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In the discussion thread: BBC: Kenya rangers shoot dead five suspected poachers (110lbs. of elephant ivory recovered) [View all]

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Sat Apr 21, 2012, 11:49 AM

Drahthaardogs (1,260 posts)

8. I hate poaching but I am not going to cheer the death

of five likely poor men who were trying to find a way to feed their families. You guys are fucking gruesome. The poachers are very much the victims here as well. If you were starving you mean you would not try to kill an animal to feed your kids? Show the same anger against the Chinese and demand we quit importing their shit instead of dancing on the graves of some poor men.

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74 replies	Author	Time	Post
BBC: Kenya rangers shoot dead five suspected poachers (110lbs. of elephant ivory recovered) [View all]	Poll_Blind	Apr 2012	OP
Du rec. Nt	xchrom	Apr 2012	#1
Good for them. These poachers are relentless and have to be eliminated.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#2
sell their teeth	Schema Thing	Apr 2012	#3
Properly speaking, tusks aren't teeth. But we understand your point. nt	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#15
They're second incisors, the incisors we have on	frogmarch	Apr 2012	#20
Remove the dead poachers teeth and send that to an Asian jeweler that processes ivory	bloomington-lib	Apr 2012	#4
china is pushing animals into extinction	roguevalley	Apr 2012	#5
China?	malaise	Apr 2012	#10
Legal hunting and safari, while not popular here, has proven to be a boon to wildlife populations	Drahthaardogs	Apr 2012	#11
nope. wrong. wrong and wrong. I was just reading	cali	Apr 2012	#50
Here ya go Hoss	Drahthaardogs	Apr 2012	#66
Elephant and rhino poaching 'is driven by China's economic boom'	progressoid	Apr 2012	#19
Proves again that wealth is wasted on the rich, like the Trumps, etc.	freshwest	Apr 2012	#38
rhino horn and bear bile go to china. tons of the trade in	roguevalley	Apr 2012	#72
Check to see if one of the suspected poachers is named Dick Cheney...	EmeraldCityGrl	Apr 2012	#6
Or Ted catscratch mcnutwit the bear poacher.	lonestarnot	Apr 2012	#33
Yes, screw them AND...	PearliePoo2	Apr 2012	#7
I hate poaching but I am not going to cheer the death	Drahthaardogs	Apr 2012	#8
This message was self-deleted by its author	sarge43	Apr 2012	#12
There are other articles that talk about poachers.	Kaleva	Apr 2012	#21
So well equipped they had to spear an elephant. Really?	Drahthaardogs	Apr 2012	#67
Sorry, my writing was bad	Kaleva	Apr 2012	#68
if they were worried about feeding their families	justabob	Apr 2012	#16
Nice try.	progressoid	Apr 2012	#17
A lot of criminals start out poor.	TheWraith	Apr 2012	#18
Can't feed your family with 110lbs of ivory, but you could with 1,000lbs of elephant meat.	Poll_Blind	Apr 2012	#28
While I share your sentiment about gravedancing, these people are very bad and need to be stopped.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#31
Pirates attack human beings. Poachers attack non-human animals.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#32
Having spent some time around groups of elephants, I will maintain that this is murder.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#34
A very interesting distinction.	MineralMan	Apr 2012	#36
So if someone kills an elephant with malice aforethought, what should the penalty be?	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#37
That's for the people who oversee the area and the animals within it to decide.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#40
They certainly have the right to determine their own laws, yes. But...	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#42
I guess the bottom line for me would be whether the creature were presenting	cbayer	Apr 2012	#45
The problem is that when you use the term "murder" to describe the killing of an animal, it has a	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#47
I understand that and was using it more for impact than for it's literal meaning.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#51
Well, fair enough.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#53
Understood and I apologize. Will be more thoughtful (or use quote marks) in the future.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#54
Darn it, you're being reasonable.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#56
While I don't believe there is, in Kenya, the death penalty for poaching per se.	oneshooter	Apr 2012	#58
I was just reading about the death penalty issue, and from what I see, you are correct.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#61
Our trackers were both Masai and Zulu, both are proud and feared peoples.	oneshooter	Apr 2012	#62
I think they had a point there.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#63
The Zulu were trackers I brought with me from Rhodesia.	oneshooter	Apr 2012	#64
here is something else for this sub-thread	justabob	Apr 2012	#60
You may maintain that "this is murder" to your heart's content. You may do so at great length.	11 Bravo	Apr 2012	#48
I understand that I am technically incorrect, but will also maintain that I am	cbayer	Apr 2012	#49
If elephants can be "innocent", don't they by definition have the capability of being "guilty"?	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#52
As a matter of fact, that happens.	cbayer	Apr 2012	#55
Only males get shunned? Discrimination! I won't have it...harumph, harumph!	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#57
sonofabitch	Duppers	Apr 2012	#69
They feed their families elephant meat??	proud2BlibKansan	Apr 2012	#44
Were any of them named Trump? n/t	SomethingFishy	Apr 2012	#9
Or named the "king" of Spain?!1 (pic)	UTUSN	Apr 2012	#22
I wish they'd had those gun barrels up each other's asses when they pulled the trigger instead of...	Poll_Blind	Apr 2012	#26
Many of the poachers are very poor and are trying to survive	Kaleva	Apr 2012	#13
Good! The poachers should be the hunted.	TheKentuckian	Apr 2012	#14
Excellent..	Upton	Apr 2012	#23
I gotta agree. n/t	RebelOne	Apr 2012	#30
It's funny...post that you're glad that a murderer is dead and you'll get attacked for being a	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#24
The key to enjoying DU is expecting that nomatter what you post someone is going to hate you for it	Poll_Blind	Apr 2012	#25
Now THATS funny....	HooptieWagon	Apr 2012	#65
Go Clean Your Guns And Try To Get Over It.	Paladin	Apr 2012	#35
Where did I defend poaching? Support your assertion or withdraw it.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#39
Hey, I was singing "Ding Dong..." when Andrew Breitbart died!	backscatter712	Apr 2012	#59
Were the Trump boys involved? nm	rhett o rick	Apr 2012	#27
Bad part is the rangers were hurt...they have a very dangerous job...	joeybee12	Apr 2012	#29
The poachers were more than ready to kill humans. They don't sound like the victims here.	freshwest	Apr 2012	#41
They violently resisted arrest, which is what got them killed.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#43
Willing to kill humans, which is what I said. You want to parse it another way, be my guest. n/t	freshwest	Apr 2012	#46
someone on this thread	Duppers	Apr 2012	#70
Oh, stop...you're making me blush.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#73
Threads like this make me wonder if world peace is humanly possible. nt	ZombieHorde	Apr 2012	#71
Not as long as we're human. Violence is part of our nature.	Johnny Rico	Apr 2012	#74

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