a shambles say pro-hunters
The Countryside Alliance last week condemned as a shambles the attempt by the Scottish Parliament to criminalise hunting in Scotland. The Chairman of the Countryside Alliance Campaign for Hunting, Sam Butler, said This result merely confirms what we already knew - that the bill is a disreputable shambles.
He continued, It is not clear what the bill does. But what is clear is that the bill is a vindictive and shoddy piece of legislation which needlessly declares war on decent, hard-working people and seeks to put many of them out of work without a penny of compensation.
Protest
Mr.
Butler said, This attempted infringement of human freedoms
will be challenged in the Scottish courts as incompatible
with the European Convention of Human Rights now enshrined
in Scottish law. He called on all in the UK who care
about civil liberty and tolerance to raise their voices in
protest to help safeguard the freedoms of the Scottish people.
Alliance Chief Executive Richard Burge, echoing Mr. Butlers
criticisms this evening, said the bill proved the folly of
trying to create legislation based on personal moral value
judgments. This bills sponsors long ago abandoned
any pretence that it was about animal welfare, he said.
The bill is now revealed as a blatant attempt to seek
to interfere with human thought and behaviour. Competent politicians
should know better than to try to frame legislation that merely
seeks to impose their own personal opinion on the community
- and especially on cultural minorities. That is why this
bill was destined from the first to be an unworkable mess
- and the lesson should not be lost on politicians beyond
Scotland.