Sinn Fein, Birmingham Gangs and Gypsies

A lot of people round here are worried about the Gypsies. What happens if they camp illegally on your land? Why can they get away with the persistent law breaking at Cottenham?

We then had the case last week, where the Police were stopped from entering an illegal camp in Surrey to collect evidence after someone was murdered.

The basic problem is that if you want rights to live in a community, then you must accept the norms of the community. And that includes paying tax, licencing your cars and paying council tax!

Take the murder of Robert McCartney. A wall of silence and threats to the family are all that has come from Sinn Fein and the IRA. Or should I say Sinn Fein/IRA? Until they co-operate with the police they have no right to any concessions or privileges.

The Birmingham Gangs show what happens when the law is allowed to not be enforced. And enforced fairly. People get killed and then rather dodgy trials ensue. Can it be right that the defence can't test the reliability of a witness? I suspect that under the Human Rights Act used to impose things that are disliked on the general population, that we can't. And probably rightly so.

The solution is that we must not let these things get out of hand and that when lawbreaking starts we should impose the reasonable rules of the Law and Parliament, rather than hope the problem will go away. When measures get out of hand the rules we need to use are then very unpalatable to all.

The unease over the Gypsy problem is such, that how long will it be before a group of villagers, so incensed at the problem in their village take the law into their own hands?