Cheney breaks key hunting rules

[BobMorr]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0%2C%2C-5616828%2C00.html

No hunting stamp and not aware of what he's shooting at.

[skylarmae]

1. there is also the point of the 'height off the ground' of the shot

as well. Far too low for bird hunting, I understand.

[ClayZ]

2. He is not an honorable hunter/sportsman!

Cheney's "PARTY" 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants! HOW SICK!
(Karma's Eye is on the Sparrow)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1215-07.htm
Published on Monday, December 15, 2003 by the New York Times
After Cheney's Private Hunt, Others Take Their Shots
by Elisabeth Bumiller

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's Christmas card arrived in the capital's mailboxes last week with this suddenly apt quotation from Benjamin Franklin: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

Franklin made the remark at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to argue that because something as small as a sparrow's death comes to God's attention, clearly God has a voice in the affairs of men. Therefore, Franklin argued, a prayer should open the daily sessions held to write the founding document of the United States. (Franklin lost the argument, but his passage won a place in history.)

All of which brings us to Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.

As a result, a lot of other people noticed the fallen birds: hunters who pursue birds in the wild, the Democratic presidential candidates and the Humane Society of the United States, which likened the shootings to the first day of the Iraq war.

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