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.
The author apparently is trying to compare the natural acts of an animal predator to feed itself & family with those of a man who kills animals purely to satisfy his pride. I thought humans were “better” than animals? Humane is the term, I believe.
Pride, you might remember, is one of the 7 deadly sins; not just a sin, but a DEADLY sin, as in, burn in Hell for all eternity. Pride is considered the worst of the 7 as it leads one to commit the other 6 deadly sins. Proverbs says it is an abomination.
Then there is the matter of killing an animal beloved by many people. That’s not much different from killing a pet. How is this lion killing different from the neighborhood animal hater who shoots people’s pets for ENTERTAINMENT?
I find it unseemly to travel to a grossly corrupt country to take trophies likely not legally available in other countries? If ISIS is offering infidel hunts, does that make it right? That a hunter may be fooled into a setup killing is no excuse. It is called hunting, not shooting for a reason.
If you are hunting managed, legal game to feed your family & share with others less fortunate, or protecting family/village from a dangerous animal, I have no problem with that.
But if you are too tired to lug that deer carcass back home, & hell, you already have a freezer full of meat anyway, you are killing for the sake of killing alone, & guilty of another deadly sin - gluttony & probably greed, too.
No, I don’t advocate more laws or prosecutions. They wont help the Zimbabwes of the world nor those who take advantage of a bad situation. No, their comeuppance comes at the end & it lasts forever.
What a horribly written story. Who is Doug Giles and is this the way he writes, like some tough guy? A bunch of rambling nonsense.
“It won’t make any difference, the narrative has already been established and the Dentist, for all practical purposes, destroyed.”..
Yes, destroyed along with millions of other hunters. What the media has done with this story is typical of the liberals, particularly the Clintons, all they have to do is say it and it will stick. Words are like bullets, once fired they cannot come back.
Lions are not an endangered species.
Amen! The guy should have known that in zimbabwe it is illegal to kill a lion and punishable by a 20,000 dollar fine and 10 years behind bars. I was just talking to an African woman who said the poacher will be stoned by the villagers if he comes back.
They're fine-tuning the process. I think Darren Wilson of Ferguson's "Gentle Giant" fame might have been the second one after George himself.
Back stirring things up over "Saint Hello Kitty"!, eh?
Back supporting poaching huh?
To paraphrase Martin Niemoller:
"When they came for Cecil Hello Kitty!, I said nothing, for I was not a lion. But Prezdent Obama said something, because he's always lyin..."
BTW - have you stopped beating your spouse and children yet?
OK fine but every true hunter hates a poacher.
Other than killing a lot of sparrows and squirrels as a youth, I only hunted with the intend of harvesting the meat.
It was a good hunt? The lion was wearing a collar. Then they tried to hide the collar after. Such sports!
"Saint Hello Kitty" bump
I haven’t been paying a lot of attention to the details - for me it was a lousy act because there was no real sport or need involved and the weapon pretty much insured extended suffering. I wasn’t aware of the collar. Thanks
Lions are not an endangered species.
You’re really using facts with someone who calls their self “PC Poet?”
Isolate, marginalize, and make fun of....hmmmm where have I heard of this before?
What is to be done with the memory of Teddy Roosevelt?
Selective compassion is bull crap. Good post.
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