The disgusting abuse and bullying of the family of the organiser of the Huntfest event.

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Narooma News letters to the editor: Wednesday, December 4, 2013.

Plea to stop the abuse

THIS letter is aimed at the whole community but more so at the members of it opposed to HuntFest.

I’m the daughter of Dan Field, president of the South Coast Hunters Club who is also one of the organisers of HuntFest.

I would just like to point out what our family has had to put up with over the last few weeks, and that is constant telephone abuse 24/7.

To pick up our family phone and have some foulmouthed anti-guns/hunting campaigner scream obscenities at us is just beyond belief, and to think such people live in our community!

It was bad enough that for five months my father was vilified and belittled on a facebook page by members of this intolerant group in our community, just because he hunts as people have in the Eurobodalla for thousands of years, but then have a local Greens councillor tell my sister and I that this offensive behaviour was ok because dad is a “public figure”, was just disgusting.

If you don’t agree with what my father’s club is doing at HuntFest then voice your views in the correct forum, not via abuse directed at my family.

Please be tolerant of others in our community and stop the abuse towards each other too.

All my life my parents have asked me to be tolerant of others and their beliefs and way of life.

Many a time my father has told me “you may not agree with what people say but always defend their right to say it”, but this time he is wrong. If you’re not happy about HuntFest call the council. Please just stop the intolerable abuse of my family and I.

Zoe Field

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