Yes, for a fact, Cheney DOES INDEED participate in canned hunts.

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03343/249105.stm

Cheney in region for a day of small-game hunting

Tuesday, December 09, 2003
By Rebekah Scott, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

One of Washington's big guns came to Westmoreland County yesterday for a day's shooting at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township.

For the second time in two years, Vice President Dick Cheney arrived at daybreak at Arnold Palmer Airport in Latrobe. Air traffic was halted briefly at about 7 a.m. as Air Force Two landed and Cheney's security detail loaded him and his favorite shotgun into a Humvee and drove up U.S. Route 30 to the exclusive country club.

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Cheney shot more than 70 ringneck pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks. The birds were plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight to Washington, D.C.

John Smith, law enforcement supervisor for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said he was alerted to Cheney's day-trip. Rolling Rock has a game-raising program worthy of a second-in-command, he said, and unlicensed bird hunting is legal this time of year for guests at private clubs.

Scott Wakefield, a dog handler at the club, said about 500 farm-raised pheasants were released from nets for the morning hunt. The 10-man hunting party that included Cheney shot 417 pheasants. The vice president was set to hunt ducks in the afternoon.

more at URL above.

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

1. Well, let's hope that his family really needs the food...

... or that Cheney contributes the food to the really needy. yeah, like pheasant is what hungry people really need...

Otherwise, the whole story is just gunpowder masturbation, no?

[Gman]

4. Yes, you're right on the money

A real hunter only takes what he needs and no more.

Actually a real hunter would never do a canned hunt. A canned hunt is more target practice with live targets. I've no respect for that as hunting whatsoever.

[f-bush]

6. Unless hunting is your only source of food...

then I am against all hunting. Guns cause problems; guns and alcohol cause huge problems; guns, alcohol and taking someone who is not your wife can cause even worse problems. Cheney is a royal shithead and through this whole mess he confirmed it!

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

2. thrill kill kult--that's who's in charge of you and me and all our friends

sik

[hughee99]

3. My understanding is that Kerry's campaign photo-op

was also a canned hunt, though he does seem to have a very good record on wildlife issues.

"WASHINGTON D.C.; DES MOINES, Iowa--Hunting chiefly for votes, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry shot two cage-reared pheasants in under five minutes at a Halloween photo-op near Colo, Iowa. The bloody ritual paid off on January 19, as Kerry polled 38% at the Iowa caucuses, the first showdown with rivals in quest of the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination."


http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/04/1/huntingVotes1.04.html

[Appalachian_American]

5. Well, I guess that's why Dick knew it was a photo-op.

He knows about those canned hunts.

[sandnsea]

8. I don't think so

He hunted on the McKinney Farm. Doesn't sound like the kind of place that would have a canned hunt. Does sound like the kind of place where they'd know where the pheasant were.

http://www.offenburger.com/bwpaper.asp?link=20051114

[Benhurst]

7. So Cheney's a butcher, not a hunter.

Not really news.

[theHandpuppet]

9. The American taxpayers are paying for these little jaunts

So Cheney uses AF2 for these "day trips" to "exclusive country clubs" where he can indulge himself in a little slaughter?? Um, and just who's paying for this crap? Yep, WE ARE!!!!!

[theHandpuppet]

10. I guess folks on Maryland's Eastern Shore had better watch out

Since Cheney, Rumsfeld and whoever might be next among the Bushreich are busy buying up properties on MD's Eastern Shore, those folks can now look forward to hearing the sound of shotgun blasts morning, noon and night as Der Chimperor's Inner Circle will be hosting their little slaughter fests at the new Bushreich retreat. Just follow the signs along Eagle's Nest Road and take a right at Wolf's Lair Lane.

What a shame that a place of such natural beauty and variety of rare species will now be bespoiled by those whose only appreciation for nature comes at the end of a shotgun barrel. I'm sure the local wildlife will also appreciate the sprawling compounds (no doubt with the kind of impenetrable fencing which destroys natural habitats), fleets of Humvees, helicopters and such which will, of course, be mandated by the presence of such environmental dignitaries.

If folks really want to stop Cheney's bloody slaughter and save at least one small piece of America's fragile ecosystem, I suggest the folks in the great blue state of Maryland work like hell RIGHT NOW to stop canned hunting in Maryland.