Just one more reason to hate on Dick Cheney

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_martha_r_071109_bedeviled_by_bloodlu.htm

Bedeviled by Bloodlust and Cowardice Cheney Goes Canned Hunting

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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.

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What kind of sick MF'er gets off on shooting tame birds? And why the hell do we taxpayers have to pay for it?

Jeez....

[eShirl]

1. jesus, if somebody bought him an X-box think of the avian lives that could be saved

[tularetom]

3. That makes me sick - our local fish & game club used to sponsor

a kid's pheasant hunt with birds that were so tame they'd walk up and take feed right out of your hand. I thought the whole concept was wrong and told them so. I was so pissed I quit the organization. And I've hunted pheasants for 50 years.

Ironically somebody broke into their pens a couple of years later and killed and took all their birds. The program was discontinued and has never been revived.

I can't blame kids for participating in such an inhumane activity but I'm not surprised that a piece a shit like cheney seems to enjoy it so much.

[zabet]

2. 70 pheasants in 2003's trip?

No bag limits. I guess I should have known,
if you do not get in trouble for shooting humans, you can
shoot all the birds you want without getting in trouble.

I also think that the expense of personal trips like this
should come 'out of pocket' for the cheeknee. Why should the
taxpayers have to foot the bill for his medical entourage when
he is not working for us? No employer ever sent a doctor on
vacation with me - just saying.

[Captain Hilts]

4. That's not 'hunting'. nt

[stevedeshazer]

6. Exactly.

Hunting means more than blasting away at tame birds while dressed up like Elmer Fudd.

[Libby2]

5. I hate these motherfuckers with a passion.