DISCO DAVES TUNNEL GUIDE
A Tale of two evictions
At Newbury in 1996 the authorities were thugs. From Manchester airport in 1997 until Essex in 2000 the other side changed tack by employing specialist bailiff teams from Wales, tunnellers from London and security guards from Manchester. Evictions became rather civilized affairs generally allowing little room for complaint from the protesters. However being civilized is expensive a fact not forgotten by the developers at the nearby Essex housing development site of Hockley. Fenced in and initially denied food and water the protesters there were intimidated and beaten up by the so called security guards who seemed to have learned their trade from reading the SS Guide to being a concentration camp guard.
Being a small housing company.The contractors (countryside homes) either didn't have the cash to do thing properly or unlike a major developer weren't too fussed about getting bad media coverage. What ever the reason, the eviction of the protesters was carried out in an appalling manner and in stark contrast to the road campaign site just a few miles away.
Big corporations or small companies that you're opposing could now really determine how you are evicted. It is therefore important to note that while making an impressive tunnel and treehouses is good for flaunting to the media, surrounding the camp with sturdy barricades and barbed wire are equally as important.
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