The authorities are obviously worried about a mass uprising of hippy terrorists. These hardened criminals must have an awful lot of heavy weaponry - they're clearly the successors to the Taliban, IRA or the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. How do I know? Well, the police are planning to use unmanned drones against them, in case they leave their cider bottles near Stonehenge. Just like they do in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Is this really the best use we have for the police? Is that what multimillion pound technology is for? Or do the cops feel they have the absolute right to treat anyone with whom they aren't in sympathy like terrorists? They can't even claim that Stonehenge might be damaged: the area has been a national disgrace for 50 years as successive governments refuse to move the highly polluting, damaging road away from one of the world's oldest monuments.
I'm no hippy. quite frankly, I'm pleased that they place themselves in camps. Saves a lot of effort, but there's no way that some hippy ravers deserve to face the full weight of a highly militarised paramilitary force deployed against them. Still, the Daily Mail appears to run Scotland Yard these days…
