Cheney gets more heat over dead birds instead of secret Energy Policies

[bleedingheart]

Now I think his stupid hunt was just an example of gilded age type greed and excess but it is absolutely pathetic that this man is getting heat over that canned hunt here in PA than over his and * policies.

Where is the outrage that millions are unemployed and they are poised not to extend unemployment....

Where is the outrage over the Energy Policy drafted by the Big Polluters?

Just another example of how the fourth estate is being manipulated to only print drivel.

[Khephra]

1. IIRC

Poppa Bush and the Boy King both belong to a hunting club that captures lions and pens them up until they're sick. And then they let the hunters in to shoot the sick, tied-up lions when they're no threat to even a mouse.

I wish I still had the articles on that. Anyone else have a link?

[bleedingheart]

2. I feel bad for the animals and I think its sick but I was reading Mother

Jones magazine about the people of Port Arthur Texas and how they live with constant chemical output that makes them sick and gives them breathing problems and no one cares and * administration isn't going to help them...

What would we expect...they willingly watch as people are poisoned so why wouldn't they be the kind of pigs that kill animals en masse...

[Papa]

7. Here's a link

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=bush+hunting+club+lions&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=R2UL6.67%24Jc2.26611%40nntp1.onemain.com&rnum=1

Chicago Tribune

Big names backing big-game hunter



By Paul Salopek
Tribune foreign correspondent
May 13, 2001

JOHANNESBURG -- A wealthy American safari hunter has triggered the latest
skirmish over sport hunting in Africa -- not because of his shooting, but
over the identity of his political gun-bearers.

Steven E. Chancellor, an Indiana coal magnate and major Bush administration
supporter, has lobbied the government of Botswana to lift a recent ban on
lion hunting, adding muscle to his efforts with high-powered letters of
recommendation from former President George Bush, former Vice President Dan
Quayle and Persian Gulf war hero Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf.

All four men are prominent members of Safari Club International, a
U.S.-based advocacy group that promotes big-game hunting worldwide. The
organization has become embroiled in the controversy by courting Botswana
President Festus Mogae with invitations to its annual conference in Las
Vegas, and with offers of equipment for the Botswana wildlife service.

In the African press, the affair is being portrayed -- with some glee -- as
rich, gun-happy Republicans bullying aside a poor country's environmental
policies; American hunters haven't received such a mauling since Teddy
Roosevelt stormed across the continent nearly a century ago, bagging some
500 antelopes, cats and rhinos along the way.

more.....

[soup]

8. Safari Club International

is the name of the group. Sorry don't have time to look for particulars.

On my way out the door to find a set of kitchen knives for my son for Christmas. jolly jolly.

oops, sorry papa. see you found one.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Bad press is bad press

Even though the event itself is fairly insignificant compared to lying about the reasons to invade a sovereign nation, it is still putting Cheney in a negative light. Who cares where that light might be coming from? It is just another example of what a greedy, cowardly, uncaring bastard this dude really is. For a lot of people stuffing billions away in your friends offshore bank accounts doesn't register, but stuffing a sack full of dead birds gives people a visual they can relate to.

[dusty64]

4. I have outrage over EVERYTHING

this bastard does. I do NOT however think the story of his pleasure slaughtering animals by the hundreds that had absolutely NO chance of escape is "drivel". I think its something most people can connect with and be disgusted by, not to mention that it describes these assholes for what they REALLY are. Heartless, souless, bloodthirsty, money grubbing, immoral, corrupt beings that they indeed are.

Enough of this our regime is "righteous, upstanding, adult, christians". It is bullshit, they are NONE of the above and this example helps to clarify it. Anyone who gets off shooting helpless and caged animals is SICK and in serious need of help. This shows our regime unmasked. They enjoy killing whether it be helpless birds or innocent children. They do not care that its Iraqi civilians or American soldiers, they LOVE bloodshed as long as they are not the ones bleeding. I loathe them with a passion I never thought possible and I think this story will help to show them for the genuine evil that they are.

Most people can connect to this event and feel at best uncomfortable about it. This is not what healthy and mentally stable people do and even a vast majority of hunters would see this that way as well.

[bleedingheart]

5. But why is it getting more press than Energy policies that will affect

both wildlife and people???

The man is a greedy pig, there is not question there.

But I live in PA which is a big hunting state and to tell you the truth it is getting mixed reviews...some see the outrage in killing so many animals but others are saying that he has a right to do what he wants as a private citizen at a private country/hunting club.

Whereas.... energy policies that kill people as well as salmon, bear, pheasant..etc ... are far more broad in scope and should get attention.

[dusty64]

6. Well we both know why.

The corporate media is very slow to speak ill of our regime as they own them completely. Many of the same outfits that report our "news" also stand to gain huge from this corporate welfare plan. I wish more was made of the many criminal and traitorous things this regime has done, but its simple they are NOT Democrats thus no coverage. I get what you're thinking, but I really don't think REAL hunters would agree with this. I'm completely NOT a hunter and have been a vegetarian for 23 years, but I do know several people who hunt. This is NOT their idea of the sport, caged hunting is not ethical and most are against it. Any facts that leak through the media filter that shed the truth on the GENUINE nature of these "people" is welcome.

[DemoTex]

9. Cheney's "hunt" was a metaphor for the wanton, rapacious GOP regime.

His gluttony on the hunting field is instructive to his and their perverted sense of values. Our best revenge? Long life and good health. The fucker will be gone In einem Augenblick (in a blink of the eye, as the Germans say). Then we will catch ourselves saying, "Dick who?"