Why the world hates Walter D. Palmer, Cecil the Lions killer

     Wally..can I call you Wally? I will whether you like it or not. No, wait. Wally sounds like a nice guy, a harmless guy who only kills dandelions. That, Walter D. Palmer, you are NOT.

     Walter, you are probably holed up in some expensive motel under an assumed name. I’m betting this because you aren’t stupid enough to be hiding in your sumptuous cabin on one of Minnesota’s many lakes. How do we know you have one? Every rich guy in Minnesota has one.

    You are being hunted, Walter. How very ironic, that you, the world’s most famous poacher, are finally learning what it feels to be hunted by an implacable, unreasonable, and infuriated enemy.

    That enemy is us, Walter.  Everyone in the world.  Not just everyone who loves lions, but people who see you for what you are more than just a poacher.

    You are an exceptionally rich man. Anyone who can afford to poach the hundreds of animals you have is rich.

You are the poster child for everything the poor hate about the rich.

You, being rich, have never considered that laws of ANY country, laws covering ANYTHING, apply to you. That’s fairly typical of the rich. The rest of the planets human population, us “little people’ can’t even imagine doing the crimes you have done. Why? Because we know from bitter experience that the law punishes the poor, and protects the rich. That’s how it works. We GET that. We’ve seen it too many times to not see it. Remember OJ Simpson, another murderer? He got off because he had money. Everyone knew he butchered his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

     He got off because his lawyer was well paid. Had OJ been just some street thug who stood on a white girls’ back and almost completely cut off her head would be on death row by now.

    Well, that’s you, Walter D. Palmer. You’re OJ Simpson all over again. Murdering something because you want to.   

     We know that you will get yourself a bunch of high octane lawyers who will fight for you. They’ll cost a shitload of money but you have it. They know it. They’ll defend the devil himself for a lot of money. They will fight your extradition. One of them will contact the Zimbabwe government and pay someone off and the official word will be “We have decided to allow the US Government to prosecute this rich white poacher’. And you’ll be home free.  That will be it, as far as legal prosecution goes.

We the poor people of this country, who are already paying your share of the taxes, will pay for your defense, as well.

    But it’s not over, Walter D. Palmer, Cecil the Lion’s murderer. Oh, no. Because there are many people who hate you for other reasons.

    You’re a rat. What were the first words out of your mouth? “They made me do it. My guides did it, not me.”

Here’s two bozos, a white ‘guide’ without a lick of morals and ethics and his black cohort in crime. You pointed your guilty finger at them. (remember, though, that three of your fingers point back at you.) Did they force you into the truck? Did they keep you from seeing the dead animal being towed behind it? Didn’t you wonder why you had to go out in the middle of the night and tow a dead animal behind the truck? Isn’t that strange? Did those two men force you to pull the string on your bow back and release the arrow that merely wounded the lion?

    Nope. You ratted them out because you knew from start to finish that what you were doing was ILLEGAL and unethical. It was wrong and you knew it, and like a pissbag snitch, the minute things began to unravel you blamed them. But that’s so typical of people like you, caught red handed doing something illegal, and pointing at your erstwhile companions to avoid punishment for your crime. It’s always worked before, right? Yes, because your money has always been your bulwark, your defense.

   Oh, they’re guilty as hell and I hope they rot in prison. But you need to be in that cell with them.

    You’re unethical and immoral. I came from a hunting family. None of the hunters in my family ever hunted after dark. They never killed an animal that we didn’t eat. They didn’t hire a guide. They did it themselves. From purchasing a license to humping the kill out of the forest, skinning it and cutting it up and using it feed their families. They didn’t wound an animal. They didn’t poach. If the sign said NO HUNTING they obeyed it. Unlike you, who doesn’t feel the need to obey laws. Laws are for the “little people’. Laws don’t pertain to rich folks like you. They are merely annoying little impediments to getting what you want.

    Let’s see. You’re a repeat offender. How many other animals have you poached, moved around to make it legal? Oh, wait. There’s that deal with the bear in Wisconsin. I bet he was a big one. You killed it and then moved it to a legal spot in Minnesota and then crowed of your achievement. What did you get? A $3000 fine? Pfffft. Three grand to someone of your wealth isn’t even pocket change. It’s a bargain basement blouse to the likes of the rich, i.e. Anne Romney. I’m sure the only reason you paid it…if you did, was because fighting it would have cost you more than the fine. As for the probation, I’m certain you blew THAT off, too.

     Apparently like most criminals, that didn’t teach you right from wrong.  Nope, being fined a paltry amount merely embarrassed you for getting caught. (bet you thought them dumb black folks in Zimbabwe are too stupid to catch on to your actions poaching Cecil.)

   Oh, what else. You’re a liar. The Safari Club or whatever that thing is you belong to has, I’ve heard, have kicked you out of their very high society. How many other ‘takes’ have you lied about? How many other times have you managed to kill an animal illegally? They’re looking at that, and not just because they don’t condone poaching and lying. No, all your rich fellow “big game hunters’ are covering their asses. The firestorm is not abating and anyone who wants to boast about what animal he just killed is going to shut the eff up. There is a very real possibility that your actions have ruined it for every other rich white ‘hunter’. They’re not very happy about you right now, Walter. Because we know you’re not the ONLY Safari Club member  who cheated, who lied, who poached. You merely outed yourself..and them.

   You’re incompetent. How many animals have you wounded with your bow and arrow? How many other animals dragged themselves off to die, in agony and fear?

You’re not a “hunter”. You’re a “shooter”. These living creatures are nothing but SCORES to you.

    Which is another reason we want your head on a wall. This whole thing is nothing more than a very expensive video game to you. It’s a SCORE to you. You look for your name amidst the Safari Club’s list of ‘big game hunters’. There’s Walter D. Palmer. He murdered an elephant. A polar bear. A tiger, lions, grizzlies, Kodiaks, the whole effing zoo. If it’s large you want to kill it. More points. The biggest elk, that endangered  Marco Polo Ram. If it’s big and glamorous, you want to kill it. If it’s endangered, you want it even more.

   There’s another part of our hatred for you. You already HAD a lion. But you wanted a Black Maned Lion. More points. AND because you heard that  CITES was considering putting lions on the Threatened list. That’s one step above Endangered.

Oh, shit, you thought, better go get ‘my’ black maned before it’s even MORE expensive to ‘take’ one. Better go get “my” black maned lion while they still exist. While it’s still ‘legal’ to kill them.

     The whole concept of conservation to you, Walter D. Palmer is that it is meant to keep rich pusbags like you from extracting what you want from the world and its wildlife despite the their incipient extinction. You don’t want to have to justify your murdering.  There IS NO JUSTIFICATION for killing an endangered animal. None. They’re dying out as we speak and you don’t give a damn, you want it, eff you world, you are going to get it. You’d be the one to shoot the last ivory billed woodpecker just to be able to say, I GOT ONE.

    Oh, there’s more. You’re mealy mouthed. You can’t bring yourself to say the truth: that you KILLED the lion. Your phony, insincere apology of “I didn’t mean to “TAKE” that lion.” You haven’t a shred of remorse. Your apology is akin to “I’m sorry you feel that way”. I bet you were smirking when you said it.

     You are smart enough to know that most people don’t like hearing that lions are being killed for pleasure, for sport. So you said “take”. Take. Like Jimmy Kimmel said, you “take” an aspirin. You, Walter D. Palmer, KILLED a lion that didn’t have it coming.          

     Let’s be so soft soapy about it, huh. You don’t want be thought of as a KILLER, so you soften the word by saying “take”. This demonstrates how little regard you have for the rest of us. Do you think we are so stupid as to not know the difference between Kill and Take? You’re like some spoiled brat who steals a car and then says, It’s just a car. Why is the owner so angry, I didn’t ‘steal’ it, I just took it. He should be ashamed of making me feel bad about myself.

   Which leads us to the idea, the very idea of killing a lion for fun. I don’t like the idea of assholes shooting wolves because they hate them. They’re no better than you. But what did that lion do to you that made you spend a $100K (I know that’s what it cost you, total) to go and shoot a lion that did nothing to you?

    That lion was in a NATURE PRESERVE. Obviously you understood the ramifications of that, Walter D. Palmer, because you were complicit in the luring of Cecil from its protection in order to murder it. That lion KNEW he was safe in the Preserve. A lion doesn’t live for 13 years by being stupid. But he’s just a lion. He doesn’t understand boundaries. He doesn’t understand that Walter D. Palmer wants his head. Literally. And all because it’s partially black.

But being the rich, privileged member of the Republican 1%, you didn’t let something as insubstantial as a couple of words on a sign stop you. You wanted that lion and weren’t about to let an imaginary border stop you from stealing the lion from the world.

   And WHY did you think it was okay to steal and kill a lion from a protected preserve? Because all the other lions have already been killed. Lions outside preserves just don’t exist anymore. They’ve been wiped out. You wanted a black maned lion and didn’t give a damn where it came from. You want it, therefore it’s your god given right to ‘take’ it.

    You, Walter D. Palmer are also a thief. Poacher, thief, just two sides of the same coin. You’re no better than the mugger who knocks over a little old lady to get her purse. You STOLE that lion. You stole it from the people of the world, people like me (a poor person) who will never in his or her life be able to afford a trip to Africa to see one of the last lions on the planet. I see them on TV or in a zoo. That’s all I can afford.

  

Why are you hiding, Walter D. Palmer, Poacher dentist from Eden Prairie,Minnesota? Are you AFRAID of us poor people, us folks who pay your taxes?

Is the big bad poacher a chicken?  (People of the world, hide your chickens. Walter D.Palmer will be looking to shoot it in the night. And not because he wants to eat it. No, it’s because..well, it’s because it lives.)

   Like so many other disgusting, terrible things that happen, this too will pass. Soon we will forget. Most of us will, that is. I won’t. Many like me won’t. When your name pops up on the news or the net we will be infuriated all over again.

   And when the last lion on the planet dies, it will be because of the likes of you.

     You explained your need to murder innocent animals because ‘you don’t play golf’.

Well, maybe, Walter D. Palmer, you should. Because then, the only thing that might die will be your monumental ego.