A series of good posts Emma, but I think MauvePink tends correctly too. The concept of the rule of law (or what some might summarise as "justice") is that all are treated equally before the law - are equally restrained by it and equally protected by it.

Some have special needs that the law ought to address but sometimes fails to do: an example is the Romany and associated communities in England who are often refused the consideration that all agrarian users receive, for the grazing that they need for their horses, and are often refused teh liberty to stop and travel on that for centuries they exercised: leaving, as Romany Man's moving words fitted to tune by the Barden of England have it - just "marks in the grass". Some travelling groups do not live up to this standard, but it is in my view hard to excuse penalising those who do.

Ake - I am close to shocked by what appears to be your racism.