no electricity, and no jobs — yet people are making noise about a lion?” said Eunice Vhunise, a Harare resident. “I saw Cecil once when I visited the game park. I will probably miss him. But honestly the attention is just too much.”
An economic meltdown over the past few years has closed many companies and left two-thirds of the population working in the informal economy while battling acute water and electricity shortages.
Most people questioned in downtown Harare hadn’t actually heard about the lion and said they were too busy trying to make a living to care about it.
At least a few people still have their priorities straight. Too bad they walk on two legs. I hear four is far better these days.
Lots of people do condemn Teddy and not just for hunting. Some condemn him for pushing a "living wage" and some other "progressive" ideas.
Lots of people condemn slaveholders, too.
People will condemn us someday.
Dead people don't care and the living shouldn't worry so much about how people will judge us in another century. It's really none of our business.
I blame Teddy Roosevelt for more than that. I blame him for being the catalyst that led to WW I and then WW II, the rise of the Soviet Union and the cold war. His third party run put Woodrow Wilson in office, and that led to all of the tragedy that we have faced since. If ever a US President should burn in hell it is Teddy Roosevelt, (alongside Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Millard Filmore, and a few other still living presidents.)
See what I mean?
He doesn't care how you feel.
“These “Cecil threads” have served the purpose of outing some real liberals among us, or as they’d probably prefer to be called, “compassionate conservatives”.
Yeah, “compassionate conservatives” as opposed to the heartless meanie run of the mill type conservative...I wish an eternity of the 7 levels of hell to whomever invented that term.
The idea of extraditing an American to Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe hellhole) is beyond the pale.
Once that land was thye Bread basket of Africa—before hate and racism wrecked it. Now they starve—poverty striken while a small group lives like princes in palaces. Life is worse than when the whites ruled. Sad, but any history will tell you thats what happens—revolutions make things worse. France after 1789, Russia after 1918, China after 1950.
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe" - Stevie Wonder (Master Blaster)
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