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Hundreds of children sent home as travellers set up camp in a school's playing field
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Posted on 05/25/2010 1:50:18 PM PDT by dennisw
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:50:19 PM PDT
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dennisw
To: dennisw
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:51:19 PM PDT
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dennisw
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
To: dennisw
To: dennisw; Slings and Arrows
"Hey you kids, get offa my lawn!"
I've never understood the basis of Europe's tolerance of "squatters".
To: silverleaf
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:54:08 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(If Palin were perfect, she could campaign for godhood. Since she is human, Obama's job will do.)
To: silverleaf
Gypsies? Tramps and fleas, at least the people of the town call them that :-0
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:54:27 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: silverleaf
Could be gypsies, but there are also “Irish travellers”.
BYW, Irish Travellers have been running the driveway repaving scam in the U.S., especially in the Boston area.
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:54:59 PM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
To: IrishCatholic
Oh, Ingtar was both quicker and more accurate :-(
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:55:18 PM PDT
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: silverleaf
gypsies?>>>>>>>
The British equivalent thereof but I believe they are all of Irish extraction. Not darker the way you think of gypsies. Travelers can camp in many places in England so it seems. Even in special green preserve land and make a mess of it. I don’t understand the the phenomena and why the Brits cater to them
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:55:54 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
To: silverleaf
I guess we have a PC term for gypsies now.
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:56:18 PM PDT
by
kara37
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Irish Travelers call themselves “Gypsies.”
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:56:37 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(If Palin were perfect, she could campaign for godhood. Since she is human, Obama's job will do.)
To: IrishCatholic
I’ve never understood how this is tolerated in England...well, yeah, we all wonder about English “tolerance”.
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posted on
05/25/2010 1:58:19 PM PDT
by
youturn
(McConnell: "Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus did.")
To: silverleaf
yes! They were all over in Ireland when we lived there, and that was 20 years ago.
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:04:14 PM PDT
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ronniesgal
( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
To: dennisw
“travellers” = gypsies? I would think it wouldn’t be too hard for law enforcement to make them move elsewhere. But my impression of “law enforcement” in Europe is that they are pretty spineless.
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:13:28 PM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: ronniesgal
Brad Pitt from the movie "Snatch" is a "traveler".
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:17:46 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: dennisw
I don’t understand the the phenomena and why the Brits cater to them.I don't understand the phenomena of third world invaders camping in our country and why Americans cater to them either.
Maybe if the Brits would just allow them to take over their schools and neighbors, they would stop travelling. < / sarcasm >
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:19:58 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
South Florida periodically gets a Scottish version of the travelers, the Terrible Williamsons. They swarm over a city with all sorts of roofing and driveway scams and all types of theft jump up until they move on. I think the Irish and Scot travelers headquarter in the Carolinas somewhere. We get actual Gypsies, too, on occasion, but they come in smaller groups.
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:20:45 PM PDT
by
arthurus
("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
To: Lockbar
they called them “knackers”also.
Thieves is what I called them
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:22:06 PM PDT
by
ronniesgal
( I miss George Bush. Hell, I miss Bill Clinton!!)
To: kara37
I guess we have a PC term for gypsies now.Not PC. "Travelers" is a very old term . "Gypsies" is ethnically exclusive. "Travelers" also includes other groups who live the same way, predominantly Irish and Scottish or just "Celtic." There are several large clans based in the Carolinas that fan out over the east and midwest.
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:25:26 PM PDT
by
arthurus
("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
To: arthurus
"Travelers" also includes other groups who live the same way, predominantly Irish and Scottish or just "Celtic." There is a school of thought that the Irish Travelers are descended from the people who lived in Ireland before the Celts invaded.
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posted on
05/25/2010 2:34:11 PM PDT
by
Pilsner
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