January 27, 2004
A foxing tale - continued
Here's a little more information on the hunt saboteur story I blogged about the other day. It doesn't make for pleasant reading:
"I really feared for my life as last year a hunt saboteur had threatened to kill me - at one point one of the attackers had his foot on my throat while the others were hitting me. My wife tried to help but was also pushed to the ground and my children fled the scene. It took me over an hour to find them - that was the longest hour of my life."Let's just take a moment to consider the position of these saboteurs. It's not the killing of foxes in the countryside that is the issue but, instead, the way they are killed. The saboteurs.....lets refer to them as thugs in this instance...the thugs high ground is one based upon cruelty (namely them being against it) and yet they seem perfectly capable of using it themselves as a weapon when it suits their beliefs.
The Countryside Alliance has expended a great deal of time and effort changing the public perception of hunters as toffs on horseback out on a jolly with some success. I would say that the saboteurs have a far bigger public image problem these days and I also suspect that they have no idea that this is the case. Too bad for them.
Hunt sabs...thugs...damned if I can tell the difference.
