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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJW" data-source="post: 1302567" data-attributes="member: 20369">I fully agree that to condemn the population as a whole is not only grossly unfair but is also counterproductive. It is the illegal hunters who deserve the condemnation.As an outsider I believe that the general public of Malta deserve our encouragement if they wish to reclaim their countryside, the countryside which their families endured so much for. If they believe that a family should be able to go for a picnic without having shotguns fired in their vicinity, ramblers should be able to walk on common land and not see it appropriated by hunters, and that rare creature the Maltese bird watcher should be able to walk without fear in the countryside.   But that is their business. Our business is the flagrant abuse of European law and the illegal shooting and trapping of European birds.</blockquote>