so we find ourselves in the same old mess singing drunken lullabies (19th march 2005). last saturday we went off to the good old surrey union and saw 'em drag hunting. the week before the ban we were there and 30 cops were in attendence. last week, post-ban there were four. and they were still filming us. one word: wankers.
and so to the garth for their last saturday. a medium sized field traipsed around after the drag, the hounds got onto two foxes but were wearily whipped off by huntstaff. talking of drag, i think one of the field took it a little too far. nice tie. (see pix)
so the end of the season, and the end of an era. we shall wait and see what tactics the pro-hunt lobby will use over the summer. all we do know is that hunts will still go out killing foxes next september, whether legally or otherwise. perhaps our role has changed, maybe we have started using video cameras before horns and citronella sprays. however we know the police still hate us and we'll just say this: if hunts go out trying to kill wildlife, we'll be there to sabotage their efforts.
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she's kicked me out again and now it's starting to snow (5th march 2005) hey hey! it's a lying competition, who's gonna win? in the shit brown corner, we have the hotly tipped garth who told the press sabs attacked 'em with iron bars at a midweek hunt on monday. so it wasn't the huntsman who tried to break our landrover window with his horn? let's watch the video, shall we? the amount of iron bars we're apparently always carrying, you'd think we were scaffolders. but the favourite for the title must be the vine and craven, in the lying bastard grey corner, for this piece of media spin; on saturday, reading and bristol sabs monitored the vine's unsavoury activities near marlborough. purporting to be drag hunting, the huntsman was seen to be encouraging his pack of hounds to dig at a fox earth. this being illegal, sabs attempted to gather video evidence whereupon they were attacked by mounted members of the hunt. the riders lashed out with the bone ends of their riding whips and rode their horses at the sabs. one member of the hunt staff who was seen drinking at the meet fell off his horse which reared up as he was attempting to ride down the sabs. so of course the countryside alliance press release stated that we'd pulled horses over (what?) and attacked the hunt. believe what you want, we carry out non violent direct action to stop wildlife being killed in the name of sport.

i feel stupid, it's contagious (26th february 2005) and so to the garth at brockhurst school near hermitage. thames valley police showed their take on the ban by turning up en masse (ie 20 officers, 2 landrovers, one van and a range-rover) and then ignoring the illegal hunt. the huntsman had told them they were drag hunting, and that's good enough for me, m'lud. so the cops acted as hunt lackeys as usual, and so as usual we ignored the cops and followed the hunt. one arrest was made, was it the huntsman, i hear you cry? no, it was a sab, for maybe possibly but not actually causing criminal damage, even though we know it wasn't you son. so ta, thames valley police, i guess the chief inspector likes bloodsports...wankers.

so here we all are then. the hunt ban has come into force. reading sabs were out on the 19th to see what it was all about. the press were out for once. and so were the hunts. we went to the garth meet and saw a load of tossers spouting on about a load of bollocks. then they rode off and raced around the countryside with their hounds. as usual. but they didn't hunt. they just rode around. and swore at us. so the garth wasn't breaking the law, so far. we went on to the sandhurst and aldershot beagles. and they'd had a little run, then packed up. so we went to the hampshire hunt, in the moundsmere estate. and that's where it all happened. the hunt was packing up, but the terrier boys wanted some blood. not satisfied with attacking a journalist from the Observer, they rammed our landrover and attacked us. that's more like it. a bit of violence in the countryside. nice to know it still goes on in hampshire and elsewhere.
so we'll still be out, sabbing illegal hunts and monitoring those who appear to be within the law. keep hunting if you want, you fuckers, we're still watching you...

listen all y'all it's a sabotage (5th january 2005) well ladies and gents, we've been having some computer problems, so bear with us...of course, the crew has been mad at work sabbing all over the festive period...trips to the garth, the hampshire, the surrey union, the vine and craven and even the aldershot beagles have occurred. sabs have been beaten up, ridden down and arrested but! unlike our spineless government we won't give in to bully-boy tactics. we'll keep going out and saving lives, will you keep supporting us?

brassneck, i've just decided i can't trust you anymore (6th november 2004). the first full meet of the hampshire hunt found her majesty's finest in full attendance. despite threats of arrest for 'criminal damage to crops' (but i'm on a footpath officer. were you born in a barn?) and the usual crimial justice act rubbish, sabs got on with it and stopped any kills. numerous foxes were seen but good combination sabbing meant that they all got away. which is the whole point, so hurray! a sab was threatened with a knife by a hunt suppoter, but because it took place on private land the police decided to take no action. hmm, so hunt disruption on private land means arrest; threatening to 'slice you up' with a knife on the same land is lawful. hampshire police? any pro-hunt bias? just a little bit.