07-26-2007, 04:49 PM
Live webcam showing Shambhu: http://www.skandavale.org/webcam/webcam.htm
This site goes on and off due to the heavy traffic.
The issue is really about the double standards and hard nosed attitude of the inglistan government to Hindu issues.
The last update so far: (GMT times)
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Police have returned and used bolt cutters to get access to the farm, BBC Wales reports. They are now removing people from temple area.
5.10pm
The Press Association is reporting the following:
A group of 20 police officers marched in and surrounded the temple after cutting the chain which had secured the gates. Some of those who had gathered to worship in front of Shambo had to be dragged and carried from the scene by officers after refusing to leave.
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The officials are back but they are struggling to get through the chanting and defiant crowd. The vet and the officials have gone back to their cars to consider the next move. They say they won't kill Shambo at the temple, but want to take him away for slaughter.
2pm
The officials are still mulling it over. Meanwhile, everyone seems to have a definite view on whether Shambo should live or die. Everyone, that is, except the former environment secretary David Miliband. It's a tricky issue he says, but it's one for the Welsh.
2.10pm
Still we wait for more news. While we do DII_Contents on Idle Time is suspicious about why MooTube is still unavailable.
2.30pm
The human shield protecting Shambo is holding strong. The officials don't know how to get around it. They may now get police reinforcements, according to BBC News 24.
But they have obtained, and now served, their warrant on the Skanda Vale community. No one would take the document so it was taped to the door of the temple. It confirms that the officials do have the right to take Shambo away for slaughter. But the question is how? They have to get through the human shield of chanting supporters, remove an altar in front of Shambo and get him through a locked gate. This could run for a little longer yet.
A spokeswoman for the Welsh assembly says they are not going into the logistics of the operation, but will get back to me with any more details if she can. She did say she's following this blog.
2.50pm
ShamboShambles' ballad of Shambo reminds me that the writer Michael Morpurgo wrote a brilliant Shambo fable for the Today programme. The Western Mail has reprinted it here.
3.10pm
It now emerges that the warrant gives the officials a whole month to take away Shambo. Surely it won't last that long.
In case you missed it here's Steve Bell's Shambo take on David Cameron.
Richard Moore, via email, writes: "Surely Shambo is in line to be reincarnated. Perhaps as a Carmarthen Magistrate? Have the slaughter team not heard of karma?"
3.35pm
Gangeticus from the US is following events in Camarthenshire. Posting on Ganges is My Spring of Life he says: "As a vegetarian myself (and a Hindu), the death of any life is abhorrent to me, but this case is the worst."
3.40pm
Officials are "taking advice" on what to do next. Will they storm the temple? Or will they leave it for a few days and hope the supporters go away?
4.15pm
According to this on the Debatable Land the fact that the Guardian is liveblogging Shambo is proof that the British love animals more than people. Mr Eugenides has a nice Shambo post tagged "Britain" and "Gallows Humour". It's been picked up by a Jewish community site in the states.
4.30pm
There are some Shambo films on YouTube here, here and here.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/..._slaughter.html
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This site goes on and off due to the heavy traffic.
The issue is really about the double standards and hard nosed attitude of the inglistan government to Hindu issues.
The last update so far: (GMT times)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->4.45pm
Police have returned and used bolt cutters to get access to the farm, BBC Wales reports. They are now removing people from temple area.
5.10pm
The Press Association is reporting the following:
A group of 20 police officers marched in and surrounded the temple after cutting the chain which had secured the gates. Some of those who had gathered to worship in front of Shambo had to be dragged and carried from the scene by officers after refusing to leave.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
and earlier:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->1.50pm
The officials are back but they are struggling to get through the chanting and defiant crowd. The vet and the officials have gone back to their cars to consider the next move. They say they won't kill Shambo at the temple, but want to take him away for slaughter.
2pm
The officials are still mulling it over. Meanwhile, everyone seems to have a definite view on whether Shambo should live or die. Everyone, that is, except the former environment secretary David Miliband. It's a tricky issue he says, but it's one for the Welsh.
2.10pm
Still we wait for more news. While we do DII_Contents on Idle Time is suspicious about why MooTube is still unavailable.
2.30pm
The human shield protecting Shambo is holding strong. The officials don't know how to get around it. They may now get police reinforcements, according to BBC News 24.
But they have obtained, and now served, their warrant on the Skanda Vale community. No one would take the document so it was taped to the door of the temple. It confirms that the officials do have the right to take Shambo away for slaughter. But the question is how? They have to get through the human shield of chanting supporters, remove an altar in front of Shambo and get him through a locked gate. This could run for a little longer yet.
A spokeswoman for the Welsh assembly says they are not going into the logistics of the operation, but will get back to me with any more details if she can. She did say she's following this blog.
2.50pm
ShamboShambles' ballad of Shambo reminds me that the writer Michael Morpurgo wrote a brilliant Shambo fable for the Today programme. The Western Mail has reprinted it here.
3.10pm
It now emerges that the warrant gives the officials a whole month to take away Shambo. Surely it won't last that long.
In case you missed it here's Steve Bell's Shambo take on David Cameron.
Richard Moore, via email, writes: "Surely Shambo is in line to be reincarnated. Perhaps as a Carmarthen Magistrate? Have the slaughter team not heard of karma?"
3.35pm
Gangeticus from the US is following events in Camarthenshire. Posting on Ganges is My Spring of Life he says: "As a vegetarian myself (and a Hindu), the death of any life is abhorrent to me, but this case is the worst."
3.40pm
Officials are "taking advice" on what to do next. Will they storm the temple? Or will they leave it for a few days and hope the supporters go away?
4.15pm
According to this on the Debatable Land the fact that the Guardian is liveblogging Shambo is proof that the British love animals more than people. Mr Eugenides has a nice Shambo post tagged "Britain" and "Gallows Humour". It's been picked up by a Jewish community site in the states.
4.30pm
There are some Shambo films on YouTube here, here and here.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/..._slaughter.html
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