Rodney Wrestt
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Very true Alan, threads do tend to wander back and forth but at least the points are all valid on this occasion
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Sab attack on anglers
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.davestocker
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Let's forget for a minute that hunting is supposed to be illegal, and go back to a time before 2004 when there was no Hunting Act. Hunters then were acting within the law, yet here was a group of people - the sabs - who decided that they were going to impose their will and prevent people acting within the law, from so doing. How wrong is that? Suppose every time you left your front door to go about your legal business, that there was a group of people assembled who wanted to prevent you doing so. It's totally wrong. Game shooting is legal (subject to the law, rules & regs etc) yet sabs have, and will, attempt to interfere with shooting. Medical research using animals is legal, yet look at the terror animal rights extremists used to try and shut down wholly-legal businesses.
My posting was not really intended to be about hunting, but about the principle of a so-called legitimate company giving money to people who prevent other people acting within the law. The attack on the fly fishers in Lancashire is always worth mentioning because of its opportunist nature. The idea that the Hunt Saboteurs Association exerts any meaningful control over those who set out to sabotage hunts is simply fanciful.
My posting was not really intended to be about hunting, but about the principle of a so-called legitimate company giving money to people who prevent other people acting within the law. The attack on the fly fishers in Lancashire is always worth mentioning because of its opportunist nature. The idea that the Hunt Saboteurs Association exerts any meaningful control over those who set out to sabotage hunts is simply fanciful.
I think it was JK who posted the link to the 'Sabbing Angling' site.
It certainly makes interesting reading, albeit a little 'dated' now, emphasis added by myself:
"The number of sab groups including angling in their activities is increasing. On the whole anglers are less likely to get pleasure out of the suffering they cause than hunters and enjoy instead the mindlessness of outwitting a fish into impaling itself on a hook, they don't tend to be inherently violent. This is a bonus if you are a small group, as you can sab more anglers than you might want to confront if they were all blood crazed terrier boys. The other thing about sabbing angling, is that it can form a satisfying end to a day, after dealing with a hound pack."
As an aside, if all these people are acting legally, then why do they go around with masks on?
It certainly makes interesting reading, albeit a little 'dated' now, emphasis added by myself:
"The number of sab groups including angling in their activities is increasing. On the whole anglers are less likely to get pleasure out of the suffering they cause than hunters and enjoy instead the mindlessness of outwitting a fish into impaling itself on a hook, they don't tend to be inherently violent. This is a bonus if you are a small group, as you can sab more anglers than you might want to confront if they were all blood crazed terrier boys. The other thing about sabbing angling, is that it can form a satisfying end to a day, after dealing with a hound pack."
As an aside, if all these people are acting legally, then why do they go around with masks on?
davestocker
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Exactly Peter. And why do they dress in combat gear, or something not unlike a uniform?
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