The legalised murder of Cecil the Lion
EDITORIAL
The hunter who baited, shot, skinned and beheaded a beloved, majestic lion known as “Cecil” during a Zimbabwe safari is an American dentist from Minnesota. (New York Daily News)
[dropcap]P[/dropcap]eople are justifiably outraged, now that the Big Media—at last!—has covered the crime of one of the many degenerates who roam the world murdering animals for egotistical pleasure.
[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ecil deserves to be mourned, and not easily forgotten, but the issue is far larger than that. No lion, no elephant, no animal should be killed for “sport,” for adornment, for “traditional” medicine, or any other stupid or frivolous human purpose. This should be established fact in any society that claims membership in the club of civilised nations. And let me make something perfectly clear: Many voices are complaining that Cecil was “illegally killed,” which adds to the trouble in which Palmer now finds himself, but the fact remains that Cecil was assassinated within a cultural framework in which such killings are facilitated and encouraged not only by an entire industry of hunting guides and outriggers, arms manufacturers and hunting lobbies, but by national governments themselves, in the name of “conservation.” The argument is that such expensive licenses to kill prize animals allow these poor countries to maintain wider conservation efforts. I always thought this argument logically bankrupt at its core, the idea that in order to save some victims we must allow the killers to indulge their base tendencies. If you want to help a species, why not just donate the money and not kill? Have any of these lowlifes ever heard of cameras? While on the topic we should also mention that no one points out that the sum total of such revenues, representing all this carnage, just in the case of Africa, is less than the price tag of a few F-16s, a grotesque misallocation of resources that only underscores the profound disease afflicting international society at all levels.
Below, a video roundup of reaction to the news, an encouraging response that proves what we have said countless times, that the squandering of mass media time on idiocies and lies, while real issues go begging, is a crime of a different sort, but nonetheless a crime deserving of serious attention. And that people, properly informed, usually react with decency and compassion.
Where would we be if the world had a responsible, thorough, and properly moral media? Certainly not in the royal mess we inhabit.
—Patrice Greanville
WALTER PALMER. Tooth repair, anyone? Now we know where those hefty fees go.
https://youtu.be/_LzXpE1mjqA
https://youtu.be/6G3pymHnRHE
https://youtu.be/xbiNIjijr_s
FACT TO REMEMBER:
IF THE WESTERN MEDIA HAD ITS PRIORITIES IN ORDER AND ACTUALLY INFORMED, EDUCATED AND UPLIFTED THE MASSES INSTEAD OF SHILLING FOR A GLOBAL EMPIRE OF ENDLESS WARS, OUTRAGEOUS ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, AND DEEPENING DEVASTATION OF NATURE AND THE ANIMAL WORLD, HORRORS LIKE THESE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED MANY YEARS, PERHAPS DECADES AGO. EVERY SINGLE DAY SOCIAL BACKWARDNESS COLLECTS ITS OWN INNUMERABLE VICTIMS.
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