Dear David,
I have over 20 years’ experience of the Machiavellians, charlatans and snake oil sales men that form the back bone of the animal rights/anti-hunting movement.
It is my firm belief the acting chief constable Darren Martland and the Cheshire police in no way acted inappropriately in suggesting to the public that anti-hunt social media sites should be viewed with caution. If anything the acting chief constable and Cheshire police should have been commended for offering exceptionally good quality public advice.
I would also like to add the Sunday Telegraph article was wholly accurate as they had been shown videos of anti-hunt fanatics attempting to fix up a hunt, videos I assume you have not been privileged too.
I will provide you with the information shown to the Telegraph and you should know this has recently been sent to the Charity Commission as yet another bona fide compliant against the League Against Cruel Sports concerning their dishonest practices.
Before I provide you with this information, I think you should also know while you were launching your review in Dec 2018 the Charity Commission were once again back in at the League Against Cruel Sports offering guidance over serious matters. For one I know a complaint had been raised over the same misuse of social media they fell foul of in 2015. This involves telling folk foxes are killed for sport, the Charity Commission were shown the MAFF/DEFRA submission to the Burns inquiry and Lord Burns’s comments in the House of Lords and decided where hunts do legally kill foxes it is for the purpose of population management and control.
Naturally the League had to object to this debunking of their claims over killing just for sport as it lies at the heart of their manipulation of the public. So they threatened to sue Tim Bonner head of the Countryside Alliance over the matter, he famously told them to go away, which they replied sheepishly, ok.
Extracts from complaint to the charity Commission:
Terry Hill the League against cruel sports monitor of choice is acting out the orders of Robbie Marshland CEO of the League Against cruel Sports, who was reported to have told the court on the 4th Oct 2018 in a Scottish Newspaper – he has hired a team of field workers to covertly film the country’s 10 regular hunts “to check their patterns of behaviour”.
https://www.facebook.com/700706167/posts/10156873013671168/
The carefully edited footage triggered by propaganda from the League Against Cruel Sports now appears on their website, without a thorough investigation or validation. The footage usually has come from the more extreme elements and it’s likely they caused the problem for their own purposes by calling the hounds off the trail and huntsman and into the path of a fox with either a gizmo or a horn. This can also cause hounds to stray into unwanted places and on very rare occasions led to the death of family pets. This highly selective editing by fanatics has been exposed on Facebook by a terrier man of the Fife hunt.
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2019/01/30/effective-rural-pest-control/
Now you have the same information as the Sunday Telegraph I would not like to see the information removed from the Cheshire police website and any such action will be viewed as a deliberate attempt to hide very good advice from the public which is at odds with the purpose of a police crimes commissioner.
If you have any questions or require further clarification please do not hesitate to contact me.
PS A copy of this letter will be sent to the acting police constable and the Sunday telegraph.