I share this tweet from Chris Packham, referring to the attack on his property this weekend and the hate he suffers on social media:
Harassment , relentless abuse , intimidation and now arson . And what next . . . ? I will not be cowed , I will not buckle , but can I ask for your help ? If you are an @nationaltrust member please sign to end hunting here and now .https://t.co/UtegRNGfUH pic.twitter.com/lwaZLaO2oG
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) October 9, 2021
I have some experience of the internet trolls. I have suffered the threats to self and property. I have massive sympathy for Chris and his courage. As he says, all this has a cost. Those doing the trolling and making the threats want that cost to be felt. I think that criminal. So do they. That's why they seek anonymity when causing harm. But the campaigns do have to go on.
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His video clip is so calm and measured – such a contrast with the thugs who seek to silence him.
His suggestion that National Trust members use their vote to end hunting on Trust land is a perfect example of the sort of “moderate flank” actions that Rupert Read mentioned in his essay that you highlighted 2 days ago.
Agreed
Chris Packham is dealing with a culture and an industry which is fundamentally violent, whose business plan in relation to grouse shooting and hunting, is based on organised crime and which is armed. It has also always enjoyed a unique impunity courtesy of its establishment status and most obvious in the fact that much of its criminal activity involves firearms, a fact which never seems to influence sentencing. Chris is working in a very dangerous environment as the latest escalation in the abuse shows and you would hope he gets the appropriate support from the police.
BSA hits the nail on the head. When the core activity is violent in character, its attraction to moronic sectors is inevitable. The core characteristics then become acceptance of violence, lack of empathy (generally, not just to the prey), an anti woke agenda and a refusal to discuss beyond so-called personal freedoms. Trolling is their current everyday weapon of choice.
Chris Packham, of course, is absolutely the antithesis of these abominations of humanity.
I would like to offer Chris my sympathy.
The hunting lobby are their own worst enemies.
The recent stories about anti vaxxers in Cardiff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-58859205
And Sadiq Khan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/09/sadiq-khans-247-security-challenges-our-notions-of-non-racist-london
Make me wonder what we are coming to, berating children in the way the anti vax protesters did seems to suggest that they are some sort of moral defectives and while I might not agree with everything Sadiq Khan does he strikes me as a sensible thoughtful man which is more that can be said for the previous incumbent of his office. Why on earth is he under threat?
This might provide some insight
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-11-20/making-america-ungovernable/
Chris Packham is one of the most harmless broadcasters I can think of – it’s really not on.
However, it just goes to show the underlying reactionary thuggery that goes with such pursuits.
And they say the Left and its passions is the enemy within!