Seriously? A lion?

[*Awful Llama*]

(08-02-2015, 12:40 AM)StLucieBengal Wrote: How do you know he knew he was poaching?   If your hiring a guide your counting on them.    Sending him to Zimbabwe would be a death sentence.   Any jail time in their prisons is ridiculously hard....    Your acting like he slaughtered children and posted photos on Twitter.     I know you value this lion but it's not worth this man's life.  

It's bad enough there are people here actually going to his office and harassing him and his patients going in and out.    

If he did this to a person or a child I would agree with you that he needs to go back... But no way on this

I'm acting like no such thing.  That's you injecting personal beliefs (in this instance, a complete lack of regard for this animal and the effect on his pride) into the argument.  This isn't about my personal values or beliefs.  It's against the law to poach a lion.  Period.  At the very least he witnessed and benefited from a poaching, and he may have been actively involved.  See, you have a trial to sort out all of that sort of stuff.  He needs to face the charge and present his defense. 

And, at no time did I or anyone in this thread advocate the harassing of his family or patients.  That is wrong, and if anyone breaks the law in doing so, then they also should face the consequences of their actions.

You're producing anecdotal evidence about the treatment in Zimbabwe's jails.  If I produced anecdotal evidence about how, say, the police treat minorities in this country (and, I have a hell of a lot more than three Youtube videos to work with), then you'd be screaming about me painting all policemen with one brush.  And, I'm guessing that his treatment, as a white American with the entire globe watching, would be a lot better than any average citizen might get.  And, if that sounds liike a gamble for him, then I would suggest he shouldn't have been involved with the poaching from the outset.

(08-02-2015, 05:54 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

And this again and again.  He may very well have broken the law, so he needs to face the charges.