I have to say I'm very pissed off. Not with animal rights activists, vegans, neo-Nazis. Not with the wildlife technicians who should work for the management and instead think only of limiting the hunting intervention. Not with the single dominant thought. Not with the government of appointed and unelected people who want us unarmed and prone in front of those who enter the house to steal, beaten up, rape. No.
This time I would put the finger in the eye of those who represent us, of the managers of the hunting associations, ready to fight among themselves for a card, to raise their voices to defend their vegetable gardens, but unable to give answers to those who have been working for years to prevent us from hunting. Only once in their history did they find a way to unite their forces and to create a shared organism that managed to organize the reaction against those forces that even wanted to abolish hunting through the excessive use of abrogative referendums. All united we won that battle by sending to the attic what was intended to be an instrument of expression of the popular will, but which often served quarrelsome and active minorities to impose their will. We have won (or rather, we have made to lose) 24, between national and regional. The last, that of 1992, put the word "an end" to the improper use of referendums against hunting. Immediately afterwards we passed, on our proposal (or, better, on the wave of a popular legislative initiative proposed by us) a new law on hunting, the 157/92, which still holds, even if it needs some adjustments, and which , by acknowledging some international directives, it can no longer be the subject of abrogative referendums. End of danger.
so our hunting associations have put their hearts in peace, regardless of the fact that the hunters, from the two million and two hundred thousand that were at the time of the first referendum, have dropped to less than 700 thousand. They turned off the lights and turned into Zombies, dealing only with internal affairs and losing all relations with civil society. We are in the night of the living dead. In the meantime, Federcaccia had allowed itself to be thrown out of CONI, also for the good offices of a competing association. It had happened that, instead of finding a way to all become part of the Federation of hunters, founder of CONI, all the others left to do or brigade for it to be excluded, when it had all the qualifications, in accordance with laws and regulations, to stay there. The living dead, on the other hand, do not realize that even if the abrogation referendums are now out of the question, there are other and more subtle enemies who, working in a subdued and not blatant manner, remove a brick every day from what is the Casa della Caccia.
Subtle anti-hunt propaganda in schools, in newspapers and on TV, the creation of a popular "vegetarian" and animal rights conscience, legal provisions and decrees to increasingly complicate the use and possession of weapons, pseudoscientific initiatives such as the one I denounced in my last post which I hope you've all read and pissed you off. Do you remember? I announced a proposal from the LAV (Lega Antiviviszione), supported by the LAC (Lega Abolizione Caccia) and with different nuances also by Italia Nostra, immediately accepted by the institutions (Province of Lucca, University of Pisa and Maremma Natural Park) to resolve the wild boar emergence through chemical castration. Do you realize? If any farmer used hormones on a calf, the NAS carabinieri would immediately put handcuffs on him. Instead, public institutions do it with impunity, introducing hormones into nature, and nobody says anything. Neither the prosecutors, nor the NAS carabinieri. And it is not that it was done "aumma-aumma". No, it is mentioned in the newspapers and the fact has been in the public domain for quite some time. The Corriere della Sera of 1 October this year announced that the experimentation has already begun in the Maremma park.
And modestly, having read in the newspapers what was being planned, I too gave the news by bringing up, one by one, the presidents of the hunting associations, so that they could intervene. “Not hunting, I wrote, but animal rights activists will run out of wild boars. End of a problem, perhaps, but also of a resource. In the meantime, however, the animals will continue to live, they will defecate, they will drink, they will be the object of hunting and therefore food for humans and other species. And what will be the unwanted side effects for humans and other wild animals present in the environment? "
I concluded: “We still have some time to organize an answer, no longer ideal, but legal or even judicial. I only have the power of ideas. The associations have the strength of numbers and their lawyers. I call you by name: Dall'Olio, Cardia, Veneziano, Castellani, Sparvoli. Thirty years ago UNAVI would have done something. "
No reply. That's why I'm pissed and I stick my finger in the eye of Dall'Olio, Cardia, Veneziano, Castellani, Sparvoli. And now, let's see what happens.
Bruno have you waited for 2016 to understand these things? That the 3 associations don't give a damn about hunting and are we just thinking about the cards and their intetesdi? Everyone knows what you've written. What are you proposing?
Dear Bruno, how can you not share your words! To worry you even more, I just add that a few weeks ago the national president of the most representative Italian hunting association "slammed the door in the face" of Franco Zunino (secretary of the Italian wilderness association). Anyone who knows Zunino and this environmental association knows that for over 30 years he has always defended the hunting activity, not for shop interests, but for ideological and philosophical convictions. Your world is in ever greater danger and it will not be "political" agreements that will improve it. We need a change of mentality that we at AIW have been pointing out for some time. The figure of the environmental hunter, who undertakes, directly or indirectly to protect the territory, as is already happening beyond the Alps or in the USA, is your salvation! If you want respect you have to become bearers of values that the rest of civil society shares.
I read Bruno your article… ..it is a malaise not of today… ..the cure can only come from below…. from an awareness of the base… ..elect only those who love hunting… .and I think we all know who are they ... not opportunists but people of value and honest ... .. I think there are still many ... and since the future is in the young people .. we focus on the new generations .. clean faces ... I thank you anyway that you did not put your finger in the eye by Rodolfo Grassi ... person I respect and consider capable ... ..I don't know all the others you mentioned ... .. in case, however, as you say someone deserves it ... I would put it somewhere else ... a Caro hello… .and hear from us !!!