Well put and sadly I think your dead on
Yeah for many years Mad Bob gave his supporters white owned farms, after he kicked the owners out of the country, and the new "owners" instead of "farming" would instead sell off the wild life to the highest bidder. Most of all Elephants, rhino's, and Lions. Farming took to much work and you can poach animals with little effort. So they kept on a few mouthpieces to be the media face of Zim conservation and laughed their arses off as they filled Swiss bank accounts with $$ from anything that bled.
Mugabe's bunch was kinda like the Mafia. They stuck together and prospered together for many years while feeding actual reformers to the crocodiles. Meanwhile the children of Zimbabwe starved and died. I mean who cares right? They kicked out the evil white people who were relics of the evil history of Euro empire in Africa. This played well with the left, whom Mugabe is a hero to. Children dieing be damned.
I know politics are not allowed but if this entire insane Zim "Cecil" story sheds light on the suffering of the people there, and the criminality of the Govt.'s who allow it, then maybe "Cecil" didnt die in vain.
Its still moronic to name a Lion. Wild animals should be allowed to live wild and free and if it takes sport hunting to ensure such a thing "and it does" then sport hunting should be encouraged. A poacher is a criminal, "assuming the country it happens in makes the distinction". Im afraid Zimbabwe doesnt. Back when it was Rhodesia it did, and back then the children were fed. It was a prosperous country.
Now its a crap hole. And a dentist is being blamed cause blaming a Dentist doesnt make you a crocodile snack in some nameless hole.
