Fuck off. twat.

The school debating society missing a real point winner there I fear.

Perhaps this will further ruin your day. As a result of events like the one above hunting attracted 9000 new participents last year.

Come Hunting - Learn the truth
Go Sabbing - Live in ignorance

look forward to kicking your teeth out

What's any of this got to do with swarf oil and the good old horse-drawn ways??

Yeah Henry, I'm totally ignorant cos I go sabbing...

I see the hunt and what a bunch of toffs or inbred ignorant bumpkins they are, i've seen a fox ripped apart by hounds, i've seen a horse break its leg and have to be "put down" cos the rider pushed it too hard. I;ve been nicked by the over zealous cops who are chummy with the cops.

I'd rather be "ignorant" than be a cruel scumbag like you.

Hunting has as much to do with the countryside as driving 4x4s. Having lived in the countryside for the first 18 years of my life I knew approximately ONE person involved in hunting. It has sod all to do with the rural economy.

There are very serious issues concerning the countryside - the closing of rural services, out-of-town big box stores destroying local jobs, corporate industrial farming putting small farmers to the wire, supermarkets doing likewise. The interesting thing is, the supposed voice of the countryside - the Countryside Alliance - is essentially a single-issue pro-hunting front group run by a group of capitalists who are heavily responsible for the afforementioned real countryside problems - see corporate watch's report:

 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/pages/Countryside_Alliance.html

Henry preaching to the unconvertable is a very stupid tactic. You will NEVER convince anyone using indymedia that fox hunting is a good idea.

JUST PISS OFF

... here's a snippet:

"The Countryside Alliance should be opposed for several reasons:


• Its staff have several conflicts of interest (see below) including links with corporations involved in accelerating rural decay.
• Obviously, it supports hunting and other cruel sports.
• It claims to care about all aspects of rural life, yet its structure, origins, membership and staff suggest otherwise: It remains an organization to defend field sports. (See below)
• It claims to speak for ‘the countryside’. In fact, it speaks for the leisure interests of the landed gentry and assorted business people.
• Its proclamations about how hard times are for rural people are fairly shameless considering the role that landowners and business people have played in making sure that times stay as hard as possible for the peasantry.
• Its funding and investments show a high degree of hypocrisy (see below)"

 http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/pages/Countryside_Alliance.html

SUPPORT THE COUNTRYSIDE!

OPPOSE THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE AND FOX HUNTING!

Countryside Alliance supports Hunting !

Really, are you sure ? Well bless me you're right. Investigative journalism at its most incisive. Of course the CA supports Hunting, but it is much more than that as even a quick look at the website makes clear.

• Its staff have several conflicts of interest INCLUDING LINKS WITH CORPORATIONS INVOLVED IN ACCELERATING RURAL DECAY.

• It claims to speak for ‘the countryside’. In fact, it speaks for the leisure interests of the landed gentry and assorted business people.

• Its proclamations about how hard times are for rural people are fairly shameless considering the role that landowners and business people have played in making sure that times stay as hard as possible for the peasantry.

• Its funding and investments show a high degree of hypocrisy (see below)



"Of course the CA supports Hunting, but it is much more than that as even a quick look at the website makes clear."

Read the Corporate Watch report (linke to above). The Countryside Alliance is SOLELY a pro-bloodsports group - the majority of key members are *actively involved* in accelerating rural decay. The Countryside Alliance is an active enemy of the countryside, except for the tiny minority who kill for fun. Its pretension to speak up for genuine rural issues is shameless Machieavellian realpolitk. As I said before, hunting is not a 'rural way of life' or similar nonsense, it is the bloody pastime of a well-funded minority who seek to co-opt the support of the very people who's livelehoods they are actively destroying.