Can we be surprised when she also recently sat down with the thugs of the so called 'Countryside Alliance' to tell them what a poor,hard done by group she thought they were?
The libertarian right clearly is making a cosy new alliance. Perhaps she will next turn her libertarian gospel to the human rights of burglars or car thieves?
Being in a minority is not in itself a justification for doing anything. Burglars are a minority, but their actions are not considered legitimate because of this.
'Liberty' would not even get a passing glance from the right wing 'Countryside Alliance' if it wasn't addicted to killing animals for fun, and is using gullible people like Liberty's director in order to try and return to doing just that.
I note that the website of 'Liberty' advertises t-shirts with the slogan 'no torture, no compromise'. What a pity 'Liberty' does not extend its so called values of compassion to the wild animals who are tortured for fun by the Countryside Alliance. Or indeed to the many people who have been beaten up by CA supporting thugs whilst monitoring hunts. Cameron's killing for fun brigade have a friend indeed in Chakrabarti.
THE COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE WEBSITE JUNE 2006
1. Hunting for Liberty
The Alliance’s board meeting on Tuesday was headlined by a visit from Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of leading civil liberties and human rights group Liberty. In outlining the challenges that faced her organisation it soon became clear that we share common ground on civil liberties and human rights.
Shami described some of the difficulties of the ‘left wing’ label that has always been associated with her organisation and compared these to the ‘conservative’ tag that we so often have to bear. Her main point was that civil liberties and human rights should not be seen as either ‘left wing’ or ‘right wing’ as Dominic Lawson argued in his Independent article on the Conservatives and Human Rights (quoting our own case) last month. Human Rights are just as relevant for hunters as they are for other minorities.