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Being born, bred and still living in the country I have grown up with family friends who hunt and feel as strongly for hunting as much as I do against it, but it is not the town versus the country. The majority of my relations and villagers where I live are Anti hunting.
My maternal grandfather was a farm labourer as were most of my great uncles. All of them were anti hunting but because some of them were in tied cottages they had to do what they were told. My great grandmother was thrown out of her cottage by the landowner when she was widowed.
As has been said before I agree that hunting with dogs is as out dated and barbaric as bear bating and cock fighting.
There is no justification what so ever for hunting with dogs.
Iif folks want to gallop about on horses with dogs, what's wrong with drag hunting.
These folk who bleat on about dogs having to be put down and farriers and other equestrian numnah retailers being out of work is total nonsense.
As for Farmers. All the ones I know, far from looking after their animals as they should be, they are the most cruel, greedy people I know.
QUOTE=Jaws]Whilst I hate harming any living thing, that does not give me the right to dictate to other people.
I can express an opinion, I can try to persuade others to my way of thinking, but I do not have the right to remove someone civil libertys.
And sorry to have to tell you this, a fox is, whether liked or not, vermin.
I seem to be saying this very regularly of late..
Yet another nail driven in the coffin of our personal liberty.
The issue is not whether this or that should be banned.. the issue is that we in the UK are constantly having little bits and bobs taken away from us..
All you lot sitting there now saying but hunting is not / is right, might not be so happy in a few years time when you wake up one morning and realise that you are not free men at all.. its happening NOW people.. and bans on anything ( smoking, fox hunting, driving whilst eating an apple, whatever etc etc ) is the not so thin end of a very large wedge..
I bet many of you who are politicaly aware of what is going on in the world let out a small sigh of relief when Pol Pot popped off in 98, yet we are living in a similar society.. it might not be so violent but strangulation with a velvet rope is just as deadly as good old fashioned hemp ![/QUOTE]
Paranoid or what John. You cannot compare the freedom and luxury we have in this country to the khymer Rouge.
Civil rights my arse.
Some things are just wrong and should not be allowed. Hunting with dogs is wrong.
Thankfully the majority of right minded people in these isles agree and hopefully this legal challenge nonsense of the countryside alliance will fail.
Not just singling Jaws out, but his post stuck in my mind.
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My maternal grandfather was a farm labourer as were most of my great uncles. All of them were anti hunting but because some of them were in tied cottages they had to do what they were told. My great grandmother was thrown out of her cottage by the landowner when she was widowed.
As has been said before I agree that hunting with dogs is as out dated and barbaric as bear bating and cock fighting.
There is no justification what so ever for hunting with dogs.
Iif folks want to gallop about on horses with dogs, what's wrong with drag hunting.
These folk who bleat on about dogs having to be put down and farriers and other equestrian numnah retailers being out of work is total nonsense.
As for Farmers. All the ones I know, far from looking after their animals as they should be, they are the most cruel, greedy people I know.
QUOTE=Jaws]Whilst I hate harming any living thing, that does not give me the right to dictate to other people.
I can express an opinion, I can try to persuade others to my way of thinking, but I do not have the right to remove someone civil libertys.
And sorry to have to tell you this, a fox is, whether liked or not, vermin.
I seem to be saying this very regularly of late..
Yet another nail driven in the coffin of our personal liberty.
The issue is not whether this or that should be banned.. the issue is that we in the UK are constantly having little bits and bobs taken away from us..
All you lot sitting there now saying but hunting is not / is right, might not be so happy in a few years time when you wake up one morning and realise that you are not free men at all.. its happening NOW people.. and bans on anything ( smoking, fox hunting, driving whilst eating an apple, whatever etc etc ) is the not so thin end of a very large wedge..
I bet many of you who are politicaly aware of what is going on in the world let out a small sigh of relief when Pol Pot popped off in 98, yet we are living in a similar society.. it might not be so violent but strangulation with a velvet rope is just as deadly as good old fashioned hemp ![/QUOTE]
Paranoid or what John. You cannot compare the freedom and luxury we have in this country to the khymer Rouge.
Civil rights my arse.
Some things are just wrong and should not be allowed. Hunting with dogs is wrong.
Thankfully the majority of right minded people in these isles agree and hopefully this legal challenge nonsense of the countryside alliance will fail.
Not just singling Jaws out, but his post stuck in my mind.
:beer: