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Title: Rich Americans With Guns! Oh MY!
Source:
Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/fontova/fontova39.html
Published: Aug 14, 2002
Author: Humberto Fontava
Post Date: 2009-09-10 20:50:48 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 230
Comments: 23
Botswana banned sport hunting for lions last year. Western greens had a lot to do with this idiocy. Take a headline last year in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. "African Lions under threat from rich Americans with guns." That’s one thing I like about the foreign press, unlike the frauds in the mainstream U.S. media, they make no bones about being "impartial" or "even-handed." You pick up the Guardian, you know you’re getting the mouthpiece for the ghost of Leon Trotsky. Fine. They lay their cards on the table. I like that.....While we’re on the subject, Trotsky, like Che, had it coming. Here’s the original architect of the Red Terror in 1918. Twenty years later it came back at him like a boomerang as the "Great Terror" and planted a pick-ax in the middle of his skull. Serves him right. Too bad the hatchet man was a Red Spaniard rather than a White Russian. But I’m glad he got whacked nonetheless. Anyway, I gotta hand it to the Guardian editor who coined this headline last year. Here’s nine words and three of them guaranteed to boil the blood and foam the brain of three fourths of his readers. Consider his major market: Pinko Brits. Now behold the loaded words( rich, Americans, guns) – and imagine, for a second, their effects on the pinko central nervous system. Individually they provoke gagging and cold sweats; together the effects must be apoplectic. Regard the first, "rich." This sets the reader’s teeth on edge immediately (unless he imagines the lucre pouring in to an entertainer. This seems the only wealth pinks find warranted) Then we come to "Americans." He sees John Wayne, Billy Graham, Minnie Pearl, Charlie Daniels, Ted Nugent. The reader instantly sneers. Perhaps he also envisions a Texas Oil man, crass, ignorant, boorish and most horribly, "rich." His eyes narrow, upper lip start twitching uncontrollably. Finally the sneer turns into a grimace. Finally we come to the climax, the final detonation: "GUNS!!" Apoplexy for sure. Brits, of course, aren’t given to displays of emotion. So you’d probably never know it from watching him, but you can imagine the bile churning his guts and the scenes of horror and indignation flashing in his mind, as he looks away from his Guardian for a second and takes several deep breaths to compose himself, maybe reaches for the Valium. Well, those were pinko Brits’ views on African lions. Nobody seems to ask the Africans views – least of all the pinks and greens themselves, the very "progressive" crowd always wagging their finger at us about "cultural sensitivity" about how "Westerners shouldn’t ride roughshod over the desires of the indigenous African and Asian cultures... blah..blah..blah?" Remember all that? Okay fine. Then why not ask the Africans themselves how they feel about lions, leopards, etc? They hate the goddamn things. They’re pests, vermin. Here’s one opinion from an African national, Paul Funston, of South Africa’s Endangered Wildlife Trust: "The real solution to preserving lions lies in giving the local people incentives to tolerate lions on their land." Bingo! You’d be amazed at the tolerance $30,000 (what it costs a tourist hunter in total fees to shoot an African Lion) generates in a country like Tanzania or Botswana where annual per-capita income runs around $150. You betcha. "Welcome Mr Bwana hunter! I know of a real BIG Simba, sir! Let me lead to him, most gracious Bwana hunter sir!" Far from being " threatened" (as a whole) by "rich Americans with guns," lions have, in these boors, their greatest champions. That’s the philosophy behind Safari Club International’s conservation policy. They do an amazing thing: they give animals value. As in those $30,000 in trophy fees for a lion. $50,000 for an Elephant. THAT, my friends, is one hell of an incentive to always keep these things around, believe me. The Safari Club International puts their money where their mouths are. They’re not much on cant and the pious piffle of the typical green groups. They accomplish more for Conservation than all of them combined, using cold hard cash. So naturally they’re the one wildlife group the Animal Planet website does not link too. Figures. Pinks and Greens simply can’t argue with these facts: hunters fund more genuine conservation than all of them combined. So they argue with the motive. They don’t like that we conserve them in order to always have some around to whack. They hate this because they’re, simply put: Puritans. "The haunting fear that someone somewhere might be enjoying himself" is their guiding principle. There’s no other logical explanation for their lunatic crusade. Last year, the first year of the lion hunting ban, "animal-control" officers in Botswana killed ten times as many lions (because of cattle and human depredations) than sport hunters killed the year before – and remember, those brought in a cool $30,000 in foreign exchange each. In California, where animal rightists got cougar hunting banned, government "animal-control officers"(supported by hunter license fees) have killed more "problem" cougars than hunters themselves ever killed when they were allowed to hunt. This was fine with the same greenies who lobbied to end cougar hunting! They don’t call it "La-La land" out there for nothing. Listen up greenies: for humans to thrive, animals must die. Live with it. They’ll either be killed by people like Ted Nugent and myself, with smiles on our face ( which upsets you), or by government drones punching a clock and frowning (which you seem to prefer.) The animals are just as dead. We’ll pay for the privilege and take out the beast in a blaze of glory, then honor his memory with a dinner party or rug. The government performs a sordid (and expensive) execution then dumps them in a mass grave, like Fidel or Che’s execution victims. Ask hunters who’ve been on Safari what happens when they whack out a lion or leopard or elephant. Sure, in Hollywood, Manhattan, London and Paris they moan and wail. But in Africa the locals REJOICE! There’s a "Lion Dance" a "Leopard Dance" an "Elephant Dance." They’re ecstatic. A pest is dead. Go ahead and call them crazy because they rejoice when a menace to their livelihood and lives is gone. We wouldn’t understand. We only rejoice like that when our team scores a touch down. Crazy indeed. Think about it: imagine the Bug-spray man coming to your house: "Tell ya what," he says. "I’ll give ya 100 bucks for every roach I kill, $200 for any rats and a cool 500 semolions for a whack at the raccoon messing up your attic." You’d be dancing the Watusi too. And the Hustle and the Bump and the Boot-Scootin’ Boogie. I’d also make sure to have plenty of these creatures around for his next visit. Hell, I’d start feeding them, making nice little beds for them by the fire. Hell, maybe they’re not pests after all! Did I say a pest? That’s too mild a term. You’d never know it from Animal Planet but leopards and lions kill and maim hundreds of Africans every year, and decimate their meager property, their cow herds. Who knows that the leopard, far from the "endangered" nonsense you always read, is actually the most common cat on earth next to the house cat? True stuff here. And elephants are constantly trampling and destroying the crops and homes of those Third World residents so prominent in pinko cant and slogans. The very Born Free cubs ended up man-killers and were finally dispatched by "animal-control officers." The Guardian with the aforementioned headline led the charge to ban lion hunting in Botswana. Forget their altruistic claptrap. The inside story has is that Botswana’s "vice president" is in a "photo safari" business with a local greenie named Derek Joubert who’s tight with Greens worldwide. These photo safaris don’t bring in a fraction of the revenue to the locals as the Teddy Roosevelt, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Nugent kind. Simply put, a lion is less valuable a natural resource as the subject of a cutesy photo than as a rug. But all the proceeds from the cutesy photos found their way into a couple of politicians’ pockets. End of story. Western Greenies lapped it up when Mau Mau Chieftain turned Kenyan "President" Jomo Kenyatta banned Elephant hunting in Kenya thirty years ago. "Oh how marvelously enlightened!" they cooed in London salons. "How progressive!" they gurgled in Manhattan’s Upper West side. Five years later Kenyan elephants were indeed "endangered," poached to the brink extinction. Kenya was much poorer too. Turns out, Kenyatta was actually protecting the illicit Ivory racket of one of his tribal chums with the hunting ban. They needed every elephant they could get their hands on. Like I said, a Western hunter pays $50,000 for the chance to whack a big tusker. (Which then feeds a whole tribe for weeks, by the way). Poached tusks bring in much less – but ah, Kenyatta was pocketing a big chunk of it. Enlightened indeed! Don’t get me wrong. I mention Jomo "Burning Spear" Kenyatta only because we’re dealing with hunting here. Plus, I like the way he made monkeys out of the World Wildlife Fund. Maybe they’ll learn something about free markets. (What a joke.) Fact is, Kenyatta is a politician like any other. A Kenyan elephant had a price on the world market of $50,000. Kenyatta throttled the market for private and political gain. Don’t tariffs do the same thing? Import quotas? Price supports? If only our own politicians were any different.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Would to God that Kenyan politicians here had such a bounty in the world's market.
That makes sense. blacks are doing it so why should not rich whites depopulate africa of native species! Remember the passenger pigeon? Idiots killed off an entire species. For what? Cause they could.
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
Excellent article.
IUCN Red List Endangered species Endangered species under the IUCN Red List refers to a specific category of threatened species, and may include critically endangered species. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species uses the term endangered species as a specific category of imperilment, rather than as a general term. Under the IUCN Categories and Criteria, endangered species is between critically endangered and vulnerable. Also critically endangered species may also be counted as endangered species and fill all the criteria The more general term used by the IUCN for species at risk of extinction is threatened species, which also includes the less-at-risk category of vulnerable species together with endangered and critically endangered. IUCN categories include: * Extinct: the last remaining member of the species has died, or is presumed beyond reasonable doubt to have died. Examples: Thylacine, Dodo, Passenger Pigeon, Caribbean Monk Seal * Extinct in the wild: captive individuals survive, but there is no free-living, natural population. Examples:South China Tiger, Alagoas Curassow * Critically endangered: faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. Examples: Arakan Forest Turtle, Javan Rhino, Brazilian Merganser, Gharial * Endangered: faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future. Examples: Blue Whale, Giant Panda, Snow Leopard, African Wild Dog, Tiger, Albatross, Crowned Solitary Eagle, Dhole, Rangas, * Vulnerable: faces a high risk of extinction in the medium-term. Examples: Cheetah, Gaur, Lion, Sloth Bear, Wolverine, Manatee http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
Remember the passenger pigeon? Regulated hunting has never led to the extinction of any species. The passenger pigeon was a victim of unregulated hunting. You need to get a copy of your states' hunting regulations and read it just to see how regulated hunting is in America. I have to every year, and it's a tedious chore. But, I do it because I don't want to run afoul of the hunting laws of Texas. The SCI and the SCI Foundation shoulder the burden for huntng conservation worldwide. Other organizations concentrate on the U.S.: NWTF, RMEF, etc.
_________________________________________________________________________ We aren't talking about white tail's in texas (and it is easy to poach in any state). We are talking about hunting endangered lions. animal.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031006/lions.html Oct. 6, 2003 — According to wildlife experts, there are now only 23,000 lions left in Africa. That compares with over 200,000 in the 1980's, and if the populations continue to fall, experts predict lions will soon become extinct. What other animals have been killed off in africa? Extinct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Black_Rhinoceros Nearly Extinct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Rhinoceros Nearly Extinct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_White_Rhinoceros Nearly Extinct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_White_Rhinoceros And that is just rhino's! So get back to the subject of hunting animals till they are extinct in africa.
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
Ah. Lew Rockwell. The source of daily libertarian flat earth news.
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
This is preposterous and totally narcissistic. If animals in the wild are now "pest's" then humans who hunt them are a virus.
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
Poaching, not regulated hunting, leads to extinction. It's a scienfically supported fact. P.S. I try to exterminate all the coyotes in the county I hunt in. Woof. ;-)
_________________________________________________________________________ I like this guy! Great read.
Anti-racism is code for white genocide. The call of "equality," is a siren song that can only mean the destruction of all that we cherish as being human. -- Murray Rothbard It is perfectly legitimate to assume that the races are different in their cognitive abilities and in their willpower and accordingly are unequally suited for the task of setting up societies, and that the better races are characterized in particular by their special ability to strengthen social bonds. -- Ludwig von Mises It is not just Africa. In my state, Oregon, some draconian hunting regulations regarding Mountain Lions was passed about 15 years ago at the behest of the hand wringers. It was just so unfair that hunters used dogs to hunt large predatory Cats. So, the use of dog packs was outlawed and the result? A population explosion in Mountain Lions. To the point where there are remote areas I like fishing where I will not go or go armed. I have no desire to be kitty food.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Can't hunt them at all in California. Not only did we have a population explosion but it put a greater strain on the endangered big horn sheep. One cat was killed near populated area here in Sacramento. Its stomach was full of porcupine quills. How hungry does a cat have to be to go after a porcupine?
Very. It means that they are having trouble catching prey. Toddlers make an excellent meal. Wait until the Cats start having a nice meal of Toddler and the Enviro-whackos will applaud.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
Fortunately Texas has done nothing to "protect" the mountain lions, you can hunt them like coyotes: 24/7/365, as it should be. They're still sighted in all 254 counties. It's a damn shame that emotional rhetoric displaced science in the western states.
_________________________________________________________________________ You'll like this story: August 21st 2009 PHOENIX — Biologists recently presented the Arizona Game and Fish Commission with compelling data indicating that recovering the critically important Kofa desert bighorn sheep herd from near record-low population levels will be challenging due to additive mountain lion predation. Game and Fish Department biologists informed the commission at its Aug. 7 meeting that the monitoring of one radio-collared mountain lion revealed it had killed 14 bighorn sheep since February, an average of one bighorn sheep about every 10 days. At this rate, this one lion is on pace to kill an estimated 37 bighorn sheep annually. By comparison, the estimated annual yearling recruitment from the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge bighorn sheep herd is only 39 animals. Additionally, biologists reported last week that the same radio-collared lion has made a 15th kill. The animal killed was a bighorn lamb within the Kofa Predation Management Area near the Little Horn Mountains. The rest of the story: www.wildsheepfoundat ion.org/Page.php/News/101
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If one doesn't fit neatly into some government category, they're different and must be fixed.-jethro tull
Most country's don't have "regulated hunting". And white monkey's going to africa to shoot an endangered animal are not regulated. How do you regulate killing a carnivore?
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
Homework: Predators and Prey: Integrating Management to Achieve Conservation Objectives Conservation Efforts (links on right side for Africa/Asia/North America) Your issues are being addressed by experts.
_________________________________________________________________________ Yes, the experts at moving species off of their native habitat and building homes and putting cows in places that have been wild since forever. Your safari club links are nothing but propagada. (goes outside to hug a tree)
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
I have great pity for you.
_________________________________________________________________________ That is like an old dying man pitying a newborn baby for the pain it will feel in old age, denying the fact that there is a whole life inbetween. (Goes and hugs two trees)
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
((chops down 10 tree's and makes an 8-piece dining room set in rich walnut)) ;-)
_________________________________________________________________________ ((Finishes chi gung exercise based upon holding the arms out that kinda looks like hugging a tree and wonders why x-15 is cutting down all the nut trees in the backyard)) heh.
http://kaygriggs.blogspot.com/ On freedom4um.com, Alex Jones is more dangerous than Henry Kissinger. May you live in interesting times.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
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Okay fine. Then why not ask the Africans themselves how they feel about lions, leopards, etc? They hate the goddamn things. They’re pests, vermin.
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: All (#2)
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#5. To: Clitora (#2)
so why should not rich whites depopulate africa of native species!
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#6. To: X-15 (#5)
You need to get a copy of your states' hunting regulations and read it just to see how regulated hunting is in America. I have to every year, and it's a tedious chore. But, I do it because I don't want to run afoul of the hunting laws of Texas.
#7. To: All (#6)
Source: Lew Rockwell
#8. To: X-15 (#0)
But in Africa the locals REJOICE! There’s a "Lion Dance" a "Leopard Dance" an "Elephant Dance." They’re ecstatic. A pest is dead.
#9. To: Clitora (#6)
(Edited)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: X-15 (#0)
Then why not ask the Africans themselves how they feel about lions, leopards, etc? They hate the goddamn things.
#11. To: X-15 (#0)
Then why not ask the Africans themselves how they feel about lions, leopards, etc? They hate the goddamn things. They’re pests, vermin.
#12. To: Original_Intent, X-15 (#11)
In my state, Oregon, some draconian hunting regulations regarding Mountain Lions was passed about 15 years ago at the behest of the hand wringers.
"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
#13. To: farmfriend (#12)
How hungry does a cat have to be to go after a porcupine?
#14. To: Original_Intent, farmfriend (#11)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#15. To: farmfriend (#12)
Not only did we have a population explosion but it put a greater strain on the endangered big horn sheep.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#16. To: X-15, *Shooters* (#0)
#17. To: X-15 (#9)
Poaching, not regulated hunting, leads to extinction. It's a scienfically supported fact.
#18. To: Clitora (#17)
www.safariclubfoundation.or g/predator/
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"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#19. To: X-15 (#18)
Your issues are being addressed by experts.
#20. To: Clitora (#19)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#21. To: X-15 (#20)
I have great pity for you.
#22. To: Clitora (#21)
(Goes and hugs two trees)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#23. To: X-15 (#22)
((chops down 10 tree's and makes an 8-piece dining room set in rich walnut))
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