Ed Swales, the chair of Hunting Kind, claims he has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunters unequivocally qualify for legal protection under the UK Equality Act 2010.
Speaking to the FieldsportsChannel podcast, Swales said: “The qualifications of an ethnic group, there are five of them, and we hit everyone straight in the bullseye.”
He said he had spent three years preparing a legal challenge that had now been reviewed by a human rights KC “who sits on the council of the European court of human rights”.
Swales said: “The outcome of that from the human rights silk is that as a protected minority group under the Equality Act, we qualify, undoubtedly 10 out of 10.”
(I cant find an emoji to accurately illustrate my reactions to such insane nonsensical bs)
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Upper-class twits are an ethnic minority? 
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They’re a minority, and apparently one that doesn’t understand what the word “ethnic” does in front of it.
Swales also has a great little bit there about how hunting is actually performing a service because it only eliminates the animals that are old, toothless, have “the disease”, or can’t outrun the dogs. Somehow one of those feels less like a natural condition than the others to me, but hey.
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Obviously those are BS terms and would not really hold up in court. If they did that would open up a lot of wiggle room for some serious shenanigans with other services and sites, absolving responsibility for unrelated things.
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Yeah, but as a way to drag out the proceedings until the plaintiffs can’t afford to keep paying their attorneys, they work well, I’m afraid.
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Holy shit, 20 fucking days?!?!? For raping a child!
What the fuck have we become…
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Rochester cops get away with a lot
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A judge ordered a 15-year-old student on a field trip to his courtroom to be handcuffed and forced to change into an inmate jumpsuit because she dozed off.
The audacity of a working, un-housed student not being able to stay awake when the important man is talking. /s
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This shit makes me so mad
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