At former RAF base, locals form a human shield to halt an invasion of travellers [gypsies]

Daily Mail UK ^ | Jul 30 2009 | Paul Harris

[Lorianne]

All through the night they stood at the gates, ready to repel the invasion.

The old RAF camp had never seen an army like this, not in all its years of proud service.

There was a nurse, a lorry driver, a shopkeeper and ambulanceman, several young mothers with children at their side – and a Staffordshire bull terrier called Kandie.

It might not have looked like a task force assembling for action. But yesterday, in the drenching rain of a West Country morning, it became the front line in a war against a formidable new enemy – the traveller.

In a landmark action to stop the blight that has hit so many communities, residents of a housing estate that now occupies the former RAF Locking have barricaded themselves into the 100-acre site and mounted a 24-hour guard. Every car coming in or out of the estate near Weston-super-Mare was checked.

Anyone lingering outside the perimeter fence was stopped and politely questioned. At random intervals, the unlikely figure of an elderly man in a high-visibility jacket patrolled the grounds in a four-wheel-drive vehicle, checking for breaches of security.

To anyone who has never experienced a traveller invasion, all this may seem a little over the top.

But last weekend, after 15 or 20 caravans were evicted from a nearby field, some of the ‘gipsies’ drove around the Locking site and took photographs.

[Lorianne]

[La Lydia]

Good for them. At some point decent people have to take a stand.

[Halgr]

Wait a minute!!!

Where are the Police here?????

Has the British Government succumbed to the darkness????

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Protecting themselves against people who won’t integrate, and who make their living through petty theft and swindling.

[La Lydia]

If you read the article, it tells you why the police can’t do anything.

[SolidWood]

Gypsies or Irish Travellers?

[Roccus]

PING!

[HiTech RedNeck]

‘We’ve got nothing against real gipsies or law-abiding travellers – there are already some in the area and they’re no trouble at all.

‘But even the ones that are here now told us this lot were different. They said they were “just a bunch of ****ing pikeys”.

When gypsies tell you they're trash, you know that's trouble.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Gypsies, tramps, and thieves

[Clioman]

Luckily for the land-owners, the travellers weren’t wearing turbans and burkhas...that’d be racism, doncha know.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the ping!

[KarlInOhio]

The local council – which has a legal duty anyway to provide formal sites for travellers – said it could not intervene at this stage.

So the town council has to provide vagrants who have threatened the populous with armed violence with a place to live? The only one I can think of has bars on the windows.

[tet68]

When gypsies tell you they’re trash, you know that’s trouble.

When that happens, even the gypsies don’t want them around.

[bvw]

Seems just to be camper-people. “Not Romanies” says one person quoted in the article.

[Secret Agent Man]

“Travellers” is a specific term that denotes people who are inherently antisocial, criminal, thieves. In the US they have historically stemmed from the Bajou/Louisiana areas, Creole type areas. They are con men, gypsies. Some try cons where they offer roof repair, or to put a new top on your driveway (that washes off when it rains), crap like that. All full of scams and lies.

[KarlInOhio]

When gypsies tell you they're trash, you know that's trouble.

I've heard the same thing with Arabs and Palestinians.

[blam]

Wait! You mean that they don't want the diversity that will give them added strength?
Like us, diversity is our strength.

[investigateworld]

That would be the Williamson Gang with the bogus driveway and roofing repairs. I think they were last credited with being residents of one of the Carolina's.

But they are now establishing local outposts in various states.

[Cyman]

Me mum is partial to a periwinkle caravan.

[Islander7]

Irish Travellers (Irish: Lucht siúil) are a traditionally nomadic people of Irish origin living predominantly in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States. Among themselves, Travellers refer to themselves as "Pavees" . Derogatory terms are sometimes used to refer to them by non-Travellers, such as "pikeys" and "knackers". In Irish, Travellers are called an Lucht Siúil (literally, "the walking people"). Many non-Pavee people still use the term "tinkers" from the Irish tincéirí, sg. tincéir for "tinsmith."

Wiki

This road is well travelled too!

A Settlement of Irish Travellers in South Carolina