Cecil the lion killing: Walter Palmer, U.S. dentist, won't be charged

[uawchild]

Source: CBC

'All the papers were in order" for American to hunt, Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/cecil-lion-dentist-zimbabwe-no-charges-1.3267301

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I understand that hunting fees are used often for conservation, but the particulars of this "hunt" still make me sick.

[lobodons]

1. Walter Palmer Finalist for Worst Person of the Year

Papers may well have been in order, but Walter Palmer still gets my vote for a finalist for Worst Person of the Year.

[keithbvadu2]

2. "Killing" is the correct term.

It was not hunting.

[restorefreedom]

3. oh, FUCK no!

how much $$ did this piece of shit cough up, and to whom?

[Amishman]

7. I doubt bribes were needed, his guides seem to be the law breaking party

He paid his money and followed the process to have a legal hunt. His guides were the ones who broke the law and lured a protected lion to the hunt location.

He is no better or worse than any of the other thousands who pay big bucks to legally murder a rare animal.

[Calista241]

10. i got the impression that luring the lions out with dead animals attached to cars

was a common way of hunting. which is bullshit. You can't use salt to hunt here in the US, and you shouldn't be able to use lures like that when hunting lions.

[Igel]

19. Which is the point.

You really have to ignore the (native) guide's narrative to pin the actions you describe on the (Western, white) hunter.

This was actually fairly obvious. The claim was the papers were in order. That the guide that done something a bit suspicious--according to the guide's own account. Claims came from others not involved, after the media circus and vigilante mob was formed and frothing at the mouth.

The only thing that led to assuming that the (native) guide was lying and the (white) patron was also lying was the fervent, overwhelming, psychologically imperative need to believe that an internally consistent tale was a lie in order to pin all the blame on the (white, wealthy) patron. That this need automatically assumed that only those with no information held the unbridled truth is embarrassing. For me. Makes me want to wear a t-shirt that points to either side and says, "I don't know them."

Once you get past race- and class-induced blindness and prejudice-induced self-righteous wrath, there wasn't much more to discuss. That was the basis of the media outrage, the populist outrage, and, well, there's a really huge story there but there's a fervent, overwhelming, psychologically imperative need to say there isn't because it doesn't fit the narrative.

One thing about confirmation bias it that it's pretty inured to attacks, and turns the full critical thinking apparatus against refutations of confirmation bias. (As Feynman famously said, the easiest person to deceive is yourself. Tell that to 100 people and barely 1 will agree with such an obvious truth.)

[okasha]

22. The hunting guide is white.

[City Lights]

4. Gee, what a surprise.

Fucker makes my stomach turn.

[ffr]

5. That's fine, so long as he goes out of business and starves.

Human scab.

[duhneece]

6. IS his business still hurting?

I want to know this so bad...

[CountAllVotes]

8. This piece of sh*t bought his way out of it!

Oh don't you just know it.

Lets hear a loud whoopie for the 1%! They can buy and have any damn thing they want, even the joy of killing an extinct lion from the African jungle! No problem dude, shoot another one, you've got your ass covered with loads of bucks!!!

Hope this fucker rots in hell w/all of his ugly bucks!!!

& recommend.

[niyad]

9. does this really surprise anyone?

[mpcamb]

25. Not a bit...

But it's not a part of me I admire.

Screw bitterness and acrimony.
Let's get some justice.

[turbinetree]

11. This trophy hunter is just that a trophy hunter................

and for him to be cleared of this matter, is quite disingenuous to the community as a whole.

This "man (dentist) sat at that table" and was told what the guide was going to do, and how that country will deal with this issues----------------this is no if's , and's or but's about this issue.
He and others will will now think it will be swept under the carpet-------------------it will not.

Then this was said by this minister;

'All the papers were in order" for American to hunt, Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says


Was this minster at this table-------------------you bet he was, he knows what is going on in his country and around the world and he is also corrupt, it's just that he and the entire nation of both continents and around the world are really upset.
He(the minister) has the means and the money to stop this stuff, but no, he also turns a blind eye based on greed.

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. He had to have known

Things weren't on the up and up. Even if his papers were in order he should have refused that hunt.

[restorefreedom]

14. i am sure he knew and did not care. he is sociopathic piece of shit

who, as a one percenter, thinks he can buy whatever he wants.

a real hunter would not want to hunt this way.

but palmer is not a hunter. he is a penisless trophy murdering psycho scumbag who has to pay big money to trick himself into believing he is a real man.

[Skittles]

24. gun humping cowards need their fix

[restorefreedom]

13. zimbabwe had requested extradition

and a petition with hundreds lf thousands of sigs went to the wh to honor that request

i wonder what changed the zimbabwe governments mind?

lets all put on our thinking caps now...

[Igel]

20. Embarrassment.

They acted hastily, because there was a very nice media firestorm. Fast thinking.

Then they had time to think about all sorts of things, discuss it, have people pull files and check and cross-check paperwork. Slow thinking.

Fast thinking loses for accuracy and reliability to slow thinking pretty much always. The gut has precious few neurons and fails utterly at metacognition.

[wundermaus]

28. 236,961 to be exact....

we petition the obama administration to:
Extradite Minnesotan Walter James Palmer to face justice in Zimbabwe.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/extradite-minnesotan-walter-james-palmer-face-justice-zimbabwe

Well, Mr. President, that certainly got through loud and clear.... NOT.

I guess Extraordinary Rendition applies to the King of Beasts, too.

(Not the least bit surprised)

[MrsMatt]

15. Disappointing, to say the least.

I fear that he will now be able to claim his trophies (the skin and head).

It makes me ill to think that he'll be able to put Cecil's head on his wall now.

[rockfordfile]

16. Of course he wasn't going to be charged.

Of course he wasn't going to be charged. To easy to get away with killing a big cat. Palmer is a loser.

[NCjack]

17. So, Cecil, there is your disgraceful justice -- all legal. Now RIP.

[Judi Lynn]

18. Shocking, horrifying, unforgivable. What a hateful man. Sure wish we could put him in stocks!

I would want to bring a chair and hate him for a very long time up close.

[Elmergantry]

21. I blame the gun.

they need gun control over there..

[Skittles]

23. they don't want to impact the $ received from cowards

[darkangel218]

26. The asshole..

Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

[ladjf]

27. What a greedy, conceited asshole! nt

[pansypoo53219]

29. i bet he did pay money to stay in USA.