I know a lot of you guys are very open about hunting in your personal lives, but I think this is a prime example about why you must be very careful in today's age about associating yourself with hunting if it could have negative repercussions on your business.
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I find it appalling that so many are wont to throw this to the winds of public opinion.
I'mI know a lot of you guys are very open about hunting in your personal lives, but I think this is a prime example about why you must be very careful in today's age about associating yourself with hunting if it could have negative repercussions on your business.
Does it kind of remind you of the Salem Witch Trials?
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE . . . Forgive me for varying a little to add something I think will add to the overall arrogance and hypocrisy I see surrounding this situation.
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According to an article by Nicholas Reilly for Metro.co.uk (dated Tuesday 17 Feb 2015) among various other animals, including elephant, there was a “trophy lion” donated to Mugabe’s 91st birthday celebration in February of this year. Partygoers at the birthday event are set to dine on the unusual delicacy at the lavish bash
The donor, Tendai Musasa, confirmed to the Zimbabwe Chronicle that he donated game meat and a 'lion trophy' worth £78,000 to the event. Specifically, Musasa provided a total of two buffaloes, two elephants, 'a lion', five impalas and two sables.
Describing preparations for the event, he added that the animals would be slaughtered a few days before the birthday bash, and stored by a local hotel.
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So, a ‘trophy lion’ was slaughtered for Mugabe’s recent birthday celebration in February of this year. Where was the outrage? This ‘trophy lion’ slaughter occurred only a few months before the incident that is causing the present media circus . . . . oh no, what if this trophy lion was related to Cecil?
And why no outrage from Zimbabwe’s environment minister, Oppah Muchinguri, who is asking for Palmer to be extradited from the U.S.? Could it be that the Zimbabwe government, despot leader Robert Mugabe and minister Oppah Muchinguri are only playing to the media for show?
Obviously the slaughter of a "trophy lion" (not my words) for a lavish birthday bash is okay with Zimbabwe's 'environment minister' and receives no significant media attention, but a lion killed by a hunter somehow deserves a media feeding frenzy even before the investigation is complete and all facts are in. Remarkable.
I too think he jumped the gun. Carter has a big podium and a large hunting audience. I believe he had a responsibility to use his influence to tell that large audience to remain calm and wait for the conclusion of things.
n't SCI excommunicate Palmer as well? Would this be jumping the gun? Just
No. They suspended him pending the outcome, but didn't cancel his membership. That's a good point though and I'm not sure whether to say they took the easy way out, or not.... If they had cancelled him that would be wrong for sure, but to suspend pending the facts?
Several years ago there was a case involving a lion fondly known as Leonardo that very closely paralleled the situation with Cecil.
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If interested you can read the thread here on an old AH forum topic. You can also see how some people wanted heads to roll, facts be damned. Fortunately it got nipped in the bud fairly quickly on this site.
Lion Killer to Be Charged in Namibia
Discussion in 'News & Announcements' - May 12, 2010
Jerome, it has become common practice for 'anti hunting groups' to collar trophy sized animals especially Elephant when they are in 'photographic' areas with the purpose of 'protecting them' from trophy hunters.
Collaring animals for real research does not preclude them from being trophy harvested ( or dying naturally or being poached ). It actually forms part of the research. It has become a sort of tool used to discredit legal activities as is the case here. Would the hue and cry have been as much of it hadn't been collared I wonder?