Brothers In Arms
Great White Hunter” by Steve Gerberich
US VP Dick Cheney’s shooting of a 78 year old man on a Texas hunting trip reminded me, not only of Brokeback Mountain, of which, more later – but also of this post at Halfway Down The Danube, quoting nature writer David Quammen :
“…in the late 1960s, while Ceaucescu solidified his position as supreme leader of both the Party and the country, he did discover a zeal for hunting — or, more accurately, for the sort of pampered travesty of hunting that only a despot gets to experience and only a delusional egoist would enjoy.
For a typical hunt, Ceaucescu would fly in by helicopter and land on a cleared pad within the hunting area itself. From there he’d be taken by rough-terrain vehicle (in earlier years he favored Jeeps, then a Russian make, the Gaz, and still later a rattletrap Romanian imitation, the Aro) along forest roads, to a point very near the spot where hungry bears or rutting red deer were expected to appear. He would walk the short distance to a strategically placed high seat — in a tight little draw that served as a game corridor, say, or along a stream, where the gurgling water would cover noises made by a hunter. Usually he was accompanied by at least one security officer, who would carry his weapons and ammunition, and a forestry official from the district office. Many other Forest Department personnel would have been involved in preparing for his visit, but they were kept at a distance during the actual hunt.
In the high seat, he had little patience for waiting and watching. His attention span, according to a witness who worked with him often, was five minutes. But for this brand of hunting, patience wasn’t necessary. Bears came to the feeding troughs; red deer stags congregated in response to hormonal imperatives and the attraction of hinds; or, in some cases, both bears and wild boars were pushed toward a high seat in organized drives involving dozens of beaters. “
Caeucescu’s old hunting preesrves have been reopened, chiefly to service the needs of Western executive types to satisfy their lust for killing. It seems that for sick, fat old fucks like Cheney, viagra is just not enough – they need a dose of canned murder to feel like a real manly man.
Death is the only thing that’ll get them off now. Life, including human life, is just a commodity to be used for profit or satisfaction.
Tags: Cheney US News US Politics Wildlife Nature
UPDATE: As of now I shall follow Attaturk’s example, and henceforth the name ‘Cheney’ shall be appended to read ‘Cheney (He shot an Old Man in the Face you know)’.
It is written.
