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Dodger · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 7

This article is from todays Daily Mail. Please read it and watch the video.! If it makes your blood boil,as it did mine,please click on the lower of the two links and sign the petition today.This disgusting practice should be outlawed ASAP.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=530129&in_pa

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/canada_bear_baiting/forward

62rebel · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 2:58 am Post subject:

i agree, if for no other reason than the hat itself is purely ceremonial and otherwise unnecessary. bears deserve better than to die for a guardsmans' appearance. i'd warrant that if the hat were made from foxhound skins they'd be retired by now....

Uncle Joe · Guest

Isnt this a case of, as you americans say, ''The right to arm and wear bears''?????

old gto · Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 172 Location: Orlando, Florida

LOL!
Good one Uncle Joe!

62rebel · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 2:18 am Post subject:

not a bad idea UJ.... of course their lack of opposable thumbs does present a considerable obstacle to proper marksmanship training. one could, of course, tell the bears to walk away from confrontation and then consider them in violation of the law for remaining in harms' way, whereupon any lethal action taken against them would be excusable.
any bear or bearlike animal raising a paw in self-defence would then be justly shot dead.... which is where we started off in the first place. but given the state of juris prudens in both the US AND the UK i'd not put this too far into the realm of fiction.....