Thread: When is a traveller not a Traveller?
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Old 21-03-2011, 21:24   #50
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Re: When is a traveller not a Traveller?
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Originally Posted by martyh View Post
since when ? you realy are naive aren't, you when was the last time you saw a traveller handing over wads of cash at your local tax office
Are you sure they don't pay any taxes.

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because they live by their own rules and mostly don't recognise our laws ,plus they don't want the police asking too many questions about the pile of scrap behind the caravans or the couple of stolen caravans that just happen to be lying around
And get accused of every crime that the boys in blue can't solve. Get treated like dirt everywhere they go. Get ignored by everyone, insulted by the likes of many posters on here, be treated with fear and suspicion wherever they go, is it a surprise they don't trust anyone.

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no it's because they think they have a right to take peoples property and con people out of money
And treating them all like that is the mark of a blanced attitude to others?

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It's not bigotry to despise people on the grounds that they are thieving lying conning sponging good for nothing .................and so on
Can you not even see the slightest bit of irony in that? Sweeping generalisations, based on ignorance and fear, is bigotry, there is no way of escaping the fact.

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you really need to wake up and smell the coffee you can defend them as much as you like but while your doing that they will be plotting how to relieve you of your possesions and money
No, those are your fears, not mine. I prefer to act with more rationale than that.

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Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
Flyboy, I am hazarding a guess here that you don't deal with the Travelling community much? While they may not all be bad, they aren't like the rather rosy picture painted by the recent Channel 4 documentary series either.

As for my own opinion of them.. Well, lets just say that I tend to be rather suspicious of a people who turn up to collect their dole money in a new BMW.
I have great deal of contact with Gypsies and Travellers. Enough to know that one should not judge others by listening to those who have their own agendas.
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