AlterNet: Dick Cheney's Sadistic Passion for Shooting Tame Animals

[marmar]

Dick Cheney's Sadistic Passion for Shooting Tame Animals

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. Posted November 14, 2007.

Dick Cheney just spent a day shooting up pen-raised birds. Some hunters liken the sport -- killing tame animals that offer no resistance -- to having sex with a blow-up doll.



While most people are lamenting the violence in Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan and Iraq, apparently it's not enough bloodshed for Vice President Dick Cheney.

Last month in a caravan of 15 sport utility vehicles and an ambulance -- no jokes, please -- Cheney made his way to Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club, about 70 miles north of New York City, near Poughkeepsie, for a day of controlled bloodletting.

Cheney landed at Stewart Air Force Base and took off the following day for the upscale gun club at a cost of $32,000 for local law enforcement officials who guarded his hotel, protected his motorcade and diverted school buses.

Unlike Cheney's 2003 trip to Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, Pa., in which he killed 70 pheasants and an undisclosed number of ducks (his hunting party killed 417 pheasants), staff at the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club remained tight-lipped about the take.

An employee who answered the phone would not disclose which species was being shot -- ads say pheasants, ducks and Hungarian partridges -- and kept repeating "I don't know anything about it" before hanging up. Like Cheney's last visit to Clove Valley in 2001, the 4,000-acre club, which costs $150,000 a year to join, was a fortress with Blackwater-style snipers "protecting" the vice president's right to shoot tame birds.

But a New York Daily News photographer did snap a picture of a small Confederate flag hanging inside a garage on the hunt club property, which prompted civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton to demand that Cheney "leave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people."

Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said neither Cheney nor anyone on his staff saw such a flag at the hunt club. (Maybe the flag was on the women's side of Clove Valley; only men are allowed in the clubhouse.)

Of course the nation is still amused about Cheney's 2006 hunting mishap in which he shot 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington in the face in Texas instead of a quail -- and everyone from Letterman to President Bush jokes about it.

But canned hunting isn't funny. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/67663/

[acmavm]

1. Cheney loves blood. He loves dying. Just as long as he's safe

and sound, he loves to see others suffer.

That's one sick, twisted, cruel, evil son of a bitch.

[marmar]

2. "That's one sick, twisted, cruel, evil son of a bitch."

You can say that again.

[Atman]

3. He's outgrown firecrackers up frog's asses.

He and George can afford to kill "tame" critters now, so they don't even have to trudge through a swamp to find their victims anymore.

Dick Cheney is a fucking psychopath.



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[marmar]

4. "He's outgrown firecrackers up frog's asses."

Teehee :) ..... although it's probably true.

[L. Coyote]

8. Apparently NOT!

[libodem]

5. He is sadistic and evil

He may not be getting his due now, but when he is judged by future historians, Hitler, will look like a reasonable fellow.

[mwb970]

6. cheney is unbelievably bad.

How we ended up with him and bush at the same time is a question for the ages. Are we cursed?

[Atman]

9. No, remember...he chose himself

Although it was all by design. The only "curse" is America's stupidity for electing a ticket that was comprised of two oil men and a slew of Nixon-Reagan fossils.

We have no one to blame but ourselves. Oh, and the Supreme Court members installed by the President's daddy, who just happened to be head of the CIA.

:shrug:

An uninformed populace gets what it deserves.

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[lutefisk]

7. Dick has issues.

Is his killing of "tame" creatures connected somehow with his own cowardly "tameness" when he avoided service in Vietnam? Is he somehow proving himself now to make up for the 58,202 US Vietnam War deaths? In his twisted mind, do the weak and "tame" all need to die?

There are so many possible causes, but thinking about it is as distasteful as thinking about why a serial killer kills...