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…the smokers, then they came for the dog owners:
The Lib Dems are backing a cert this week in their demand for a review of dog legislation. Nothing is more guaranteed to raise the nation’s hackles, provoke unhinged opinions, eventually resulting in colander-like laws. While there are 11 million dog owners - a powerful lobby - I’d bet these are equalled if not exceeded by dog-haters. Now the tobacco ban has routed the smokers, the doggy folk are next in line. The outraged and self-righteous have changed focus. Every new terrible dog attack becomes a conduit for wider prejudice: ban more breeds, bring back licences, castrate the lot - and their owners! And here I’m quoting the genteel readers of Times Online.
That’s the problem with bansturbation; it never stops, is never sated, always it seeks another victim, another offender of public morals and sensibilities. And, always, it is “someone else” who is the target of the self-righteous outrage.
Gun owners, huntsmen and smokers have all been targeted successfully. Now it is drinkers, motorcyclists and dog owners. How long before the silent, sleeping majority wake up and realise that sooner or later they will be in the targeted group? And will it be too late?
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