Sunday, January 10, 2010

When is a Pikey not a Pikey

This article below is relevant with regard to the planning application of a Caravan opposite the crematorium in Bobbing, The article which said that Residents were up in arms about Gypsy camp was I feel provocative as it suggested some sort of big Gypsy Encampment but after reading the article it refer to a Mobile Home and one caravan. My own personal opinion is if you want these people to conform and stop being a nuisance to society you must allow them some where to live. The problem is not the Gypsy but the Planning authority who refused permission for a permanent residence yet gave permission for a temporary one, this is what makes me angry when the rules are not applied fairly and equally.

Rother District Council should hang their head in shame and voters should ask is this the correct way to spend Council Tax payer’s money? I refer to the Mail on Sunday article:
Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son... for ‘anti-gipsy’ email that he didn’t even write

Paul Osmond made a comment about a gipsy planning application and for that he was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gypsies – but which he had not even written. What was the offending word “LIKEY” because it sounds like “PIKEY”. He wrote a letter about a planning appeal made by a Gypsy and, included the phrase: ‘It’s the 'do as you likey' attitude that I am against.’
For those of you who do not what a PIKEY is it is a term which refers to Travelling people from the 19th Century an old sense of Pike “a road on which a toll is collected.
For using the word LIKEY he was arrested by the Police, threatened with handcuffs, imprisoned for 4 hours and had is computers confiscated. Ask yourself the question how much did that all cost?
So what happened to free speech? The Council Official who authorized this arrest should be sacked and I would suggest if anyone on the Council Staff knows the name of this individual they should pass it on to the local newspaper.
As for the Police this only proves yet again the we are living in a POLICE STATE and the POLICE are the weapon of the Political Establishment and can no longer be called the Guardians of Law and Order
So presumably I can have a PIKEY/GYPSY/Traveler arrested for calling me a GORGER house dweller?
The Gypsy has more rights then a House Dweller and this can be seen with there total disregard to planning laws, although a Gypsy may have a strong claim to be classified as ethnically different from other sections of the dominant Anglo-Saxon Community the same rules must apply to them as it does to everyone else.
I know many Gypsies in fact my son’s godfather is a Romany and I respect some of there customs and not all are bad, but what I object to is when some one buys a beat up old caravan and goes on the road they are called travelers and come under the same category as a Gypsy which is insulting to them These HEDGE BUMPERS are nothing but the dregs of society who want a free ride at the expenses of the Tax Payer.
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne

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