Arci Caccia and Federcaccia Siena reply to Pro Cinghiale for the accusations regarding the responsibilities of the current faunal disaster in the Sienese territory.
One thing is clear: the Pro Cinghiale has no decision-making weight. As it turned out: I'm an unloaded gun. Fighting against prejudice is a difficult and often impossible undertaking; despite this, Arci Caccia and Federcaccia believe it is essential to respond blow by blow to what constitutes a real attack on logic and common sense. How can we believe that those responsible for the current faunal disaster in Siena are the same who until a few years ago were the architects of an exemplary model of wildlife management, to the point of being considered a reference of national value? Federcaccia and Arci Caccia are the associations which then constituted the backbones of that virtuous model; how is it possible that they have become responsible for the current disaster? We allow ourselves, quietly, to offer advice to the Pro Cinghiale, since it claims to rely heavily on the intelligence of hunters: stop remembering the times that were and, above all, stop saying that we must go back to those ancient glories, because of those “Glories”, You, cannot boast any merit.
The merit, on the other hand, is of those associations which, yesterday as today, jealously preserving their autonomy and their prestige (as well as a very large representation) have been able to direct and correct wrong choices and determinations that had been produced up to now. Do you ever doubt that it was our credibility, our sense of institutions, our respectful and responsible nature that helped to straighten the boat? To be rigorous, firm and, above all, to defend the prerogatives of hunting and the rights of those who practice it, there is no need to be a screamer, to appear as an anti-system or to flaunt a moral superiority that certainly does not belong to you who claim it.
From this story the only thing that emerges in all its clarity is that the Pro Cinghiale has no decision-making weight in the choices that are made; and this not because someone, unlike others, can boast some “saint in Heaven”, but because you have never come up with practicable solutions, responding to general interests and completely devoid of an overall scope. It could not be otherwise, given that this Association was born explicitly on corporate claims that are one with the reference organization, Confavi, which in terms of wrong battles and losers for our passion can boast of absolute primacy.
Given the results obtained, we did well to leave the ATCs; certainly not a great show of ingenuity, but rather the opening of a new phase that has "forced" the Province to reopen a tight discussion table that put a train that was definitively derailing back on the right tracks. The Pro Cinghiale (which we had indicated as "illusionists" and not as "pot sellers", as this appellation is more suitable for those who sent tens of thousands of letters to the home of hunters to (un) sell the tiles), explicitly cheers for the “so much the worse the better”, he wants the final derailment just for the sake of raising a bit of fuss and being the only ones to be proud and immaculate.
Since, dear gentlemen of the Pro Cinghiale, we are organizations and respectable people, we feel pride in it, at least as much as you do; proud of being organizations that think, make proposals, study and compare, perhaps even making a mistake, but always in the honesty and transparency of the objectives to be achieved. Also proud to be out of fashion, convinced that it is mo that the seriousness of the behavior, in the long run, will win over the professionals of the scream.
(September 15, 2014)
Arci Caccia - Federcaccia