Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 11:32 AM CDT

Rest In Peace
and Long Live...

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 11:53 AM CDT

i like some of what he did but killing endandered species is not my idea of what makes a hero. elephant poaching is not taking from the rich to give to the poor, it is stealing from the genetic diversity of this planet

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 12:10 PM CDT

It\'s not easy being (or wearing) green.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 03:33 PM CDT

a local paper i read described him souly as a poacher. Interesting that his freedom fighter efforts were ignored by the mainstream press.

and his mustache let me tell you more like a handlebar with like puffs at either end.
That alone made him rad.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 06:10 PM CDT

it might be easy for those of you who have never touched a baby rhino who was later killed by poachers to gloss over this area of his life, but for me that is not an option. i grew up in Kenya and Burkina Faso and knew a family who ran a game ranch, so i have seen elehpants face to face and have also seen a pile of skulls of ones that were killed by poachers like him. i understand the economic factors involved in poaching, including that the poacher is on the bottom rung economically, but causing the extinction of a species is unforgivable!

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 06:21 PM CDT

i just want to add, i support hunting, when it is done for food and not of a species that is threated with extinction just.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 06:43 PM CDT

I too support hunting for food. However, this man was an elephant and sandalwood poacher. Endangered species poachers don\'t steal from the rich, they steal the future from everybody.

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Sure, in the story of Robin Hood, he was a poacher in the eyes of the Sheriff, but the animals of the country were not endangered.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 08:49 PM CDT

I would like to know is there any real history written about his poaching and how much of his llife was devoted to poaching, how much was he really receiving in money from poaching to give to the poor?

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 11:53 PM CDT

good comments.

is any killing \"good?\"

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20 2004 @ 01:28 PM CDT

Nice;) Yeah fuck the cops anyway.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20 2004 @ 02:07 AM CDT

BBC has better coverage of Indian banditry than any American press. see their archives on Veerappan.

also check out the story of Phoolan Devi, India\'s \"Bandit Queen\":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoolan_Devi


-r

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20 2004 @ 10:12 AM CDT

Did he really steal from the rich to give to the poor; was that his main purpose? Or was he a common thug who simply secured a sympathetic base so that he could continue on with a better chance at survival? We neednt champion every person just because they did some things we would consider good. Perhaps this person was a full time poacher and basically paid a pennence to the common people so that they would be sympathetic, always waiting for another share in the wealth from the poaching, killing, bribery etc. and thus not turing him in and in fact protecting him. Not saying that poaching makesd him evil or deserving of death; perhaps he was ignorant that he was in fact killing a near extinct creature. Perhaps he was so uneducated that he couldnt conceptualy understand any of this and was simply doing what he knew. I think you see what i\'m getting at. At any rate.....

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20 2004 @ 12:10 PM CDT

Q ) What do you call over a hundred dead cops in India today?

A) A good start.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20 2004 @ 10:47 PM CDT

responding to striders question, you shouldn\'t kill someone unless its your last resort or in self defense, of course

i dont see anything wrong with killing oppressive pigs in India though, but not all of his victims were bad people

everyone does some bad stuff in their lives, but he did help out a lot of the poor in India, and he should be applauded for those acts alone, even if he had to kill some elephants to do it

and handlebar mustache\'s are the best, im getting one when im 50

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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 22 2004 @ 06:24 AM CDT

i am from france.
the news of veerappans death is sad and heart breaking.the uneducated man with lots of brain and heavenly wisdom should have been caught alive and used for the betterment of the society.
it is a shame ofr the cops to have shot him, and this is a cowardly act.
had the cops had guts they should have tracked down in the forests.
hey! cops, my foot to u for killing a sick man.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, November 16 2004 @ 03:50 AM CST

a man that people say helps the helpless people went down ! ! who is correct ? the forces or the indian robin hood?

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