... For that kind of money I think I could buy some Kobe beef.
They want to take him back to Africa for trial. They are very progressive from a conservation stance, which is good. I have no idea where they are at with their legal system . One thing for sure, it ain't the good ole' USA. I would not want to gain any first hand knowledge of their penal system. Got a feeling it could get a little brutal :o.
Rick
I frankly don't believe early news reports as so many of them end up rife with errors once an investigation is completed. I don't hunt at all myself and it is a loss for the people of Zimbabwe. I don't get the trophy hunting, but I don't get a lot if things folks do. However, it appears to be legal and part of conservation in some parts of the world. I can accept that.
However, the swiftness of condemnation, death threats, public demands for incarceration based on news reports baffles me. Arrest him or extradite him, sure. I'm more concerned about the mob mentally we humans are displaying. I'm in favor of due process in every case and really don't give a rip for what the Twitterverse or Ted Nugent thinks of an event. Innocent until proven guilty is dead and we all pay a price when that's gone.
People are more outraged by the Lion than Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby body parts. What's wrong with this picture???
The overreaction of people sometimes leads me to despair about their so-called intelligence. Death threats and such are totally unwarranted and are one of the most asanine things people do.
There's another Walter Palmer in the phone book here. 80 year old retired guy who's no relation to the dentist. He's been receiving vile and threatening phone calls from idiots who won't believe him when he tells them he's not that Walter Palmer.
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As for Zimbabwe, it's run by a Leninist thug who has murdered tens of thousands of political opponents while rigging every election, looting the country's natural resources and reducing the common people to grinding poverty. But internet lynch mobs don't care about that.
Rather curiously, circa 1982, Ol' Ted did a two shows in one night at the Hammersmith Odeon, in aid of WWF... raised more than a few eyebrows...
Even idiots, ala blind squirrels, get a nut sometimes. Ted fancies himself a conservationist because he maintains large herds of African grazing animals on his ranch in Texas. He claims to have more impala on his ranch than in all of Africa, and at least in that case, it was Ted using his celebrity to grease the wheels to build said herd. I don't even care what he had to say about the lion; as he has demonstrated far too many times already, everything he says is bullshit designed to draw attention and incite further stupidity. I'll not indulge it.
The poaching is indefensible on the part of the dentist, however, the sped and power with which the internet can now create and incite a completely uninformed lynch mob is an advertiser's, politician's, and oligarch's wet dream and a responsible citizen's nightmare. People literally starve in the streets in this country and the outrage over poaching a lion somehow is more important. Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large numbers. To make an apt analogy, at least the wildebeest herds in Africa don't take their cues on where to run from the lions. Out techno-addled society does whatever the glowing box tells it to.