how can they treat people like this?

aims1202 | 19:53 Thu 27th Oct 2011 | ChatterBank

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Dale Farm eviction on BBC now, makes me feel ashamed that they can do this to people and treat them this way. why cant they just leave them alone!

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jackthehat

Because they were there illegally.

boxtops

Exactly. Some of them were there on legal pitches, the ones they've moved on were illegally setting up home. They had no right to be there.

Arti

Why should they be treated differently from anyone else?
Are you proposing scrapping planning permission?
Nobody should be above the law, whether they be gypsies, travellers, you me etc

B00

You seriously felt sorry for these travellers? And I do use that term loosely!

boxtops

If I found someone living on land I owned, I'd want to get them off, too.

micmak

Would you like them at the bottom of your garden?

redcrx

half of them were left alone, they had planning permission.

aims1202

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just because someone decided a law doesnt mean its right or i agree with it, there are plenty i dont! the way they treated them was wrong, they are human beings and we can all live in peace, if it was my land i'd let them stay

Maydup

I'd have more sympathy if they were travellers who roamed from place to place and livied in the woods or the countryside. But to build these plots with walls and permanent facilities was nothing to do with travelling and everything to do with setting up a ramshackled housing estate with no planning permission, design or infrastructure. It needed clearing as it would if we did it on each others land.

B00

If they want to be treated like a civilised society, they should pay towards that society, they don't, they leach and steal from it. No sympathy from me- none at all i'm afraid.

boxtops

If everyone else has to abide by the law of the land - whether we agree with it or not - they should too. No exceptions.

jackthehat

<<just because someone decided a law doesnt mean its right or i agree with it>>

No, but it does mean that it is a Law and we are *all* bound by the Law...

boxtops

^^ and people who have built extensions to their legitimate houses have to take them down if they contravene planning regs - it's not just travellers who the law affects.