Having 'waded' through 123 pages of 'Legalese' with regards to the proposal for reform to The Human Rights Act UK Law and the proposed consultation on a UK 'Bill of Rights' ,I now have to respond and have very limited time in which to do so as the Government deadline rapidly approaches.
After that, life has conspired to give me another weighty document to which I must give my considered opinion, as yet another looming deadline rapidly approaches and I must switch my attention to the Government responses to the so called 'Stonehenge Tunnel' planning application and how they address the fact that the Secretary of State pushed the application through with scant, little or no regard for environmental impact, and what and how they wish to proceed from here.
Meanwhile, life goes on and we prepare for the Managed Open Access at Stonehenge in Celebration of the Vernal Equinox. English Heritage (Heretics as I refer to them) have been giving me the 'run around' and failing to answer my requests for information or schedule meetings to discuss plans for this and other celebrations at Stonehenge and actually went as far as to leave me off the mailing list when informing other interested parties of the date for Access, Dawn 20th March. (quite accidentally, of course) for which they did eventually apologise.
I was reminded recently of a memory from 2006 when I took a 'Rant' on the road travelling from Pagan celebrations and venues across the land encouraging folk to stay away from Stonehenge and Avebury, and to attend and where needed to organise local celebrations, and you see me doinng so on my fb site. courtesy of kevinmercurymoon who filmed it at Avebury.
I always said however, that there would come a time when 'Critical Mass' and great numbers were required to attend here at Stonehenge once again. That time, likened to the Government deadlines mentioned above, grows closer. It is not here now but such a time when The Heretics overstep their role as custodians and betray the Sacred trust we and our ancestors lay upon them, is vastly approaching.
I have in the past, gone out of my way to assist the Authorities in the smooth running of the Managed Open Access at Stonehenge and oft' time denounced the 'Pitch style invasions' that from time to time have spilled over to the Sacred site, but should the 'Authorities' keep encroaching on what little freedoms we have left to exercise our right to worship and Celebrate, then a time may indeed come when we encroach on their 'rights' to discourage us from attending for no better reason than 'Revenue protection' as Council, Police and Heretics increasingly place their controls and restraints on what and how we are 'allowed' to manifest our Religious/Spiritual beliefs, which brings me back neatly to the job at hand and looking through the Government consultation, on changes to The Human Rights Act, in preparation for my response,
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Blessings from the Front
King Arthur Pendragon /|\