In the latest instalment of hunt sabs’ malicious and vindictive campaign to punish anyone and anything associated with hunting, Wiltshire Hunt Saboteurs has attacked a charity, Society Without Abuse (formerly Swindon Domestic Abuse Support), for accepting a donation from the Beaufort Hunt.
The Beaufort Hunt recently announced it had raised an impressive £2,500 for the charity, saying, “we hope to continue fundraising for them well into the future”.
Most people would agree that raising money for a local charity doing such vital and difficult work is a good and admirable thing to do. Not so sabs, who, with more than a touch of hysteria, are demanding the organisation “return the blood money” donated by the hunt. These sabs are so determined to paint huntspeople as evil that they are willing to see a domestic abuse charity, and by extension the vulnerable people it is working to help, suffer.
The sabs say it’s “utterly shameless” that Society Without Abuse is accepting money from the Beaufort Hunt. At Behind The Masks we think the only thing shameless about this whole saga are the individuals who are happy to see a charity supporting the victims of domestic abuse go without essential funds simply to make an ideological point.
Wiltshire Hunt Sabs even asked their supporters to contact the charity to voice their complaints. They know as well as we do that in doing this they are simply encouraging a torrent of abuse from their acolytes towards the staff and volunteers at this charity – good people who are dedicating their time to helping the victims of domestic abuse and do not deserve to be on the receiving end of vitriol from the anti-hunt brigade.
What is particularly disgusting is the hypocrisy. Sabs are constantly begging their supporters for cash, supposedly to fuel their cars or buy equipment. Wiltshire Hunt Sabs themselves ask their supporters to donate to “keep our vehicle on the road and our spray bottles full of citronella”. (Citronella, which is commonly sprayed by sabs at hounds, is a registered pesticide that can trigger allergic reactions and extreme distress in dogs.)
It seems sabs are perfectly happy to pocket people’s cash to fund their own dangerous and harmful activities, but draw the line at donations made to support the victims of domestic abuse.
On a final note, we encourage our readers, if they are able, to make a donation to Society Without Abuse on behalf of the hunting community to help them carry on their vital work.