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He will be extradited as poaching is illegal in the US and Zimbabwe and there is an extradition agreement. The fact that they have awful prisons is not a factor in the decision.
And so what. There is nothing wrong with killing animals for a rational purpose. Nothing. Eating them, using their fur, studying them for medical research, all of it. As long as the killing is for a rational and productive purpose, the killing of animals is correct, moral, right, desirable, and good.
I see you didn't include "as long as they are humanely treated". So obviously you neither care about animals nor are you concerned with treating them compassionately. So your opinion is neither moral, right, nor good.
In the early 1980's Mugabe's private army, the Fifth Brigade, killed at least 20,000 Ndbele, possibly far more, in an act of genocide for which Mugabe has yet to be tried.
The idea of his government expressing outrage over the death of a lion seems ridiculous.
I see you didn't include "as long as they are humanely treated". So obviously you neither care about animals nor are you concerned with treating them compassionately. So your opinion is neither moral, right, nor good.
I wish I could rep you a million points for this post.
Thanks for putting that up. I'm amused and saddened by the number of folks puffed up with 'American Exceptionalism' in justice systems. I suppose you could never find an example of someone with deep enough pockets to get themselves the best justice money can buy right here at home. Especially if you're well heeled enough to afford $50K to kill an animal then hire a P.R. firm to slap a coat of whitewash on it.
Somebody's been watching the film "Midnight Express" a little too often...
Perhaps somebody should read up on Zimbabwe, and then try to tell me I'm being stupid. This country is much worse than "Midnight Express."
Oh, so its cool to hunt some lions, just not THAT particular lion, a lion that virtually nobody outside of the nation where it lived had ever heard of before this story came out. Meanwhile lions are being killed off regular through big game hunting and have been for years.
Also around this time, his cubs as well as his brothers are being massacred by other lions who now want to assume the dominant role.
Not sure when the Twitter campaign to protect those lions starts but it just seems more of the usual sort of "outrage story of the week", people will be irate, we'll have ourselves a good old fashioned internet lynching of the dentist as people have repeatedly posted his home and work address and have made death threats against him.
I just feel like there's a lot of amped up and phony outrage, I've seen some nutty rhetoric in regards to the dentist and the reality is that people didn't know or didn't care to know until the lion had a name, and frankly the vast majority won't give a damn in a week. 99% of those who are upset will find something else to be outraged in a week's time in our 24 hour news driven culture and the cycle will begin anew, meanwhile, the hunting of lions via permit will continue on as it has, lions will continue killing lions as they have, and not a **** will be given on that or any other day about dead lions because the aggrievance bandwagon and lynch mob have moved on.
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