All of us, the Right, as well as the Left, have a moral duty to hold the President accountable.
From a The Telegraph [U.K.] article, Boxing Day hunts show ban must be repealed :
Boxing Day hunts show ban must be repealed [/] (Filed: 27/12/2005)
It was a foregone conclusion that the hunting ban introduced by this Government would be spiteful and unjust; what did not become clear until the weekend was its sheer absurdity. [/] Fretful that current legislation denies Pc Plod the right to invade private land in order to ensure that certain vermin meet only a lawful end, the Association of Chief Police Officers is now pressing for powers that would be justified only for the prevention of acts of terrorism.
Yet even if these powers were to be granted, and police were to ride with the hunt, they would still have to determine whether the hounds had found and killed a fox accidentally or by design; and, if the latter, whom they should arrest for this felony. Ludicrous though the status quo might be, there are untold heights of risibility still to be scaled.
Meanwhile the architects and supporters of the current ban are tearful with frustration because it doesn't seem to have spoilt anyone's fun, except that of the hunt saboteurs. [/] That's funny enough in itself, but a turn-out for the traditional Boxing Day meetings that was inflated with new enthusiasts, to an extent that would have made it impossible to monitor even if the police had had the resources to do so, makes the voice of freeborn England guffaw with joy.
As it happens, the hunts seem to have abided by the law down to its idiotic letter, and the good humour with which they did so also affords us some amusement at the expense of the urban power freaks. [/] In Buckinghamshire, for instance, a good time was had chasing a scent line across country, while the Cheshire rode out with two hounds and an eagle owl, as solemnly permitted by Act of Parliament. [/] These new, officially sanctioned forms of hunting might seem daft but, objectively considered, they are no more so than the traditional version.
The point of the hunt, after all, was always highly necessary pest control, and that in itself is a pretty joyless business. But an accumulation of seasonal rituals, special drinks and menus, private language and silly clothes turned an onerous obligation into a community festival, and the native absurdity of it was always part of the enjoyment.
So if the opponents of hunting thought that the spirit of traditional countrymen would be broken by making them ride with an owl, or chase a false scent before accidentally encountering a fox (as though that had never happened before), they were rather pitifully missing the point. Hunting was always absurd, because fun usually is.
The law, however, is a different matter. It might be a jolly recreation for judges (when they're not on the hunting field), but for the rest of us the law is the guardian of our property and liberty, the arbiter of our behaviour, the guarantor of justice. [/] When one law is absurd (as this one is), it undermines the credibility of all others; however good-humoured the hunts' observance of the new legislation, they must not waver in their determination to see it repealed. [My ellipses and emphasis]
No one has been able to even theorize how Bush's minion, Karl Rove, engineered this complete fiasco.
But such a complete mess, to those who have studied these things, betrays the fine Italian hand of the master of complete collapse.
Undoubtedly, It Is All Bush's Fault!
