Sunday, August 2, 2015

Cheryl And 922,009 People Need To Get A Life


I got an email yesterday from Change.org asking me to sign a petition regarding "Cecil the Lion". The email said 846,000 people had signed the petition which asks for "justice for Cecil". As of a few minutes ago, that had risen to 922,009 signers.

These people need to get a life.

Trophy hunting, which Cheryl Semcer of Hoboken, NJ blames for the loss of a large part of the African lion population, is not the problem. Indeed, by putting an economic value on these animal, it has done more to preserve lions than anything a ban under the Endangered Species Act would ever do. It is the same with elephants and elephant ivory.

Am I the only person out there who has found the name of the lion - Cecil - somewhat ironic?

I would wager that most of the 922,009 people who have signed the petition never knew that Zimbabwe used to be known as Rhodesia. It was a country named for that famed British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. So we have a lion (the symbol of Great Britain) named for a British imperialist (Cecil Rhodes) by British scientists killed in the country formerly named for the imperialist (Rhodesia) that was forced by Britain to be handed over to Communist-backed insurgents who renamed it Zimbabwe.



4 comments:

  1. Sometimes all one can do is laugh at the absurdity...

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  2. On another tangential sidenote: The difference between Cecil and Barack Hussein Obama:

    Cecil is an African Lion. Obama is a lyin' African.

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  3. Of course, that's way more support than Shamnon and Everytown et al can muster. They may be idiot hippies, but they're grass-roots.

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  4. Of course, that's way more support than Shamnon and Everytown et al can muster. They may be idiot hippies, but they're grass-roots.

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