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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shooms" data-source="post: 213057" data-attributes="member: 36">Always been the same aint it fella.... was reading recently accounts of the 'Battle of the Beanfield' (back in 85 when 'The Peace Convoy' as they were known back then were being hounded from county to county by the OB & the Govt).The travellers tried to get to Stonehenge for the summer solstice but due to blockades etc actually ended up in a farmers field in Wiltshire & were steamed into by the OB -  seemingly the 1st 'cut' of the BBC report showed how the OB instigated the violence.... they attacked the travellers homes smashing up all their possesions & were filmed attacking both men & women (one piece showed a pregnant woman being pulled out of her caravan by her hair.... emotive image I know but the source of this story seemed legit).... however as you can imagine the piece that was actually aired was selectively edited to cast the OB with halos & travellers as drunken marauding demons...</blockquote>

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