Essex Police assault and racially abuse Hunt Sabs
North and East London Sabs | 29.03.2004 12:41 | Animal Liberation | Repression | London
Essex Police acted as hunt stewards, assaulting and racially abusing hunt sabs at a meet of the Essex and Farmers Union Hunt in Maldon, Essex.
Hunt Sabs from London, Essex and Suffolk paid a visit to the last meet of the Essex Farmers and Union at Hill Place, Woodham Mortimer, nr Maldon, Essex, Saturday 27th March.
Saboteurs had pre- sprayed many of the surrounding woods and from the start had prevented the hunt from getting down to there business of murder.
This particular hunt have a long history of violent attacks against saboteurs (see www.huntsabs.org.uk/ ) it is also an area that has a very biased Police Force (The ex - assistant Chief Constable's wife used to hunt with The Essex Union).
During the day sabs had been ridden at by members of the hunt, but nearly all of the violence came from the Police. One sab van was detained by over 4 police vehicles, some of the sabs were then assaulted for not being passive enough to give over there details, one sab of Spanish origin was racially abused and assaulted. The driver was given a 7 day wonder.
Another incident involved 2 sabs being arrested on a footpath for breach of the peace, but after informing the Police that they were on a public footpath and that the hunt were not technically in the area the sabs were de-arrested.
A while later sabs were prevented from walking up a public footpath to meet the hunt by a line of police (the same unit that had assaulted sabs earlier in the day), again sabs were assaulted and a female sab thrown against a car. Another sab tried to film the incident but had his camera pushed away and was then given a 7 day wonder for the vehicle he was driving.
Sab vans were then escorted front and back by police vans driving at 10 miles an hour enabling the hunt to get as far away as possible.
The hunt were prevented from killing any foxes.
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Saboteurs had pre- sprayed many of the surrounding woods and from the start had prevented the hunt from getting down to there business of murder.
This particular hunt have a long history of violent attacks against saboteurs (see www.huntsabs.org.uk/ ) it is also an area that has a very biased Police Force (The ex - assistant Chief Constable's wife used to hunt with The Essex Union).
During the day sabs had been ridden at by members of the hunt, but nearly all of the violence came from the Police. One sab van was detained by over 4 police vehicles, some of the sabs were then assaulted for not being passive enough to give over there details, one sab of Spanish origin was racially abused and assaulted. The driver was given a 7 day wonder.
Another incident involved 2 sabs being arrested on a footpath for breach of the peace, but after informing the Police that they were on a public footpath and that the hunt were not technically in the area the sabs were de-arrested.
A while later sabs were prevented from walking up a public footpath to meet the hunt by a line of police (the same unit that had assaulted sabs earlier in the day), again sabs were assaulted and a female sab thrown against a car. Another sab tried to film the incident but had his camera pushed away and was then given a 7 day wonder for the vehicle he was driving.
Sab vans were then escorted front and back by police vans driving at 10 miles an hour enabling the hunt to get as far away as possible.
The hunt were prevented from killing any foxes.
Get Sabbing.
DIRECT ACTION WORKS
North and East London Sabs
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Sexist/Racist Essex Police Details
29.03.2004 17:00
PC Roomes 1101 of Essex police force completes the double-act by making sexual innuendoes at female protesters as well as the obligatory pushing around and dragging sabs by their clothes and targeting non-English people with abusive racism.
London Sab
HUNTING BAN WILL BE LAW THIS YEAR - MP
31.03.2004 22:25
HUNTING BAN WILL BE LAW THIS YEAR - MP
09:00 - 31 March 2004
A controversial Labour MP has said he is "confident" new laws banning hunting with dogs will be in place before the end of the year. Tony Banks, the former sports minister, says he and other anti-hunt MPs have been given "private assurances" that legislation banning the blood sport will be introduced in the summer. Late last year the pro-hunt lobby was given fresh hope when the Hunting Bill was left out of the Queen's Speech, taken by many as a sign that the Government would shelve the legislation for at least another year. But although the Prime Minister has yet to confirm in public that he intends to bring back the Bill, he has said the issue "would be resolved" before Parliament dissolves in November. And Mr Banks, a Labour backbencher and fervent anti-hunter, said he has been assured that Mr Blair will use the current parliamentary session to force a ban through. "I am confident the Government will be reintroducing the Bill in time for it to make the statute book" he told the WMN yesterday. "I have made regular checks with all the ministers to make sure I am not misleading people when I say everything is on track - we are going to see the Bill re-emerge." Should the legislation be introduced before Parliament's summer recess on July 22, there would be enough time for the ban to become law in 2004. The Bill ran out of time in the Lords last year after peers changed it back from a banning Bill to one that would allow some hunting to continue under licence. But according to Mr Banks, the Government is set to reintroduce the original Bill and an outright ban - meaning if the Lords were to reject it again, ministers could force it through using the Parliament Act. But Gary Streeter, Conservative MP for South West Devon, said Mr Banks may be "jumping the gun". He said: "In truth we are all waiting to find out what is happening. All we know from Mr Blair is the issue will be 'resolved' before November - but we do not know what that means. Mr Banks could be jumping the gun or making assumptions." A spokesman for the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance said yesterday that any move to bring back the Hunting Bill and force it through using the Parliament Act would be "challenged in the courts". More than 50,000 hunt supporters - including thousands in the Westcountry - have already signed declarations saying they will continue hunting after any ban is introduced.
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