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Thread #63958   Message #3214670
Posted By: Jim Carroll
29-Aug-11 - 02:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where do Travellers Live?
Subject: RE: BS: Where do Travellers Live?
So we have to accept your bilious racist bigotry about travellers which isn't even graced by a claim of personal experience - you have made no case to rest - just bilious bigotry.
I've given the facts and our part in them - - you will believe and reject whatever suits you small-mindedness
What planet do you occupy pal - the News of the World bribery didn't happen, the police lying, then having to admit they lied about the shooting in Tottenham that sparked off the riots - come on, you really do want it both ways!!!!
A few incidents I have witnessed first hand, or close enough to know them to be true.
A few times over the last few years I have gone into town for a pint only to find every pub closed.
It is the practice of the police here that if Travellers are in the area they go round instructing the publicans that they are to to lock their front doors and only admit people they know in. They are informed that if they serve any Travellers and their assistance is required they will not respond to calls.

A couple of years ago there was a row in our market Town, Ennis, between two groups of teenagers, one lot town lads, the others Travellers; little more than name calling across the street.
One of the town lads went home, obtained a knife and stabbed a Traveller to death. On being caught his response was "He was only a knacker (Traveller equivilant of nigger)".
Strangely, he was only charged with and is now serving time for manslaughter - probably because he was a policeman's son.

Just previouly to this, a farmer came home to find two Travellers in his yard. At no time did the Travellers attempt to threaten the farmer; they attempted to walk away.
He went into the house, brought out a gun and shot one of the men, wounding him badly. While he was lying on the ground the farmer took a hefty stick and beat him with it. He then went back into the house re-loaded his gun and andministered the coup-de grace, killing him.
None of these facts were denied by the farmer, who fully expected to be jailed for the murder - he was acquitted.

A few winters ago a Traveller family here were left homeless by a caravan fire (this time accidental, though there hae been numerous arson attacks on Travellers). The father, who had Chrone's Disease and a school aged daughter were both burned, though not seriously.
The local council decided to home the family in an empty house just outside town.
Despite a protest by the local bishop of Kilaloe, a group of townspeople (bigots like yourself) mounted a day-long picket outside the house chanting the wonderfully thought out "Resident in, Travellers out" - the police did nothing, despie the fact that the incident made the radio news and the local paper.
The family, being used to such bigotry, took little notice until one day, when she was coming out of a shop with three of her children, the mother was stopped by a local man and told "If you hang around here much longer you'll be needing the assistance of the fire department again".
For the safety of the childers the family borrowed a holiday caravan and moved out to a car-park down by one of the local beaches, where they set up temporary camp with makeshift tents to accoommodate the overspill - the youngest child celebrated her first birthday and Christmas there.

Unlike your unsubstantiated accusations all these incidents are all a matter of record.
I don't suppose any of this bothers you one way or the other - you and your friends don't seem the type to care too much about other people, but before you pour out your unsubstantiated filth about what Travellers are and do - try and give some thought to what effect your bigotry has on others, men, women, children, young and old.
Jim Carroll