Bath Bomb News: Operation Rolf Harris

bath | protests | feature Tuesday June 24, 2008 20:38 by imcvol

"...one of the more bizarre demos in the history of Bath Animal Action..." and more News from Bath

The Bath Bomb Editorial Collective write; Last week saw one of the more bizarre demos in the history of Bath Animal Action, as they took the fight to Bath Racecourse. The cause was well known animal welfare activist Rolf Harris doing a gig after a night of racing at the course, which BAA considered a tad hypocritical bearing in mind the terrible death and injury and whipping rate of race horses. (A one in four chance of a race ending in death at Bath race course, and much higher national statistic, not to mention the fact that only 40% of purpose-bred horses are considered 'good enough' to race. Evidence indicates that many of the 'failures' are shot at the stables or slaughtered for meat). So opposed to animal cruelty is Rolf, that he even wrote a legendary song entitled 'Slaughter on the Ice (shall we do it you and I?)' in which he condones the murder of animal abusers. Don't believe me? You can check it out on the Rolfsters' Myspace! Members of BAA turned up on the night, joined by a two-strong counter demo to encourage Rolf not to do any more race course gigs and let punters know about the cruelty they support. Afterwards, activists headed inside, leafleting over 250 cars and, noticing a stack of pallets by the stage, one scaled the pallets and blasted Rolf's animal rights song at him through an MP3 player rigged to a megaphone, while the crowd were shown disturbing images of horse racing accidents. Security stood by, looking uneasy, and formed a line to try and prevent activists getting on the track (something they had no intention of doing!). Full article.

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