More and more people are against fireworks. You can find their statements in many newspapers. Here are a some links:
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News Shopper: http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/display.html?nwid=651157 |
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News Shopper: "Fireworks are out of control" (<<At the weekend one of my dogs was nearly blinded by a firework thrown at her head.>>): http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/display.html?nwid=647184 |
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Manchester Evening News and ManchesterOnline is continuing to campaign to have over-the-counter firework sales banned. Read the comments on this: http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/comments/view.html?story_id=21862 |
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Ilkley Gazette, pyrotechnic pollution: http://www.ilkleymor.co.uk/pyrotechnic.htm |
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The Guest Book of "Pets Against Fireworks": http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=alanashdown&i=4&a=view |
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Fireworks: Your Views - The firework season is upon us once again. So here are your thoughts. 29.10.2003: http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=13567381&method=full&siteid=50003 |
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ic Wales, the National Website of Wales: Letters to the theme "Stop the fireworks" (16.11.2003): http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/1250today/content_objectid=13629402_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Stop-the-fireworks-name_page.html |
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At
the SheffieldForum.co.uk (2003) you find people speaking against fireworks: http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/search.php?s=26552ed8c2bd9dc7c2086cce8f2934a5&action=showresults&searchid=49024&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending |
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SkyNews.
Fireworks: Your views. Here two emails of many: |
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Should fireworks be banned? Should the general public be allowed to play with such dangerous substances or should fireworks be restricted to public pyrotechnics displays – or even outlawed altogether? Read more about this issue on the messageboard (2003): http://www.bbc.co.uk/tees/have_your_say/fireworks/index.shtml |
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Illegal fireworks: An MP is bidding to clamp down on the illegal import and sale of rockets used as fireworks. Should fireworks sales be restricted to around Bonfire Night and New Year? Read the messages (2003) at http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12580136&method=full&siteid=50060 |
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Have
your say on Vandalism and anti-social behaviour in Kirklees (November
2003) <<The fireworks will continue until after the New Year as we now seem to have fireworks on sale for everything from bonfire night to mother’s day!… Kent Brockman, Springfield>> and others under http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/crimewatch/page.cfm?objectid=12044889&method=full&siteid=50060
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Are
fireworks to dangerous? (17.10.2002 |
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An
MP is bidding to clamp down on the illegal import and sale of rockets used
as fireworks. Should fireworks sales be restricted to around Bonfire Night
and New Year? <<It
is time we stopped playing with explosives. Only allow professionals to
handle them. Ban the retail sales of explosives/fireworks. Peter from
Newcastle>> / <<…The users of fireworks use them for any and
all occasions at all times of day and night up to and after midnight with
little regard for others in the vicinity. How then can arrangements be made
for pets?… John from Halifax>> You find several meanings to this issue under http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12580136&method=full&siteid=50060 (November 2003)
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Banning
fireworks: your comments (November 2002): |
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You
find several letters to the "National Campaign for Firework Safety – Our
aim is to promote the safe use of fireworks" (Fireworks 2002 Survey) under
http://www.angelfire.com/co3/NCFS/survey/fireworks2002/petitionsagainstfireworks.html |
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Ban
fireworks! - <<Just back from St George's A&E being treated for
burns to my right shoulder and neck after some child threw a firework into
the pub which bounced off the floor and down my coat. Posted by Gert at
November 8, 2003>> -
The following is a part from one of the answering e-mails to Gert:
<<…Then we have the curfew no fireworks between 11pm to 7am, how and
how is going to enforce this? This still leaves 16 hours of the day that we
can legally be bombarded with fireworks. They are still saying that the
public will be able to buy fireworks throughout the year for weddings,
birthdays etc, but they keep saying that they are going to limit the sale of
fireworks to three weeks before Nov 5th and a few days after and again for
new years eve, how is this possible if they are going to allow you to buy
fireworks all year round to celebrate every other occasion. We have to keep
the pressure on the Government to make sure that they do change the firework
laws and that these changes protect us, our animals and our property, not
just their revenue and the firework industry's profits… Teresa Kulkarni, 2.12.2003>> This and more
e-mails you can find under http://www.madmusingsof.me.uk/archives/007007.php |
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"Is
it time to put the fireworks out?" - We have to put up with the noise
of fireworks going off for weeks before and after the big day. Is it time
they were banned, or is there another solution? (November 2003) <<Fireworks
should be banned to the public… Who gives people the right to interfere
with my quality of life. No one asked my permission if they could set of
these annoying things that disturb the peace, frighten wildlife and pollute
the environment… Mike Reeves from Trowbridge>> / <<Do you feel
helpless as the fireworks decends on your locality, invalids your house,
destroys your quality of life and terrifies your pets? There is a way to get
your voice heard. Fireworks should be banned. Deroland Smith from
Manchester.>> Find this and other statements under: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13591150_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-IS-IT-TIME-TO-PUT-THE-FIREWORKS-OUT--name_page.html |
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"Are
fireworks too dangerous?" - Have you had a bad experience with
fireworks? Do you think the new laws will help? Read here your comments…
(November 2003): <<Fireworks are out of control and
cause massive heartache for many. I no longer walk my dog in the evenings at
this time of the year due to very loud bangers. It terrifies him and leaves
me unable to be certain of controlling him. It must have the same affect on
all the wildlife as I live near a wooded area. Somehow we live in a country
of abuse to society, our natural environment and wildlife. T. Newman,
Bournemouth, UK>> You can find this statement and many others under http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3242901.stm |
| Discussion Forum by "Stop fireworks.co.uk": http://stopfireworks.co.uk/forum/ |
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Have your say: Fireworks, is a ban right? (15.10.2002): A new campaign launched by the consumer minister will
target the black market in fireworks, encourage local councils to use their
powers to tackle the problem of noise and nuisance caused by fireworks and
also impose on-the-spot fines for irresponsible fireworks users. - But what
do you think about the new plans? Do they put a damper on firework fun? Or
do you think we need to have stricter rules on the selling of fireworks? <<Fireworks
are a menace to society. I'm sick to death of fireworks being set off at all
hours of the day and night...Vicky, Stockport>> / <<If fireworks
were made quieter, NO whistles/No bangs/No crackles/NO screeches/NO hummers,
I think that would be an acceptable compromise as they wouldn't have that
shock value that so many idiotic children and teenagers crave so
much...Anthony, Accrington, Lancashire>> / <<...Why are these
canons and excessively loud explosives on sale anyway? What is the
Government doing about it? Its like living in a war zone...Mary Cheney,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent>> You can read these ones and many other letters
under http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/have_your_say/2002/10/15/fireworks.shtml
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Devon
message boards: Is it time we banned the sale of fireworks? Remember,
remember the 56h of November… Some people will remember Guy Fawkes Night
because they have the scars to remind them. Is it time to restrict the sale
of fireworks to organised public displays only? You can read here your
opinions. Read the discussion under |
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"Fireworks - should they be banned?" Comments & trackbacks (November 2003 - May 2004): http://www.snowblink.co.uk/archives/2003/11/06/fireworks_should_they_be_banned/ |
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Portland
independent media center, discussion about fireworks, June 2004: <<Fireworks
stink, find some other way to celebrate. The smoke made by fireworks is
densely sulphurous, highly acidic and contains a lot of greenhouse gases.
Fireworks dump a lot of toxic metals like lead, arsenic and mercury into the
atmosphere. Fireworks poison the environment in a way that is incidious and
totally unnecessary... John>> http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/06/291592.shtml#129834 |
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Calling
for a fireworks ban (9.11.2003 – 2004…) http://chasingdaisy.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/calling_for_a_f.html
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Message board - asthma. "A note about bonfires and fire works!!" (Aug - Nov 04, 2004) http://www.asthma.org.uk/discus/messages/1/1318.html?1099535566 |
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Local
Opinion: "Treat fireworks as they are: Dangerous and illegal",
10.7.2005, http://www.etruth.com/News/Content.aspx?ID=352080&page=:
<<It's the Fourth of July again and, like always,
law-abiding citizens are being assaulted by the setting off of legal and
illegal fireworks al hours of the day and night. They do this oblivious of
both the discomfort and danger they are creating for their neighbors. On
July 2, my family suffered through hours of unrelenting noise and acrid
smoke. …>> |
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<<Cite
the fireworks fools: Bakersfield is lucky no one died this Fourth of July.
But firefighters received 358 fireworks-related calls, someone threw a
firework and hit a firefighter in the eye with it, and fires burned houses,
trees and vegetation all over town. … http://bakersfield.typepad.com/talk_of_the_town/2005/07/cite_the_firewo.html
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<<Animal
Torture Night. We have survived another Guy Fawkes weekend. … Better to
rename bonfire night as what it now is for wild, domestic and pet animals
and call it National Animal Torture Night with the slogan "Don't be a
killjoy, kill an animal". Those setting off fireworks might begin to
understand what their enjoyment means to others.>> |
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I just received a request for a donation from the Amherst Leisure
Services for this year's fireworks event. Let me tell you why I am against
fireworks.
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<<The
time has come that we, as patriotic Americans, must take the lead when it
comes to reducing global warming. We must act locally and think globally. We
can take the lead in a significant campaign to reduce carbon dioxide
emissions and other atmospheric pollutants. What I am proposing will
undoubtedly reduce the magnitude of global warming considerably. We must
eliminate all fireworks on the Fourth of July. …>> Joe Sobel |
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<<Primitive
people used fire, beating drums and wild dancing to get themselves excited
before going to war. Noise and bright lights stimulated the emotions, not
the intellect. … Civilized people modified the rituals somewhat, but held
onto the custom of noise and fire in form of gunpowder. … Every year,
Earth Day is celebrated all around the world, and we are reminded all the
kinds of pollution: noise, air, water, etc. Why aren't fireworks set off
that day? It would be very hypocritical, since fireworks produce noise and
air pollution. …>> Paul Gromosiak ("Guestview:
Fireworks – an Archaic Way to Celebrate", 19.7.2006, http://www.niagara-gazette.com/opinion/local_story_200170548.html?keyword=secondarystory) |
| <<We are heading for another Guy Fawkes soon. Maybe we need to consider renaming it National Animal Torture Night with the slogan 'Don't be a killjoy, ill an animal', as this is what firework celebrations mean for wild and domestic animals...>> Toni Brockhoven, Durban/South Africa ("Find another way to celebrate Guy Fawkes", 18.10.2006, http://www.dailynews.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3491015) |
| <<HAPPY DIWALI WITHOUT CRACKERS 2006: Deep (light) avail (rows), a row of light that taught us to vanquish ignorance that subdues humanity and to drive away darkness that engulfs the light of knowledge. - But Diwali today means: More 'air, noise, water, land & social' pollution due to use of lots of firecrackers. More patients for hospitals during & after the festival, more darkness rather than light. Really bad news if there's no wind and rain to lessen the effects of the smoke. Highly polluting nature of these firecrackers lead to a plethora of diseases...>> - Please click here to read the whole letter of Mr K.S. Kumar from India or read more about <<HAPPY DIWALI WITHOUT CRACKERS 2007>> here |
| <<HAPPY DIWALI WITHOUT CRACKERS 2008: Diwali is a festival of lights that depicts to drive away darkness that engulfs the light of knowledge, towards a bright future. During this festival (3 to 5 days), it has become a custom to enjoy Diwali through "Lighting Lamps", "Exchanging Sweets & Gifts" & "BURSTING FIRE CRACKERS". Diwali today means: More 'air, nose, water, land & social' pollution due to use of lots of firecrackers. More patients for hospitals during & after the festival. More of street accidents causing injuries/deaths...>> - Please click here to read the whole article of Mr K.S. Kumar from India and please download the article and forward this message to your friends! |
| Please
click here
to read the letter "The main problems with fireworks are" of
firework campaigner Mrs Teresa Kulkarni from England (Automn 2006) |
| ...Celebrating Guy Fawkes makes as much sense as legalising Class A drugs to commemorate the Opium Wars. How many more homes need to be burned to the ground, animals maimed and killed, people injured, and property destroyed before common sense will prevail and we once and for all ban the things outright. ... (Source: "Stephen Ross: Fireworks go against all logic", 31.10.2007, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10473009) |
| <<HAPPY DIWALI WITHOUT CRACKERS 2009: Diwali is a festival of lights that depicts to drive away darkness that engulfs the light of knowledge, towards a bright future. During this festival (3 to 5 days), it has become a custom to enjoy Diwali through "Lighting Lamps", "Exchanging Sweets & Gifts" & "BURSTING FIRE CRACKERS". Diwali today means: More 'air, nose, water, land & social' pollution due to use of lots of firecrackers. More patients for hospitals during & after the festival. More of street accidents causing injuries/deaths...>> - Please click here to read the whole article of Mr K.S. Kumar from India and please download the article and forward this message to your friends! |