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SPORTING SHOOTER - MARCH 2005
So how will we Peasants
fair under the Hunting Act of Atrocity. Out of its foul mouth, NuLab has
confessed that the ‘Hunting Act’ has nothing to do with preserving
or comforting wildlife, it is to do within exercising ‘Power’
over rural Britain. This Act will cause the virtual extermination of the
wild red fox in the countryside. In my opinion, Hunting is the most natural
form of fox control, in that it takes out the weak, the maim and the old
foxes, leaving the best physical specimens to survive and breed. This
is Nature’s way. It is also the best and most balanced form of fox
control. This happy state will maintain no more. Foxes will be shot, poisoned
and trapped indiscriminately. The best and most healthy fox populations
are always to be found in the territories of well conducted hunts, where
the fox is not regarded merely as vermin (“Vermin to a vast of folk,
but glory to a few,” from a poem by Will Ogilvie, I think) but as
a popular and well respected part of the local scene. The fox supplies
sport which hunting people enjoy unashamedly, and also a social cohesion
that no other country activity supplies. This may not worry some of you,
but the Act of Atrocity should worry all of you. ‘Hunting’
within the meaning of the Act, has a very broad interpretation and is,
in fact, an ‘Act of War’ against the Countryside and all those
who pursue Country Sports in all their forms. Last month I touched on
the eventual destruction of Shooting, whatever stay of execution Mr Swift
of BASC thinks that he may have negotiated. However long a spoon he may
have used when supping with the Devil, it will not be long enough to prevent
your eventual damnation. The strength of the new Act is that it is essentially
very simple. Its simplicity means that it will be very difficult to find
legal loopholes, although I know that some of the best legal brains in
the country are working on it. The weakness of the new Act is that it
is, by any proper standard, an ‘Unjust Law’. It is the duty
of all interested parties to oppose it. I am not suggesting that we break
the law – there must be absolutely no violence. The way to oppose
unjust laws is to obstruct them – to clog them up - by civil disobedience.
We must do this in such a way that we do not disrupt the everyday life
of the Great British Public – its support is vital, but fragile.
Stupidity, like blocking motorways and obstructing water supplies, would
destroy this support. There is no space this month to offer suggestions
as to what you can do – that is for another day. But by the time
you read this we shall be in the run up to a General Election and the
thing that ALL of us must do is to hit this Government where it hurts
most – in the Ballot Box.
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