This is a very strange and unsettling story, even leaving aside the wanton cruelty:
Dead bear covered with Obama signs found at school
Oct 20th, 2008 | CULLOWHEE, N.C. — Police at Western Carolina University and wildlife officials were investigating the discovery early Monday of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs.
Leila Tvedt, associate vice chancellor for public relations, said Monday night that maintenance workers found the 75-pound bear cub shot to death in front of the school’s administration building at the entrance to campus. The Obama yard signs were stapled together and placed over the bear’s head, Tvedt said.
The bear had been shot in the head, Tvedt said.
Is it a message? A direct threat? Is the bear cub supposed to represent Obama? What? I can’t begin to fathom the mindset of a person who would deliberately hurt another creature to make a political point.
