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‘Anti-English attack’ hurts horse

A horse’s nose was cut and anti-English graffiti daubed on a stables owned by a Cardiff woman who had moved to a village in west Wales.

Alison Hayes, who was born in the Welsh capital, found her seven-month-old pony with a wound to its nose.

As she helped the animal at her land in Tegryn, near Crymych, Pembrokeshire, she also noticed graffiti written in slang Welsh saying “English out”.

Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating the attack.

Mrs Hayes and her husband moved to the area last year with the intention of opening a riding stables.

But she was shocked when she discovered their pony, Hope, with a bleeding wound on her nose.

“It is awful, she is very frightened,” she explained.

“I just can’t understand it - I’m from Cardiff, I was born there. My mother and father are both Welsh - what’s going on?

“This is a Welsh-speaking area and they might have mistaken our Cardiff accents for English, that is all I can think,” she added.

“This was an incredibly cruel thing to do. Hope is a beautiful, friendly animal and she was slashed across the face and mouth.

“The motivation of these people was ridiculous and to take it out on an innocent horse was wicked.

“Hope loved being around people but now I can’t get near her. She is terrified.”

Source: BBC

I mean, come on, when your excessive nationalism leads you to attack horses I think you need to sit down and ask yourself some pretty serious questions, questions such as “why am I such a fucking cock-end?”

Still, it’s pretty good proof really, if proof were ever needed, that in order to be a bigot you have first to be a complete moron.

Speaking of excessive nationalism, it’s nice to see the Olympic flame taking such a kicking from people who find China’s little PR exercise somewhat offensive. Obviously violent protests are somewhat hypocritical, but then again, taking part in the flame carrying process is much the same. Still, it is quite apt; the whole flame carrying concept was cooked up by Hitler after all.

Olympic protests spread to Paris

Protests against the torch relay ahead of the Beijing Olympics have spread to France’s capital, Paris.

Four people were arrested, including two who were taking part in demonstrations critical of Chinese rule in Tibet, AFP news agency said.

Officials twice extinguished the torch and put it on a bus for safety reasons.

Earlier, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, expressed concern over unrest in Tibet and the torch protests.

The French protests come after 37 people were arrested during pro-Tibet protests which disrupted Sunday’s relay in London.

Security in Paris was extremely tight, with some 3,000 police on duty, riding motorcycles, jogging or on skates.

About 500 protesters were reported to be involved in the demonstrations, mainly near the Eiffel Tower.

Several hundred demonstrators waving banners gathered on the Trocadero esplanade where the relay got started at 1235 local time (1135 BST).

A member of the French Green party was restrained by police after attempting to grab the torch from the first of Paris’s 80 torch bearers, former world 400 metres hurdles champion Stephane Diagana, Reuters news agency said.

Police twice carried the torch onto a bus amid the demonstrations.

On the second occasion, the flame was being relayed out of a Paris traffic tunnel by an athlete in a wheelchair when it was taken onto a bus because protesters booed and began chanting “Tibet”, the Assoicated Press reported.

Source: BBC