Friday, July 31, 2015

White House Petitioned to Extradite Walter Palmer

There were 100,000 signatures needed to petition the White House to extradite Walter Palmer to Zimbabwe to face charges for killing Cecil the Lion.  The petition has 147,000 signatures and presumably is still climbing as Walter Palmer made it to the top of the Most Hated Human roster faster than anyone in recent memory.  (News4JAX: WH petition to extradite lion killer at mark)

Zimbabwe has called for extradition of Palmer already.  They say the hunt was illegal and they want him for trial.  (ITV: Zimbabwe calls for extradition of hunter Walter Palmer)


Likely what got Palmer to the top so quickly was it took Cecil the Lion forty hours to die, all with an arrow hanging out of him.  There is also a picture of what they did to him after he was dead and it was so horrid that Walter Palmer is well-advised not to show his face in public for a long time.

WARNING:  don't go looking for the picture.  I've seen it.  I wish I had not.  That someone calling himself human could commit such savagery for no greater purpose than collecting simple souvenirs isn't comprehensible.  So don't try.  Don't look for that pic.


There is whining about Palmer needing police protection wherever he is hiding but tell that to Sam DuBose in Cincinnati ... or you could if some campus cop hadn't capped him a couple of days ago.  Why should the rich white boy get protection Sam DuBose did not get.


It's interesting watching the Internet destroying this guy and I can't say I particularly care as he wanted to kill 'a large elephant' after he killed Cecil.  He's obviously an asshole but this is a place where a looney will dye his hair red and shoot up a movie house full of people, Palmer is almost certainly at risk for his life.

That sort of extremism doesn't help anything as I would like to see Walter Palmer have his day in court.  The part of that he may not like is that it would be a court run by lions.

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