Apparently Cheney did not have the appropriate $7 Texas hunting license.
While the Vice President and his entourage were able to blackout the shooting for 24 hours, apparently they figured they’d better have a license, as proving whether or not the Vice President had one wouldn’t be so difficult to find out, unlike the facts of the shooting.
Without public police reports on the incident, events could have unfolded any number of ways and the public wouldn’t know. It was only after 24 hours that a local paper reported the shooting.
Would any of us normal citizens get a 24-hour press blackout if we shot someone in the face? Cheney, like others in the Bush cabal, think they are above the law.
Irresponsible hunting goes hand-in-hand with unlicensed hunting. Without licensure, inadequately trained and prepared hunters are more likely to hurt other hunters. Cheney’s absence of a license shows a disregard for the responsibilities of proper hunting. A shoot-first attitude is negligence.
An absense of respect for the value of government procedures may have led to the shooting. Could we expect those responsible for Katrina, prisoner torture, and illegal eavesdropping to abide by the law where they are personally concerned? In this case neglect of and disrespect for licensing law may have created an atmosphere where manslaughter could have easily occured.
And who’s to say the shooting happened the way it did? A delaying blackout is just the first of any number of distortions/manipulations of the press for which the Vice President is famous. Why stop with Iraq? Perception management has always been for domestic political purposes. In this case Cheney avoided catching flack on the Sunday news shows by burying a story of how he, unlicensed, shot someone.
Apparently Cheney did not have the appropriate $7 Texas hunting license.
While the Vice President and his entourage were able to blackout the shooting for 24 hours, apparently they figured they’d better have a license, as proving whether or not the Vice President had one wouldn’t be so difficult to find out, unlike the facts of the shooting.
Without public police reports on the incident, events could have unfolded any number of ways and the public wouldn’t know. It was only after 24 hours that a local paper reported the shooting.
Would any of us normal citizens get a 24-hour press blackout if we shot someone in the face? Cheney, like others in the Bush cabal, think they are above the law.
Irresponsible hunting goes hand-in-hand with unlicensed hunting. Without licensure, inadequately trained and prepared hunters are more likely to hurt other hunters. Cheney’s absence of a license shows a disregard for the responsibilities of proper hunting. A shoot-first attitude is negligence.
An absense of respect for the value of government procedures may have led to the shooting. Could we expect those responsible for Katrina, prisoner torture, and illegal eavesdropping to abide by the law where they are personally concerned? In this case neglect of and disrespect for licensing law may have created an atmosphere where manslaughter could have easily occured.
And who’s to say the shooting happened the way it did? A delaying blackout is just the first of any number of distortions/manipulations of the press for which the Vice President is famous. Why stop with Iraq? Perception management has always been for domestic political purposes. In this case Cheney avoided catching flack on the Sunday news shows by burying a story of how he, unlicensed, shot someone.