"Jim my post above can easily be verified."
Read them all Iains - and dozens more - they prove exactly nothing
Your attitude is racist stereotyping based in the behaviour of individual cases - it is part of an already well underway process of ethnically cleansing an entire social group - denigrate them, cast them out of society, deprive them of the basic standards of living, electricity, water, sanitation, education - even the right to stop anywhere - and then point at them and show what animals they are - unfit to live
All standard stuff that sent half a million of them to Hitlers extermination camps along with Jews, Trades unionists - all the others unfit to live in "decent" society
Your bigotry is sick - it destroys people and is leading to their disappearance as a cultural group
I can't prevent your ignorant, inhuman attitude towards a severely deprivesd group of people, but I can request that you don't use this forum as a platform for your race-hatred
I knew many hundreds of these people - as singers who were willing to share their songs and allow me to record their lives and as personal friends - none of them came anywhere near your sickening description of them
If you can't suppress your inhumanity (these are human beings we are discussing) be good enough to keep it to yourself
You are behaving like one of Keith's sick set
Jim Carroll