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'Travellers' flatten 50 yards of Offa's Dyke with a bulldozer:
Daily Mail (UK) ^
| 01:12 EST, 16 August 2013
| By Liz Hull
Posted on 08/16/2013 4:48:46 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin
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posted on
08/16/2013 4:57:02 AM PDT
by
Spirochete
(Does the FedGov have the attributes of a legitimate government?)
To: DeaconBenjamin
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posted on
08/16/2013 4:57:43 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(Common sense immigration reform: Enforce Existing Law)
To: DeaconBenjamin
For the uninformed, the word “travellers” translates to “gypsies” in American English in older usage and is sometimes used with the modifier “Irish” in newer usage. Those words indicate two different national extractions (Ireland and Eastern Europe) but they have similar ways of acting without regard to established law, preferring the law of the clan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:00:38 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: DeaconBenjamin
-—— Offas Dyke-——
Who is Offa? was the dyke hurt?
Was she kin to Big Sis?
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:02:46 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
To: T-Bird45
We have plenty in the South.
Favorite scam is the driveway repair, done with old motor oil.
“ Oh don’t worry, the “tar” will dry in a day or so”...
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:03:17 AM PDT
by
Kozak
("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms.....")
To: Spirochete
Irish Travellers
Gypsies are Roma
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:05:47 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: DeaconBenjamin
Also known as “pikies,” I believe. Transient grifters, a scourge whever they alight.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:08:23 AM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: Spirochete
not on the British isles.
kind of hard to get a caravan across that big body of water.
(BTW, my wife is a Lakatos Gyor Magyar, so I kind of take offense since all of Europe is blaming every f’in thing on her peoples, and well all Easter Europeans and Reagan at this point, oh, and the Jooz, lets not forget about them as well).
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:12:46 AM PDT
by
esoxmagnum
(The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
To: DeaconBenjamin
They’re flattening dykes with bulldozers? Next they’ll be banning the rainbow flags..
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:13:31 AM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: DeaconBenjamin
Travelers encamp wherever they like; often on the roundabouts or in open areas at the edge of nice towns/villages/hamlets. They are a real blight and stealing in the shops is common when they are around. Ugh.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:14:41 AM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
To: DeaconBenjamin
These “travelers” travel with a bulldozer do they? Seems kind of strange.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:19:37 AM PDT
by
fulltlt
To: DeaconBenjamin
If the person who bulldozed this ‘historic dyke’ owns the property, and if no easements/rights of way to protect the ‘dyke’ were in place when he purchased the property, then he was well within his rights to do whatever he wanted to on his land - the fact that he might be a traveller’ doesn’t enter in to it.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:22:13 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: Hardraade
Yes. it's a new punk rock band - The Travelling Bulldozers...
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:23:37 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
To: DeaconBenjamin
English history was my major....I think this is tragic. I hope they do arrest and fine whomever did this.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:24:27 AM PDT
by
Dudoight
To: WayneS
Except for that pesky little law against it.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:24:36 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: WayneS
Dykes are protected by law. If you buy the property, you know that.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:25:13 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: Hardraade
Theyre flattening dykes with bulldozers? Next theyll be banning the rainbow flags.Rachel Corrie was a clamlicker?
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:27:08 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: WayneS
Read all the article :
It is a criminal offense to disrupt or damage the dyke, which is designated a scheduled ancient monument because of its historical significance. Anyone caught doing so can be punished with six months in jail or a £5,000 fine.
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posted on
08/16/2013 5:27:11 AM PDT
by
piroque
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
To: bert
Offa?
You know, Jimmy Offa, the dead mob boss guy.
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