Saturday, November 23, 2013

Stop Melissa Bachmann - Animal Trophy Killer

The reason for the repeated slams of Melissa Bachmann isn't that she's a vicious and selfish trophy killing monster as there are plenty of sporting goods store heroes who do that.  When even Viagra won't make a man out of you, there's always Africa where you can go to kill a lion using a super scope that lets you shoot the animal from ten kilometres away.

The problem is only in part what she does as the reason for the campaign against her is she has tried to use what she does to make herself a media celebrity.  She's not just a killer but rather she's a missionary encouraging others to do it.

The Facebook group, Stop Melissa Bachmann,  now has over 311K members and it's achieved that in only a few days.  A great many people are furious about what she's doing and want her removed from television.  There are many who also want to see her banned from various countries to prevent her from using their animals as toys.

Other hunters try to justify what she does by saying, gee whiz, the meat from her kills is donated to local tribes.  Well now, that sure makes her Florence fucking Nightingale, doesn't it.  Apparently the premise is the tribes would not be capable of catching the animal themselves without the grand white woman to come and do it for them.  Arrogant bastards.

The hunters all say they bring big tourism dollars to Africa but that's not true either as their contributions are very small relative to photographic tourists who spend a great deal more.  These trophy killers are self-justifying thugs but, fortunately, they are starting to be banned.

Makes you proud to be human, doesn't it:


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