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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MJB" data-source="post: 2229096" data-attributes="member: 88928">What a transparently self-serving, cynical and pompous statement, made without regard or understanding of how hunting is regulated or monitored (however imperfectly) elsewhere in much of Europe!The marker is not "the traditional socio-cultural passion of Maltese hunters and trappers", it is whether that 'tradition' is a good tradition or a bad tradition, when measured against reasonable opinions reached through debate and published regulation in a free society. It's all too common a ploy to raise the spectre of 'tradition' as a thinkstop instead of offering it for a judgement call.The linking of 'hunting' with 'trapping' as a fait accompli should be challenged on every turn. 'Trapping' for non-research purposes (the Japanese have made it a career option in their whaling argument) where any bird species has not been declared an official pest, is unsupportable in any modern context. 'Hunting' in the Mediterranean usually has little to do with any hunting skills, as Adam W attempts to explain so often.FKNK's statement is extraordinarily feeble, and they don't have the faintest awareness of the fact. I apologise if I might have inadvertently made them realise that their declaration is laughable (except perhaps to a bureaucrat), and would be considered very much a failure by the average debater of any experience.FKNK's assumption that BirdLife Malta have an executive role in 'leading the Maltese Government by the nose' is yet another example of how evidence terrifies the irrational, who have only one response - the schoolboy reaction of calling the opposition names! MJBPS 'Extremist ends' - cessation of killing of birds and introducing a protected future for migrants as opposed to thousands of guns blasting away annually? Even the Eurovision Song Contest voting wouldn't support the latter over the former, would it? Mr Ferrugia, if the cap fits, wear it!</blockquote>

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