How embarrassing. Didn’t we have compulsory schooling 40 years ago?
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January 22, 2015 at 1:11am
Some idea of what the No campaign is up against:
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Steve Gera needs help a.s.a.p.
No he doesn’t. The rest of us do.
This was his toughest hunt:
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I have just two words for this gentleman: stunted development.
Blessed you much more than you deserve?
You’re wrong my son. I never blessed you. You were just born that way. I had nothing to do with it.
I find his pictures nauseating and it’s a big encouragement to vote NO even though I had no doubts.
He invited the Italians to return to the “killings” and he has the cheek to show dead birds himself on Facebook. Italians and everyone else is living his “killings”.
One for the pot.
I mean, when has this guy gotten laid last?
How on earth he calls himself a hunter when shooting sitting ducks? Do these persons know the real meaning of the word hunting?
‘Maltease’? Says so much for his love for his country(side). Couldn’t even get his nationality right.
Odious man.
Where did he get the idea that Malta is more his than it is mine ?
You can take a horse to school but you cannot make him learn anything.
That is what compulsory education is all about.
SAVAGES
That’s a lot of birds. He is way above the quota. He should be arrested on the basis of these photos alone.
[Daphne – Those pictures were taking on a group hunting trip to Serbia.]
Did the ‘group’ eat all the birds in Serbia or did they import some to Malta illegally?
Steve, int tpaxxa u lilna li nhobbu n-natura ikollna nitqannew b’xi egosit bhalek.
Well, Mr. Gera, I guess that all those who voting to retain the spring hunting derogation will be doing so thanks to your eloquence.
Is this guy living in another dimension?
As for Steve Gera:- Poor idiot.
As for the lowest five photos:- Disgusting troglodytes.
As for the other three pictures:- What’s the connection?
The connection? It all seems straight out of Duck Dynasty.
The big lie stands in the portrayal that hunting is a Maltese tradition. Well, it is not.
Most Maltese were not allowed to hunt, and couldn’t afford shoes let alone a gun. Hunting was only for the well-off, and those families (in most part) have long left the hunting passion to times past.
The now hunting fraternity are just simply arrivistes who would like it to be a tradition. Most Maltese couldn’t afford bread let alone the powder and shot, and where would they have got the gun.
[Daphne – You are right about shooting, but hunting also included trapping and netting, and that’s what rural peasants did. They trapped their birds.]
Before the two world wars things were likely as you described them: hunting was basically restricted to the well-off.
As the economic conditions of the island improved (during WW I Malta enjoyed a relative economic boom) rural menfolk slowly started to emulate the lifestyle of their landowners and high society of earlier times.
During WW II gun-toting and marksmanship acquired a special lure. This reached a peak in the 50s and 60s. As explained in an earlier post a number of species disappeared during this period.
Although abated, hunting and trapping/netting still continues today and is related directly to bird conservation issues. A no-vote to spring hunting will help preserve the species concerned.
I wonder when the photo was taken. Pre or post derogation / legislation? The number of birds in the photos seem to exceed the limits imposed: 4 a day, 40 for the season.
[Daphne – I understand those pictures were taken on a Maltese hunters’ trip to Serbia.]
Ah, the good old ad hominem syndrome.
No chance of a logical debate with this charming gentleman; his mind is like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and already set.
Ghasafar qed naralu fidejh jien, mhux gebel tas-sejjieh kif qed jghid li jibni.
The only reason he shows off and pretends he couldn’t care about anyone is because his wife supports him. He hasn’t done anything in years let alone build rubble walls.
So it’s his long-suffering mother-in-law he should be thanking for having more than he deserves.
Country sports? What’s that – hiking, trekking, jogging?