Clarissa
Dickson-Wright Receives Special Branch Protection
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Doesn't your heart bleed for poor old Clarissa? Maybe she'll
experience just a tiny percentage of the terror that she's quite happy to put
other animals through.
A pity that the hares and greyhounds that suffer through the
activities of her and her coursing chums don't get Special Branch protection!
It's a joke that this vile lump of lard should refer to animal
rights activists as being worse than "Hitler's right-hand men". The
true "fascists" in this situation are the abusers of animals who have
the arrogance to believe that the human "master-race" can do whatever
it wants to other creatures.
Coursing is about as "beautiful to watch" as Clarissa
herself. One wonders if she can make up for her own personal ugliness through
the persecution of beautiful animals.
Dickson-Wright should count herself lucky that her nonsense
justification that coursing weeds out "poor breeding stock" isn't
applied to human beings. It would be extremely unlikely that this gorgeous
example of womanhood would still be around today.
The evidence that hares suffer through coursing is overwhelming.
Maybe Clarissa would like the same "single bite to the neck" that the
hares are given. Like the creatures she delights in persecuting, she could
be made to run a bit first, couldn't she? Or waddle, to put it more accurately.
Now that really would be "beautiful to watch"!
Threatened
TV Chef Has Special Branch Hotline
Special Branch has set up a hotline to Clarissa
Dickson-Wright to help protect her from animal rights campaigners.
The TV chef says her BBC2 series Clarissa And The
Countryman and her backing of a major hare coursing event has made her a
target.
"I get hate mail from activists who make Hitler's right-hand men look like
Noddy," she said. "Such are the threats, I now have a Special Branch officer who I can call
any time."
The former Two Fat Ladies presenter, 56, has a greyhound entered in the
More than 10,000 people are expected to attend next Tuesday, including Vinnie Jones. But campaigners, including TV vet Emma Milne,
say the sport is cruel and should be banned.
Milne, of BBC Vets In Practice, said: "Hare
coursing is on a par with dog fighting, cock fighting and badger baiting - all
of which are outlawed.
"Post mortems on coursed hares have shown that they can die a gruesome and
painful death as dogs savage them."
But Dickson-Wright has defended the hare coursing event. "The point of
coursing is that it's a beautiful thing to watch," said the outsize
personality, who's been a fan for 10 years. It weeds out the hares that would
make poor breeding stock and without it there would be no hares.
"Pictures of hares being torn apart are a set-up. Dogs kill with a single
bite to the neck, so the hares pictured might as well be a leg of mutton."