Cheney Faces Heat for ‘Canned Hunt’

If you want to buy meat, go to the grocery store. If you want to hunt, go out in the woods and do it the right way. But standing around while some servant lets the birds go in front of you so you can blast them is pathetic.

Interesting to see that his profile is increasingly lower these days though, isn't it?

Cheney is guilty of far more than simply killing pheasants. True, it's bad enough that the guy would participate in this popular form of 'hunting', but aren't Iraq and Afghanistan (and whatever nation comes next) the biggest canned hunts in the world?

For a group of people that say that abortion is horrid and fight it with every trick they can come up with.

And at the same time try to justify the killing of thousands of innocent people around the world in order to profit from the resources in the region.

Can we honestly ask why we have a society that is so fucked up.

Unfortunately, Cheney can't be prosecuted for this. But see the repost below for the usual consequence to such reckless behavior.

However, unlike Canada geese, the pheasants our illustrious VP wasted are not protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (the act these men from Oregon City are charged with violating), and so he's off the hook.
See  http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/help/faq/birds/feathers.htm


Repost from  http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=63030
Police make arrests in geese dumping case

December 9, 2003
PORTLAND - Police arrested five Oregon City men they think are responsible for the recent deaths of 49 geese found shot and dumped in a field last month.

KATU's Grant McOmie was the first to report on the crime that state game officers called one of the worst cases they had ever seen.

Last month, trooper Mike Hanson with the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division led McOmie to the dead geese. Despite a heavy snowfall, they were easy to spot because they were dumped in small piles.

Most of the birds were Western Canadian geese and weighed up to 10 pounds each.

They had all been shot to death and were left to rot. Some were even thrown into a nearby creek.

Hanson said he had never seen anything like it and had few clues to help him find out who killed the geese.

That is where KATU and McOmie come in, airing a story about the dead geese and asking for tips in the investigation.

Police got several leads, one of which led them to arrest the five people they believe killed the birds.

Officers say the public response to KATU's story was remarkable and made the difference.

"We had a lot of calls on it. I talked to people in the community and they were upset over it. I mean, 49 Canadian geese all dumped in one spot. That is a lot of geese," said Chris Allori with the Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife Division.

The five men who were arrested are 24-year-old Kyle Sayre, 20-year-old Bret Sayre, 31-year-old Eddie Briggs, 27-year-old Bryon Zirkle, and 26-year-old Adam Pedracini.

All have been charged with wasting game birds, a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of up to $5,000 or a year in jail.

They could also lose their hunting privileges for a year.

I can't imagine a worse mirror on the human condition than those who destroyed 49 magnificent birds, apparently from simple bloodlust. To me this represents killing for the "thrill" of it, the sickest power trip I can imagine. These people are not worthy of being in a society where life is supposed to be precious.

If they are guilty, they are beings of the most base type, inferior to the animals they destoyed, and should be punished as such.