dale farm

Does anyone remember watching a program about dale farm, the largest traveller site in the U.K?

there's been some further developments about it, shown on this bbc news page.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-14728042

Developing heavily on a greenbelt (as they have done) is certainly not 'doing things by the book', but flat out bulldozing the homes of 80 people seems heartless. If anyone is to blame, it's the council for failing the villagers and the travellers. They could've made up their minds on a decision one way or another from the day the travellers started building, while the stakes were still low. Instead they dragged their heels and let the situation become a lot more destructive through their inactivity. A stark reminder perhaps, that sin doesn't have to be an active "something that I did" but also a passive "what I didn't do", and can have just as devastating an effect.

A Harry Potter book once explained that the house elf Kreacher's loathing for Sirius was due to Sirius's passivity towards the house elf, which was pithily put like this: "Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."