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

[Chris Warburton]

Not at all, on either count.  However, having seen that there are so
many conflicting stories about what is ACTUALLY going on, I thought my
(VERY green, and VERY political) friend's observations were quite
interesting.  There are almost certainly some very dodgy agendas in play
here, but also some failures of organization.  We don't help ourselves
by flying off the handle.  We have to learn, and get it right in future.



Chris Warburton
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-----Original Message-----
From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET]
On Behalf Of trev
Sent: 28 July 2009 19:33
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Subject: Re: OFF: UK's premier green awareness festival under threat
from police and local council.

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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