Remember
this: We are drowning in a narrative of non-sense.
The
issue against and for trophy hunting has become the media blitz, much
like Baby Jane, who was stuck in hole. Every couple of seconds, the
public was updated, but Baby Jane just wasn't budging. Finally she
was freed from her conundrum, much like my dream of the public being
freed from the current narrative of lions, hunter-poachers, and how
ultimately, Africa should step up.
On
this same episode, Georgia Pellegrini was cooking lion meatballs. She
stated Americans were becoming more adventurous in the exotic foods
they eat. No
one, as I can remember, likes to find out they are serving cat or dog
at a local restaurant. From what I see, I would beg to differ to some extent.
Pellegrini stated lion meat was a little chewy.
No
girlfriend, I don't want the lion's meatballs. Someone, somewhere
does because it has a market. Everything you can think to put in your
mouth and digest has a market.
Georgia
Pellegrini is one of the rare people I put on my anemically thin
lists to be interested in enough to follow. She's a positive.
I
am trying to feel out the trophy hunting scheme through questions
based around its representatives, self-appointed or not.
Here
I would like to shake my head and wag my finger at the false report
of Jericho being killed by the media. Shame on you, my friend, shame
on you.
I
was watching an episode of a news broadcast with Bob Barker. Bob is
supporting the stance of calling for a bounty on the head of the
dentist alleged to have killed Cecil, the Lion. Come on Bob, don't
stoop down to everyone else's level.
Grabs
popcorn.
There
was also this new face, to which I was never aware of, called the
Italian Huntress, Sabrina Corgatelli. She desires to be famous, so
now she is. She is infamous and represents herself as the Nelly
Olson of Hunting. A very beautiful woman, with a mean spirit, who
walks about town, rubbing her entitlements in the faces of people,
while she could care less if she ruins other hunters privileges.
Come
on girlfriend, stop making yourself and hunters look bad.
Add
her to the list of female hunters, as poor representatives, and let
us move on to the next person on the conveyor belt of mediocrity.
Would someone please push the OFF button?
This
storyline began to look like dirty, streaked underwear you pull from
the spin cycle that never gets clean. Those underwear belong to
someone else, but there they are in your hands for you to clean; a
stain that will not come out.
I
put my eye glasses down. I felt the area between my eyes, which was
pinched with tension. Not another one......
What
ever happened to hunting and just being happy with that?
I
considered Sabrina Corgatelli. Yes, she has a lot of trophy animals.
Her life seems to be awesome but....I wondered at the quality of how
each one was garnered when considering what I had been told about
African hunting. Add in the way the alleged hunting of Cecil ended
with a lure on a truck hood. Now more people are speaking out about
the routes to which foreign hunters actually get their tag fill in
the way of trophy hunting.
I
also considered the reality that Mrs. Corgatelli is just expending a
lot of energy hitting back at strangers in the rouse of a fight.
Does
it make sense to have a self-appointed defender of trophy hunting,
when the attitude is derogatory to maintaining the benefits of trophy
hunting itself?
How
does a huntress go about defending poachers. Yes, the events started
out as hunting, but ended as alleged poaching. Before speaking,
should one make sure of the legalities of the accused parties before
opening one's mouth in defense of them? Once again, how do you defend
poachers? Where does the line between one's concept of the ethics and
morals of hunting exist, as it is trickling down the leg, when it
comes to defending the wrong priority?
Are
hunters encouraging bad behavior by standing to the side, ignoring
the damage it could eventually inflict to us all?
What
exactly is Corgatelli trying to achieve? Is this the best way for her
to achieve it for herself?
Right
about now, I am not seeing this as a benefit for hunters-at-large. It
reminds me of farting. It makes a big sound, smells really bad, but
dissipates over time. In reflection, it is only considered a humorous
joke to laugh at by spectators. The guilty party farting either
giggles while flaunting their putrid smell, or shuffles away to
ingest some Gas-X, much to their chagrin.
I
asked myself, “Is everyone trying to be the Clint Eastwood of
Hunting?” If the person is not trying to be Ernest Hemingway,
Daniel Boone, or Fred Bear, who are they really?
Is
not the cup brimming over with a magnified example of the worst human
kind has to offer, in the way of behavior and actions on everyone's
part?
I
see the problem as this: the mental and verbal attitudes and actions
of hunters posting commentary with photograph. This is what fuels the
gap between non-hunters and hunters. It is no more than an elementary
school yard fight.
How
many people have you seen in the hunting community, hold the red
fabric up so the bull will charge directly at them?
The
matador is standing inside the ring with a Toro. In the reality of
social media, you are not going against one lone animal in the
tundra, with the advantage of a lethal weapon. You are pitting
yourself against a million social vampires, who will swarm you, and
bleed you dry. They need only smell one drop of blood to draw them.
This
has become a train wreck that will eventually end up in our homes,
polluting up our lives, and eventually making it hard on people
hunting, who are not standing on a dry hill, waving their hands for
celebrity and attention.
What
do we consider hunters as, when hunters intentionally make themselves
targets?
Where
did humanity's ability to think and assess problems to find solutions
go? Why is there no diplomatic way to deal with the issue of trophy
hunting asides from calling for murder? Why can people not act like
intelligent human beings in times of crisis? Why do we attack each
other as a first response to anything that would bring about
conflict?
Why
is Africa not stepping up to deal with their problem, that is
happening on their soil, at the expense of American dollars?
Should
the person, who is merely an instigator with a gun, be held up as the
representative for all who hunt in asundry? If they self-appoint
themselves, can we fire them from the job no one hired them for?
Does
there come a point when hunters in mass say to the hunting
participant doing us all damage, “Just stop talking. You are not
doing us any favors by using your position in life to make hunters
look like instigators, entitled spoiled brats, and people willing to
do anything to put their face out in the media, in the most negative
way possible.”
Could
this be possible?
I
saw a post that stated, “When you find yourself digging a hole,
stop.” Someone out there is not just digging a hole, it is a
crater. That crater is going to be just like the hunting pits of old,
where all the hunters are being pressed over the edge, metaphorically
speaking, just like the wild game hunted.
Then
again, it could be where some thugs show up and dig your grave
outside your house to scare you into backing off. In this case, some
of the trophy hunters are outside their house digging their own hole.
This
will come home to roost because legislation will change to fit the
majorities belief that something is dreadfully wrong and something
needs to be done about it. Think about the gun control issue.
I
could also go into questioning the News media. Should not the News
media be looking at individuals to ascertain if the person they are
about to expose to the masses, is indeed a relevant narrative, or
National Inquirer sensationalism.
I
remember loving to watch the news because of Walter Cronkite, Dan
Rather, Ted Koppel, and Connie Chung. Where did the great news
anchors and journalist go? Did they jump on the boat with Bilbo and
Frodo to go to the never-never place of Keebler Elves?
Has
humanity come to the end of the road where journalism is concerned?
There is no other story writ, or are we waiting on the next
catastrophe?
Somewhere
in my head, I hear Rita Skeeter speaking,
“As
hunters, are we just as guilty for standing by and letting what will
happen, happen? Concerned!”
Written
by: W Harley Bloodworth, Concerned Citizen
