The FKNK is busy ‘pouring scorn‘ on what they describe as an ‘alleged discovery’ of 70 (seventy) dead birds by CABS in the Mizieb valley. The war of attrition between FKNK/hunting community and the CABS/Birdlife coalition goes on. We’ve had another physical assault on CABS personnel who were inspecting an area for dead birds. Later in court, FKNK committee member Briffa claimed to have hit the CABS representative by mistake while trying to take his camera. While the lawyers and the law will work on the fine details of illegal arrest (tut tut) it is rather obvious that “trying to take his camera” does not sound like the most collaborative of methods by someone who should have no worries about searches for dead birds – especially since any discovery could only be ‘alleged’ or ‘fictional’. Comparisons may be odious but the trend in logical acrobatics and obstinate ignorance is common to the pro arguments of both hunting and firework factory lobbyists.
A friend of mine who recently temporarily relocated from Luxembourg to Malta after six years in the Duchy spent Independence Day at Buskett. He told me a story that sounded like a fable. For the first time in his life he saw many birds of different varieties (apparently Kuccard were spotted – and other unnameable ones for alas he is no birdspotter – at least not the avian kind). He also told me of the many hunters who gathered around in admiration of the flying spectacle. We both wondered whether the following thoughts went through their mind: “Ara jahasra, issa li ma nistghux nikkaccjaw ara kemm hawn ghasafar. Qabel qajla kienu jigu. X’sahta!” (It’s such a pity that now that we cannot hunt so many birds are coming. Before we rarely saw so many. What bad luck!”)
Do you really think that that scenario is hypothetical?
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