Dear Reggie"
Your reflections...
"I've gathered about these folks via newscasts it seems that they have made their bed as the saying goes...This is a group of career criminals that has been sought after by many for their deeds. Now, with this recent media attention, perhaps we'll start to see them begin to reap the rewards of their actions..." make my point that the press and these prosicutions are discriminitory. Travellers are not nomadic for the purpose of crime. This is a fact born out, not only by my field work, but by that of Dr. Ruth Andersen Ph.D., Dr. Mary Beth Anderek Ph.D., and the small handful of other social scientists who have bothered to study these people. NBC Dateline, not only had access to the above, and Dr. Ian Handcock, and a few others, they did pre interviews with us, and did not air what we had to say... and so, small wonder you think that the traveller community are "Traveling Criminals" as the Florida Police website calls them. This is the nexus between racial profiling by the police and bad reporting.
Keep questioning.
Larry