BearskinHats

This week saw the launch of yet another attempt by the PC brigade to control the UK. They saw fit to demand that the bearskins worn on the heads of the Guards regiments when on formal duty in London should be replaced by fake fur alternatives.

It doesn’t matter to these do gooders that these bearskins come from bears that had died naturally or from road accidents, and is not risking the lives of a single bear. No, the army, who have used this bear fur for hundreds of years, should stop this tradition, why, because the PC Nazis have instructed them to do so. It proves you don’t need logic when you can shout very loudly and make a placard.

At stake is the traditional and iconic sight of changing the guard at Buckingham Palace with the lofty splendor of the glossy crest of black fur worn proudly by the Queen's soldiers.

The PC brigade want to replace the 200-year-old traditional bearskin helmets, worn by the guards on ceremonial duty at the royal residence in London, with a designer, humane alternative preferably made from synthetic materials.

Baroness Taylor, the minister for defense procurement, will meet some of the activists from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) to discuss their proposal to phase out the 18-inch bearskin headgear. The bearskins have been a target of animal rights groups for many years, as a highly visible garment made from the fur of Canadian black bears.

Logic has no part in how such debates are conducted when you are politically correct. Ask yourself if these guardians of our morals and ethics were paragons of virtue, as they would have you believe. It is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility for some of the same people to smoke a joint or sniff some cocaine. Such folk always blithely claim that there’s no harm to anyone else by their smoking or sniffing without thinking for a second about the gangsters and terrorists who use the money they raise from such addictions to blight the lives of us all.

We live in a very strange society when drugs are acceptable but bearskin hats are not. It’s precisely the same bloated, lazy and crazy reverse logic that sees only wrong in using animals for testing medical advances whilst seeing nothing wrong in attacking the scientists and workers conducting these sometimes vital tests. By their type of thinking you can hurt people but not animals. In this instance even the fur from dead animals must not be used.

If we were seeking to ban anything it should be the buffoons of Peta and all their fellow travelers. The world would be a better place.