KILLING KENDALL JONES

Oh yes, that nasty Kendall Jones shot the oh-so charismatic creatures in Africa, and because we love those animals so, the only logical thing to do is set-up a snuff page where we can all celebrate our love and respect for Gaia's creation by sharing fantasies about killing a 19 year old cheerleader.

Yeah Team!

Click image to visit the Kill Kendal Jones snuff page

Once again the Anti-Hunters prove in whose souls the hatred, intolerance and evil really dwells. Slag-off at Catholic priests as much as you will, but it is fast becoming evident - and by their own hand - who we should really strive to keep our children safe from.

The FBI and ASIO aught to be tracking the origins of each and every threat posted on this page and each party should be banned from all occupations that deal with children. If these people have children of their own, they should be investigated by authorities to determine if they are teaching their kids that death threats are a responsible way to vent one's opposition to something.

I've said it before and I will keep on saying it...the people who hate guns and hunting, hate them because they have looked into their own souls and found them dark, festering, malignant places, and having made this discovery they fear what they themselves might be capable of if armed.

There are one or two facts that must weigh into the Kendall Jones discussion, if only so that people whose opinions are emoted rather than being formed as a process of intellect, have something to summarily dismiss.

FACT: Hunters of today are not responsible for the plight of threatened and endangered species of today. In fact in many countries hunters provide the principle funding for all wildlife management and recovery efforts.

FACT: In the US, hunters - not green groups nor wildlife foundations - pay for the vast majority of all wildlife conservation efforts.

FACT: Most African nations can ill-afford the cost of animal welfare/conservation/restoration efforts, the funding for which is provided almost exclusively by people like Kendall Jones i.e. hunters.

FACT: People who break the law in order to take animals in the wild are not hunters. They are known as poachers - repeat after me, poachers - and they are reviled by hunters every bit as much as they are hated by the anti-hunting fraternity.

FACT: People who are big on expressing indignation and hatred for trophy hunters are very small on donating money in sufficient quantity to support conservation efforts at the coalface. Left to the emoters, poachers would have pushed many species beyond the point of no return decades ago.

FACT: Many of the charismatic species that are threatened today are in that state, not due to trophy hunters, but rather due to the pressures of local villagers who are apt to kill the animals for their nuisance value. Animals are not hunted in National Parks, but in game reserves, which are also inhabited by people who once routinely killed elephants to prevent them trampling crops, and decimated lions for fear of their children‘s safety.

However, since legal and regulated trophy hunting’s growth in popularity, those same villagers now have an incentive to preserve these animals. Hunting also provides an income through the licensing process (much of which goes directly to villages for community development activities) which allows villagers to develop strategies/infrastructure to keep elephants and lions at bay. In short, the animals now have a value which makes their antics more tolerable, thanks solely to trophy hunting.

FACT: The consumables (meat etc) from trophy hunting activities is dispersed amongst the locals who own the land upon which the animal was taken. It is arrogance and stupidity that assumes that because cat and elephant are not on the menu at your home, they are not traditional fare elsewhere in the world.

FACT: The vast majority of animals taken by trophy hunters are cull animals. For a whole host of reasons, wildlife managers decided that individual animals must be removed from the environment for the good of gene pools or to otherwise increase the productivity of breading programs etc. These animals will die! They can be killed by wildlife managers at a cost to the program, or they can be killed by trophy hunters who pay for the privilege of the hunt and for the animal’s butchering, dispersal, preparation and mounting, all of which means money to the program and local people.

FACT: None of the animals hunted and harvested by Kendal Jones were endangered species.

FACT: The Rhino, which the media claims she shot, was in fact tranquilised so it could receive treatment for injuries sustained during a lion mauling.

FACT: Reports that she shot a cheetah are also false. The cat identified by the media as a cheetah is in fact a leopard. Cheetahs are endangered and therefore not hunted by Kendall or any other responsible hunter.

FACT: The vast majority of people who want to kill Kendall Jones and bring an end to big game hunting, have not, and will never contribute even as much as one thousandth of the funding she has contributed to conservation and community development programs that are making a real difference at the coalface.

FACT: It would be possible to put an end to trophy hunting in Africa tomorrow, and continue and perhaps even enhance conservation and restoration efforts, if only all the people who hate hunters so much would put their money where their oh-so-hateful mouths are and chip in a few thousand dollars each to the many programs that depend, completely, upon the money hunters currently contribute to wildlife conservation.

OPINION: People who think it is appropriate to speak of killing a 19 year-old girl because they do not approve of her culture and hunting activities, are every bit as foul, noxious, filthy, depraved and perverted as rock-spiders and those quaint little people who found personal validation and fulfilment in handing out towels at Auschwitz. 

Anyway, I'll get outaya way now....

Post scriptum: At 15:15 hours today, after a day of heated email communications and phone calls demanding that the snuff page be removed, Facebook finally saw the light of day and pulled it down. How long it will take the author to repost the hate page with a slightly less inflammatory title is anyone's guess, but one can rely on Facebook to tolerate that new page and the evil sentiment expressed on it, just as long as its promoters don't include words like 'kill', 'murder', 'shoot' etc in the title.

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