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Surrey Union Foxhunt - Caught Bloody Red Handed

Anti | 19.01.2008 00:13 | Animal Liberation

From the hunt Saboteurs Association  http://hsa.enviroweb.org/hsa.shtml
Not 30 miles from the politicians in Westminster; the Surrey Union hunt chased a terrified fox along the A29 and around Ockley village green before ripping it apart on the cricket pitch. This was the reality in England on Saturday January 5th 2008 (3 years after hunting was banned)



What does it say about the law when the most piss-poor hunt in the country can hunt with impunity under the noses of the police and manage to kill a fox in full view of horrified villagers and motorists. Using the same hounds, continuing to hunt where they know they'll find foxes, chasing them or putting them to ground, continuing to dig with terriers, they then expect you to believe this was an accident.

Anyone with any sense knows what is going on; it just needs you to do something about it. It's not trendy or easy, but you can make a real difference - Join us and stop the killing NOW!  http://hsa.enviroweb.org/features/joinleaf.html

HSA News Release 14th January 2008

Remember that hunting ban?

The Surrey Union foxhunt managed to kill yet again in public last Saturday 5th January. For the second year running they allowed their hounds to pursue and kill a fox in open view.

Last year it was after trespassing on a golf course at Newdigate.. This time it was in Ockley, Surrey. The hounds chased a fox into the middle of the village and caught and disembowelled it in the centre of the cricket pitch. The police eventually turned up after a 999 call and took a statement from a bystander who witnessed the horrific scenes as the animal was ripped apart by a full pack of hounds.

This happens almost every day the length and breadth of the country, but usually safely away from public scrutiny.

Hunt Saboteurs have to witness such scenes week in and week out, nearly three years after the Hunting Act came into force. Not surprisingly, foxhunts in England feel they are above the law. The Surrey police present in three vehicles on Saturday were miles away from the hounds when the fox was killed. The hunt packed up straight away, leaving the carcass in the village.

Based on the previous treatment of numerous submissions of video evidence, the police investigation will lack the gravitas and scrutiny it deserves.

Lee Moon, spokesman for the Hunt Saboteurs Association said: “Foxes are hunted and killed as if the ban never came into effect. By laying a trail through fox habitat, or having an owl in a box, the hunts can kill with impunity.

We have tried to let the law work, but with the police not interested, and a paltry number of cases brought to court, it has to be the time for a return to direct intervention; to no longer put up with the cosy relationship the hunts seem to have with the local constabularies; to make sure the wildlife of this country is safe from the barbarous practices of the past.

Animals are protected from hunts by law, but if the law won’t help them then hunt sabs will have to.”

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Comments

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Look At The Hunt Retards

19.01.2008 11:21

Wot a fat horrible wally retard and his tosser mate on the horse. Hunt scum, lock them all away and throw away the key.

Mother Natures Son


The only sad people are the sabs

19.01.2008 12:39

The saddest people of all are the hunt sabs. Haven't they got anything better to do on a weekend? They are fanatics who hate country folk and don't understand the country way of life. It is time they grew up.

Hunter


Hunt the sickos.

19.01.2008 13:32

It is clear that there is one law for the hunting set and another for the rest of us, no change there then.

When the ban (Ban what ban? I hear you ask) came in the system of hunt sabbing etc was relaxed in the vain hope that the law would be enforced. Time to organise and get active again. Don't let the sick bastards get away with it.

Reynard


Prison?

19.01.2008 14:08

Hanging's too good for wildlife killers.
Flog 'em first!

chaser


stop meddling in the countryside

19.01.2008 18:24

Hunt sabatouers are urban people who have no understanding of country ways. Hunting has been an important part of the countryside for centuries. Anti-hunters are predjuced to country ways. Fox hunting is as harmless as Morris dancing.

countryman


Blah Blah Blah BLah Blah

19.01.2008 19:19

You make all this talk of "I'm a countryman", but you forgot that a lot of activists (like myself) either live or have grown up in the countryside.

For a lot of kids its not hard to work out "where did the sheep go?", "what am i eating?"

Idiot. Take your violence out on yourself, not innocent creatures.

Vegan


Lords & Serfs

19.01.2008 20:31

The riders wear, such tight, scrotum, hugging pants, bunch of sick, kinky pervs.

Born Free


Country Ways? City Ways?

24.01.2008 15:00

I live in the city. Always have done. I have never sabbed. The people I met who have sabbed all live local or certainly in the same county as the hunts they sab. Most of them don’t like the city life at all. They have a good understanding of a countryside they have lived in all their lives which enables them to sab effectively.

Saying that people who oppose fox hunting don’t understand country ways is like saying that people who oppose urban teen shootings and stabbings don’t understand youth culture!

By tying your own perversion for killing wild animals for fun into a supposed wider attack on the country way of life you are (probably deliberating or maybe stupidly) obscuring the very real economic and social problems that exist in a country side fighting for a survival which has nothing to do with fox hunting. I doubt if country dwellers who need to be heard will thank you for that.

Me


fat horrible wally retard

25.01.2008 20:12

That "fat horrible wally retard" is actually a sab. Yeah, he's a bit fat and a bit old but he's been doing this since you were probably in short trousers and he's out every weeking actively stopping the persecution of British wildlife.

I say to everyone with strong anti-hunt feelings - don't just sit on the internet GET OUT THERE AND JOIN YOUR LOCAL SAB GROUP ----- WE NEED YOU. It is simple; the more people we have out sabbing, the more effective we can be and the less chance of events like these repeating themselves.

WE NEED SABS. THE TIME IS NOW. DO SOMETHING.

(full contact details can be found on hunt sabs site, Croydon sabs has pick ups from Brixton and other south london locations.)

Croydon Sabs
- Homepage: http://www.huntsabs.org.uk