And the Hunt goes on...
doopa | 25.02.2006 15:33 | Animal Liberation | South Coast
This month marks the one year anniversary of the Hunt Ban enacted by the Labour government to outlaw the "sport" of hunting with hounds. Despite the passing of this act, many hunts are continuing in flagrant disregard of the ban without monitoring or intervention by the police. Indeed in some cases when Hunt Sabs have arrived at hunts to monitor the activities of hunts they have been assualted, some times even by the police 1.
Hunt Sab activists have long been used to the need to take direct action to stop this barbaric activity taking place. Opponents have often argued, before the ban, that in a democracy people should be allowed to go about their lawful activity and that therefore sabs had no right to intervene. Since the ban the law has been on the side of the sabs and yet hunting with hounds continues and the police have proved reluctant to intervene to stop it.
This should serve as a clear reminder for those who argue for reform through democratic means that justice in modern democracies is not blind, rather it is politically directed. Politically motivated protest is increasingly criminalised and yet no hunt ban law breakers have yet to be convicted. This disparity in the enforcement of laws shows the real interest of the police.
Acts of criminal damage against sabs by supporters (2), have yet to yield any convictions although there has been one arrest ( 3). This should be contrasted with the heavy, proactive intelligence led policing used against sabs before the ban. If the Police and Crown Prosecution Service continue to fail to uphold the law then Hunt Sabs will revert to old direct action techniques to save the lives of helpless animals.
Audio of interview with spokesperson from the Hunt Sabs Association: Link mp3 file
This should serve as a clear reminder for those who argue for reform through democratic means that justice in modern democracies is not blind, rather it is politically directed. Politically motivated protest is increasingly criminalised and yet no hunt ban law breakers have yet to be convicted. This disparity in the enforcement of laws shows the real interest of the police.
Acts of criminal damage against sabs by supporters (2), have yet to yield any convictions although there has been one arrest ( 3). This should be contrasted with the heavy, proactive intelligence led policing used against sabs before the ban. If the Police and Crown Prosecution Service continue to fail to uphold the law then Hunt Sabs will revert to old direct action techniques to save the lives of helpless animals.
Audio of interview with spokesperson from the Hunt Sabs Association: Link mp3 file
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sorry materialists/maintream ameliorating game players I'll tell it as it is....
20.03.2006 02:50
In reality, I know this for certain from working on farms in North Wales. If a fox attacked a hen run for example, a geezer would be called out with two dogs who was capable of singlehandedly (with his dogs) of tracking down the animal in question, to the lair, and dealing with the 'problem'. All the noise the countryside alliance makes about needing more than this to control any fox problems is bullshit.
The hunt they are on about...clearly seen in lowland UK, by the massed ranks of red coated geeks on horseback..the ceromneial/entertainment hunt....well they are playing war games. When not actually at war, this is the way this crew would entertain themselves...in a realistic way. The enjoyment they get from this is a function of the ritual abuse of the wild animal...of the goddess. A totally 'plastic shammanic' trip as the native americans call this phenomina. This is why its so difficult to get them to stop....its literally a perverted addiction, generated and maintained by this ritual abuse of the wild dog, a sacrement of landownerworld...in particular livestock farming world....which again is inherently clearance orientated in terms of people and trees. Again the ritual abuse suppresses and contains this actual trashing of indigenous reality (be it in England or Wales), by this (essentially) british disease.
I would suggest the sabatarge of offending landowners diseal supply by contamination would cost them huge amounts of cash if this was done in a way that could not be proved but still sabbed the machines.
You have to also understand animal rights people that the native american traditional tribal whale hunts originate as an event from the actions of the dieties, the event originates from the 'dreamspace', from creation; and not some sort of anti pagan/goddess aspect ritual abuse. I hope this is clear because the anti Makah etc campaign is an evil distraction from the actual problem....the Western trip.
Blessings.
King Amdo
Britain's Hunts should not be monitored by anyone other than the police!!
28.11.2006 17:07
Krisi Herbert
since hunting bill it has got worse
08.01.2007 22:56
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net
police dont need to monitor hunts they are banned
08.01.2007 23:32
peter ambler
e-mail: spondontyres1@derby1 .wanadoo.co.uk
Police on the side of the hunt!!
24.02.2007 11:22
Don't be fooled by the police!!! The hunt terrorised my sheep while a police helicopter hovered overhead. The poor animals were so terrified they broke through a fence. No apologies no help from the police despite my continued request - they could see the poor animals were rushing round terrified. People and animals come second to the hunt in the polices book.
Carol Kemp
e-mail: cmkemp@btinternet.com
Homepage: http://Suffolk
you call hunting a sport
17.11.2007 23:45
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net
how can you ban a hunt most hunters are wealthy /police chiefs/and mp.s
27.12.2007 13:22
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net
how can you ban a hunt most hunters are wealthy /police chiefs/and mp.s
27.12.2007 13:23
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net
hunters are usually ego hunters .no bottle to go to war
27.12.2007 23:20
peter ambler
e-mail: tigger1946@fsmail.net