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Dentist Who Killed Cecil Hires Armed Security Guards After Vandals Sack Vacation Home

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Americans are generally apathetic to real news, like say the fact that there’s a bloody, four-year civil war raging in Syria or the fact that the monetary Politburo housed in the Eccles Building has plunged the world into the darkest imaginable recesses of fiat money insanity by printing $3.5 trillion over the course of just seven years, but some stories do manage to capture the public’s child-like imagination, and the tale of Cecil the lion is one of them. 

For those who haven’t turned on a television in the past three weeks, all you really need to know is that a Minnesota dentist "accidentally" shot a protected lion while on safari in Zimbabwe.

It turns out that Cecil is (or "was") a tourist favorite and once word got out that Walter Palmer (the dentist) had killed him, the backlash came fast and furious as former patients papered Palmer’s office with threats and people across the country rallied around a petition to have him extradicted to Africa to face lion murder charges.

If this all seems surreal to you, you’re not alone but just to demonstrate how truly enthralled the American public has become with the Walter witch hunt, consider the following from NBC who reports that the dentist’s South Florida vacation home (specifically the garage door) was tagged with the words "Lion Killer!" while marinated pigs’ feet were left in the driveway to roast in the hot Florida sun.

The South Florida vacation home of the dentist who killed Cecil the lion was the target of vandals, police said, after someone spray-painted "Lion Killer!" on the garage door last week.

 

Marco Island police are investigating who tagged the home of Walter James Palmer on Friday and also left a trail of pigs feet covered in a red substance on the driveway, NBC station WBBH reported. A jar of lion-shaped cookies was also left outside the home.

The situation has reportedly become so bad that Palmer felt it necessary to hire a private security firm to protect his interests. Here’s NBC again:

The American dentist who shot Cecil the lion has reportedly hired a private security firm staffed by armed ex-cops to protect his home.

 

Walter Palmer contacted the Global Investigative Group after his Florida vacation home was spray-painted with the words "lion killer," and what appeared to be marinated pig's feet were scattered in the driveway, The Associated Press and New York Post reported.

 

"We have armed investigators on the property, we're setting up covert cameras, we're documenting all license plates," Walter Zalisko, who heads the firm, told the News York Post. "Every investigator is a former police officer. They are all highly trained, armed with handguns and are all licensed by the state of Florida."

So now apparently, Cecil protesters will be shot just like Cecil if the step on Palmer’s vacation home lawn. 

Because this story largely speaks for itself and in fact is quite illuminating when it comes to explaining why the American public is so easy to manipulate, we’ll simply close with what we said on Sunday regarding the petition to have Palmer exported to Zimbabwe: 

So in the end, we suppose the only question for Obama will be how to explain the fact that, as we reported on Thursday, the death of Cecil, as well as countless other lions, elephants, rhinos and other animals, is solely as a result of the Zimbabwe government's corruption. A corruption, which the US government knew all about, and despite the fact that Washington knew US hunters were killing not only elephants but lions, the government's only real concern was the "serious risks that Americans could be implicated in smuggling and poaching operations."

 

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Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:04 | 6397633 robertocarlos
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He's dead. It's just a matter of time.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:05 | 6397637 Silverhog
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Obama "If I had a cat, it would have looked like Cecil"

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:13 | 6397652 williambanzai7
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At this moment, thousands of Cecils are attempting to arrive on the shores of Europrole by boat.

cecil

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:49 | 6397918 Global Douche
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Thumbed-up! As usual, WB7 keeps a lazer-sharp focus on the Real News. Carry on, sir!

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:09 | 6397666 optimator
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Really nothing President Obama can do about thedentist, but  if it was a Kenyan lion he could make a citizens arrest!!

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:09 | 6397667 clade7
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The good doctor evidently knows people all over the world, and he has that dentristry skill, so he should scamper if he still can...live large and kill a few Narwhals..now theres a trophy!

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:10 | 6397680 Wahooo
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This is what's in store for the oligarchs. Powerless to stop the people.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:35 | 6398321 L Bean
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I have to say that in spite of all of the obvious which has already been stated, about both the relevancy and irrelevancy of the entire story, there is a core truth being realized, and this is also in spite of the facebook apparati driving the narrative. 

I think people are subconciously responding to "the nerve" of this dentist, more than anything. The nerve of being so obnoxiously, exhibitionistically rich; it's seen as fiendish and righteously so.

Honestly, I think the inequality angle is much larger than anyone's willing to admit. The $55K number is just too close for comfort for most people, they can't disassociate it from their own YEARLY income average. And here's this guy blowing a year's salary every few months just to kill the most beautiful and majestic creatures on earth.

The average person very rarely sees an honest accounting of what the rich really get up to. They see the cleaned up version, via reality real estate tv. So imo, this safari business is definitely a glimpse into the abyss, and the pr people involved in deploying this story for "distractive" purposes may be surprised that it brings some things into even clearer focus, rather than clouding the horizon.

What can I say, I'm a dreamer.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:12 | 6397688 Joebloinvestor
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I would have sympathy for the guy if he hadn't tried to destroy the GPS collar and notified officials instead of getting the fuck out of the country and not saying shit to anybody till SHTF.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:17 | 6398613 rtinder
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There would have been no fair justice in that African shithole. Smart move to exit shithole for the U.S.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:12 | 6397691 22winmag
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Meanwhile, countless human die for less.

 

These "animal rights" people at nucking futs. Most of the ones I've met are demented human haters.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:25 | 6397763 Mike Honcho
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Precisely, this level of news is part of the mind control the simpletons are under.  Big topics like  planned regional destablization cannont be understood.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:34 | 6397821 22winmag
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You must be a mind reader!

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:16 | 6397715 detached.amusement
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"We have armed investigators on the property, we're setting up covert cameras, we're documenting all license plates," Walter Zalisko, who heads the firm, told the News York Post. "Every investigator is a former police officer. They are all highly trained, armed with handguns and are all licensed by the state of Florida."

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So all one needs is a bunch of money and thhey can hire their own band of LEGALIZED mercenaries?  got it.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:52 | 6397937 Global Douche
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To an extent, this is Belleview, Kansas at 2AM in the morning with their cops using license plate readers at the hotel.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:16 | 6397717 Occams_Chainsaw
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I hear Lion meat tastes a bit like Bald Eagle.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:18 | 6397723 To Hell In A Ha...
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I care not one iota for Lion-O, or is that Mumra? I mean Cecil and those who vandalized his house would be castrated if their was any justice, as justice by the mob is a disdain I have. Nevertheless, the dentist is not an idiot and knew exactly what he was doing, was illegal and the trophy he desired came at the cost of conservation. Extradite the cunt to Zimbabwe and let him serve a few years in jail, for the CRIME he committed. If the dentist killed Cecil, Tarzan style in fig-leaf, bare chested, carrying a single knife for arms, I would not extradite him.  On a serious note, a 6 year prison sentence with full time served will be a deterrent and lesson for other little big men.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:19 | 6397733 ZippyDooDah
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Maybe, just maybe, the U.S. needs more vigilante justice, not less.  Just sayin'. 

Insert your favorite target here __________________. 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:25 | 6397760 cn13
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Alan Greenspan

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:30 | 6397791 Quinvarius
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You don;t mess with a man that eats lions.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:32 | 6397801 The Wedge
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While I didn't really like seeing the trophy pic all over I'm sure there are Africans who couldn't care less that one lion is gone as they still are predators and drag people off into the plains all the time. But this story illustrates the hypocrisy we all have in some way or another. The notion that humans, animals, the world, the universe or the sky wizard (if you believe) for that matter, find life precious is laughable.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:36 | 6398424 Benjamin123
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The hypocrisy is to say obvious lies such as "all life is precious". No one believes that.

If a creature is big, endangered, furry, huggable or lovable, then it is precious and has rights. Thats an actual belief many take to heart. Pigs dont qualify.

 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:47 | 6398457 Vullsain
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oops

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:51 | 6398742 Citxmech
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If you've spent any time with them, pigs are pretty darn lovable.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:43 | 6397892 Bear
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You don't mess with lion blood ... after all their DNA is 96% human

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:51 | 6397920 messystateofaffairs
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Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:49 | 6397921 messystateofaffairs
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Why single out the dentist? All Americans are poachers courtesy of the hypocritical US foreign policy.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:00 | 6397986 the6thBook
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Would love to go to their house and paint "pig killer"!

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:06 | 6398009 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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A world where a fucking lion life is more important than humans one.

What about war, poverty and corruption ?

You liberals are sickening, glad that I don't live in USSA !

Right now, I just want to shot three lions with an AK47 just for enraging you fucking retards.

Glad that this dentist hired gunman to defend his private property against liberals retards.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:25 | 6398407 Benjamin123
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What is a human being worth nowdays in the open market?

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:43 | 6398494 One Eyed Jack
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Planned parenthood could give you a to the penny price quote, I'm certain

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:18 | 6398618 Benjamin123
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It was a serious question. Im tired of hearing vague statements about how people are more valuable than animals. Lets put some numbers to it.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 17:55 | 6399164 FerretBrain
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Newsflash!  It was a serious answer!  Latest reports from PP are the high end is about $100.  You're kidding yourself if you think the going rate for regular plebs is really much higher than that except as a source for harvesting organs on the black market.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:41 | 6398489 One Eyed Jack
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I think that someone should acquire a Robert Mugabe permit

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:13 | 6398057 chosen
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I think the dentist should be dropped in the lion pit at a nearby zoo.  Actually, I think that should happen to all dentists, and most doctors.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:15 | 6398069 Lumberjack
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Organized eco-terrorism sponsored by:

WWF and the Clinton Foundation. 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:26 | 6398131 directaction
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Maybe those sub-Saharan garbage dump "nations" should quit issuing endangeres species kill-permits. 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:27 | 6398135 Dodgy Geezer
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So now apparently, Cecil protesters will be shot just like Cecil if the step on Palmer’s vacation home lawn. 

 

Good news for once, then?

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:28 | 6398137 Jack Burton
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He is fucked. He got on the wrong side of the world media for one. He has gotten on the wrong side of the issue of exotic wildlife for two. He also seems to be an arrogant twat, who settled a sexual harassment case with one of his female assistants. Her charges read like  the description of a totally arrogant idiot. To think, in the years 2010-2015, that he could harass a female employee in an office where often it was just him and her and get away with it due to that? She described him as refusing to stop after she made it known over and over again that she didn't want sex with him.

He is one of these fucks who thinks because he went to dental school that everyone else is beneath him and he should have his way in everything. Like killing a lion just outside it's reserve using bait stations! I hunt, if you are a cunt that needs to bait game, then you are a cunt!

What really hit me is how much money he paid to go kill a Lion. No wonder these dentists charge 1.200 - 2,000 dollar minimum to fix a tooth. In fact, it can easily go up to $3,000. Is it any wonder that half of America avoids going in at all costs.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:37 | 6398692 Caleb Abell
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"He is one of these fucks who thinks because he went to dental school that everyone else is beneath him and he should have his way in everything."

 

With rare exception, people go to dental school for the same reason: they applied to 50 medical schools and were rejected by all of them.  After that, they decided that they really wanted to be a dentist all along.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 17:12 | 6399004 chosen
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I think it was a Seinfeld joke:  What do you call someone who flunks out of medical school?  A dentist.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:28 | 6398142 One of these is...
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https://vine.co/v/OFvb59T2KIJ

Or you can shoot em..

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 13:42 | 6398196 kchrisc
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And while Zion had you paying attention to the plight of Cecil the dead lion, they were further plundering, imprisoning, enslaving, and murdering more of us.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..

 

Always about money, power, and division.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:03 | 6398314 Ruger556
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Guess it's ok for these "animal lovers" to brutally chop up pigs.. guess pigs are not animals

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:31 | 6398433 TIMBO Anti-Castro
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America is populated by savages.  Leave this guy alone.  He is a producer. 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:42 | 6398490 Vin
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To bad he can't shoot the vandals and hang their heads up as trophies.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:48 | 6398519 NoWayJose
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$50,000 for a legal permit. $10,000 to go back and forth to Africa. $1.5 million in legal costs to avoid extradition to Africa. $40,000 in home security costs. $12,000 in chiropractors bills from constantly looking over his shoulder. $400,000 a year in lost income from closing his dental practice. Mighty expensive lion.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 16:20 | 6398836 Vullsain
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Karma can be a fuckin bitch..

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:50 | 6398526 Peterus
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Cecil had a nice life, than got shot by an arrow, bled for many hours and after that died.
Unnamed chicken number 1240512 lived all his days in misery and confinement, than was ground up and served in KFC where self-righteous pricks felt so much better than that dentist hunter.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:44 | 6398713 Citxmech
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Hey, Auschwitz Farms can go to hell too.  Haven't eaten at KFC in over 20 years.  

Every time I see one of those battery cage trucks on the freeway I can't believe anybody would want to eat any of those poor, sick, abused, and over-medicated animals even if they didn't give a shit about animal abuse.  There is just no way that meat is healty.  

Plenty of outrage to go around for factory farm victims.  If ZH posted an article about the industry's lobbying for AgGag laws, a bunch of us would be all over it I bet.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:31 | 6398664 Caleb Abell
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Do lions taste like chicken, pork or beef?

I suspect they taste like kittens which are very similar to chicken.

I know that turtles have a unique tangy taste, but make sure you thick cut them like a filet.  And for a little added zip, use a touch of sriracha sauce.

In any event, lions, tigers, hippos, giraffes, rhinos and elephants will all go extinct because of people.  That being the inevitable case, what's so bad about enjoying a delicious lion burger while we can still get one?  Instead of ketchup, try some hoisen sauce.

Fri, 08/07/2015 - 02:27 | 6400325 it aint paranoi...
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A new employee at work was going around doing the get-to-know-you routine.  She had >12 cats.  She asked me if I like cats. 

 

I said it depended on the marinade.

 

I suppose the horrified look on her face should have given me a clue to not follow it up with a discussion on the need for most cats to have a good marinade due to their toughness, etc.

 

I never had the chance to tell her how tender kittens could be.

 

After that, no one ever voted for me to be employee of the month.  

 

 

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:50 | 6398735 Shirley Swanepoel
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Now he will know what it feels like being hunted down. Sucks yes?

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 15:54 | 6398754 Citxmech
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I'm sure the irony has flown completey over his self-absorbed head - unfortunately.

Thu, 08/06/2015 - 20:05 | 6399477 I Eat Your Dingos
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More drivel to fill the ZH news feed....not enough things going wrong in the world i guess

Fri, 08/07/2015 - 00:47 | 6400212 onmail
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As I said before the Doctors today act like butchers & murderers.

But this doctor has killed the beautiful lion because the lion could never give him any money which would make him rich to buy Lamborgini.

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