Dale Farm Crumbles.

Despite having no authority to carry out evictions of any sort at around 06:30 today (19/10/11) several hundred police officers in full riot gear descended on the Dale Farm Traveller site in Essex. They proceeded to smash their way through a wall on one of the plots that the court has ruled must remain untouched and "pacified" the residents of the site with long riot shields, batons and taser style stun guns which are not authorised to be used indiscriminately against crowds. By around 10:30 the police had fully dominated the site and begun the slow process of removing those people engaged in non-violent resistance e.g chaining themselves to caravans and other structures. As of 19:00 the police claim that this process has been completed.

Although the police have managed to put six people in hospital including one man who was choked until he lost consciousness The level of force used to defend Dale Farm has been incredibly light. This passiveness reflects just how effective Britain's 20 year war to eradicate this ethnic group has been.

From the start the Gypsy Council that is supposed to protect the Dale Farm residents and some of the residents themselves have wrongly accepted that Basildon or any other council has the right to refuse planning permission on the basis of race and have therefore been prepared to negotiate and ultimately leave. As a result their defensive plan has been all about delaying the eviction and slowing it down rather then trying to stop it outright. By contrast the powers that be have known full well that what they've done is entirely illegal and were therefore expecting the residents to put up a defence that would have denied them access to the site and used all reasonable force necessary to protect their private property. This could have involved replacing the wooden fences with concrete and digging trenches in front of the walls to prevent access to the walls. Then inside the walls there should have been a second layer of trenches filled with a flammable liquid to be ignited should the walls be breached. There were also concerns that home made explosives and snipers could have been deployed in order to kill anyone attempting to enter the site intent on committing a crime.

After all if the people involved managed to flee the country before arrest Britain knew that it's chances of having them extradited to stand trial were practically nil. This is reflected by the fact that despite claiming to have faced such a level of violence that they were in fear for their lives the police have only made 23 arrests. These people are unlikely to be charged in order to avoid them running the lawful necessity defence.


Incidentally today a recent court ruling to allow the closure of six libraries in London has been sent to emergency appeal. This is interesting because the original judgement was made by Mr Justice Ouseley shortly after he made his inexplicable Dale Farm ruling. So there seems to be a growing consensus amongst the Judiciary that Mr Ouseley's knowledge of the law is so weak that he can't really be trusted to make decisions on his own.