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If it was "respect and dignity," I like to think what would have happened if they had decided not to be respectful and to conduct a frontal assault (eviction of Dale Farm, October 20). I followed the issue of Dale Farm for some time. My partner and I went there at the opening of "Camp constant", August 29 and met with many residents. Since then I have been at every hearing. I even talked to Tony Ball, Basildon Council leader who said "no raid".

It is true that there has been no real negotiations. There seems to be a total lack of interest that people had nowhere to go. Each piece of land in which he suggested, and those available to them were shot down by Basildon Council. The judges felt that those living in Dale Farm is a violation of criminal law of all the remaining days and had to go "out of respect for the criminal law." So now be placed at the door, which is in violation criminal law, the exchange of a "crime" other than Basildon can have your new property junkyard by travelers.
The same legal system that upheld the refusal of planning permission for planning Dale farming community set aside the refusal to Basildon Council for developers in the green belt themselves willing to build a conventional home. Is justice in the operation? And what about the government's call for community cohesion? We could not find anywhere a community of more, more caring, Dale Farm. "We all care for each other here," one resident told me proudly.

None of us is sure if some of us are not.

Martha Jean Baker

of Women for Peace and Freedom

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