Another Hometree destroyed - Dale Farm eviction

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

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

...then I don't understand why you jump to defend on this. While some are fine, they are generally law-abiding in general, and will use land that they own and have legitimately gained permission for its use, or else designated sites. It's people who will park up on someone else's land or a public space, damage it and leave rubbish everywhere, fly-tip in local rivers and steal anything that isn't nailed down who won't care about laws regarding planning.

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 assume you saw the videos. The police were expecting violence, particularly with anarchists/communists there who were there for no other reason than to have a fight with some police. If they went in unprepared, they would likely have been murdered.

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

You'd be surprised - even where planning permission has been breached, you can usually get it applied retroactively where there aren't specific laws governing what can be built in certain areas. Not ever caring to try, on the other hand...

(Oh, and these ARE rich white people )