nigelswift
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 11:06
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Have you seen this?
http://www.countrysidefoundation.org.uk/index.htm
"The mission of the Countryside Foundation for Education [which is a charity!]is a simple one. It is to educate, inform and inspire children, parents and teachers, so that they can enjoy and appreciate the countryside while having a greater understanding of the wide range of issues surrounding it."
Whereas in truth, it's a front, with the specific aim to convince young kids that tearing living creatures apart for fun is OK...
http://www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk/evidence/countryfoundeducation.htm
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The Sea Cat
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Edited Oct 26, 2010, 11:09
Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 11:07
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Here in Somerset there's quite a lot of pro-hunting amongst the locals, sadly. It does seem to be the incomers and enlightened local heads who are against it. I don't mean to make a sweeping judgment, but I've found that a suprising amount of rural locals, both here and in Ireland are often more complacent and less caring re. the natural world, almost as if it's just needless sentimentality. I verbally squared up to one buffoon recently who was blathering on about tradtition re. ALL bloodsports. He was dumfounded and silent when I asked him if he was also in favour of bringning back witch dunking .
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Living Heritage Threat
Oct 26, 2010, 11:25
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moss wrote: The Sea Cat wrote: Is it legal to hunt Otis Ferry ?
Yes, heaven help us what those public schools turn out! his father should be ashamed ;)
I'm squeezing into my spandex jodphurs ....
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nigelswift
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 11:29
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Yes, but like all good Tories, they want to win.
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nigelswift
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Says it all
Oct 26, 2010, 11:30
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Fatal Flaw
by Patrick McFarland
We're watching
and we’re waiting
and we’re loving
and we’re hating
as the whore of
greed is slowly
passing by.
Every thief and
every banker lifts
a frosty mug to
thank her while
the widow wipes
the tear beneath
her eye.
And the politician
smiles as the cash
is stacked in piles
while the price of
crude is soaring
to the sky.
And the folks who
rule the planet take
the whole damn
thing for granite
plucking fiddles
while the children
slowly die
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Sanctuary
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 11:31
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The Sea Cat wrote: That is insidious and abhorrent. To present such a fundamental moral issue as the killing of senitient creature for sheer pleasure under the guise of 'open mindedness' is not education, but indoctrination.
I'm stunned at how low some humans are capable of stooping to.
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nigelswift
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 11:49
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So he thinks the ban is a mistake 'cos it's difficult to enforce? Isn't that because it's not a ban, it's a series of loopholes put there by his lot to help his mates avoid it being enforced? He could try actually banning it. Or would that be hard to enforce because 200 people on horses tooting horns and dressed in scarlet would be hard to see?
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The Sea Cat
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 12:24
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That is insidious and abhorrent. To present such a fundamental moral issue as the killing of senitient creature for sheer pleasure under the guise of 'open mindedness' is not education, but indoctrination.
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The Sea Cat
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Re: F/T (Fox topic)
Oct 26, 2010, 12:33
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Just a good old average country boy:
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2010/04/david-cameron-on-fox-hunting/
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The Sea Cat
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Re: Says it all
Oct 26, 2010, 12:40
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nigelswift wrote: Fatal Flaw
by Patrick McFarland
We're watching
and we’re waiting
and we’re loving
and we’re hating
as the whore of
greed is slowly
passing by.
Every thief and
every banker lifts
a frosty mug to
thank her while
the widow wipes
the tear beneath
her eye.
And the politician
smiles as the cash
is stacked in piles
while the price of
crude is soaring
to the sky.
And the folks who
rule the planet take
the whole damn
thing for granite
plucking fiddles
while the children
slowly die
Human kind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seattle.
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