TODAY’S THE DAY OF THE BIG RALLY

At 12.15 today, the National Parks Association together with The Greens will conduct a “peaceful” No Hunting In National Parks rally in Sydney.

Their own propaganda on the rally advises that it has been contrived to coincide with school holidays so as many kids as possible can attend, all dressed in native animal costume, or carrying a plush toy for maximum emotive effect.

Even the posters have changed to mislead and tug at the publics’ heartstrings these school holidays – “DON’T PUT MY KIDS AT RISK” – they’ll read, as they march from Hyde Park to Parliament House chanting their messages of intolerance.

We all know that while the organisers may peddle the event as a “peaceful demonstration” the gathering outside Parliament House will boil with hatred for hunters and our culture of responsible conservation hunting.

For many children this will be a baptism into the doctrine of hate that fuels their parents’ philosophy of intolerance towards the hunter and his culture, and we can only hope and pray that following their parents example, they do not become the culturally intolerant schoolyard bullies of tomorrow.

There is another aspect to today’s march that’s worthy of note and that’s the call by some animal liberationists to carry posters that vilify Shooters and Fishers Party MP Robert Borsak for his hunting activities oversees. 

This appalling subset of the rally’s supporters is preaching a message of hate that goes so far as to indentify Borsak as “sub-human”, an epithet applied to cultures and races such as Jews and African-Americans, by neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in order to propagate hatred and intolerance, and ultimately to justify opression and ethnic cleansing.

Make no mistake; while Borsak may be the bullseye in this campaign, we are all its target!

That such people will be embraced by the rally’s organisers and encouraged to preach their hateful messages amongst children this day is more than irresponsible; it is a tragedy that will no doubt have ramifications for years to come. 

I’m sure you will join with me in wishing Shooters & Fishers Party MPs Robert Brown and Robert Borsak well as they suffer the slings and arrows of the anti-hunters. Moreover, I wish them safety in the presence of such zealous hated.  

If you would like to send a measured message of support to Borsak and Brown, you can do so on the Shooters & Fishers facebook page here 

If you would like to encourage others to leave messages of support, why not send your friends a link to this page too.

Anyway, I'll get outa ya way now....

UPDATE: 3PM APRIL 18^TH, 2013

The media reports between 1000 and 3000 demonstrators attended today’s no hunting in National Parks rally in Sydney, depending on which 'objective' report one reads. 

Sydney’s population is approximately 4.6 million souls, so even if we credit attendance at 3000, that is the equivalent of 0.065% of the population who thought the issue of sufficient concern to brave a warm sunny day in the city.

Surely that’s an epic fail in anyone’s estimation, but the Public Services Association, the National Parks Association and The Greens will claim it was a huge success.

Of course if it is deemed a success, one can only suppose that if 3000 or more hunters turned out in Sydney for a pro-hunting in National Parks rally, that would be proof positive of broad public support for the proposal…wouldn’t it?