{"id":1469,"date":"2012-03-05T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitaljournalist.eu\/OnTheRoad\/?page_id=1469"},"modified":"2012-03-12T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T19:34:08","slug":"opinion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/OnTheRoad\/opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Opinion<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>I have interest in youth culture (even though I&#8217;m 40 something!)(now 50 something!!!!) and the `alternative&#8217; at large. Together with my involvement with advice agencies; I have become increasingly concerned that people can have access to information and news on the practical effects of a number of changes to the law including.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions Act) 1982<\/li>\n<li>Public Order Act 1986<\/li>\n<li>Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994<\/li>\n<li>Entertainments (Increased penalties) Act 1990<\/li>\n<li>Noise Act 1996<\/li>\n<li>Security Services Act 1996<\/li>\n<li>Public Entertainments Licensing (Drug Misuse) Bill<\/li>\n<li>Police Bill<\/li>\n<li>Terrorism Bill<\/li>\n<li>+<\/li>\n<li>Dancing till Dawn &#8211; Safely: Home office supported guidlines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many of these measures are having increasingly serious effects on the lives of those affected.\u00a0I don&#8217;t realy think that they&#8217;ve finished then.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/OnTheRoad\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/gallery-photoshop\/morrocan-hat-speaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of my involvement so far &#8230;..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free festivals since at school 1971 onwards. Trained as an accident Ambulanceman in the mid 70&#8217;s. Joined the `Release&#8217; advice organisation and then formed `Festival Aid&#8217; to do welfare work directly at festival. Belief in the ethics that mean we have to sort out our own `services&#8217; to make it all work without reference to `them&#8217;. (Anarchy, I suppose!).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Was a trustee of Festival Welfare Service and the Travellers Aid Trust that co-ordinated lots of groups to try and maintain these services. A lot of hard work went straight down the tube with the police action at the `Battle of the Beanfield&#8217;. Travellers had become an important part of the scene. Links between the travellers and festival goers meant that many thousands were involved and the authorities (I think) put on a public display of violence to try to intimidate those that might have wished to join with us and also to set up `internal stresses&#8217;. There followed a complete collapse of our own economy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think `raving\u2019 outside was invented as a direct effect of the public order act 1986 (music influence aside.) ( what a statement!) Aimed at festivals and travellers, Sect 39 said on land that if 3 people bring with them more than 12 vehicle for the common purpose of residing there, then they commit offences. Well, what if they stayed up all night, had a DO, and then fucked off again before this residing bit took force.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/OnTheRoad\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/gallery-photoshop\/35strip_portraits1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CJA caught up with some of this now saying 2 people and 6 vehicles! also a little section about `repetitive beats&#8217;! It&#8217;s taken them about 25 years to push me from the fields outside `getting on down&#8217; with my own kind. A lot of folk have now grown up with different ideas of what it is to be `different&#8217; deviant. Hence club culture. Sure a lot of people would still like to be outside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Set out to explain the plot continues. Different music and beat , different colour scheme and style. But exactly the same human needs of getting together with your own kind to `identify&#8217;. Why I&#8217;m still here I suppose. Same motives in the law still trying control `dangerous developments&#8217; in youth culture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Think we can still expect `examples&#8217; to be made as they try to retain pressures to keep it all down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/OnTheRoad\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/gallery-photoshop\/montage_me.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion &nbsp; I have interest in youth culture (even though I&#8217;m 40 something!)(now 50 something!!!!) and the `alternative&#8217; at large. 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