Peace and Reconciliation over the Stonehenge situation?

Copyright: One Eye on the Road

I am for peace, as well as the next man. The Beanfield was horrible, and I don't wish a rerun on anyone. But, what the outcome of their meetings appears to be, is a complete acquiescence to the police and authorities ideas, on how to run a managed event. It seem so long as they get to be all pagan, and wave an oak leaf at each other, in the stones in the middle of the night, it is considered progress.

Well this anarchist is not religious, Christian, Moslem or Pagan. Never was. But I do claim a right to gather, with me and mine, that goes back to the stone age, right there as we have always done.. Really, why should I put that on hold, because of a temporary bit of law, which, when viewed from that length of history, doesn't seen to stand up. For such attitudes, you may know that I'm still an 'injuncted person' and can be arrested for being in an area, 'delineated on a map therein between dates around the solstice.' This order by Lord Justice Morland, has never been rescinded.

My interest is, and always was the gathering of the tribes, to follow this tradition. If you look at some of the photos I put there especially the aerial shots, you'll see 20,000, on one side of the road at a festival on the solstice, many listening to Hawkwind etc, with a couple of hundred of us, going over the road for a celebration of a few hours, to return back to the festival, before it got dark.

Recent years, after all the nonsense, the focus has shifted to the stones.

This is a shame, THEY should have left it all alone! The whole issue, would not now be under such great pressure.

The legal justification, for putting us down, was damage. It informed the injunctions. But, I've always thought that there is a difference between 'damage' and 'wear and tear', like what you get during its 'use'. Left to the authorities, it would be put in a glass case and air-conditioned as a museum piece, rather than 'living history'. Do you see, we come from different planets!

Because of the way, this has all panned-out. I did not go to the event this year, have been every year since 1972! But am so disappointed by the way stuff is turning out. The temporary gathering in the middle of the night under rules, is not what this old foggy thought we were doing. I find it hard to account for what is going on, and why folks have put up with it!

You might also be interested to know, that I've not been to a Glastonbury for years either, last 1992. I think that there is a difference between a 'festival' and an 'outside concert'. Just not what I thought we were doing, when I set out on all this.