The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53419   Message #822491
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-Nov-02 - 07:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Traveller Discrimination Update...
Subject: RE: BS: Traveller Discrimination Update...
"... it seems that they have made their bed as the saying goes. They've preyed upon innocent people."

Give a dog a bad name and hang him. People who hate Jews say that kind of thing when a case comes up of a fraudster who's Jewish, for example. "These people" and "they", refering pejoratively to a whole group of total strangers, on the basis of their ethnic identity.

This latest twist of the story InOBU reports here sounds like harassment to me. An address is just a way of enabling people to reach you, and a post box or suchlike is as good a way as any. If that's not good enough for getting a provisional driving licence (which is what we'd call your "learner's payment"), that seems pretty strange.

I used to have the impression that the USA was relatively free of red tape and petty bureuicracy compared to England, but one way and another, what with this and other stuff (rules about hanging out washing for example) I'm getting the impression that ain't so.