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Great stuff..WE already know that it isn't everyone in the UK who supports the sun's incitement to racial hatred (for which I have reported them to the police), so it is good to see someone organise a campaign like this.
Len Smith
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Good on you mate. Indymedia has some horrible stories about eight year old having their arms broken by baliffs during recent evictions. Who knows what people will do with a little encouragement.

Not that travellers are all sweetness and light. I've known a few perfectly horrid ones. But they don't have to be saints for us to defend them against this kind of persecution.
 

Here's a quick topic for discussion.

The Sun's campaign is clearly loathsome, and I will take part in your protest. however, what they are doing is explicitly NOT racism. Roma people who have chosen to buy property, to work within the system, are not the target of this campaign. Roma people who insist on continuing their ancient roaming lifestyle are.

Here's the rub: do you propose that people's beliefs and actions should be protected in the same way that people are protected in the grounds of sexuality, age, disability and the colour of their skin?

Because I've seen the misery and criminal activity caused by the illegal encampment of travellers, I no longer view this as a question of civil liberties. It's a question of a crime. As such, I believe people should be evicted from illegal campsites, by force if they resist, but that there should be legal campsites set aside for people who choose to follow a travelling lifestyle. To protect travellers as some kind of species that can't help disobeying laws does not help them: indeed, it reinforces their social exclusion.
 

Well said and well done. I've stuck the relevant details on the message board at www.medialens.org, where hopefully the word will spread ever wider.
 

With a tremendous shortfall in legal gypsy sites it seems that they have little choice but to set up illegal sites.

http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/hi/uk/4213875.stm

I believe that The Sun's campaign is racist; in the same way that Michael Howard's 'immigrants bring disease' policy is racist and the BNP's campaigns against 'immigrant crime' is racist. The arguments are phrased in such a way as to avoid being racist when considered as an isolated utterance to an unspecified audience, but when the speaker and the audience are considered these are not only racist, they were meant to be racist.

Furthermore, we should look at what The Sun wants. David Duff, replying to my other post, would argue they simply want everyone to obey the law. However, John Prescott is being vilified for proposing the councils will be forced to provide sites for gypsies. It agenda is expressed in terms of 'house prices will fall' and 'meet your new neighbour'. In other words, The Sun has no agenda for integration on a consensual basis, or provision for their legal existence, but rather wants gypsies to disappear. To criminalise a people. The Sun explicitly opposes the establishment of legal sites, and then complains about illegal camps. Well, not just complains, but demands that these camps are 'stamped on'.

If The Sun concentrated on crime rather than type of housing, which in this case is a proxy for race (socially constructed, perhaps [as all races ultimately are], but definitely and categorically a 'not us'), then it would calling for the riot police to be called into all sorts of neighbourhoods.

Imagine if they wrote in this manner about black people, or Asian people? It would not matter whether crime was higher in a predominately black neighbourhood or not, we simply would not tolerate this language that demonises whole groups, prevents integration and participation and feeds violent antagonistic sentiment. And if they dropped in the old standby, 'the blacks moving in next door are pushing down our house prices', we would know, immediately, that they were racists under a populist veneer.

Incidentally, I don't think that The Sun cares one jot about the people writing in to complain with their 'gipsy stories'. This is electioneering at its lowest, using gypsies as a card to paint Labour (through John Prescott) onto the 'wrong side' of a campaign manufactured not by individuals but by a paper owned by one of the richest men on earth.
 

The climate does not bode well for the Roma all over Europe, the Czech governemnt currently have a policy for their forcible sterilisation. Tell that to the 'Scum'.
 

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