Nothing in the papers recently, not even Galloway's decision to join Big Brother has shocked me. But this I found extraordinary, from Hugh Muir's  in the Guardian: 
"Here's to supporters of the Countryside Alliance and their highly principled wheeze to impoverish the League Against Cruel Sports by having pro-hunters post useless items of mail using the league's Freepost address. The Freepost is now closed but each item previously sent incurred a cost to the league of 39p. Pro-hunters dispatched cards, envelopes and parcels in their thousands. Some will question the morality of individuals who sent excrement and a dead squirrel. There will be whingeing about the fact that much of the league's post has been transferred to a special office in Belfast to be examined by hard-pressed Post Office officials. A few might say that bomb squad officers in Dorset have better things to do than evacuating buildings, as they were forced to do at Poole sorting office on Saturday when two parcelled housebricks arrived bearing the league's Freepost address. But then, you can't please everyone."

There is an old rule of law that once an item is posted then even if it does not arrive, it should be deemed to have arrived, the person sending it is responsible for their acts, not for the inefficiency of the post service.

Couldn't that principle be extended by analogy, to make the Countryside Alliance responsible for all these acts of harassment carried out in its name?