MaryJae
Cheney's Whole Hunt Questionable
RECEIVED Thu., Feb. 16, 2006
Dear Editor,
I know that everybody's concentrating on Dick Cheney's having shot a grown adult after mistaking him for a quail, but I'm having trouble getting past the fact that he was hunting without the right license. His office said that the check for $7 (that it would cost) is in the mail.
I think it's pretty ludicrous to go out and shoot defenseless little birds with shotguns unless you're starving, but if I or anybody reading this got caught hunting quail without a stamp, we'd be fined. Especially if the authorities found out after I'd shot somebody. Period. How is this not a big deal? It's like being pulled over for speeding while accidentally mowing over some pedestrian and assuming you can get off by offering to circle back and go slow next time. It's a little example, but it is yet another example of a smug, arrogant group of people who consider themselves above the law, not to mention decency or morality.
I know that everybody's concentrating on Dick Cheney's having shot a grown adult after mistaking him for a quail, but I'm having trouble getting past the fact that he was hunting without the right license. His office said that the check for $7 (that it would cost) is in the mail.
I think it's pretty ludicrous to go out and shoot defenseless little birds with shotguns unless you're starving, but if I or anybody reading this got caught hunting quail without a stamp, we'd be fined. Especially if the authorities found out after I'd shot somebody. Period. How is this not a big deal? It's like being pulled over for speeding while accidentally mowing over some pedestrian and assuming you can get off by offering to circle back and go slow next time. It's a little example, but it is yet another example of a smug, arrogant group of people who consider themselves above the law, not to mention decency or morality.
Scott Harris
