Fiagai
Well-Known Member
My attention was recently drawn to a 'new' anti campaign. Not wishing to provide click bait, the following text is copied from one of the promotional posts ...
"There is a campaign underway to hijack the next national census in 2021 as a protest against hunting and get our number into the government's own statistics. Never mind about complying with the system - we will exploit the system to register a protest by stating our religion as "Sacred Fox". Even though the Census is still a few years away, we need to do this irrespectively of what happens in this forthcoming election. If the Tories win then the repeal of the ban is a foregone conclusion. Even if they lose they could be back in power in 2022, so we need to have the ace up our sleeve come what may. Who is with me? Please join this group to pledge your support."
The jist of the idea is that the whole anti hunting thing is being paralleled as a religious belief. Strangely or otherwise this 'religion' appears to be based only on the fox and excludes all the other farthing wood creatures for some bizarre reason!
My first reaction and only rational explanation is perhaps best explained in the infographic below which I found on the same site(!)
or maybe just maybe - it's a very clever (sic) honeypot campaign to show just how idiotic the antis have become ...
Edited to add:
Not to miss a trick of such 'religions' scams - the 'campaign' provides a money making section through its 'buy a badge' for a £1 each ...
"There is a campaign underway to hijack the next national census in 2021 as a protest against hunting and get our number into the government's own statistics. Never mind about complying with the system - we will exploit the system to register a protest by stating our religion as "Sacred Fox". Even though the Census is still a few years away, we need to do this irrespectively of what happens in this forthcoming election. If the Tories win then the repeal of the ban is a foregone conclusion. Even if they lose they could be back in power in 2022, so we need to have the ace up our sleeve come what may. Who is with me? Please join this group to pledge your support."
The jist of the idea is that the whole anti hunting thing is being paralleled as a religious belief. Strangely or otherwise this 'religion' appears to be based only on the fox and excludes all the other farthing wood creatures for some bizarre reason!
My first reaction and only rational explanation is perhaps best explained in the infographic below which I found on the same site(!)
or maybe just maybe - it's a very clever (sic) honeypot campaign to show just how idiotic the antis have become ...
Edited to add:
Not to miss a trick of such 'religions' scams - the 'campaign' provides a money making section through its 'buy a badge' for a £1 each ...
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