Sunday, September 04, 2011
Neat trick!
Trying to follow the saga of the 'Travellers' who are being evicted from Dale Farm in Essex.
Apparently, the raw facts are these:
(1) The Travellers are a subculture of Irish white trash, basically the same genes and criminal subculture as the bootlegging Irish hillbillies in America. Their historical origin is also parallel. The Travellers turned into roaming rebels when the Great Reformer Oliver Cromwell defeated the Irish Confederate Catholics and murderously occupied Ireland for many years. The rum-running hillbillies turned into roaming rebels when the Great Exterminator Abraham Lincoln (damn his name, damn his name, damn his name a trillion times) burned down the South, defeated the Southern Confederates, shredded the American Constitution, and murderously occupied the South for many years.
(2) The Travellers have long been confused with Gypsies, and have adopted the ways and even the name of Gypsies.
(3) This adopted-relative status has turned out to be highly advantageous, because actual Gypsies have absolute monarchic privilege in modern Britain. When an actual Gypsy takes over your house and property, you are fucked. Any attempt to reclaim your home is strictly illegal, and you will end up in jail.
(4) However, the current dispute is not about squatting, because the criminal Irish Travellers genuinely own the Dale Farm. They bought it fair and square. Instead, it's about environmentalism. The Gaian Occupation Government on Britain has decreed certain areas as Green Zones to be reserved for Holy Aristocratic Endangered Species with Zero Human Interference. Dale Farm is in one of those Green Zones. The GOG decided to evict the Travellers to preserve Green Sanctity, in violation of normal property rights. Most of the ordinary honest Brits in the area welcomed the move because the Travellers are dirty criminals, not because of any Green reasons.
(5) The UN has gotten into the act, though it must have been a difficult decision for them. Do they protect the Infinite Royal Privilege of Gypsies? Or do they protect the Infinite Royal Privilege of Endangered Species? For some reason they decided on the former.
= = = = =
So: we have a group of British trailer trash hillbillies, who would normally be at the very bottom of both legal and cultural status. Because they successfully adopted the mantle of a top-status group (Gypsies), the UN is working to protect hillbillies from Green laws; AND the UN is working to protect real private property from collectivization.
Pretty neat trick, Travellers! You've got the UN running counter to its normal insanity in two ways at once!
Nearest American equivalent would be a clan of meth-cooking Arkansans declaring themselves an Indian tribe. (Not a close analogy, because the real Indians are not criminals by nature.) This would give the hillbillies far more freedom and sovereignty than ordinary Americans, enabling them to carry on their bootlegging activities untouched by law. I can't imagine it working, though. The legitimate tribes would quite properly object to the adoption. ¶ 8:23 AM
Apparently, the raw facts are these:
(1) The Travellers are a subculture of Irish white trash, basically the same genes and criminal subculture as the bootlegging Irish hillbillies in America. Their historical origin is also parallel. The Travellers turned into roaming rebels when the Great Reformer Oliver Cromwell defeated the Irish Confederate Catholics and murderously occupied Ireland for many years. The rum-running hillbillies turned into roaming rebels when the Great Exterminator Abraham Lincoln (damn his name, damn his name, damn his name a trillion times) burned down the South, defeated the Southern Confederates, shredded the American Constitution, and murderously occupied the South for many years.
(2) The Travellers have long been confused with Gypsies, and have adopted the ways and even the name of Gypsies.
(3) This adopted-relative status has turned out to be highly advantageous, because actual Gypsies have absolute monarchic privilege in modern Britain. When an actual Gypsy takes over your house and property, you are fucked. Any attempt to reclaim your home is strictly illegal, and you will end up in jail.
(4) However, the current dispute is not about squatting, because the criminal Irish Travellers genuinely own the Dale Farm. They bought it fair and square. Instead, it's about environmentalism. The Gaian Occupation Government on Britain has decreed certain areas as Green Zones to be reserved for Holy Aristocratic Endangered Species with Zero Human Interference. Dale Farm is in one of those Green Zones. The GOG decided to evict the Travellers to preserve Green Sanctity, in violation of normal property rights. Most of the ordinary honest Brits in the area welcomed the move because the Travellers are dirty criminals, not because of any Green reasons.
(5) The UN has gotten into the act, though it must have been a difficult decision for them. Do they protect the Infinite Royal Privilege of Gypsies? Or do they protect the Infinite Royal Privilege of Endangered Species? For some reason they decided on the former.
= = = = =
So: we have a group of British trailer trash hillbillies, who would normally be at the very bottom of both legal and cultural status. Because they successfully adopted the mantle of a top-status group (Gypsies), the UN is working to protect hillbillies from Green laws; AND the UN is working to protect real private property from collectivization.
Pretty neat trick, Travellers! You've got the UN running counter to its normal insanity in two ways at once!
Nearest American equivalent would be a clan of meth-cooking Arkansans declaring themselves an Indian tribe. (Not a close analogy, because the real Indians are not criminals by nature.) This would give the hillbillies far more freedom and sovereignty than ordinary Americans, enabling them to carry on their bootlegging activities untouched by law. I can't imagine it working, though. The legitimate tribes would quite properly object to the adoption. ¶ 8:23 AM
