Daily Mirror or not, it’s a massive newspaper with a readership in Malta’s core market, and we really don’t need this kind of exposure
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June 16, 2014 at 12:04pm
Read the story and watch the video and then ask yourself, exactly why do some people think we need this? Exactly whose rights are imperilled here?
Why is so much trouble being caused for so many – to say nothing of the environmental damage and conservation issues – just so that some people can have their personal fun?
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/bill-oddie-demands-end-maltas-3693168
I’ve been following this whole hunting scenario; hunters fighting for their continuing right to shoot birds; whilst others fight to take that right away, yet not one person has piped up about the other more common fate for birds – life imprisonment in a tiny cage.
Left to sing for its supper, forever longing to do what they were born to do….fly in our skies.
I am not in favour of hunting of birds for sport or recreational purposes…sustenance is one thing. Killing for fun is another.
Yet on the other hand I am also against imprisonment of birds. Unfortunately this issue does not seem to have been raised by the anti hunters. Why are they going after the people that shoot birds but not the ones that keep them imprisoned? Is life imprisonment considered less cruel than killing?
When these questions are pondered, it becomes apparent (to me anyway) that the real issue isn’t really the welfare of birds, but rather the side effects of hunting: the noise from the shots, having people running around with guns, the fear that some pellets might land on us and damage to the environment.
Of course most of this could be remedied by inventing silent hunting rifles and pellets that degrade over a short time.
If hunting is to be outlawed it is only logical that imprisonment is outlawed also.
Vile and embarrassing. This has to stop.
The PN should seriously consider going all out in favour of the referendum against spring hunting.
These are some reasons.
1. It will undermine Joseph Muscat’s liberal and European image and show it for what it is, backing any group that commands votes.
2. Get rid once and for all of the political blackmail by hunters. Let them fire their last shots. They know very well that they’ll have nothing stronger to follow it up with.
3. No longer feel indebted to hunters because of whatever they promised them before the EU referendum. They had to promise something otherwise this year Joseph Muscat would have celebrated ten years of partnership not EU membership. The PN delivered what they promised, a derogation of some years in favour of spring hunting. Deal done. Time up.
Main disadvantage: lose some more votes, but hunters’ votes are as good as lost to the PN anyway. However this will have the long-term advantage of showing that the PN is losing votes not because of inaction or negativity but because it sticks to principles. It is not only hunters who have votes, anyway.
The Maltese politicians aren’t able to stop the mass bird shoot tradition even if the majority of the Maltese are against it. The British can do a lot and hurt the government where it hurts most.
Still waiting for referendum
The Mirror states that there are “10,000 gun-toting hunters” in Malta, shock horror.
In the UK, “There were 570,726 shotgun certificates on issue on 31 March 2013”
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/232202/hosb0313.pdf
Anybody who just does not “get it” should read Daniel Kahneman’s best seller.
Anybody who has not, is beyond any doubt totally unaware of the utter incompetence of human powers of reason.
Xi promozzjoni tajba għal Malta għal dawk it-turisti madwar id-dinja li qed jitħajru jiġu fi gżiritna. .Mil-lum ‘l quddiem naħseb se jiġu bil-gżuż u bl-imħatra min se jiġi l-ewwel. Ara veru kuljum mixjin pass lura flok ‘l quddiem. Kemm ġejna sew!
Taking a leaf out of Churchill’s book…..
Never was so much damage to so many caused by so few.
Now that’s a first. PN’s idea has been taken up by the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/16/panini-stickers-general-election-tories_n_5498454.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
Damn these immigrants! They really don’t know how to behave and respect their host countiy’s rule of law, do they?
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-16/news/maltese-bikie-gang-leader-has-australian-visa-cancelled-5495259137/
On a different issue.
“Many people in Maltese society have not yet accepted multiculturalism. We are not ready. This would be like deciding to bake a dish of potatoes and then eating them before they are cooked,” – President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca
I could not believe this when I read it.
The intellectual limitations of this woman are starting to show through.
Imagine any president of any decent country comparing a country not ready for multiculturalism to a dish of half baked potatoes – incredible.
Dear Madam President – It’s your comparison that’s half baked.
When the PN said that Maltese society was not ready for the delicate issue of gay adoptions they were branded as undecided, out if tune with the times and even homophobic. What about the President’s statement now?
Says the woman who sent her former CEO to coventry.
Because Muscat promised hunters that they could have it their way if he becomes PM?
I watched the video and unfortunately even Members of Wildlife Malta as well as Bill Oddie are being brainwashed into thinking that shooting birds is also a tradition.
Bird hunting is NOT a tradition. At best it is a cruel sport that must be stopped.
With more hunters per square kilometre than anywhere else in the world can one imagine the amount of toxic lead that is being showered onto our fields, over our crops and into our food chain.
Lead poisoning occurs when lead builds up in the body, often over a period of months or years. Even small amounts of lead can cause serious health problems. Children under the age of 6 are especially vulnerable to lead poisoning, which can severely affect mental and physical development.
I am not suggesting that the mental limitations of some hunters is a cause of lead poisoning – but it does make one think.
And yet another Maltese giving his country a bad name. who knows what Tony Attard and the xenophobes and racists out there have to say about this. Probably, here in the Muscatian Utopia he will become their hero.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/visa-of-bikie-leader-revoked/story-fn9hm1gu-1226956553327#
Another Soldier of Steel for Muscat’s Skip Collection. This is what Malta needs right now.
Definitely true. We’re getting a bad name, just so some egoistic hunter can go shoot ‘liberally’ at whatever comes his way.
These people (or at least in their majority) have got one motto – you fly, you die.