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Vacation Or Not, The Story Continues

Not sure when Peiper is getting back from his travels, but it’s been 6 weeks now. I think that’s a standard vacation for the Brits, but he’s retired so who knows? But just in case ... his last post before leaving was on the pending eviction of the gypsies from Dale Farm in the UK, an area that they had taken over years ago.

Earlier this week they got the old heave-ho. The police were equipped with riot gear and ready for a big showdown. I don’t think that happened. There was some burning, some protesting, and the usual crap, but in the end the armed government forces and their heavy machinery won out over a bunch of wankers and their pasty little RVs and caravans.

So on with the never ending story ...

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Flaming barricades: I love how rioters and other low life always set their own neighborhoods on fire first!



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“The English are coming; they are in order of battle and ready to fight.”
“Strike boldly, they will take to flight!”

Joan d’Arc d’Gyppo tries to rally the resistance with cross and a giant cuppa



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surely this wall will hold back the plod



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um, maybe not



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cleaning up the mess afterwards



The travellers of Dale Farm and their supporters had vowed they would ‘fight to the death’ to defend the illegal camp site from the bailiffs. But in the event, none made the ultimate sacrifice. Hundreds of riot police armed with Tasers stormed the site at dawn yesterday, swiftly gaining control despite facing a hail of bricks and being threatened with spades as two caravans were set on fire. Sporadic resistance continued for most of the day, but by last night the Battle of Basildon was all but won after 27 arrests.

The raid to clear the site began at dawn and demonstrators quickly retaliated by throwing a hail of missiles and buckets of urine at the officials entering the area. This resulted in two people then being shot with Taser guns by police officers. But progress in evicting the travellers was slow as police officers had to first deal with the hundreds of protesters who had descended on the site to fight the residents’ cause.

Electricity was cut soon after the operation began and moments later a caravan was set alight, sending flames and thick black smoke into the air. After a 90-minute stand-off, the police made another push into the site at 9.25am and scaled the scaffolding put up at the entrance to the camp. Throughout the afternoon officers and bailiffs worked to remove seven protesters who had secured themselves to the scaffolding tower with ropes. By then nearly all of the traveller families had left Dale Farm and were watching proceedings from a neighbouring legal site.

A warning klaxon was sounded three times to notify travellers then bulldozers were used to smash down fences. Police hacked through shabby fences to get into the site. At another barricade, a strong line of officers ignored a rambling traveller and pushed forward. Anarchists were chained by their necks to ruined vehicles filled with concrete.

Just 24 hours earlier, following years of negotiations that cost the taxpayer £18million, the travellers lost their bid to keep the homes that had been built illegally on green belt land.

Residents in neighbouring counties have been preparing themselves for an influx of the evicted travellers. Park wardens have started digging trenches around open land to ensure that caravans cannot be driven onto the grass. Supermarkets have also stepped up security to prevent the travellers from using their carparks and road junctions are being monitored. Farmers in the area surrounding Dale Farm have placed hay bales and farming equipment at the entrances to their land to prevent residents getting in following the eviction, local residents said.

One said: ‘They have begun to do this in the last couple of weeks. It looks like it is to stop evicted residents getting on to the farms.’

Tony Ball, leader of Basildon Council, said: ‘We now believe that those who want to leave peacefully have already done so and those who are left have made it clear that they have no intention of co-operating with the council.

‘Resistance and violence as some are now suggesting will be in nobody’s interest - especially not the travellers or their families. We now must get on with the difficult job of clearing Dale Farm in as safe and dignified a manner as possible - and that is what we will now do.

Mr Ball thanked the police and congratulated them on the professional way they had carried out the operation. He said: ‘When I became a councillor, it was never in my mind and never did I want to preside over an operation where we saw riot police on the streets of Basildon.But I am absolutely clear that after 10 years of negotiation to try and find a peaceful solution to this that actually what we’re doing is the right thing.”

Many more pictures at the above link, and dozens more stories covering the event in the UK papers. So it’s a positive note for Peiper to come home to, though I really have no idea when he’ll be back. And I’m keeping my fingers crossed that these thieving scum haven’t co-opted his home in his absence. After all, it only took the Basildon council TEN YEARS to do the right thing that they should have done on DAY ONE. You don’t negotiate with criminals. You take them down, then you take them away.

Where have the Travellers gone now? Right next door mostly to a legal site. So go figure. I was hoping they’d get tossed all the way back to Ireland or something. No such luck. But for now, we’re seeing their ends at Dale Farm at any rate.

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push on, you blighters




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