Cheney's Sadistic Passion For Shooting Tame Animals (Some Hunters Liken To 'Sex w/ Blow-Up Doll')

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Dick Cheney's Sadistic Passion for Shooting Tame Animals

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 14, 2007.

Dick Cheney just spent a day shooting up pen-raised birds. Some hunters liken the sport -- killing tame animals that offer no resistance -- to having sex with a blow-up doll.

While most people are lamenting the violence in Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Iraq, apparently it's not enough bloodshed for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Last month in a caravan of 15 sport utility vehicles and an ambulance -- no jokes, please -- Cheney made his way to Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, about 70 miles north of New York City, near Poughkeepsie, for a day of controlled bloodletting.

Cheney landed at Stewart Air Force Base and took off the following day for the upscale gun club at a cost of $32,000 for local law enforcement officials who guarded his hotel, protected his motorcade and diverted school buses.

Unlike Cheney's 2003 trip to Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, Pa., in which he killed 70 pheasants and an undisclosed number of ducks (his hunting party killed 417 pheasants), staff at the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club remained tight-lipped about the take.

An employee who answered the phone would not disclose which species was being shot -- ads say pheasants, ducks and Hungarian partridges -- and kept repeating "I don't know anything about it" before hanging up. Like Cheney's last visit to Clove Valley in 2001, the 4,000-acre club, which costs $150,000 a year to join, was a fortress with Blackwater-style snipers "protecting" the vice president's right to shoot tame birds.

But a New York Daily News photographer did snap a picture of a small Confederate flag hanging inside a garage on the hunt club property, which prompted civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton to demand that Cheney "leave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people."

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But canned hunting isn't funny.

Birds raised for canned hunts at gun clubs and in state "recreational" areas are grown in packed pens -- think factory farmed chickens -- and fitted with goggles so they won't peck each other to death from the crowding.

When released for put and take hunters like Cheney, pen raised birds can barely walk or fly -- or see, thanks to the goggles. They don't know how to forage or hide in the wild and sometimes have to be kicked to "fly" enough to be shot. Some hunters say shooting the pellet-ready tame animals, which offer no resistance, is like having sex with a blow-up doll.

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[sam sarrha]

1. beyond pathetic ..totally sick i heard this i why he shot his friend in the face... cheney asked

him who was the best vice president ever... he thought about it a bit and replied.. 'Dan Quayle' :nuke:

[liberal N proud]

2. $32,000 taxpayer money to guard this sick SOB

$32,000 for local law enforcement officials who guarded his hotel, protected his motorcade and diverted school buses.

[AtomicKitten]

3. The true sign of a coward.

[Syrinx]

4. more than just about anything, this reveals the true Dick

I've posted about these canned hunts before, and was surprised by the lack of response that I received.

The sick SOB is consumed with death. And I'm convinced that he's realized that, truly, no one gets out of here alive.

And he wants to take as many of us sorry bastards out with him, as possible.

This sick fucker runs our government.

[BB1]

8. Hey, lighten up! The OCC-choppers boys are doin'it too!

Then it can't be bad, now, can it?

[malaise]

9. Cheney has all the marks of a

'chicken hawk' beast.
Sp.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. He probably thinks of himself as the rugged outdoorsy type.

He's the farthest thing from it.

[SpiralHawk]

6. That's Dickie "Five Military Deferments" Cheney - republicon homelander chickenhawk

A typical republicon homelander chickenhawk.

They are a shameful lot, celebrating Cheney and a pretend "Commander in Chief" who deserted his National Guard unit to sniff cocaine.

Only republicon homelander chickenhawk freepers could lionize these lying losers.

[chemenger]

7. Lynne Cheney is a blow up doll???!!!

DAYAM! I thought there was something weirdly plastic and phoney about her.

Funny though, I would have thought that having sex with Dick Cheney would be like having sex with a blow up doll. :puke:

[malaise]

10. Note quite

she's a deflated version :D