http://counterpunch.com/rosenberg11092007.htmlCanned Hunts for Dick Cheney
The Blood Sport of Vice Presidents
(just posting the last of the article)
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When released for put and take hunters like Cheney, pen raised birds can barely walk or fly--or see thanks to the goggles. They don't know how to forage or hide in the wild and sometimes have to be kicked to "fly" enough to be shot.
Some hunters say shooting the pellet-ready tame animals who offer no resistance is like having sex with a blow up doll.
But others say hunting itself is like sex with a blow up doll and that the ten percent decline in hunters seen in the US since the late nineties--from 14 million to about 12.5 million--coincides exactly with the debut of impotence drugs like Viagra.
Still for the Veep to pursue his addiction to the "programmed massacre of scores of tame pen-raised birds" despite all the "negative publicity it has generated for him" suggests a deep psychological disorder writes Gerald Schiller in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Especially since criminologists have long recognized that premeditated, sadistic treatment of animals is a strong predictor of criminal and homicidal violence.
Sociopaths Jeffrey Dahmer and Richard Speck were both big on animal cruelty. And they weren't running foreign policy.
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oh, and, they pay $150,000 a year to join this shoot them up club
they do more then shoot birds there for that kind of money......