Federcaccia Brescia wishes all its members and managers the best wishes for a Merry Christmas and happy holidays. There hunting season 2021/2022 as well as being the most fatal in Lombardy, it has always imposed on the Association and all its managers a change of mentality and action. The time has come to join forces with the other Lombard hunting associations in order to be able to oppose all the obstacles and challenges that we will find on our path more and more authority and competence. Today and in the future the hunting matter it can no longer be faced with goodwill and volunteering.
We hunters, all together, must find the economic and intellectual resources to entrust some tasks, especially of a legal nature, to experienced and accredited professionals who know how to respond blow by blow to the continuous attacks that we receive. It is now established and evident that there is a very precise cadence in appeals to the TAR, in the delegitimization in the press, in the exercise of a certain type of voluntary supervision which requires us, morally and ethically, to react. And the reaction will have to take place only and exclusively in legality without falling into the trap of decomposed and humoral actions that would put us all in the wrong.
There are even more hunters in Lombardy 50.000 and with a few pennies each could set in motion a lethal machine for all those who today, in an instrumental way and sometimes even incomprehensible to most, they make attacking hunting an obsession. Animal welfare associations have until now acted undisturbed, like a pack of wolves in a defenseless flock. But the Lombard hunters, especially those from Brescia and Bergamo, are not sheep and after a period of discouragement, resignation and frustration they must find the strength to react. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Who doesn't have skeletons in the closet, come forward. Are we so sure that there are no dark areas in the animalist undergrowth?
Today the animal welfare associations boast to the four winds to be the last bastion to protect biodiversity, the defenders of Nature, the champions of justice. In the name of these alleged values, they raise huge funds, for example through the 5 × 1.000, which are then spent to wage war on the peaceful world of hunters. We hunters consider ourselves honest people, animal rights activists paint us as criminals. We hunters know how strict the Italian laws are to allow a citizen to be able to hold a gun license, for animal rights activists we are the champions of illegality. We hunters know the meaning of the word "charity", "volunteering", we try to better interpret our role in society, for animal rights activists we are only foolish selfish.
In the face of this continuous action of discrediting the hunting world, hunters have never opposed anything but daily work, in the municipal sections be they small or large, and in the provincial sections. But all this commitment of ours has not paid off, or rather, it does not pay enough. If on the one hand it was wrecked miserably yet another attempt to call a referendum that would abolish huntingon the other hand we note a distancing of institutions and politics from our world. Of course our numbers have decreased, perhaps electorally we are no longer so interesting, but we remain a transversal category capable of being able to deploy a great energy of brilliant minds and economic resources. We take this opportunity, perhaps the last, to try to turn around.
The hunters have adapted to the times, and those who have not done so will be forced to do so, now they must adapt to the new rules of engagement with the our opponents, be they animal welfare associations or part of a public bureaucracy now out of control even for democratically elected administrators. We don't care about being above the laws but we care about that the laws are applied correctly. The Lombard hunting associations are overwhelmingly in agreement on this step which will materialize for the new year. Federcaccia Brescia will be the protagonist as always and our associates must have the certainty, the trust that none of us managers has resigned. The best Italian lawyers will work for us, the leading experts in wildlife, the most accredited property investigation companies. The time has not yet come to lower our passion, to give in to someone's incivility and violence.
A great statesman used to repeat "..do not mistreat your enemy halfway .." and we will start from here legally. The offices of Provincial Federcaccia in via Bazoli will be closed again from December 24th to January 7th included. For any eventuality, however, the presidents will be able to contact their group representative who will then know reach directly interested parties. We renew our wishes for a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all our associates, to all our section presidents and to all the provincial leaders who continue to make Federcaccia Brescia's family great. No indication of a response from the Lombardy Region regarding the request for a meeting for the problem relating to the rings of live calls. We have reached the 6 week of silence on the part of the Milan officials.