'A United Nations committee is calling on the government to suspend the
planned eviction of travellers from the UK's largest illegal site.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14763905
That seems pretty clear
Not much is said about the Government having deleted the law for providing
campsites for travellers !
Cheers Patrick
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Sent: 19 September 2011 16:03
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Subject: Re: Verbal clarity
Ha, Dominic
You are trying to be a professor analyzing something in a manner alike
someone trying to analyze a poem: all that ambiguity (but at least in poems,
it's deliberate & does no harm, is meant to thicken 'meaning' not destroy
it).
Doug
On 2011-09-19, at 8:27 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>> _Let's be clear, this is about the legality of the situation. And let's
be
>> clear that if this operation begins, and it will, then it will end_ And
>> *that was it.
>>
>> What was he talking about? (rhetorical question)
>
> Well, one can try parsing the rhetoric. So, ignoring the rhetoricality
> of your question, and at acknowledged risk of stating the bleeding
> obvious...
>
> "Let's be clear" (twice) is defensive. What kinds of unclarity is it
> trying to ward off? Unclarity with regards to motive: "this is
> about...legality" and not, for example, cash or crypto-racist
> nimbyism. Unclarity with regards to the projected outcome: "it will
> end" as intended rather than abort or be turned back.
>
> But the situation *is* unclear. The fog of war's come down. "The
> operation" is going to be a mess, or made a mess of. The arguments
> around the rights and wrongs of it are not going to be decisively
> settled, to general agreement, in favour of either side. Their
> respective polemics will strive mightily to banish unclarity, but
> unclarity is going to win.
>
> Dominic
>
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