Trump vs. Musk-rat……From ‘Wild Justice’…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:38 on 07 February 2025
Trump vs. Musk-rat
I’ve been thinking
That Trump won’t last long
He’s pissing off too many people
And Nations.
Will it matter
If he goes?
Look who’s waiting in the wings
Already pulling the strings.
Difference is
People don’t like him
He’s creepy.
BB Feb ‘25
I’ve been thinking – there have been crazy people in charge before now – all around the world and through time – and they always fall. It usually takes some years for that to happen, but it does.
Today, the technology, equipment etc is there to make everything happen more quickly – including that kind of downfall.
I’m looking at the situation in America and thinking it’s simply not sustainable for any length of time – it’s escalating quickly, in time with how life moves these days.
It will crash, for good or ill, one way or another, and before long. A nation simply can't function like that. Maybe that's the idea.
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From ‘Wild Justice’…..
“Our petition - click here - to ban driven grouse shooting passed 55,000 signatures. Thank you! We need 45,000 more signatures before the petition closes on 22 May in order to trigger a parliamentary debate where the future of driven grouse shooting will be discussed. We're still in Month 2 of the petition with well over four months to go - so things are going well. But we aren't by any means certain of reaching that 100,000 figure.
Today's newsletter introduces you to the first three of what will become a series of a dozen blogs about raptor persecution incidents. We call this series 'How low will they go?' because they illustrate the depths of criminality which have occurred where birds of prey have been harmed on or near grouse moors.
Each of these posts is shocking; each is sad; each is an indictment of the grouse shooting industry. They are just a selection of the incidents that the grouse shooters don't want the public to know about and don't want you to remember.
How low will they go?
· Shooting a sleeping beauty (Golden Eagle) - click here.
· The indiscriminate persecutors (Merlin) - click here.
· Faking it: death by decoy (Hen Harrier) - click here.
We'll be adding to this list over the next three weeks.
Here, below, are other blog posts which relate to our petition and the reasons for banning driven grouse shooting. Please feel free to forward this email to your friends and family to let them know what is happening up on the remote moors and what they can do to make things better.
What driven grouse shooting is - and why we want it banned: read this blog for a simple introduction to the issues - click here.
Our petition is flying: where our petition stands in the list of parliamentary petitions (12th out of 823, and the highest ranking environmental petition) and a list of 23 constituencies with 200+ signatures. Is your constituency in the list? To find out - click here.
Population level impacts: the known and documented persecution incidents are examples of widespread criminality on grouse moors. They are, to use a cliched phrase, 'just the tip of the iceberg' of criminality. Only about 10% of an iceberg pokes out above the water surface whereas it's probably less than 1% of crimes against birds of prey which are documented in the detail of the examples in 'How low will they go'. The cases of individual birds being shot, poisoned, trapped or trampled add up to population impacts, in fact landscape scale impacts as shown by scientists. See what you think by reading these three blogs:
· Population impacts on Golden Eagles - click here
· Population impacts on Peregrine Falcons - click here
· Population impacts on Hen Harriers - click here.
Why doesn't the RSPB actively support this petition?: thank you to all who have contacted the RSPB and told us what they said to you. The RSPB has produced an excellent video explaining the range of problems with driven grouse shooting - they think it makes the case for licensing, we think it makes the case for a ban of this industry which is 'out of control' - watch the video and find out how to contact the RSPB on this subject - click here.
The initial government response to our petition: the initial Westminster government response to our petition was disrespectful to the 47,000 people who had signed our petition (now over 55,000) and looks very much like the responses from Conservative governments in the past decade or more. Wild Justice wrote to the Petitions Committee pointing out a gross error and asking the Committee to require Defra to correct it. Read our letter - click here. We're waiting to learn the result of the Committee's investigation of this matter.
Of course, the best response to the government is to get this petition over the line of 100,000 signatures and ensure a parliamentary debate on this subject.
That’s it for now! We won't get to 100,000 signatures without your support so please spread the word.
Thank you.
Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay).
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