Stop killer threats to animal-lover Chris
CHRIS Packham, whom I interviewed only the other day, is having to put up with some of the most disgusting behaviour. Opponents of the wildlife campaigner seem to think it is their right to threaten his home and his life, to tell him they are they going to kill him, to tell him his family is not safe.
This is the most revolting thing I have ever heard, I’m also furious with Facebook for not doing anything about some of the trolling that certain people get. I’m not talking about myself – I don’t care, I ignore them as they’re cretinous – but let’s think about it.
The people who are undertaking this mission to try to destroy Chris Packham are those who think he is trying to destroy what they call their fun, their hobby and maybe even their “tradition”. These are the people who think it is perfectly acceptable to go out and kill animals for the fun of it.
There are many such examples, from shooting birds to culling badgers for really no reason to Britain’s best known tradition – foxhunting. In my childhood and early life there was nothing more exciting than seeing the hunt gathering outside their local pub for a stirrup cup and then riding magnificently off into a sunny misty morning with the hounds baying.
But on reflection, when out in the field with the so-called terrier men digging the foxes from their lairs, the hounds running them to ground and literally ripping them limb from limb, it was pretty disgusting.
In past ages we used to enjoy dog fighting, cockfighting, bear baiting and various other forms of entertainment now considered disgusting.
When fox and stag hunting were legally banned, drag hunting, just using a lure for the dogs and hunters to follow, was introduced, but bloodsports fans want the laws repealed and find ways round them.
Tradition doesn’t last forever: we can talk about it, we can look back on it and I don’t want to see any pictures or statues of hunts destroyed. It is all part of our history. But those people who are prepared to carry on the pursuit of killing for fun have to be stopped. And so must their pastimes – if you can call them that.
I WAS watching a discussion on the news about “a match”. I don’t watch sport as I find it dull so I assumed they were talking about football, but it turned out to be about a big boxing match between a bloke called Tyson Fury, right – good name – and Deontay Wilder.
They showed a clip of it. Why would anybody find that kind of thing entertaining? It’s one guy trying to beat the doolally out of another and one of the blokes – who I later find out is Fury – looks so unfit and fat. With all the hoo-hah about the possible brain damage caused from just heading a football, surely in a civilised society this really isn’t right.
WELL done to the truckers at Junction 31 in Thurrock under the M25 for dragging the pillocks of Insulate Britain from the road. I’m sick of these idiots. Where the hell are the police these days? Have they given up completely? They don’t seem to catch many criminals either.
The police authorities are doing a terrible job. Look at Cressida Dick in London. I have no idea why this country has sunk into a pit of disorganisation. Protesters should be free to protest about anything they want. But once they start trying to stop the rest of us doing what we want then they’re in trouble.
In a country where the police force works I would expect to be protected from other people trying to force their will on me. It doesn’t seem to be happening. Could the Government please sort this out? After all, that’s what you’re there for.