(PA) Legislation targets 'canned hunts' (Cheney Connection)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06224/713053-85.stm

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"The objection is that they call it hunting. It's not hunting," said Jim Posewitz, a lifelong hunter who helped to stem the rise of pay-for-kill hunting in his home state of Montana and who agrees the same thing ought to be done here in Pennsylvania. This year, as has happened for the past decade, the state Legislature is considering a bill to ban paid hunts such as the ones offered at Big Mike's and at least 13 other preserves in Pennsylvania.

"It's like killing animals in a petting zoo, basically," said Heidi Prescott, senior vice president in the campaigns department of the Humane Society of the United States. Ms. Prescott testified last week at hearings on House Bill 2289, introduced by State Rep. Thomas C. Corrigan, D-Bucks. The society, which opposes all forms of hunting but has campaigned to outlaw only certain types, supports the bill to end what she calls "canned hunts."

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Guaranteed hunts on grounds stocked with animals got fresh attention this year when Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a companion on a hunt at a private ranch in Texas. Three years ago, Mr. Cheney bagged about 50 pheasants during a private hunt at the Rolling Rock Club in Westmoreland County.

"It's a classic example of the hunt being degraded. There was sure no fair-chase conservation ethic there," said Mr. Posewitz, who heads Orion: The Hunter's Institute in his home in Helena, Mont.

This is the story of the 2003 Cheney bird slaughter.

http://kdka.com/local/local_story_344154903.html

Pittsburgh Vice President Dick Cheney's hunting trip to Westmoreland County this week is drawing criticism.

Cheney arrived at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe on Monday to do some hunting at the Rolling Rock Club and Game Preserve -- a private club with farm-raised pheasants; but some say it was no hunt -- it was a slaughter.

"Your average hunter may shoot more than three pheasants a day; Vice President Cheney shot more than 70 -- and an untold number of mallards... We're appalled that so many animals were killed for target practice essentially."-- Wayne Pacelle, V.P.- Humane Society of the US
Five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants.

The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC.

[DeSwiss]

1. Yeah...

"The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC."

I would call the man a Neanderthal, but that would be disparaging to a prehistoric linage that's already had enough problems.

So what rousing tales around the dinner table do you suppose he tells his guests about how he killed the bird they're eating? "watch when you bite, a few may still have buckshot in em."

He's still playing cowboys and Indians. In a barcalounger. All these guys live in a different reality than we do. To him, it makes perfect sense. That's what's scary. :scared:





http://www.dickcheneygunclub.com/

~DeSwiss

[Freedomofspeech]

2. I am very proud of the PA legislature for doing this.

I remember when the idiot cheney was here at Rolling Rock. It was do disgusting, and just another example of what a gutless pig he is.

[bleedingheart]

3. that isn't hunting...it is pathetic.