Hunting for Liberty, Shooting for Charity

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From the Countryside Alliance today...

"1. Hunting for Liberty

The Alliance’s board meeting on Tuesday was headlined by a visit from Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of leading civil liberties and human rights group Liberty. In outlining the challenges that faced her organisation it soon became clear that we share common ground on civil liberties and human rights.

Shami described some of the difficulties of the ‘left wing’ label that has always been associated with her organisation and compared these to the ‘conservative’ tag that we so often have to bear. Her main point was that civil liberties and human rights should not be seen as either ‘left wing’ or ‘right wing’ as Dominic Lawson argued in his Independent article on the Conservatives and Human Rights (quoting our own case) last month. Human Rights are just as relevant for hunters as they are for other minorities.

... If we criticise the Government for riding roughshod over our rights and liberties we should not remain silent when it does the same to others.

You can find out more about Liberty and its work here

Simon Hart

2. Shooting for charity

We know that shooting raises a serious amount of money for good causes, but just how much? ...Starting today and continuing over the summer, Shooting Times will be recording the amount of money raised by organised clay shoots across the country. This is a golden opportunity for the shooting community to record their wonderful efforts for charity. "