Ed Miliband.

Link to Ed Miliband on Basildon Council.

The picture is of the McCarthy sisters
who represent the families in court.

In Pictures

Action Man

I've found this Link interesting.

Sorry Day.

Kevin Rudd on Law.



Tony Ball on Law.

Backing Basildon Council.

In the week leading up to the eviction on Dale Farm.

The British Broadcasting Corporation airs the most emotive and disparaging news story about Travelling People it is within it's ability to construct.

This story is based on personal testimony from events that allegedly happened in 2008 and in 2004. It is completely one sided with those being accused given no opportunity to answer the allegations.

The BBC present this story on it's main news instead of a United Nations press conference that was given the same day in which the Government and Basildon Council were accused of denying the people of Dale Farm the human rights that have previously been ratified by the Government.

Whether the story presented by the BBC is true or fully accurate or not, there is one thing it does prove - Endemic institutional racism against Travelling People.

It is my opinion that the people of Post-Blair Britain are not so easily taken in by cynically constructed emotive manipulative news as they might have been in the past.

There is a percentage of news stories and documentaries
which are specifically constructed
with the purpose of attempted social manipulation.

In The News.

BBC News on Travellers 14th September 2011.



Press TV News on Travellers 14th September 2011.



I find I can't help wondering why a story about one Traveller family accused of keeping slaves should break on the week running up to the eviction on Dale Farm.
And also why this news should take precedence over a UN press conference,
which was not shown on BBC news.
Even if this family were guilty (which I believe a court would have to decide) does that mean all Travellers should be denied human rights.
If that criteria was applied to other groups would it not mean that all Politicians should be sacked because some fiddled their expenses.

After 9 / 11.

Whenever we receive hurt from an individual from a group of people or from a situation it is also an opportunity to grow, to seek a personal growth in grace in forgiveness and in reconciliation.

There is also the easier option of succumbing to the darker side of human nature and growing in belligerent vengeful retribution.
A conservative estimate would be that America has killed 100 men women and children for every man woman and child killed at the world trade centre and there is also all the American, British and allied soldiers who have been killed.

It will end with all the protagonists around a table talking peace and patting each other on the back, while Mothers around the world will be patting down flowers on their loved ones graves.

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David Cameron.

The Government brought in laws that made it illegal for Travellers to stay anywhere in their caravans.

Then the Government told Travellers to buy their own land and make their own sites.

What the Government didn't tell Travellers was that it would be nigh impossible for them to be granted planning permission for their land and that in all fairness hundreds of Police and Bailiffs would swoop on them and forcibly evict them from their own land.

With it still being illegal for Travellers to stay anywhere in their caravans the people of Dale Farm have literally nowhere to go.

Travelling People pose as much danger to the fabric of British society as hill grazing sheep. All they want is somewhere to park a caravan.

BBC Sunday Morning Live 4 Sept 2011.

Basildon Council have stated that the forced eviction
of 86 Traveller families from land owned by them on Dale Farm
will begin on Monday the 19th of September 2011.

On Speyside

I've heard the auld folk tell a story
and bring to life the scene before me
how folk were wonderful' content
in a wagon or a humble tent
when life was all uncomplicated
and simple things were appreciated
With an enthusiastic glow
they unfold a time long ago
and I listen with joy and pride
of youthful days along Speyside
Near a grove in a field of green
beside a flowing purling stream
the Travelling families are gathered
their tents secured their horses tethered.

No land no house to call their own
being together they are at home
for a household is not brick and mortar
but husband wife and son and daughter
And in some Scottish highland shire
assembled at the common fire
warmed against the evening air
and happy everyone is there
the tobacco and the stories go round
and children sing with an angelic sound
Until beneath the starlit sky
they recede into a time gone by
and will not walk these roads again
but I will gladly go to them.