Dick Cheney: The Hunter and the War-Maker
by Doctress Neutopia
How revealing it was last week when Vice President Dick Chaney took a shot
at birds and accidentally shot his hunting companion on a Texas Ranch. The
ranch was owned by the daughter of Anne Armstrong who was the director of
Halliburton when Cheney was hired by the cor****ation.
It isn't surprising that to relax, Cheney kills birds. Now the American
public really knows just what thugs the Vice President and his friends
are.
How frustrating it must be for him to start wars and not get to shoot at
the
terrorists himself. So, instead, why not kill something as innocent,
harmless, lovable, and free as a bird?
The Humane Society of the United States re****ted that on the Monday before
the shooting, Cheney had been hunting at an exclusive country club in
Pennsylvania where he shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown
number of mallard ducks. These birds are pen-reared to be released to be
shot by patrons on the country club such as Cheney. S****tsmen, who hunt
only
wild animals in their natural habitat, question the ethics of such canned
hunts.
During that "hunt" the party of ten killed 417 of the 500 farm-raised
pheasants. Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice president of The Humane Society of
the United States stated, "This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an
open-air
abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this
operation and then slaughtered so many animals."
Men like Cheney don't live by ethics. They live by death. For him, to
relax
is to kill. At work, his job is to kill people who the United States calls
terrorists or to use torture on someone that they suspect knows something
about terrorist activities. And at play, he kills nature. What a man of
high
principles and moral character he is!
In an interview with Fox News when asked if he would continue to hunt he
said, "The season is ending. I'm going to let some time pass over it and
think about the future." Perhaps that is the most intelligent statement
he
has ever publicly said. But I won't be satisfied until he is in a prison
cell with years of time ahead of him to reflect on all the deaths that
have
resulted from his bad policies and dastardly deeds.
When I heard of the news of the shooting, I thought of Cindy Sheehan and
the
pain she and the other mothers whose sons and daughters have died in a
useless war have had to endure. Last month, the secret service arrested
Cindy during the State of the Union address for wearing a T-****rt with the
number of U.S. soldiers who have died thus far in the war in Iraq. These
were not pheasants that lost their lives through the hands of Cheney, but
America's young peasants, kids that were too poor in spirit or finances to
find work or education through any other way other than by joining the
military.
In the State of the Union address, President Bush used the word "freedom"
17
times. But as Sheehan quickly learned, he and his Vice President know
thing
about what the word truly means. For them freedom stands for being able to
go on the private property of some rich Texan rancher and shoot harmless
captive birds as live targets. The birds were killed as they were set
free.
How symbolic it all seems. What these men hate most of all is something
that
it free. Such false, ignorance souls like Cheney and Bush, these American
barbarians who spend their leisure time killing rather than cultivating
themselves, choose to engage in blood s****ts rather than to seek to learn
the reverence for life. For Cheney's hunting teams there is no hunt, only
slaughter just like bombing Iraq to stop the fictional weapons of mass
destruction was not about liberating the Iraqi people, but it is was a
massacre of innocent people.
If Gandhi is right that "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated," then last weeks re****t
about the Cheney hunt is a sure indication that America has lost its
greatness. As long as such men are in positions of power, we will continue
to watch a nation be totally ruined by the guns of the morally bankrupt.
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