Eden Prairie, Minnesota Dentist Walter D. Palmer poaches Zimbabwe lion

Minnesota dentist Walter D. Palmer after murdering an endangered rhinoceros

Take a look  at this guy.

He is Walter D. Palmer, a dentist from Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

This man is a wealthy poacher.

He is a ‘’’big game hunter’. He’s ‘hunted’ and killed leopards, rhinoceros (despite the fact that there are probably no more than a couple hundred rhinos left in the world.) and probably other “big game animals.”

In 2008 he was fined for shooting a black bear in Wisconsin (on a wildlife refuge) and then transporting the bear 40 miles away to an area where it was legal to hunt black bear. He was fined $3500. He lied to the fish and wildlife officers. He 'didn't know' it was illegal to poach bears.

Doesn’t this smell of POACHING?

Now he’s up to his old tricks. He flew to Zimbabwe where he’d been promised a hunt for a black maned lion.

Black maned lions are fairly rare and so are highly desired ‘trophies’.

Palmer wanted one and didn’t give a damn how he got one.

So he hired two Zimbabwe ‘guides’ to get him a black maned lion. (there may be 20,000 lions left in all of Africa.)

The Zimbabweans weren’t too particular as to where they got the black maned lion. Palmer paid them $55,000 to get him his lion without asking questions.

They went out after dark (no ethical hunter I know of hunts in the dark. It’s not legal for a plethora of reasons. One of them being, shooting an animal after dark really destroys your chances of finding it. It crawls or runs away to hide, because it is dying in agony.

They went to a preserve where they knew a beloved and famous lion, Cecil, lived. Cecil brought in a lot of tourist money. But the Zimbabweans didn’t give a damn about their own country’s wild life. Here was a rich white man who was willing to pay them an astronomical amount of money to get him a lion, without bothering to ask if their methods were legal.

So they towed an animal carcass (probably poached) past Cecil. (in the dark, mind you). Cecil, being an intelligent lion, followed. They moved off the preserve onto a privately owned farm.

Now most big game hunters take big game rifles. “Use enough gun” is a law set in stone. The pictures of Palmer with his other murdered animals show him brandishing his rifle, so we would expect him to use it on Cecil, right?

Well, no. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow.

Is Palmer so confident in his killing abilities that he proposes to shoot a full grown African lion with a bow and arrow, in the DARK?

(although I'm willing to bet that once they had Cecil on the farm, they illuminated him with bright lights. Blinds the lion so that he sits still and allows for a poacher to shoot the animal.)

But. Palmer used a bow and arrow because that weapon is SILENT. Guns make a lot of noise, especially when you’re poaching on private property IN THE DARK.

Bow and arrows don’t make any noise, noise that would have alerted law abiding citizens that someone was breaking the law.

But Palmer didn’t kill Cecil. Nope, turns out a bow and arrow ISN’T suitable for killing a lion outright.

Cecil suffered for 40 HOURS before they found him and shot him dead.

How did they find him?

Well…………the fact that he was wearing a tracking collar should have made it easy. 

It should have also been obvious that the lion was wearing a collar in the first place. That's probably another reason to sneak onto the preserve and lure the lion away, so that Palmer could say "I didn't see the collar." Bright lights should have reflected off the collar.  

The tracking collar DID lead wildlife and Zimbabwe officials to Cecil’s carcass. It had been skinned. The head and the glorious, so very valuable black mane, was gone.

Palmer managed to escape to the US. Where he is, now, is unknown.  

Now here is a guy who has poached dozens of animals in countries all over the world. He paid two men over $50,000 dollars to get him a lion.

He says he DID NOT KNOW Cecil was protected. Despite the fact that he’s hunted in Africa many times, he assumed that all wild lions have collars. Right? I suppose. They tried, unsuccessfully, to disable the collar. The fact that they went after dark, towing a dead animal past the animal, didn’t tell him, I suppose. The fact that he used a weapon not normally associated with killing anything as big and dangerous as a lion didn’t tell him, I suppose. A weapon, he knew, was silent, one that wouldn’t attract attention.

He’s blaming the Zimbabwe men for leading him into a crime.

BULLSHIT, Palmer. BULLSHIT.

You lying scumbag. There are no words low enough to describe you. You are a POACHER. A thief, a pusbag that doesn’t give a damn about the ethics of shooting a tame lion wearing a collar on a wildlife preserve.

Nope, Palmer, shithead, you think that because you are wealthy that the laws don’t apply to you. You wanted a black maned lion and by god, you were going to get one no matter what.

Sure, blame the two guides. They had no morals or ethics but were willing to give you what you wanted for a shitload of money. Fifty thousand American anywhere in Africa is big money, and would have kept those guys in food and luxuries for the rest of their lives.

Maybe they’ve done this for you in the past and you got away with it. Maybe this is how you bagged ALL your ‘trophies’. Money will get you anything, right?

You know what, Palmer, you shithead, not only did I see this on the net; it was also on national television.

So be prepared, asshole. I don’t know what is going to happen to you. If nothing else, you’re out at least fifty thousand dollars, (that’s not counting air fare, etc.) and that lion trophy. I don’t know who you have tallied your past poached trophies but if I were that organization, I’d be counting you out. If nothing else, I hope the US Fish and Wildlife takes all your ‘trophies’ and leaves you with nothing.

I know, though, that fifty grand to you is nothing but pocket change. You will get a good lawyer who will explain it all away and may even sue anyone…like me...who dares sully your ‘reputation.’

But you have made your reputation. It’s that of a lying, cheating greedy rich man who decided, damn it, there won’t be any lions left in a few years so I better go get mine NOW.

You wanted THAT one. Damn the fact that he was well known. Damn the fact that you had to cheat to get him. Damn the fact that he was collared. Damn the fact that he was on a preserve. Damn the fact that he was so tame that people could see him. You know, people like me, who save all their lives for one chance to see a lion in the wild. Heck, you can afford a trip to Africa to poach any day of the week. You don’t give a damn about any of that. You stole something precious, and now you’ve been exposed, and you’re lying. I didn’t know. My effing ass you didn't know. You have hunted all over the world and still don't know the morals and ethics of hunting? I guess not. Once a poacher, always a poacher. 

Damn you to the lowest hell, you bastard. 

We have an extradition treaty with ZImbabwe, and I hope to god someone in D.C. has the balls to exercise it. 

WIth all your money, I'm betting you'll get some high octane lawyer to protect you and get you off with nothing but a hand slap. 

But the Net has been outraged by your murdering Cecil. Think of that, asshole. 

The Net has been awakened. All over the world.