Another Hometree destroyed - Dale Farm eviction

[auroraglacialis]

Originally Posted by Fkeu'itan

. I don't think it's fair to excuse them for acting in a way that is crude or destructive or loutish, just because they are under pressure, that serves as too much of an easy way out of the issue for me.

Yes, I understand - it may be a reason, but it is hardly an excuse. It may be an exuse in the way that I give them the benefit of the doubt about whether or not they would act the same waqy under different circumstances

I can't say I support the idea that people can freely pitch up anywhere they like and start making a mess, then being able to simply wave a hand and justify it as their 'cultural right'.

Oh definitely I dislike people making a mess, leaving trash in rivers and therelike.

These people, I believe, were in contradictions to these 'laws of common decency', and they simply should not be allowed to disregard them for their own personal reasons.

Well I dont know - the rules they did not follow are not even laws, they are building and zoning regulations. Which is why they were not arrested, but evicted. So I think this is a rather low priority violation. More comparable to jaywalking than squatting. Which is why I think the reaction was disproportional to the violations at hand.

I wonder also, what would have happened if some rich white guys would have bought that land and would have built a little summer house on them - I somehow imagine that there would not have been a yearlong lawsuit and then a forceful eviction involved :s