African Hunting Outrage Campaigns Target American Hunters

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Someone is ginning up outrage campaigns targeting Americans who have the temerity to hunt - legally - in Africa. The latest victim is Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Blake Fischer:

https://idfg.idaho.gov/about/commission/members
https://www.idahostatesman.com/outdo...219758365.html
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoo...ng-africa-hunt

Mr. Fischer is in trouble for legally shooting a family of baboons in Namibia. Baboons are not well regarded by the locals and hunters as they raid crucial crops and spoil hunts:

http://ekujasafari.com/hunting-baboon-namibia/

In this latest case, Mr. Fischer did not post his hunting story and photos on FaceBook or another public site, rather he sent them out in private emails. But one or more former Idaho Fish and Game Commissioners took umbrage and his hunt became a public issue:

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/15/65748...oons-in-africa
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/us/bl...rnd/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/u...ng-africa.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...015-story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...unting-boasts/

Idaho Governor Butch Otter asked for Fischer’s resignation yesterday and got it. This says something about the gentrification of Idaho.

All of this comes on the heels of worldwide social media campaigns against some American women who have posed with African hunting trophies in social media:

Kendall Jones:
http://www.people.com/article/kendal...os-controversy

Melissa Bachman:
http://radaronline.com/photos/tv-hos...s-on-facebook/

Aryanna Gourdin:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...7ft-spear.html

This budding social media campaign against hunting in Africa deserves attention in the American hunting community both as a warning for circumspection, and as a clarion call.

It will eventually be expanded to challenge hunting in North America, probably commencing in Canada.

[Quads]

It amazes me that yet again, nobody has learned to STFU about your out of country hunt trip before the chastised return home.

This poor guy is getting dragged theough the dirt by the average bleeding heart with all the attitude and half the information.