The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #36547   Message #506364
Posted By: InOBU
14-Jul-01 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: Traditional activities and the law
Subject: RE: Traditional activities and the law
Different folks have different view of the law and of law per se. I find, like Ghandi and Dr. King, that the minority have more than a right, they have an obligation to resist laws which remove from them rights which define themselves as a people. Certainly Morris Dancing, Busking, Ballads in pubs, define us as Britons (For my Irish sisters and Brothers - I use that term as an Anglo Irishman, and in it's ancient menaing - not to start a drift but to define that term in a way to avoid controversy off the point of the statement... Oh boy, here it comes... )Anyway, when we who cling to our ancient traditions become a minority in our own lands, we have a right to passively resist change, in the same way other minorities have a right to assert their place in a growing community. In this we join with new members of the society demanding right to be who they are in England, in Wales, in Cornwall, in Scotland. The real enimy to tradition is not the immagrant population, but the old established ruleing class.They are the ones turning English villages into shopping malls!!! while banning ancient traditions
So, don't throw bricks, DANCE!
Larry