Spooky
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Foxhunting Returns to the Agenda!
You know, its funny when you look at newspapers in the UK. After three long, and I mean long months, of utter media saturation about the War on Afghanistan normality has returned to the British press and its people. No more front page splashes, no more keep and remeber ten page pull outs devoted to the dissecting of US foreign policy, and no more bloody front pages with bin Laden on the cover.
Yes, the socalled 'war on terrorism' has now begun its move to the back pages again. I wonder what this either says about editors, or perhaps the British mood on the subject? Personally I like to think that in the wake of September 11th nothing has changed in the UK. The world has not arguably changed either. The only world that has really changed is that of the USA. Terrorism was here before, and it will be here after this 'war' is over. As long as people live there will alwasy be some nutter out there that wants to use violence to achieve a particular politcal end. The 'war' will not be won. It will merely go on, and the horizon that is victory will remain so. Our security (that is the UK) measures have been in place for over twenty years. The ring of steel is still around the City of London as it alwasy has been. We are still acutely aware of suspicious baggage, suspicious trucks and anything suspicious that might try to kill us while we go about our daily lives. We don't live in fear we just live, and with that I am happy to say that life and normality has returned to this sceptred isle. Yes, foxhunting is back on the agenda, and it actually looks refreshing for a change. No more 'not so smart' missiles, no more 'daisy cutters', just poncy red jacketed idiots riding on horses and chasing foxes with hounds.
For those Americans unware of the foxhunting debate, in this country we have people in the countryside that enjoy using a pack of hounds to chase a fox and then revel in watching the hounds rip the fox apart (whilst smearing the foxes blood on the face of the first timers). All done in the name of pest control. Utterly inhumane and barbaric of course, which is why so many want the 'sport' (if you can call it that) banned.
The countryside says NO! So many jobs rely on it you see. The fact that these jobs exist for no more than three months out of the year for most is beside the point. The people, it is said, should have the right to chase foxes and lets there dogs rip them apart.
But this is not a PETA thread, PETA does not exist in the UK. Thankfully, we have managed to avoid the nightmare of extremist urban terrorist groups for the most part. No the anti-hunt lobby is strong and composed of like minded individuals that are patriots [sic] because they care for their country and not the foxes.
Still the foxhunting issue exists, but not for much longer. This Parliament will see its end I am sure, and good riddance to it. There are much more humane methods of pest control availble. If one must chase something with a pack of dogs, then why not a man with a scented sock trailing behind him? If its such a fine sport then make the hunted be a man. After all hounds are obedient creatures which would not hurt the man being chased.
And so to close, I say this. Praise be to Allah for saving me from the front page nightmare of fuzzy ethics and psuedo-internationalist rhetoric. Long live Parliament and its idiosyncratic nature. Long live the MPs and people that stand up for what they
believe. People fear change. Lets change everything.
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