Hoo-Doo Part 3: The Conspiracy Sacrifice

Remember this: Sometimes it is best to determine that the decoy, is the decoy. Diversions are everywhere.

I have been keeping up with this Cecil, the Lion fallout. One of the most concerning developments is the asking of donations for Conservation after Cecil was found dead using the emotional state of the masses.

His body is not even cold in the ground, so to speak.

I began to turn this in a new way. It was ghastly what I saw, be it true or untrue.

Oh you have to love a conspiracy theory. Just for fun, here is mine.

Cecil, the Lion was 13 years old. What is the average age of a lion hunted for trophy? Males are hunted up to a minimum age to intervene due to infanticide. This is due to males killing the offspring of other males to replace their DNA in a pride. Cecil lived to be 13 years old. He was old for his age and made lots of cubs. He was also involved in a study that may have used hunters as variables to determine the effect trophy hunting and hunters had on given prides of lions or over a certain area in the study. The two went hand in hand, it would seem.

Hunting itself becomes a scientific variable to be considered. It is necessary to the given research that is directed at any animal. If the scientist makes it a part of the study. Hunting could be the facilitator of the research study in question.

A scientist can research the effects of trophy hunting on a given species to determine if trophy hunting indeed is beneficial or derogatory to Conservation.

Add to this, the other variable of watching a human population observing and becoming emotionally attached to a given specimen in a study. This specimen has been elevated over time to representative of that particular species. There are psychological ramifications.

Now, what if you have a known outfitter and hunter, with a reputation to do shady acts. These two are positioned in an area close to this old lion, and this lion is close enough to be lured over to a property. Luring the hunters the whole time, knowing they are going to do something bad. 

It is like a big piece of bait no man can resist. I say remove a bad hunter and outfitter, either way ethically and morally this was wrong. Not to mention a lack of the ability to make a sound decision during a hunt. If it were a set-up, it is like a mouse going after cheese on a mouse trap. Whack, goes the metal when it snaps.

Think about it.

How much damage, in chronological order, could the death of this lion incur? How can damage be swung to generate a benefit?

How easy would it be to spin a story to the media and drive it to an controlled outcome?

This is what I thought just for interest in conspiracy theories:

Retire a 13 year-old, aged lion from a research study using a bumbling hunter and his outfitter. This is one way to remove a bad outfitter and hunter from a landscape.

Subtract out the landowner, who can't control the hunter or the outfitter, once on the property. Eventually, this person will most likely not be prosecuted.

Scientists decide they need to remove Cecil, the Lion from the landscape because he has aged and done his due. Would he have eventually been sold as a trophy hunt like the black rhino? One wonders...

What now, if Cecil's death is a part of the study to observe the law of lion society? Will the scientists let the remaining cubs die? Will they take the cubs to another place?

Are the scientists using this as another variable of death by misadventure at the hands of a hunter? Because of this, are the scientists going to change their parameters for the research study itself?

Does life go on now? Will the general public get updates or will it all fade to black?

In this article, it is stated Cecil, the Lion was seen moving toward a hunting concession. Why did the scientists not warn the hunters in the perimeter to stay away from this lion?

http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/07/30/oxford-cecil-the-lion

If it were me, I would have been getting the word out on my research subjects.

Here you have again, an outpouring of funds from the United States. Where is the African monetary support?

Also in this article, is the admission by the statements about the discovery of people's thought on the death of one lion. I would say this is limited to the events around this one lions death; not the fact that there will be trouble in the lion pride due to the ring leader dying. Think of the ramifications. If this if fueled by emotion generated by the the act in which the lion die, people will not be thinking clearly. It is off-the-cuff reaction.

If someone watched Cecil, the Lion and knew what direction he was moving due to luring, how hard would it be just to 'let him go'?

I wouldn't be surprised later after the death of Cecil was leaked to the media, someone yelled, “Gold Mine.”

I hope something good comes of Cecil, the Lion losing his life. It would be a disgrace if he were sacrificed up in order to get more money.

Given the airlines embargoing trophy imports and exports, the death of Cecil, the Lion puts a dent in the narrative, which shifts from hunting being beneficial to detrimental upon Conservation efforts while undermining scientific research projects.

After Cecil, the Lion dies there is an outrage from the given public. This outrage generates interest in donation via the non-profits asking to help through monetary contributions to fund research and conservation efforts. Well meaning people are now being targeted by different conservation groups and non-profits banking on the windfall of funds brought about by the manipulation of the emotions of people infused to the end of trophy hunting, animal abuse, ethically and morally wrong acts by hunters, and so on. 

Cecil dies tragically, the bad guys go to the jail, the scientist make bank, and trophy hunting finally dies because it might not be of any more use in conservation efforts per studies done by scientists. Some would argue trophy hunting is of no benefit to Conservation.

Of course, none of this could be true. All of it is starting to look shady from my pine branch in the woods as I squirrel around for an acorn.

If you were going to make a tragic hero in a narrative beloved, what is the best way to do him in? Once put under the knife, so to speak, how would you elevate the tragic hero into the hearts of the reader?

Even I am getting tired of seeing dead lions everywhere, online.

Life seems to be one person or group acting just as bad as another.If Cecil, the Lion is loved so much. Why not removed his off-spring, raise them elsewhere, and re-introduce them back into the wild? Give them a fighting chance...just this once for the sake of all those people who paid out the nose to donate to the Conservation of African Lions.

I was aghast at the thought, “Was Asland sacrificed? Again?”

Crickets chime up in wee voices, “Grassy Knoll!”

Written by: WTF, Conspiracy Theorist

Take all you can and give nothing back. ~Cap'n Jack Sparrow~

I am not doing the work for you. Look up this kind of stuff to get what I mean:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6979/full/nature02395.html

The Cecil Hoo-Doo: Part Deux

Remember this: South Carolina Highway patrol quote, “Ignorance is not an excuse”.

Disclaimer: My personal opinion on this tragedy is: It was poor judgment compounded by malicious mischief that killed Cecil, the Lion, if indeed it was Cecil. The lion was a collared, protected animal involved in research for the propagation of lion species in Africa. I am concerned this is going to be one of those weird situations where the whole story is going to be swung as a lie, fed to the media to cause further problems. Media outlets are not just avenues for malicious mischief used by the media itself and per-users. Sensationalism is not something I want to be caught up in. Observe, read, digest; not read and rally the ignorant villagers to grab for the pitch forks and shovels then burn Frankenstein out of his windmill.

Onward.

I read an article entitled, Dentist Claims He Didn't Know Lion He Killed Was Protected by Marie Szaniszio. I rolled my eyes. Not again.

I thought, those professional African hunter-outfitter-guides are making hunters everywhere look like (there are no words here). One source stated Theo Bronkhorst of Bushman Hunting Safaris Limited and the owner of the land was named as Honest Trymore Ndlovu of Antoinette farm were involved, if not the instigators. Makes you wonder how long this sort of thing has been going on.

The dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, is alleged to have killed Cecil, the Lion during a professionally guided hunt lead by alleged Bushman Safaris in Zimbabwe. Strangers are putting stuffed animals on the doorstep of Palmer's workplace. I would say keep that money spent on stuffed animals and donate to conservation efforts in Africa. The problem with this is conservation efforts in Africa are being usurped by shady individuals.

Instead of letting the authorities do their jobs, the activist police are taking it upon themselves to dole out some kind of social punishment in the form of public shaming. If these people had a wooden stock from Puritan times, I am sure they would put this man in it, then toss refuse at him. This shows the tendency of violence is just as bad as potential to do harm. You are no better than the target you hate.

One must remember that people involved in social internet witch hunts can turn their sites on anyone (innocent or guilty) and destroy that person's life. No one is stopping witch hunt participants from doing harm. This is a form of lawlessness and not being held accountable for consequences and behaviors persons may exhibit or generate via social media. These behaviors can transmute over into public life by approaching targeted individuals on their property to dole out some kind of retribution through confrontation they have no business getting involved in.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

I am not writing this to go over the shame/tragedy of a protected, collared lion being gunned by a paying trophy hunter. There are plenty of articles out there to feed the frenzy. I decided this might be better in parts. First you have to get hoo-doo'ed into something. Then comes the event actually happening. Third is the fall out---enter witch hunt.

Learn something from everything.

To refresh this from the article, Palmer paid $50,000 for the nighttime hunt. A dead animal was used as a lure to get the alleged animal off a protected area. It was wounded, tracked, killed, skinned and beheaded. The hunters attempted to destroy the collar but didn't destroy the tracking device. This shows malicious intent. Using reason here, destroying the collar alleges to malicious intent on the part of all involved.

If I were the scientist and found one of my tracking collars in a state with the animal dead separated in such a way, I would have been furious. I wanted to study big cats when I was younger. I can understand the love one could have for a big cat. It is not a love like one has between a domesticated pet and owner. I can only imagine how upset the scientists were when they found the collar. All that time, research and beloved specimen, gone.....

A couple of bumbling hunter-outfitters had stolen hope. Hope to improve a dwindling species's existence.

Maybe there needs to be a check-in station between hunters, outfitters, and scientists where visuals can be presented with a dialogue between both groups as to what should and shouldn't be hunted.

I would think, when utilizing the African landscape for hunting, it wouldn't be too hard to google all those Big Cat conservation sites to see what people adore. It is right there on the internet, in living color. Ignorance is no excuse when you have the world at your fingertips.

Pretty much Dr. Palmer's life by his desire and actions during a hunt has made a crater in his life. Also, the actions of a group of liars help dig that hole deeper. If Palmer commits suicide because of all the pressure he is under, whether he is a good or bad man, causes persons involved to be no better than what people think Dr. Palmer is.

This statement is not to defend Dr. Palmer, but it is the reality of how you can become the very thing resented. It is a disturbing trend in current culture. There is a no-point source of public-induced potential murder of an individual. How can that be right either? How does one claiming to be for the safety of animals and people, call for the outright murder of an individual, while not giving him his due process?

The problem in the articles is: It is alleged. This means the general public still needs to wait for forensics to determine if the head goes to the body. What if, in this strange reality, on that very night, a second group of hunters lurking on the zone line between properties, shot and killed Cecil, then slunk off into the dark for someone else to get the blame. If Palmer's group was participating in this way, why not another group? Palmer states he “thinks” he was the one. What if he weren't the guilty party? There was also the Spaniard, who was ruled out. Someone still killed the lion.

Who knows what the actual truth is by now? What if it turns out to be wrong? Now the flood of hate is causing more damage than intended. Do people just push away their keyboards and shuffle on to pretend they had nothing to do with the outcome? Is it that easy to disassociation oneself from socially hate-induced catastrophe to a human being?

I don't agree with the behavior of the hunters killing Cecil. Nor do I agree with the behavior of the general public.

Someone is going to argue the 40 hour tracking session of the lion could be opportunity for a misdirection. I would love to read the actual report of this debacle. People can do a lot in 40 hours.

Who dunnit?

Stranger things have happened. What if? This has to be beyond a shadow of a doubt. News media will release events before the truth is confirmed. By then, someone is ruined. No one apologizes for it either.

Palmer's party states they tracked the wounded animal for 40 hours. A lion is walking around with an arrow in it or not.

Here my thoughts are: If you use a lure tied to a vehicle, then shot it with a bow and arrow....how can this be called hunting? 

Who would do such a thing to cause a significant blow to hunting itself? 

Palmer would have to state he saw the hunters take the collar off the lion and try to destroy it.

Why is this energy not directed at opening a dialogue with the government of Zimbabwe for allegations of corruption and selling of wildlife for monetary gain in exchange for foreigners to hunt. Why is there not a system in place to indicate who is a licensed hunting outfitter in that area or Africa in general? I know there is a website for professional hunters in Africa.

What is going on in Africa?

I thought somewhere in all that mess there will be a loophole. The loophole of luring the lion off the protected area onto what is private property. Once off, is it no longer protected? I did read one article that stated the landowner didn't have a permit or quota for a lion to be hunted on his property even though representatives for Dr. Palmer stated his permits and paperwork were in order.

I think this same thing can be found in the states. Once outside the protected area, a collared animal can be hunted. I would have to look again to see if regulations have changed but...it could happen.

Dr. Palmer has hunted lions before by his trophy photos. I ask myself, how may lions do you have to hunt to be satisfied? Was going to those lengths worth it?

Dr. Palmer is out of $50,000, all those years of dental school, his reputation, his practice, and his ability to hunt. The possibility of all this potential loss isn't worth the hunting of a lion.

I thought this was a very bad example of hunting shenanigans. If a hunter keeps hiding behind the legality of hunting, eventually that legality will change to not protect hunters acting badly.

It would be an experience to get to Africa, observe what is going on, talk to the people and scientist who live with these problems everyday. It would be nice if hunters would start a dialogue with other hunters who are making the rest of the Hunting Nation look bad. This, makes it harder for everyone. It wasn't even a person against hunting but a hunter, a landowner, and an outfitter who caused the backlash of killing a well-known collared research lion.

This is why I do not want to hunt Africa.

I also wonder who is next?

Written by: W Harley Bloodworth