24/10/2026
What is set before us is an AI inage carefully arranged as though for some poster or pamphlet. It is made to resemble those outdoor conversations that have become familiar of late, yet upon the roof above the throng A SNIPER is placed, the r***e laid upon the speaker and upon the crowd below. Those who have set this scene call themselves monitors and campaigners. Their record, as any who have watched their ways these many years can attest, is not one of quiet watching only. There has been the stealing of property, the cutting of locks, the cruelty of hitting and spraying hounds, the harrying of men women and children about their lawful business, and, from the wilder edges of the company, things much darker still.
When men already set against the country folk and the sportsman choose an image that echoes, in its lines and its intent, a recent and infamous deed of political murder, the choice is neither innocent nor empty of meaning. It is the picture they elected to fabricate and put forth. One may make of it what one will; the shapes and the shadows remain, and they are not the shapes of open talk under the sun.
