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WARNING: May not suit certain tastes.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 12:34 am
by Redhand
Seems the politics usually end up on here somehow and not in the political forum...so here ya go:

Nigel Owens, Chairman of the Northern Ireland Springbok Club,
writes..............

FOX HUNTING - THE VIEW FROM ULSTER

As our nation collapses around his complacent ears, Blair and his red
bolshevick associates are more concerned with sacrificing innocent lambs to
the cruel wolves on the left of the Labour Party, than they are in actually
doing something to help the country.

Militant homosexuals can have rights - but fox hunters cannot.

Terrorist murderers can have rights (providing they are the right kind of
terrorists and loved by those brain dead dinosaurs who worship the Guardian
and snooze on the Labour backbenches) - but fox hunters cannot.

It's ok to have an abortion - but you can't go fox hunting. You can kill a
baby, but don't you dare kill a fox.

Failed Assylum Seekers / Economic Migrants have rights - but fox hunters do
not.

Burglars have rights - but fox hunters do not.

Abu Hamza (Hookie) has rights - but fox hunters do not.

It is ok to hold a conference at Finsbury Park Mosque commemorating Sept
11th - but don't you dare go fox hunting!

It's more or less legal now to take drugs in this country - but the
government wants to outlaw fox hunting. Perhaps the police might be better
employed doing something useful like fighting drugs?

The government can tolerate disgusting scum like Jeremy Harding and even
allow him air time on BBC Radio 4, but they cannot tolerate fox hunters.

The 'travelling community' (as they are now called) have rights - but fox
hunters do not.

The rantings of George Galloway are tolerated - but fox hunting is not.

Satanists are even tolerated - but fox hunting is not.

I think that, after being in power for so long and achieving so little, this
Labour government really should find something more important to do, and do
it now.

When the poor fox hunting protestors in Parliament Square were set upon
heavy handidly by the police, the Daily Mirror showed pictures of the
carnage, triumphantly gloating "now they know how the fox feels". Well,
well, well, I think we all know that the whinging Daily Mirror would be
singing a different tune if the protestors in question had been gay rights
activists, feminists, republicans, anti-war protestors, CND, Muslims,
students, Sinn Fein backed 'residents groups', etc. Then again, this all
goes to suggest that the ban on fox hunting has nothing to do with fox
hunting - it is all just yet another golden opportunity to bash the decent,
hard-working, patriotic, conservative tax payers of this land.

It is alright for republican and atheist MPs to take their oath, swearing by
Almighty God to be loyal to the Queen, and then go on to sit in the House of
Commons (despite the fact that we know they are lying, don't mean what they
say, don't believe in God and seek to bring down the monarchy). I remember
some time ago watching Tony Benn take his oath when he was in the Commons,
it all seemed like such a joke. Labour MP Tony Banks, just prior to his
spell as 'Sports Minister', took his oath, held his hand in the air where
everyone could see it and smugly crossed his fingures. What utter contempt!
Were any of these people removed from the chamber? No. Was the law
enforced? No.

People like that can enter the House of Commons chamber illegally. They
have been doing so for many decades now. But, whenever pro-hunt activists
enter the chamber illegally - all is urgency and alarm! Especially on the
part of those valient class warriors who fester and fail on the government
benches, spreading their poisonous influence and destroying our nation on a
daily basis.

We live in a land where the only people who possess credible amounts of
firearms and ammunition any more are drug dealers and the IRA. Perhaps the
government may wish to try doing something about this problem rather than
focusing on fox hunting.

And then to top it all off, the British Council (a body which travels the
world promoting Britain to overseas investors) has announced that they are
removing the Union Flag from their logo - apparently it gives the wrong
impression.

What does this all tell me? It tells me that the ban on fox hunting has
nothing to do with fox hunting.

It has nothing to do with logic, animal welfare, 'decency' (as if the left
would know anything about that) or anything else.

This smacks of a political decision, made overwhelmingly by people with a
chip on their shoulder who utterly despise all that is part of our great
British freedom, heritage and traditions. Most of all, many of them despise
people who have done well in this live and have ammassed great wealth.

So, whenever the government do move to fully enforce their law with full
rigour against against the persecuted, law abiding, tax payers of the fox
hunting fraternity - lets see them enforce the law against their own back
benchers who lie every time they take their oath of loyalty to God and the
Queen, so that they can sit in the Queen's parliament and draw their
salaries in currency with the Queen's head on it (which of course they want
to replace with the euro).

Blair has stated that he wants to 'destroy the forces of conservatism'.
This is only the beginning.

May God bless the Conservative patriots of the English countryside as they
now fight - England's Drumcree!



HUNTING - SOME LAWS SHOULD BE DISOBEYED

By Rodney Atkinson

Dateline 22nd September 2004

The anti-democratic nature of the Blair Government and the arbitrary nature
of their laws is no more evident than in the passage of the Bill to ban the
hunting of foxes with packs of dogs. It is necessary to emphasise certain
words in this description of the Labour Party's Bill because it is the very
selectivity in the targeting of this law which shows how obnoxious it is.

The legislation is not backed up by objective research. A Government
financed enquiry concluded that there were no grounds for banning fox
hunting on the grounds of cruelty. The ban has nothing to do with the
preservation of the fox since they will be shot and gassed in possibly far
greater numbers in future: it has nothing to do with cruelty to man or beast
- otherwise boxing, halal meat and battery chickens would be first to be
banned and fishing should have been included in the legislation. With no
objective and balanced judgement there remains only prejudice. No just law
can arise out of popular prejudice and unjust laws should not be obeyed.

Some would like to compare the Labour Party's banning of hunting with the
Conservative Party's closure of the coal mines. But miners were not
targeted, no one banned the use of coal and the Government's only worry was
the enormous economic cost of the subsidy. The miners were doing a dangerous
and unhealthy job, costing the taxpayer billions and costing other workers
their jobs The hunting business is a healthy, job creating sport which keeps
one of nature's most vicious animals under control. The only barbaric thing
in fox hunting is the fox - as many a headless lamb would testify, killed
not for food but for the apparent pleasure of the fox!

SPECIFIC TARGETTING OF THE LAW

No, the criteria chosen for this political ban (specifically hunting,
specifically with hounds, specifically foxes) were designed to target
specific types of people living in specific areas - people who predominantly
do not vote Labour. The criteria for this law were therefore illogical and
arbitrary - but they were politically very specific. That is little short of
fascism and reminiscent of the deliberate targeting of Jews in fascist
Europe between 1933 and 1945 where the "specific" went as far as defining
Jews by the specific shape of their faces. Another very specific targeting
was the Soviet Russian murder of the land owning peasant - the kulaks. In
Yugoslavia during the Second World War the Croats murdered (after 1941)
specifically of Christians (not Muslims!) who were Orthodox and Serb. The
equivalent of banning fox hunting with dogs for a Conservative Government
would be to use a parliamentary majority to ban trade unionists who made
political donations to the Labour Party.

UNJUST LAWS MUST BE BROKEN

Should the hunting ban become law, that law should be ignored because it
would come objectively under the heading of an unjust law. An unjust law is
an arbitrary law, targeting specific individuals and not passed by due
democratic process. There has been no democratic process in the introduction
of this law since it was never a part of a Labour manifesto (there was
merely a commitment to hold a vote, not specifically to ban hunting). The
Bill was not introduced by the Government, eight of the Labour Government's
own cabinet did not vote for it, including Blair himself and the proposed
use of the Parliament Act (should the Bill be thrown out by the Lords) would
be unconstitutional.

If unjust laws are passed the people should disobey those laws - for their
continuance would undermine the nature of all law.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 4:22 am
by Chappy
Killing, even of animals, should never been fun (or called a sport). The rest of the world manages to control their fox/deer populations without dressing up and having a party while they're at it.

The whole idea of fox hunting with dogs has nothing to do with eradicating foxes which is a lame excuse for the need of hunting. The whole idea of hunting is fun, nothing more, nothing less. We even had some woman saying on TV "they want to spoil our fun" Fun, maybe riding across the countryside on a horse, with dogs alongside, blowing a horn and shouting tally-ho, but not fun getting their dogs to rip a fox apart. They are just sadistic and gain great pleasure from this so-called sport. Society changes over the years and they have to change with it. At one time it was fashionable to go badger baiting, dog fighting, and even sending little boys up chimneys, but this has all now changed. This is called a countryside issue, but it is no such thing many country dwellers would be very happy if hunting ceased. The hunters even say that their dogs will have to be destroyed if hunting is banned, but they will be destroyed anyway, they are not pets and do not make good pets in retirement, when the dogs get too old to keep up with the hunt or suffer an injury it does not take much imagination to guess what happens to them.



Foxes are very cute looking yes, however they kill for fun, I understand that. Not necessarily for food and will think nothing of slaughtering chicks and the like simply because they are there. Granted, they are dumb animals merely following their natural instincts...but there is better ways to control foxes than with hounds.




Its 4am I`m tired - ramble over :o

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 4:53 am
by snyder
KlinkKlank wrote:Killing, even of animals, should never been fun (or called a sport). The rest of the world manages to control their fox/deer populations without dressing up and having a party while they're at it.
What business is it of yours what people wear, and what's wrong with a party? As an American, I am all in favor of fox hunting in Britain because it gives me a chance to laugh outwardly at the English while (whilst?) inwardly fantasizing about a young, hot Diana Rigg in a snug outfit vigrously spanking me with a riding crop as she shouts to run harder after them hounds or whatever it is they say when going to hounds.

But I digress. Foxes are not cute. They're nasty little things. Big squirrels with bad tempers, really. And squirrels are nothing more than rats with bushy tails. Tally ho indeed.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 7:21 am
by Antubis
Why should we lose another part of British culture to a gang of Daily Mirror/Socialist Worker reading looney left b@stards....

Few more years and they'll have 'equal rights for paedophiles'

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 7:35 am
by snyder
Hey, here's an idea: Replace the foxes with paedophiles. :)

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 12:23 pm
by Tunny
I wouldn't call it a sport, theres no skill required. Any joey could do that...

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 1:11 pm
by Antubis
Tunny wrote:I wouldn't call it a sport, theres no skill required. Any joey could do that...
No skill in riding a horse ?

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 1:44 pm
by Tunny
Not really, they don't ride it with much skill or speed, if they did they wouldn't need hounds. Anyhow thats still besides the point. It's not a sport.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 2:09 pm
by day tripper
2 years till the ban? Absolutely stupid it should be banned today. Anyone that calls fox hunting a sport should exchange role with the fox. See how you like to be torn apart by dogs?

Pro hunt protesters are morons.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 2:27 pm
by Tab
Well it seems that lamping has taken over from hunting these days. This is a group of people go out with high powered lamps and shine then in the country side, if they see any eyes reflecting back then they shoot at the eyes, during the last week they have shot two children. Still at least they are not dressed up for a party and are doing it for a fun. The first case has been to court the charges have been dismissed, may be we have the start of a brand new sport.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 2:54 pm
by Chappy
snyder wrote:
KlinkKlank wrote:Killing, even of animals, should never been fun (or called a sport). The rest of the world manages to control their fox/deer populations without dressing up and having a party while they're at it.
What business is it of yours what people wear, and what's wrong with a party?


What? :o















:o You wound up Snydy? That why you were nasty on the Smoking thread? Or are you in need of that nicotine induced calmness?

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 6:48 pm
by Antubis
day tripper wrote:Pro hunt protesters are morons.
Quite a statement - Are you an A.L.F. supporter by chance ? ;)

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 7:59 pm
by Edwards159
I think its very bad that fox hunting is likely to be banned... They only hunt about once a month and not all year round. It is part of britains culture and i seriously do think it is a shame that it will come to a end..

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 8:05 pm
by Redhand
The point of the article seems to have totally blown over several heads here.

It's just another political move of Blair's government it would appear, to erase anything that has ties to conservatism.

Read the article again, its true, the UK will put up and accept almost any queer or steer, crazy mullah, militant homos, but fox hunters....oh dear god no!

Anyone who thinks this whole move is about just FOXES needs to re-adjust what ever pink colored shades they're wearing.

But it would appear perception is more pertinent than reality these days.

Posted: Sun 26 Sep, 2004 11:47 pm
by Wholley
Ok,
you lot got me to bite.
I'm going to break this down into three points.
1)
Fox hunting is not a sport.
It is a discipline learned over years.
You start(if your lucky enough to find a hunting stable)
as a stable lad where you get to throw lots of shit around,groom,feed,hoof and get kicked by some very big animals.
then as part of your education you get to clean and polish tack.
This helps you to understand the animals you will eventually ride and trust your life to.
2)
Riding to Hounds is not a sport.
It is a tradition.
Only the best riding members of a hunt(Thats no easy thing on an English Saddle,again discipline,"left leg,right shoulder"HEELS DOWN!) are invited by the"Master of the Hunt"To participate.
This not only saves injury to horses and other members but also can save your own life.
3)
Fox Hounds are beautiful animals,but not known for their intelect.
90%of the the time the wily old fox gets away.
The ones that are caught and"Torn apart" are generally old or injured.
That's just nature.
I'll just round out this little diatribe by saying
that anyone who thinks horsemanship is something any"Joey"can do has never barrelled at an 8ft hedgerow at thirty-odd mph on a Thorughbred hunter-jumper that weighs more than 1400lb's,not knowing what's on the other side.
Now THAT's excitment.
As to Tabs point regarding lamping,
it's been illegal to hunt with a lamp or low-light device in most states in the US for at least 15 years,ie,you don't hunt at night.
I'm afraid that the UK is on a second slippery slope.
First handguns which led to most guns,now hunting to hounds which will lead to a ban on hare hunting with long dogs,then ferreting with nets.
Soon you won't be able to walk your animals in parks,followed by banning
all pets from housing developments.
No field-craft training,no camping-orienteering,no contact with nature and its wonders at all.Unless you get a license of course.
Sorry,bit of a rant
Wholley.
:o