i knew this went on

An American woman with a leopard shot in August, 2003 during a Buffalo Range Safari in Zimbabwe

and is still going on, not just in zimbabwe either but all over the globe. it makes me sick to think of someone shooting (for fun) leopards and elephants and all sorts of animals it's illegal to kill (or bring back the dead carcass or parts of the dead carcass of) to or in america. i can't help it but i think there is something just downright WRONG with these people who get off on the blood of these exotic animals. i have had many a discussion with many a hunter (the latest of which was yoga korunta. i'm know i pissed yoga off but i wanted to say i do NOT lump someone like yoga, a hunter yes, but a HUMAN, in with these exotic animal hunters). look at the picture above. look at that woman smiling with a once beautiful DEAD ANIMAL SLUNG OVER HER SHOULDERS. an animal it is ILLEGAL TO HUNT in the us (and other places). note that blood running down over her breast onto her trousers. go back up to her face again...........look at that grin

Shoot to Kill
Inside the hidden links between American big-game hunters and Zimbabwe’s Mugabe dictatorship.
By Joshua Hammer
Newsweek
Updated: 5:58 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2006
Jan. 13, 2006 - Jocelyn Chiwenga is not a woman to be taken lightly. The wife of Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, commander-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s army, Mrs. Chiwenga has earned a reputation in her own right as a vicious enforcer for President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Popular Front (ZANU-PF). In April 2002 she reportedly showed up at a farm outside Harare, the capital, with an armed gang and ordered the farm’s white owner to turn over his property to her or be killed, according to documents filed in a Zimbabwean court. One year later, Chiwenga accosted Gugulethu Moyo, an attorney for a pro-opposition newspaper, and beat her so severely that she had to seek medical attention. “Your paper wants to encourage anarchy in this country,” Chiwenga reportedly shouted as she punched and slapped the 28-year-old lawyer on a Harare street. “Chiwenga is as close to the center of power as you get,” says David Coltart, a parliamentarian and leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, the country’s main opposition party.
She also knows how to use her power. About three years ago, Chiwenga won an auction for a coveted lease on a 220-square-mile tract of bush, owned by Zimbabwe’s Parks and Wildlife Authority, located just outside Hwange National Park in southwest Zimbabwe. Abounding in the Big Five—lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard, and black rhino—Chiwenga’s property has since become a choice destination for professional hunters, particularly well-heeled Americans.
Now, Chiwenga’s business ambitions—as well as her political clout—have brought her to the attention of the U.S. government. Last November, the Treasury Department added Chiwenga, 50, to a list of 128 Mugabe relatives and cronies who are “undermining democratic processes or institutions in Zimbabwe.” The Treasury Department has blocked the assets of those on the list and established penalties of up to $250,000 and 10 years’ imprisonment for anyone who does business with them. And that executive order has put dozens, if not hundreds, of Americans who hunt on her land in legal jeopardy............