It is quite a useful distraction, especially for US politicians like Newt Gingrich, considering that
- Jon Corzine of MF Global, stole $1 Billion USD from segregated client accounts, and never went to jail
- The US banks stole over $1 Trillion from people's savings accounts, by the Fed's artificially depressing interest rates at a special rate given only to banks
- The Greeks are being turned into slaves, and yes, some have died as a result of the EU/ECB's fraudulent banking practices using the Greek govt as a front to give money to the German and French banks, which otherwise might have collapsed
- Zimbabwe, where Cecil was killed, has seen its homicide rate go from 7 per 100K population in 1999 to 11 per 100K in 2011 - for a country of 14 million, this means that during the 1 week time period we have been hearing about Cecil, some 30 or more Zim *humans* have been killed - but let's all rage over a lion that is just one of many, many that are poached each year.
Yes, the dentist was an idiot to not check out that he was killing the wrong lion, then again, because he paid $55K he probably thought it was all on the up and up.