OFF: UK's premier green awareness festival under threat from police and local council.

[trev]

So Global Warming is all a load of insignificant poppycock and the right to 
hold public gatherings doesn't matter anyway
Right...got it

Trev

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From: "Chris Warburton" <Chris.Warburton at UBMAVIATION.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 5:21 PM
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Subject: OFF: UK's premier green awareness festival under threat from police 
and local council.

> iainferguson at AOL.COM writes:
>
>>  So the plot thinkens..
>
>> It's all starting to smell horribly of big brother....  If the Police
>> actually said that, well done, cos they are pointing the finger of
>> blame to Council / Government...  and not a public disorder/safety
> issue.
>
> I mentioned this to a friend of mine who is quite close to such things,
> and her responses were (identifying items removed to protect the
> innocent *G*):
>
> "Yawn . . . I've been hearing all about it since Sunday . .  started
> with the phone calls ( I wasn't going, I'm not a shareholder or on the
> committee) and the reports are getting more fantastic and more rabid,
> "its all a conspiracy . . . it was planned from the beginning . . . . it
> was thru corporate pressure . . .it was aliens . . . . a big boy did it
> and ran away. . . . " )   I still think that if the BGG committee
> suspected they would be shut down they should have crossed the Ts and
> dotted the Is to ensure they couldn't be got on bureaucratic processes
> such as applications to the council to close roads and such like then
> they could point to 'political' reasons for its closure. "
>
> Also:
> "the green group shop is becoming a focus for the whingeing, moaning and
> conspiracy theories, I'm staying well out of it as the tendency is to
> fly off into fantasy and feeling hard done by."
>
> And:
> "The main p-off for us is the assumption that all of those who would
> have gone to the BGG now think they can turn up at our party (and invite
> their mates) and we have no say in it!    We are resisting it being
> turned into a mini BGG as the crowd who want to come have no respect for
> anyones space, ideas, preferences or choice of music, they expect to
> arrive, be fed and watered & to set themselves up at the centre of the
> party and play diddly (dirgy, miserable and endless!) music all night
> with no regard for others, or the fact the place they choose will
> probably be under my bedroom window (Gardez loo!) And whats more they
> expect us to be not only grateful for the music but attentive, they
> often complain when people in pubs continue to chat while they are
> playing.  . . . (close rant!)"
>
> Make of that what you will!!
>
> Cheers
> ChrisW
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