Circuses

Sometimes, you wonder who the real animals are, and what kind of condition they keep themselves in.

Geez I could go a roast leg of activist right about now

On the weekend, I dropped my daughter at a friend’s birthday party at Lennon Brothers Circus. Lennon Brothers is one of the few remaining Australian circuses with animals, and a group of protestors had set up shop out the front.

Never in my life have I encountered such an unruly, rude rabble of misfits, thugs and foaming-at-the-mouth ideologues. Not content to peacefully pursue their aims, they actively victimised the poor helpless children attending the circus with some of the most vile slurs imaginable.

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  • Emma Tameside says:

    03:09pm | 21/09/12

    I can’t put believe some of the bad PR activists are doing out there.  It’s horrible that your children had to be subjected to such a savage type of protest.  Although I’m a massive animal lover, and disagree with circuses all together, it does not mean you act in this… Read more »

  • Jessie says:

    04:57am | 09/08/12

    In all fairness why dont tou let prople think for themselves insted of trying to tell them what they should and shouldnt see or eat every australian has there own brain there own thoughts and there own bodies’... Its up to them what they do with it ... And fyi… Read more »

 

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