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Hunt monitors call for Cheshire Forest Hunt to control supporters

North West Hunt Saboteurs Association | 27.11.2005 12:43 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool

A hunt supporter was today (26/11/05) being sought by police in relation to an allegation of Criminal Damage after a hunt saboteur was attacked and had his video camera smashed as he monitor attempted to film the hunt.

Hunt monitors call for Cheshire Forest Hunt to control supporters after monitor is attacked and video camera smashed

Saturday 26th November 2005

A hunt supporter was today being sought by police in relation to an allegation of Criminal Damage after a hunt saboteur was attacked and had his video camera smashed as he monitor attempted to film the hunt. The incident occurred as the Cheshire Forest Hunt met at Peover Hall, Over Peover (near Knutsford) which also serves as the hunt kennels. Hunt saboteurs were present to monitor the hunt and film any incidences of illegal hunting, as they believe the hunt have been attempting to use the cover of a bird of prey to mask attempts to continue hunting in defiance of the hunt ban. The incident comes just 4 days after the kennel huntsman of the Avon Vale Foxhounds was arrested for attacking a hunt monitor and taking their camera.

Dawn Preston a spokesperson for the North West Hunt Saboteurs Association stated ‘Here we see a blatant attempt by a supporter to prevent hunt monitors from checking on the activities of the hunt – who we believe are breaking the law and continuing to literally hunt our wildlife to death. If they have nothing to hide why on earth do they feel the need to attack people who seek only to ensure that the law is being adhered to? This attack doe nothing but confirm to us that we are right to continue to devote time and effort to the Cheshire Forest Hunt, and makes us doubly determined to capture evidence of illegal hunting and pass it to the police as is necessary.’

She continued ‘The hunt monitor was simply filming the hunt when a supporter attacked him by taking hold of him around the neck, and attempted to snatch the video camera off him – breaking it in the process. We believe this was a desperate attempt to try and prevent us from getting evidence to show that the hunt are blatantly hunting illegally. The police attended the scene and a statement was made to the above effect. Police are now looking to detain the suspect for questioning, and we look forward to further helping them with their enquiries.’

For further information on the North West Hunt Saboteurs Association please visit our website at www.nwhsa.org.uk

ENDS
26/11/05

North West Hunt Saboteurs Association
- e-mail: info@nwsa.org.org
- Homepage: http://www.nwhsa.org.uk

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Further proof

27.11.2005 14:25

Further proof that the so called Hunting Bill was a sham, there are now more people hunting than before the ban !!!!!


We need to campaign for an end to ALL blood sports in this country. Shooting is next after that Fishing and then a move toward making Britian a meat free country

Katie


"A meat free country"

27.11.2005 15:02

What does a "meat free country" mean. Are you suggesting compulsary veganism ?

I agree with you about the Hunting ban, we were totaly and utterly conned on that and yes we do have to start again with a new campaign but fishing ? There is not a hope in hell of that passing.

We got public support on Fox hunting because we were able to convince a gullible and misinformed public that by and large "toffs" hunted and the working class didn't (not true of course but that doesn't matter in the greater scheme of things). With fishing it's a different story, millions of working class people fish, it is the largest participatory sport in the UK. No government will pass laws banning fishing, not going to happen ever ever ever

Geoff


How will you end meat eating?

27.11.2005 16:50

I'm all for humane treatment of animals, but the latter comment is rather silly. I take it you will simply seek to outlaw meat eating? And have a sort of veggie tyranny? Get real it will never happen!

Steak Lover


Ignore 'Katie' and 'Geoff'

27.11.2005 17:21

They're clearly the same person trying to be clever.

Eau de trollette


Good old Dawn

27.11.2005 20:57

She's sounds such a staunch citizen with all this disgust at the breaking of laws. She is an example to others on this site who aren't alway so well behaved, and even boast of their 'direct action'. Does she vote Tory?

Pete


Animals hunt and kill each other by the way!

28.11.2005 09:50

If you didn't know animals hunt and kill each other for food. The ban on fox hunting is ludercrous. Fox hunting is also the best way to control the fox population as the fox is considered a pest by farmers and conservationists. Without fox hunting farmers and landowners would resort to shooting foxes so the ban on fox hunting wont save a single fox.

Realist


old chestnuts

29.11.2005 09:48

Once again the old chestnuts come out. For your information, most animals don't eat other animals. Ecology 101. In any ecosystem the biomass at each trophic level falls by a factor of 10. And even if some animals do eat other animals, why should we base our morality on carnivores, who have no choice in what they do? If we must choose an animal to base morality on, then why a carnivore? Nothing you say makes any sense.

And the worst pests are not foxes, they are humans. Foxes were in Europe first, and humans destroyed their habitat, and we are now destroying our own. So again, you are not making sense or being logically consistent unless you propose hunting of humans too.

Interstingly, pro hunters, not used to dealing with logic, tend to contradict themselves by firstly proposing that foxes are pests, then saying hunting is necessary to conserve foxes. Hello! Anyone there?



Michael Morris
mail e-mail: nezumi1@ihug.co.nz


Foxes here first

29.11.2005 14:21

So what if foxes were in Europe before man? The theory of evolution teaches us that the fittest survive. Foxes have failed to adapt to an environment that now includes man, and they must therefore suffer in an evolutionary sense, and perhaps even die out altogether. No species has a right to exist for all time. Species come and go depending on circumstance. Why should foxes be immune to this law of nature?

Dan


I dont know about u Dan

29.11.2005 19:27

But i think that the fact that we are supposed to be top of the food chain is coz weve been ableto evolve into a much more intelligent species. Now you and some of your friends have obviously remained in teh ice ages but its ok there are still plenty of caves for ou to go live in coz weve conserved them. Killing for survival is one thing but killing for 'sport' or tradition is one of the most ridiculous suggestions ive ever heard. Soon ul tell us witch hunting should be brought back. i'l tell u what why dont u let people who have really evolved do the thinking and just go back to trying to figure out what causes lightning and rain. P.S u got a dog or cat? maybe we should start kiling them too. I mean we are top of the food chain right.

Dan=Realists Dad?=Concerneds Uncle?=Voice of Reasons pet snake?


evolution

30.11.2005 03:40

It is always excrutiatingly painful to listen to the inane drivel of non-biologists trying to justify their actions based on a mistaken view of biological theory. The theory of evolution, as any fresher biology student can tell you, predicts ruthless competition *within* species. So, evolutionary theory is not an argument for fox hunting, it is an argument for getting rid of idiots and misfits among our own species. Pro-hunters would therefore be well advised not to use that argument, in their own self interest.

Think about it...

Michael Morris
mail e-mail: nezumi1@ihug.co.nz


apologies

30.11.2005 03:50

My last posting should read "within" not "between"

Michael Morris
mail e-mail: nezumi1@ihug.co.nz


Evolution

06.12.2005 17:20

A species will evolve as it adapts to different environments. Those members of a species that are best fitted to the current environment will tend to survive and breed the next generation. If all members of a species fail to adapt the species will become extinct. That is happening with whales as they fail to adapt to an environment containing a predator it can't deal with. Foxes are subject to the same rules. The world can manage without foxes and whales just as it manages without the dinosaurs that once were here. The world will be different, but not worse. Nobody is forced to kill foxes but to condemn those who choose to is to impose a set of values on others in a most authoritarian way.

Dan


moral relativism and evolution

07.12.2005 21:36

Dan

Using the same logic, evolution leads to survival of the fittest individuals in a species. Those species that contain substandard genetic material fail to adapt and therefore go extinct. It is therefore my duty (a well as being immensly enjoyable - strange how we always find that what we enjoy doing is also the right thing to do) to selectively kill the weak, the mentally ill and the stupid (hunt supporters qulaify on all counts). Nobody is forced to kill hunt supporters, but any attempt to stop me is imposing your own values on me in an arbritary way.

Michael Morris
mail e-mail: nezumi1@ihug.co.nz


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