"You fail to see that society, not the travellers per se, is the PROBLEM."
On the contrary - a society that will not accept anybody whose lifestyle is "different" is exactly the problem.
Laws have been introduced and in the Travellers case rescinded, to bring about necessary changes - the simple act of providing land with drainage sanitation water and electricity is all that is necessary to alleviate the present situation - there is no shortage of land nad evicting Travellers costs far more than leaving them where they are - got and look how it cost to clear dale Farm.
Travellers are numbered in thousands in Britain and in Ireland - they are not being allowed to stay where they are and settled people don't want them living next door - you work out the horrifying alternative.
It is not finance but greed which is killing cultures in Britain - and in the world -go and look at the percentages of who owns what in the world today - unimaginable.
Travellers wealth don't even blip on the figures.
Humanity is destroying the planet; global warming, greenhouse gases, rain- forest destruction... acquisition.... - not alternative lifestyles
All your romantic reminiscences don't begin to address the real problem - there is a process of ethnic cleansing taking place in these islands at the present time - if it continues, Travellers will become Britain's Native Americans, Maoris, Australian Aborigines..... races of people who have been deliberately wiped out by "progress".
Simple question Ake - I have outlined what I believe is happening now - at this moment.
How do you suggest the present situation is dealt with - or don't you believe it exists (sorry - two simple questions)
Please try to address your answers (if you are intending to give any) to the fact that we are talking about human beings - men, women and children, and not "a problem"
Jim Carroll