Quotes

"We've passed a law that everyone is openly flouting."
Hunt supporter and Tory leader David Cameron puts pay to the lie that hunts are law abiding.

"We have to review completely how hunts approach monitors"
Simon Hart, Countryside Alliance, on Exmoor Foxhounds guilty verdict, Horse and Hound 2006 (More violence coming our way by the sounds of it)

'I do not want to see any violence or threats, but if people want to protest and throw a few eggs at his car I have no problem with that.' Alison Hawes, South West regional director of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, Exeter Express & Echo, October 8, 2004

"The Alliance would support anyone arrested or charged with breaking such a law especially at the time of their trial." Simon Hart, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, ePolitix.co.uk, July 29, 2003

"God help any Cabinet Minister that comes to the countryside." Richard Dodd, North-East regional director for the Country Alliance, Yorkshire Post, September 14, 2004

'It is time for all those seeking to represent rural life ... to ask themselves whether they should not take the gloves off.' Daily Telegraph, May 2002

"The day of acquiescence, of timid acceptance, is finally over. The hours of real militancy have come. Gloves are off." Frederic Forsyth, Field, February 2001

"When it comes to it we will want to set fire to motorways and DEFRA offices." Edward Duke, Real Countryside Alliance leader, The Independent, September 2004

‘Firstly we’ve got to harass Alun Michael and anti-hunting MPs in a more confrontational manner,’ Peter Gent, leader of the Countryside Action Network, The Spectator, January 2005

"You are all fair game now, I've told everybody". Kim Richardson, Hunt Master of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt, warns anti-hunt protesters. November 2004

'Feelings are running high. People are starting to realise a ban might happen and people might get assassinated.' Otis Ferry, joint master of the South Shropshire hunt, The Observer, November 7, 2004

'You are a f***ing looser (sic). Why don't you stop waisting (sic) your time and get a real job/hobby, you c***?' Isaac Ferry (yes brother of Otis) sends an abusive message from Eton College to an anti-hunt campaigner, February 14, 2002

"F***ing Piss Off!" Prince William at the Duke of Beaufort FH to photographer before riding at him. January 2002

"If Tony Blair wants war, he can have war - Iraq obviously wasn't enough for him." Janet George, Countryside Action Network (who?), BBC News, November 18, 2004

"It's time for action - not words" Advertisement by the Union of Country Sport Workers echoing the REAL CA message.

"No one should ever be allowed to have a video camera anyway near hunting action ... We can't afford to let it happen" Editoral, Earth Dog Running Dog, April 2004 (Nothing to hide then?)

"The Countryside Alliance would never recommend its members, or others, to engage in civil disobedience by breaking the law." John Jackson, Chairman of the Countryside Alliance, Guardian, October 23, 2002

“The mass gatherings on Declaration Day will give individuals the opportunity to make clear their intention to take part in peaceful but committed civil disobedience should a hunting ban ever be imposed. This nationwide show of strength and unity will send a clear message that we will not accept unjust law." Simon Hart, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, Press Release, 3rd October 2003 advocating his members break the law.

"It is about freedom, the freedom of people to choose how they live their own lives...It is about listening to and respecting the views of other people of whom you may personally disapprove..." Baroness Mallalieu, Countryside Rally, 2 July 1997

'The choice of name may have been tasteless, but it was bloody effective' Edward Duke on naming the Real CA after the terrorist group the Real IRA. Independent, September 5, 2003

'If the ban goes ahead then he (Mr Prescott) will soon find that what he and his government have so far experience will be as nothing.' Editorial in the pro-hunt Earth Dog Running Dog, June 2004

"The Shropshire Star on July 31st contained a photograph which I thought was really sad. It showed Cheshire huntsman and farmer Anthony Kirkham, being led, handcuffed, into court where he was remanded in custody after being convicted of an attack on a member of the League Against Cruel Sports and robbing him of his camera at a meet of the Cheshire Hunt. ... People such as Anthony Kirkham should never spend time in jail for an offence such as this..." Earth Dog, Running Dog Editorial (August 1998, page 6) after Kirkham conviction for a violent and unprovoked attack.