My Take on the Vegan Protest

Let me preface this post with the disclaimer that as a rule I have the utmost respect for vegans. One of my oldest friends is vegan, and so is one of my nieces. It's a lifestyle that takes dedication, but it's not impossible. Vegans have a reputation for being militant and preachy, but my friend is nothing of the sort. If asked, she will explain to people why she has made the choice she has made, but not enforce her views on others.

What I don't have respect for is utter cockwombles like those I saw in the news. You clowns want to storm a farm? You want to cause distress to a farmer, who is likely in a fragile state of mind owing to the crippling drought? Go for it, but don't come crying to me if you get hurt at the hands of an angry farmer. Do you globules of pus-ridden knob cheese ever actually stop to think of the outcomes of your actions? ('Hey, here's a good idea! I'll cut the fences so the cattle can get out...watch me, everyone. Look how cool I am with these bolt cutters. There you go, cows; run like the wind! Oh, man; there's a cow tangled in the fence! What'll I do now? Oh no, a cow went on the road and was hit by a truck! This wasn't meant to happen! What'll I do now? I want my mummy!')

Yes, you DO have the right to protest. It is a legal, and extremely important, right here. However, that right limits you to NOT obstructing people going about their lawful business, and it looks like you did that in droves.

In doing this, I have had to endure countless comments along the lines of: 'Make them foot the bill'. You know, this might sound weird to you socially activated little twerps, but I actually don't mind if my taxes go towards any bills for legal representation because the right to legal representation is one of the cornerstones of a democracy. Even though I think you all have the collective IQ of a developmentally delayed wobbegong, I wish you only fair legal proceedings.

This means I have also had to read headlines to the effect: 'Taxpayers foot the bill...', and '..at a cost to taxpayers...'.  Your actions have been the catalyst for these  scurrilous headlines, designed by the Murdochracy to inflame and offend. You know it's aggravating to read these headlines from a press helmed by an old monster (with just enough swipe left in his yellowing claws) who doesn't even pay tax in Australia? Thanks a lot for causing this.

Worst of all, the Prime Minister has used that odious term, the one I hate so much, the one that makes me want to stomp on the head of a newly-born kitten (and I, too, am an animal lover), the one that makes me combative, the one that goes: 'un-Australian'. Thanks for giving cause for me to be reminded that this country is not being led by a person with empathy, diplomacy, and intelligence; but instead by a happy-clapping boofhead trying to be ocker.

Now, if you want my advice (and you probably don't, but then again, Australia didn't want the disruption yesterday), remember this:  you catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.  You want sympathy and respect for your cause? Don't do it in ways that just piss off the populace.