You're not reading what I'm saying, we're all painted with the same brush when it comes to sporting photos. What's in the pictures doesn't matter, it can ALL be turned against us.
What we see: A nice picture of a boy and his grandfather after a day at the game farm with a couple of pheasants. They've had good dog work, killed their birds cleanly, and had a fine family day out in the open.
What they see: Some old redneck who's teaching the next generation how to slaughter on a place that raised birds only to throw them out into the cold so some cowboy with a shotgun can blast them into kingdom come.
Now grandpa took him there to try and show him what it was like around home before the coyote packs moved in and ate all the wild birds. Before Farmer Johson started spraying all his fields with every chemical known to man and plowed everything right up to the ditch edges so as to get every last stalk of corn possible so he could sell it to the Green Freaks to make into ethanol so they could feel like they're saving the planet.
As far as most of us would say, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The boy got to see his grandpa's old setter point a bird, got to shoot one, and spent the day with somebody learning something worth knowing, not sitting in front of the TV playing video games.
But to the people that don't feel the way we feel, don't know the things we know, it's all wrong no matter how you do it or what's been done. So, by what some of you are saying, any sporting photo shown on the internet is damaging to our cause.
Think boys, think real hard.
And again: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
Destry
P.S. This will be my last post on the matter, I should be preaching to the choir here but I don't think anything is sinking in so I won't waste anymore time.
Last edited by MarketHunter; 06/12/08 02:54 AM.
