I was there, 2 broken ribs, 11 stichers across my head concrete block cracked on my skull, b4 arrested. Remarnded on false charges, Bus totally smashed and finally found not guilty. Thank you Lord Cardigan for being our 'up' voice, you also saved us a second trashing, and spoke out for us, and the freedoms we where aspiring towards. Thank you
@@harrycarry516 it means 'Lovely day chaps' is nothing but a cowardly , sad, little troll who wouldn't know 'integrity' nor 'honour' if they slapped he/she/it across the face.PS : Note that the troll called 'Lovely day chaps' has already renamed it's sad little self twice in 2 days ,1st to ''This Finger Kills''..then into ''Stop Changing Your Account'' ...pathetic isn't it.
Supposedly the 1985 Stonehenge festival would have been the 12th consecutive gathering, and as such should have received royal assent and would have become a chartered legal festival. If this is the case then it was stopped illegally to prevent it becoming legal.
@@sgw8903 just because you've not heard of it doesn't mean it's not true. There's a thing called the world wide web. Maybe try know and do the research yourself. I mean the comment or has told you what he knows now it's up to you to get of ya arse and do it yourself.
They had blocked the roads off and surrounded the site with barbed wire AND blocked the convoy. There really was no need for this violence other than the police wanting to indulge in it.
"The whole affair was a happening organised by the Arts Council. ' Police' were played by unemployed skin heads, hippies by unemployed Punks and the "experts" by the debt ridden landed gentry. Thatcher remained in power due to psyops like this." 🤥 Mr Almost Tru
Police should be MADE to discuss this now. Find the retired in charge and find out why they had such a hatred towards travellers.. They viewed us all as dirty junkies. Fact
@@hmq9052Irrelevant. Imagine asking a person who, as an adult, reports abuse they received whilst aged 12 and being told: is it still happening now, now you’re 37?
@thenunt Who do YOU think manipulated ALL this. Smashed up the Vans. Imposed restrictions. And broke it all up. The Lords. Dukes. And Earl's of Freakmasonry
I grew up there.. Not many people had a problem with their presence or the festival. Stones are free., Have been for thousands of years. Sad time in Wiltshire history.
The whole point of the riot was to teach the hippies a painful lesson. It is very clear from the footage and testemony, that the cops initiated the violence.
5:30 The problem is : certain jobs attract people with certain traits. People who are emotionally and intellectually immature may want power and oppression over others, a trait that under normal circumstances could be described as psychopathic.
Lot of the policeman from Wiltshire Constabulary were veterans of policing the coalfields in the Miners Strike. They used the same tactics they used on the miners in 1984 the following year to stop the convoy in 1985 in the Beanfield at Cholderton. Wiltshire police and police from the south were taken up north because many of the local coppers would not do the dirty work on people in their own mining communities.
Yep they sent the met up to the northeast because they knew local cops wouldn’t have the appetite for that kind of violence against people who had a just cause
This is horrific. I can't believe what they did to those people's homes. Breaking baby toys, guitars, speading tuna fish about, what excuse can there be for that?
@@brianmorecombe2726maliciously destroying things why smash a guitar and camera up it was vengeance towards people they hate they wouldn’t do it to the Irish travelers as they fight back
This still makes me sick . 2024 and I really can't get my head around the fact that the criminal savage behaviour dished out by the filth still hasn't been dealt with .The force needs to be held accountable for their horrible actions
@@stephenmcgraw8871you are an American. I won't go for the insult I would like to post you've already had me banned one today.is that because you can't take criticism or is it just because you are an American and you, maybe, are out of touch with reality
@@stephenmcgraw8871 You can't trespass, it's made up nonsense. The world belongs to us all and NO ONE deserves what those DISGUSTING BEAST PIGS did to innocent people.
I gave my mate Stig a Clash t shirt just before he went to that festival in 1986. Next thing I knew he was wearing it on the front page of the Sun while being arrested and led to a van by two coppers.
@ARUclips User They should make children live on a bus for a week and learn to play the tambourine.They could call it earth school.Have nice day A You Tube User.
There is no space in the UK for counter culture. Thousands of years of land owning have created a conservative landscape with the various power structures including the Church, Royalty, Politics, Land Owners, Farmers, Police, Military and big business in tight control of the status quo. You can’t reverse the lack of freedom since the more mobile populations which had a huge space to roam in the times when Stone Henge was built and used for worship. It’s a dream to have the freedom, the off-grid small holding lifestyle where you can appreciate the land and work with it, pulling down the usual barriers to movement and where you live/pay tax etc. Growing up in the 70’s I felt for these folks and also felt the fear of nuclear annihilation through education. It felt like the end of alternative life style but I don’t really know what that means, I have led a traditional life of education,work family, permanent home. Such a shame really that there are no spaces for freedom of movement beyond holidays and day-trips. I think ultimately when you can’t forage and run a small holding as an activist it does become very hard to sustain the lifestyle and clearly the Gov’t of the 80’s did everything to shut it down. I can’t help but wonder if the Gov also despise the traditional traveller community that are clearly more savvy in regard to maintaining their freedom whilst “keeping their heads down”. Perhaps a lesson in more subtle and less radical pushes against authority could have seen this way of life survive beyond the Thatcher era.
It’s the same shit over here in the US. The corporate power structure is the government and they want a captive audience as a consumer class. No other lifestyle suits that model so it is shit down violently.
@@vixenfire I am a robot actually. Well spotted and if you have been travelling since 84, then clearly we don't have a problem. People like me (robotos) require your education on the way forward and I would welcome that information.
Perhaps it's still a way of life for some, just because you are not permitted to live a certain way does not automatically void a 'way of life' :) One can hope we might see a revival, once the exodus to the green belt is complete and cities are mostly deserted there will be plenty of places to park up at least...
Happy Solstice today SHOCKING video.. was 17 then and was so frightened, I'd never seen anything like it, was at Greenham Common too before this.. Tragic and heartbreaking watching it, I weep and find it hard to watch.. Tash hope your ok girl . LYN your awesome..YOU ALL ROCK.. 🌊🌿🕊☀️
I was at Stonehenge in 1981 ,82 ,83 & 84 . I wimped out and stayed away in 1985 . Didn’t get back to the solstice until 2007 and 2019 . At 2019 I was amazed to be one of the few there whom would’ve been born before 1985 let alone 1970 …🙄❤️to the spirit of Wally
Yes I agree. He has a heart and could understand that everyone is different. He could not see any problem these travellers were causing. Now why could the police not see the same thing?
@Chris Cheltenham that's absolutely true. You explained that exactly how it is. Evil that they treat a community like that. Is discrimination. We don't have to live like slaves. There has to be balance. Too many people are only concerned with material things. If they want to live this way let them. I have no problem with it then or now. I have worked and paid taxes my whole I don't mind that people live on benefits. Its not much money to live on. Enough to get by just about. There isn't enough jobs for everyone in the world anyway
I took out all the seats and away I went It's a right ol banger and the chassis bent. It's got a great big peace sign across the back And most of the windows are painted black The windshields cracked it's a bugger to drive It starts making smoke over to 35 It's a psychedelic nightmare with Million leaks But it's home sweet home to Some sweet arsed freaks Slow down ittinerent child the road is full of danger. Soon I was rumbling through the morning fog With my long haired children and my one eyed dog . With the trucks and the buses and the trailer vans My long throw horns playing Steely Dan We straggled out for miles Along the beggars Hill When the word came out that we'd lost the ol bill You can bet your boots I'm coming when the times are hard That's why they keep my dossier In Scotland Yard Ittinerent child don't do what your doing Ittinerent child you'd better slow down We headed into happy Valley Seeking peace and love With a lone helicopter Hanging up above We didn't realize till we hit the Field there were 400 cozers Holding riot shields They terrorised our babies And broke our heads It's a stone fucking miracle That no one's dead. They turned my ramshackle Home to a burning wreck My one eyed dog got a broken Neck Slow down ittinerent child The boys in blue are waiting Rock in peace Ian dury
@@andywfc1 Ian Dury did give up his day job as an art teacher to form the Blockheads. The rest is history. Itinerant Child was on his 1997 album Mr Love Pants.
This is horrible. Poor people trying to make a life. And you get the weight of the English police force (not the local police) we need an inquiry. that woman going back to her trashed bus really got to me. She was so strong considering what had happened to her baby and home.
It makes my blood boil. We recently had a peaceful folk festival cancelled that's been running for years in Victoria, Australia because the local top Pig decided he didn't like the idea of a Festival outside his town. The event had been running for years and had raised tens of thousands of dollars for the township as well as help support local businesses and trade. In the end and because it was on private property a "birthday party" was held on the grounds as a private event, but not before the cop came down to the owner and threatened to bring police and dogs up from the city. This was a family folk festival and the local mayor was furious that the authorities had got in the ear of local councillors, who ultimately voted to cancel it. I'm now involved in guerrilla festivals and parties because screw them.
Most of us support the modern-day police 100%, especially when someone calls them pigs. That the riot police in this old documentary were in the wrong seems possible, but it was not an easy situation.
Long enough time has passed now so let's have the police release the footage from then for public scrutiny.. They filmed everything for evidence. Let's see who was violent and who started the trouble and who were trying to defend themselves ironically by NOT fighting back... Instead protesting the forced violence upon the vehicular homes.
@Different People no.. Not body cams but they took video cameras and filmed that whole event. I know cos I've seen snippets of it, which they released to press. But they have the whole shebang from start to finish.. Ask the guys who were there and victims to the thug heavy-handed police. Theyll tell u they were filmed.. And I bet many a copper had sat jeering over the footage with remarks like... Oh yea just watch this one.. This one catches Im a right good un... And Yea that got the bastards out.. Didnt stay in there after that... And other such nastys.
these are people with principles and beliefs to be admired. I look on them from afar and think that deep down, these are my beliefs yet the wanton need to own that Ferrari or that bigger house or the oneupmanship of a bigger salary than the other man prevails in my brainwashed head. It’s so important to place our needs in perspective.
You can live a comfortable lifestyle of your choice but still be a decent human being. I and my husband are now in our 60’s, still working, have our own car each, a mortgaged home [soon to be mortgage-free] but we are respectful of others. We both came from working class backgrounds, our parents lived in social housing. I, particularly, have always been a bit of an ‘Earth mother’, in touch with nature, an animal lover etc etc. I was parked up in a car park in Perranporth back in January, there was wahat was obviously a travellers van parked 2 bays away from me. I noticed a beautiful cat by the van and started petting it, the owner came out of the van and we started chatting, first about the cat, then just general chit-chat. He and his partner had lived in their van for several years, both lovely, friendly, decent people. Just like myself 🕊️
That "OPEN SPACE" intro was awesome! Clearly CGI with what appears to be either an early form of some type of color-mapping or a cell-shader. Looks fantastic!
It's a measure of how corrupt a police force is that their immediate response to every situation is violent and aggressive. They treat every offence, no matter how petty, as a serious crime and every person in the vicinity as a serious criminal. And of course, it helps if that so-called arm of the public trust is supported in its actions by the government of the day.
I am so glad and grateful that you and others think and feel the same way. I have felt isolated and alone for a long time because I thought no one else was aware of it. What troubles me most is that we can't do anything about it. Everything is so deeply rooted that ordinary citizens of Britain can do nothing to defend ourselves. They play with a loaded deck. We're fucked
The Pigs of the 1980's were absolute animals, to be honest I'm not entirely sure that much has changed 35 years later. Shocking treatment of peaceful people.
@ARUclips User So what? As long as they don't harm you ,they are free to live as they see fit. Not everyone is fit to be a mindless robot of societal system.
@ARUclips User It’s hard to know where exactly to start with your comment, so I’ll just paraphrase Malcom Tucker - you’re so fucking dense that light bends around you.
I was at most of Stonehenge festivals lived in Salisbury then 1984 was bliss that year 😊my heaven until they stopped it .and we know why 😒😏love and light and peace to the real people wherever you are 😊💛💛💛💛🙏🙌
Great to see all the supportive comments here and that this kind of resistance to a corrupt capitalist mainstream is on the rise again. As the young guy says around 15 min, its an idea, and it keeps coming back. Lots of complicated things going on, but the basic idea is: that people get to control their own lives and create their own sense of purpose. Let's hope indeed that idea and the effort towards it is never snuffed out by undemocratic conservatives, capitalists and the police that do their bidding.
That young guy (Nandor Tanczos) became the first Rastafarian MP in New Zealand and effectively shaped the entire country's progress on waste reduction in the 20th century. But of course they were wasters, good job the police waded in. ;-)
and rip earl of cardigan as well he took a ton of sh!t for the way he stood by the convoy ruined him in fact and their still out to get him even now and out of them all he was the only one who stood by them and hes paid for it cause they expected him toi go along with it
@@djdarksidejungle559 one thing i liked about this one, was the reporters and landowners take. most people dont want violence regardless of stance and belief
A decent solicitor would be able to find various reasons to successfully sue the police for their actions in this scenario, but the police know that people like this can't afford a solicitor of any kind and so can act with complete impunity knowing full well that nobody will ever hold them accountable. One law for the rich.....
Battle of the bean field, we all got free entry to Glastonbury in 1986, and then the public order act, illegal gathering of 2 or more people, well done Maggie
how can people can still be surprised about that? Hardwired for violence, humans have WAR in the brain, and will do it at any scale available. I can't relate with human race. so i am crazy
Thank you for this, very interesting to me, as a man living alone in his van travelling Britain's ancient sites... but I always give Stone Henge a miss because I went there many years ago and was so angered by English Heritage's huge ticket price, and the pure gaul of them to charge entry at all that I have never since been able to bring myself to return. Now I know how those brigands of British history set up their ticket booth. So it seems to me, looking at this, that I roam a no-man's land left in the wake of a battle fought some 40 years ago. Bravo English Heritage, bravo National Trust, what a sterling job you do of turning those sites lent you into little supermarkets built of ancient stone. A hex on them, from the bottom of my heart, they kill what they claim to conserve, very plainly, and replace it with a plastic noticeboard and selfie sticks... whilst only granting free access to academics, surely they have no right to any of it, or no more than any Briton born, yet they claim themselves protectors, brigands they are, nothing more. 🐉
But they were tied to the system. They signed on, used the public roads, used the national health service when it was needed and demanded all citizens rights despite contributing little, or nothing, to mainstream society.
They talk about being on the dole for years and refusing to look for work. Sorry that’s not wanting to be left alone, that’s taking advantage of that system. It’s stealing from everyone who works and can barely get by because they are forced to pay for your permanent travel vacation.
Great 'Policing'! Govt. enforcers. And even if those in the convoy had largely resisted (I'd doubt many did). But if they had the petty vindictiveness of vandalising their only possessions is pure Yob behaviour by the Police Gang... Yes Gang.
Soldiers were dressed up in police overalls and took the brunt of the violence that they were trained for. I know of one miner who spotted his son. Shouting at him " Don't dare come home or I 'll bury you myself!"
For those who want more info, a Journo from the ITN (TV News) Kim Sabido who followed the convoy and filmed piece-to-camera shots, filmed the illegal police riot and later on back home, the footage that was the most gruesome "mysteriously" vanished along with the duplicates. In 1990, the duplicates where found and was added to the documentary called "Operation Solstice" The officers involved did get into legal trouble but its bitter sweet TBH.
Woh man, u was their I'm 53, and remember all the news @the time and my parents saying they need a wash and a job,... and I was 15 so first time I saw and started to think different from my parents
What restraint. And not if the boot was on the other foot with us so called lesser mortals smashing into their houses and beating up their wives and trashing their houses and traumatizing their kids.
Great to see peeps here in 2021 ( still in lockdown) . This was disgusting behaviour from the police , I remember when it happened , I had friends that were there , their children were terrified, their homes destroyed . It was all so wrong .
With house prices at crazy prices, no matter how many green fields houses are built on, houses to many will never be ‘affordable’. Zero hours contracts and even more so in the last year 20/21 with ‘reported’ unemployment figures heading to 3 million, with real figures you can add a million onto that more people are losing their homes, living in cars and stealth vans...it’s 2021 have social standards been improved? No the same old, same old except the rich are even richer, the poor even poorer and you mock my words you could be the next one signing on, as we aren’t out the covid woods yet, as more people are going to become homeless and the banks win again.
lmao what a sad n poor excuse for a human being you are, if u take into consideration that not all of us were drunk assholes, we had to get drinking water wood for fuel to keep warm and make money during the summer to live then far from being lazy we were very productive, we had to be, unlike u dust brained idiots who without their water on tap n washing machines n central heating screwing up the environment, our days were filled with activity and standing up for our rights while you lot just idly watched as our freedoms were slowly eroded by thatcher and her bastard henchmen, the future you get you surely will deserve ya idiotic no-brainer
Douglas Holland I have just put a book together about how bad the working class had it during the Victorian era, called The Empty Hand-A poor life. You should read it.
Why are they so threatened by these people that are living peacefully, not hurting anyone. I could understand if they were a violent or subversive group but they literally hurt no one. It baffles me. Again good ole Maggie waged war on her own people
Bloody amazing, its a peace convoy, the way the police acted was a disgrace, smashing vans up , beating people , what the actual fuck , at this point im raging at such injustice
The problem I have among others is they never even checked for children these where people's homes so it's not a stretch to assume there might be kids and the police where no more then hired thugs no justification their actions I mean they don't treat murderers that way
I was there, 2 broken ribs, 11 stichers across my head concrete block cracked on my skull, b4 arrested. Remarnded on false charges, Bus totally smashed and finally found not guilty. Thank you Lord Cardigan for being our 'up' voice, you also saved us a second trashing, and spoke out for us, and the freedoms we where aspiring towards. Thank you
Is it always everybody’s else’s fault .
@@angelicupstart1977 what does that mean?
@@harrycarry516 exactly what it means.
Scruffy bastards
@@harrycarry516 it means 'Lovely day chaps' is nothing but a cowardly , sad, little troll who wouldn't know 'integrity' nor 'honour' if they slapped he/she/it across the face.PS : Note that the troll called 'Lovely day chaps' has already renamed it's sad little self twice in 2 days ,1st to ''This Finger Kills''..then into ''Stop Changing Your Account'' ...pathetic isn't it.
Abuse of authority by Thatcher and Hesseltine.
Savage
She was BFFS with Saville. BIH
Supposedly the 1985 Stonehenge festival would have been the 12th consecutive gathering, and as such should have received royal assent and would have become a chartered legal festival. If this is the case then it was stopped illegally to prevent it becoming legal.
Oh yes! That's why they went all out so much!
I didn't know that. That's makes perfect sense now.
Do you have any links or sources for this legislation?
No offence but I have never heard of it.
@@sgw8903 just because you've not heard of it doesn't mean it's not true. There's a thing called the world wide web. Maybe try know and do the research yourself. I mean the comment or has told you what he knows now it's up to you to get of ya arse and do it yourself.
U okay bro? He asked a question
They had blocked the roads off and surrounded the site with barbed wire AND blocked the convoy. There really was no need for this violence other than the police wanting to indulge in it.
it was just after the miners, gawd bless Maggie! (not really) ruclips.net/video/H3-PjACGcVk/видео.html
Thatcher who is now burning in hell with her paedo cabinet.
"The whole affair was a happening organised by the Arts Council. ' Police' were played by unemployed skin heads, hippies by unemployed Punks and the "experts" by the debt ridden landed gentry. Thatcher remained in power due to psyops like this."
🤥 Mr Almost Tru
Police should be MADE to discuss this now. Find the retired in charge and find out why they had such a hatred towards travellers.. They viewed us all as dirty junkies. Fact
Do you have a house now?
@@hmq9052Irrelevant. Imagine asking a person who, as an adult, reports abuse they received whilst aged 12 and being told: is it still happening now, now you’re 37?
@@IngenerateIngenue It's more a 'you were a traveller, are you now?' sort of question.
'cause you don't serve the system
@@hmq9052 Young persons game that. Although it looks like it was a lot of fun.
Remember this like yesterday and the anger stayed fresh. Public servants my arse
It's an Oxymoron - WE ARE the "Public Servants"
The cops just enforce policys. Hence the name "Policy-Officer"
NOT "Peace-Officer" as it used to be.
Freakmasons
@thenunt Who do YOU think manipulated ALL this. Smashed up the Vans. Imposed restrictions. And broke it all up. The Lords. Dukes. And Earl's of Freakmasonry
@thenunt Yeah, a lot of ppl talk smack when they’ve never met one.
I grew up there.. Not many people had a problem with their presence or the festival. Stones are free., Have been for thousands of years. Sad time in Wiltshire history.
Without a doubt there wouldn't have been a single arrest if police had just left them alone & let them be.
They do it on purpose and your normal plebs just on along with it doing what the news papers tells them
By definition.
Nazis don't leave you alone
Wow you’re right the police wouldn’t have arrested them if they never had arrested them. Very insightful you fuckwit
The whole point of the riot was to teach the hippies a painful lesson. It is very clear from the footage and testemony, that the cops initiated the violence.
5:30
The problem is : certain jobs attract people with certain traits.
People who are emotionally and intellectually immature may want power and oppression over others, a trait that under normal circumstances could be described as psychopathic.
I’d argue it is psychopathic under any circumstances. Many many many cops are absolutely psychopathic.
Particularly pertinent today after the murder of Sarah Everard. RIP
That's not always the case, some people who want power over others know exactly what they're doing and know how to achieve it. Ask any serial killer.
Quite correct, I've seen it first-hand.
People are malleable. Get job X and behave as expected.
Lot of the policeman from Wiltshire Constabulary were veterans of policing the coalfields in the Miners Strike. They used the same tactics they used on the miners in 1984 the following year to stop the convoy in 1985 in the Beanfield at Cholderton. Wiltshire police and police from the south were taken up north because many of the local coppers would not do the dirty work on people in their own mining communities.
Not one of them had 'numbers' on, so none could be identified, yes against there own Police policy ... mmm
Love Wiltshire, hate unwashed hair 🤔 Who said that ?
@@angelicupstart1977 I hate bigots they love violence against defenseless people
Yep they sent the met up to the northeast because they knew local cops wouldn’t have the appetite for that kind of violence against people who had a just cause
it was just after the miners, gawd bless Maggie! (not really) ruclips.net/video/H3-PjACGcVk/видео.html
This is horrific. I can't believe what they did to those people's homes. Breaking baby toys, guitars, speading tuna fish about, what excuse can there be for that?
They impound the vehicles and strip them thoroughly if they are suspected of hiding drugs.They`d do it to anyones car.
@@brianmorecombe2726maliciously destroying things why smash a guitar and camera up it was vengeance towards people they hate they wouldn’t do it to the Irish travelers as they fight back
the ecuse of the uniform boot and trunchedpon, asd usual. not new and still very much in style.... This world drove me crazy .
This still makes me sick .
2024 and I really can't get my head around the fact that the criminal savage behaviour dished out by the filth still hasn't been dealt with .The force needs to be held accountable for their horrible actions
Agree. They should have been punished for their evil, violent crimes, attempted murder etc etc..
Ummmmmm.....you were trespassing..........you would`ve had it a lot worse here in America,believe me......
@@stephenmcgraw8871 .it wasn't in America though was it. what was the point in your ridiculous yanky comment
@@stephenmcgraw8871you are an American. I won't go for the insult I would like to post you've already had me banned one today.is that because you can't take criticism or is it just because you are an American and you, maybe, are out of touch with reality
@@stephenmcgraw8871 You can't trespass, it's made up nonsense. The world belongs to us all and NO ONE deserves what those DISGUSTING BEAST PIGS did to innocent people.
We're as free as we're told we are.
.... TIM NICE BUT DIM 3:32
@@TS-1267😂😂😂.....❤
ruclips.net/video/HRRkMOlYBhQ/видео.html 😉
We think we are thinking our thoughts but most of what we think is instilled in us any genuine feelings are locked up in the unconscious mostly
Freedom is taken, not given... Always has been and always will be.
no riot police in the forrest thank you
I gave my mate Stig a Clash t shirt just before he went to that festival in 1986. Next thing I knew he was wearing it on the front page of the Sun while being arrested and led to a van by two coppers.
Stig's a proper stringhead name. Ace.
Basically just thugs in uniform having fun via violence
It was appalling what happened at the battle of the beanfield, absolutely appalling. God bless.
Battle of the beanfield lol
Yeah these dumb hippies are appalling. Agreed 👍🏻
the 'Battle of the Beanfield' will go down in history along with 'The siege of Cucumber common'.
The battle of the beanfield . Lets never forget this .
I haven't forgotten it. I love seeing crusties getting twatted.
@ARUclips User Ouch! 😆
Should be taught in schools as British history along with the miners strike ect.
@@chrisattwood6122 Bollocks. These twats shouldn't even be in the same sentence as miners.
@ARUclips User They should make children live on a bus for a week and learn to play the tambourine.They could call it earth school.Have nice day A You Tube User.
There is no space in the UK for counter culture. Thousands of years of land owning have created a conservative landscape with the various power structures including the Church, Royalty, Politics, Land Owners, Farmers, Police, Military and big business in tight control of the status quo. You can’t reverse the lack of freedom since the more mobile populations which had a huge space to roam in the times when Stone Henge was built and used for worship. It’s a dream to have the freedom, the off-grid small holding lifestyle where you can appreciate the land and work with it, pulling down the usual barriers to movement and where you live/pay tax etc. Growing up in the 70’s I felt for these folks and also felt the fear of nuclear annihilation through education. It felt like the end of alternative life style but I don’t really know what that means, I have led a traditional life of education,work family, permanent home. Such a shame really that there are no spaces for freedom of movement beyond holidays and day-trips. I think ultimately when you can’t forage and run a small holding as an activist it does become very hard to sustain the lifestyle and clearly the Gov’t of the 80’s did everything to shut it down. I can’t help but wonder if the Gov also despise the traditional traveller community that are clearly more savvy in regard to maintaining their freedom whilst “keeping their heads down”. Perhaps a lesson in more subtle and less radical pushes against authority could have seen this way of life survive beyond the Thatcher era.
It’s the same shit over here in the US. The corporate power structure is the government and they want a captive audience as a consumer class. No other lifestyle suits that model so it is shit down violently.
@@vixenfire I am a robot actually. Well spotted and if you have been travelling since 84, then clearly we don't have a problem. People like me (robotos) require your education on the way forward and I would welcome that information.
Perhaps it's still a way of life for some, just because you are not permitted to live a certain way does not automatically void a 'way of life' :) One can hope we might see a revival, once the exodus to the green belt is complete and cities are mostly deserted there will be plenty of places to park up at least...
@@Infinifiction I hope that is the case and not just another Tory sponsored building business land-grab.
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I was traveling a bit more then 10 years later then this, by then it even became more difficult and these days its made almost impossible, so sad.
Happy Solstice today
SHOCKING video.. was 17 then and was so frightened, I'd never seen anything like it, was at Greenham Common too before this..
Tragic and heartbreaking watching it, I weep and find it hard to watch.. Tash hope your ok girl . LYN your awesome..YOU ALL ROCK..
🌊🌿🕊☀️
We are all free as balloons… in a pin factory
I was at Stonehenge in 1981 ,82 ,83 & 84 . I wimped out and stayed away in 1985 . Didn’t get back to the solstice until 2007 and 2019 . At 2019 I was amazed to be one of the few there whom would’ve been born before 1985 let alone 1970 …🙄❤️to the spirit of Wally
I was at Stonehenge in 1983!
They introduced telescopic batons around this time and they called them hippie sticks
I just bought one.. !!
"Hippie Stick"..ay......?!?
...but..I'm a hippie.
I'd be a hippie if the hippies didn't need some non hippie warriors to defend them from the brutes.
It certainly stopped us from connecting.
From the literal heritage I have gathered back to the 15th century, those stones belong to ME AND MY KIN.
The Earl Of Cardigan is a very good man, regardless of class or heritage.
Human decency has always been regardless of class
Wore a lovely cardigan too.
Yes
long live the earl
Yes I agree. He has a heart and could understand that everyone is different. He could not see any problem these travellers were causing. Now why could the police not see the same thing?
Thanks for posting, lovely to see Emma the goat after all these years.
The police acted disgracefully ,
Can't see who these people were hurting. The damage to the vehicles was just vindictive and spiteful
@Chris Cheltenham thats the bottom line. and lack of heart keeps the delusion going.
@Chris Cheltenham that's absolutely true. You explained that exactly how it is. Evil that they treat a community like that. Is discrimination. We don't have to live like slaves. There has to be balance. Too many people are only concerned with material things. If they want to live this way let them. I have no problem with it then or now. I have worked and paid taxes my whole I don't mind that people live on benefits. Its not much money to live on. Enough to get by just about. There isn't enough jobs for everyone in the world anyway
@@matthewjdouglas6471 thank god someone gets it. so tired of the typical american view of benefits.
@Chris Cheltenham Truth
@@ianmangham4570 fancy seeing you here 👍
I took out all the seats and away I went
It's a right ol banger and the chassis bent.
It's got a great big peace sign across the back
And most of the windows are painted black
The windshields cracked it's a bugger to drive
It starts making smoke over to 35
It's a psychedelic nightmare with
Million leaks
But it's home sweet home to
Some sweet arsed freaks
Slow down ittinerent child the road is full of danger.
Soon I was rumbling through the morning fog
With my long haired children and my one eyed dog .
With the trucks and the buses and the trailer vans
My long throw horns playing
Steely Dan
We straggled out for miles
Along the beggars Hill
When the word came out that we'd lost the ol bill
You can bet your boots I'm coming when the times are hard
That's why they keep my dossier
In Scotland Yard
Ittinerent child don't do what your doing
Ittinerent child you'd better slow down
We headed into happy Valley
Seeking peace and love
With a lone helicopter
Hanging up above
We didn't realize till we hit the
Field there were 400 cozers
Holding riot shields
They terrorised our babies
And broke our heads
It's a stone fucking miracle
That no one's dead.
They turned my ramshackle
Home to a burning wreck
My one eyed dog got a broken
Neck
Slow down ittinerent child
The boys in blue are waiting
Rock in peace Ian dury
dont give up ya day job ....if ya ever had one !
@@andywfc1 Ian Dury did give up his day job as an art teacher to form the Blockheads. The rest is history. Itinerant Child was on his 1997 album Mr Love Pants.
@@ailsathedog nice
Professional Mockney. Seen his house?
move over Shakespeare
This is horrible. Poor people trying to make a life. And you get the weight of the English police force (not the local police) we need an inquiry. that woman going back to her trashed bus really got to me. She was so strong considering what had happened to her baby and home.
It makes my blood boil. We recently had a peaceful folk festival cancelled that's been running for years in Victoria, Australia because the local top Pig decided he didn't like the idea of a Festival outside his town. The event had been running for years and had raised tens of thousands of dollars for the township as well as help support local businesses and trade. In the end and because it was on private property a "birthday party" was held on the grounds as a private event, but not before the cop came down to the owner and threatened to bring police and dogs up from the city. This was a family folk festival and the local mayor was furious that the authorities had got in the ear of local councillors, who ultimately voted to cancel it. I'm now involved in guerrilla festivals and parties because screw them.
Most of us support the modern-day police 100%, especially when someone calls them pigs.
That the riot police in this old documentary were in the wrong seems possible, but it was not an easy situation.
@@psyskeptic9979police = no good
Similar issues at Sol Fest recently in the USA. Sheriff made the festival a publicity stunt for his department. Lots of arrests and chaos.
@@JohnJohnson-fr5cxwhat are you 10? If you were so enlightened and peaceful you’d realize the world is nuanced and not black and white.
@@psyskeptic9979 You have obviously not been victim of one of the nasty type of police officer.
Long enough time has passed now so let's have the police release the footage from then for public scrutiny.. They filmed everything for evidence. Let's see who was violent and who started the trouble and who were trying to defend themselves ironically by NOT fighting back... Instead protesting the forced violence upon the vehicular homes.
@Different People no.. Not body cams but they took video cameras and filmed that whole event. I know cos I've seen snippets of it, which they released to press. But they have the whole shebang from start to finish.. Ask the guys who were there and victims to the thug heavy-handed police. Theyll tell u they were filmed.. And I bet many a copper had sat jeering over the footage with remarks like... Oh yea just watch this one.. This one catches Im a right good un... And
Yea that got the bastards out.. Didnt stay in there after that...
And other such nastys.
Thanks for posting this. Important stuff!
these are people with principles and beliefs to be admired. I look on them from afar and think that deep down, these are my beliefs yet the wanton need to own that Ferrari or that bigger house or the oneupmanship of a bigger salary than the other man prevails in my brainwashed head. It’s so important to place our needs in perspective.
That’s what’s going on inside your head?
@@muttlee9195 Thankyou for clarifying that. For a minute there I though I was writing your thoughts
You can live a comfortable lifestyle of your choice but still be a decent human being. I and my husband are now in our 60’s, still working, have our own car each, a mortgaged home [soon to be mortgage-free] but we are respectful of others. We both came from working class backgrounds, our parents lived in social housing. I, particularly, have always been a bit of an ‘Earth mother’, in touch with nature, an animal lover etc etc. I was parked up in a car park in Perranporth back in January, there was wahat was obviously a travellers van parked 2 bays away from me. I noticed a beautiful cat by the van and started petting it, the owner came out of the van and we started chatting, first about the cat, then just general chit-chat. He and his partner had lived in their van for several years, both lovely, friendly, decent people. Just like myself 🕊️
That "OPEN SPACE" intro was awesome! Clearly CGI with what appears to be either an early form of some type of color-mapping or a cell-shader. Looks fantastic!
There was never any real trouble at them festivals was so beautiful everyone coming together having fun connecting 😊❤❤❤❤
You would not no because you be stoned out your brain's if you have any no got your hair cut and get a job and look after your kids tramp's 😮😮
It's a measure of how corrupt a police force is that their immediate response to every situation is violent and aggressive. They treat every offence, no matter how petty, as a serious crime and every person in the vicinity as a serious criminal. And of course, it helps if that so-called arm of the public trust is supported in its actions by the government of the day.
I am so glad and grateful that you and others think and feel the same way. I have felt isolated and alone for a long time because I thought no one else was aware of it. What troubles me most is that we can't do anything about it. Everything is so deeply rooted that ordinary citizens of Britain can do nothing to defend ourselves. They play with a loaded deck. We're fucked
@@andrewbranch4918 my feelings exactly, hope you can make it to your local kill the bill protest
The Pigs of the 1980's were absolute animals, to be honest I'm not entirely sure that much has changed 35 years later. Shocking treatment of peaceful people.
Vile capitalist slave
@ARUclips User another Tory idiot
@ARUclips User So what? As long as they don't harm you ,they are free to live as they see fit. Not everyone is fit to be a mindless robot of societal system.
@@knkjkjn They harm taxpayers by freeloading
@ARUclips User It’s hard to know where exactly to start with your comment, so I’ll just paraphrase Malcom Tucker - you’re so fucking dense that light bends around you.
All these years later and the world just refuses to change.Sad
Police and a corrupt system.
What a combination.
Awesome group of people
Thatcher's police were extremely horrible.
I was at most of Stonehenge festivals lived in Salisbury then 1984 was bliss that year 😊my heaven until they stopped it .and we know why 😒😏love and light and peace to the real people wherever you are 😊💛💛💛💛🙏🙌
'No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who believe they are free.' A philosopher
Goethe
And Brittany is VERY free.
"Free is an anagram of reef "
The Ego
Only wealthy people that don't work are free
Same shit ,different century
It's sad that nothing really changes
It would nice to have a Trashed Update, a Where are They Now follow up documentary.
sadly some are dead now peacee
Dead or treating their haemorrhoids and bunnions.
They would have 6:07 6:10 better haircuts, wash more regularly and be part of this green movement to get rid of normal power supplies.
"The only thing that works is the windscreen wipers"
That's the right mentality, never let the bastards get you down....
The same oppression is here today! Absolutely disgusting!
Great to see all the supportive comments here and that this kind of resistance to a corrupt capitalist mainstream is on the rise again. As the young guy says around 15 min, its an idea, and it keeps coming back. Lots of complicated things going on, but the basic idea is: that people get to control their own lives and create their own sense of purpose. Let's hope indeed that idea and the effort towards it is never snuffed out by undemocratic conservatives, capitalists and the police that do their bidding.
That young guy (Nandor Tanczos) became the first Rastafarian MP in New Zealand and effectively shaped the entire country's progress on waste reduction in the 20th century. But of course they were wasters, good job the police waded in. ;-)
and look where we are now? unbelievable
Exactly
really unbelievable? i always been a damned cassandra so i say it was well predictable. and wait for the big finale!
RIP Sid.
We fought the Law and the Law won.
R.IP. to all the peace loving people that have died trying to resist the oppression of big brother !
i.e. free festivals, striking miners Wally Hope !
and rip earl of cardigan as well he took a ton of sh!t for the way he stood by the convoy ruined him in fact and their still out to get him even now and out of them all he was the only one who stood by them and hes paid for it cause they expected him toi go along with it
@@djdarksidejungle559 Hahahahahaha !
@@gaz1tinsley its true though anbd the earls of cardigan were a powerful house once not anymore but they were powerful once
@@djdarksidejungle559 i dont know much about it. but will definite look into it
@@djdarksidejungle559 one thing i liked about this one, was the reporters and landowners take. most people dont want violence regardless of stance and belief
A decent solicitor would be able to find various reasons to successfully sue the police for their actions in this scenario, but the police know that people like this can't afford a solicitor of any kind and so can act with complete impunity knowing full well that nobody will ever hold them accountable.
One law for the rich.....
In a word. NO. The police are immune from civil litigation if they are on the clock and under orders.
@@wiretamer5710 You take action against the dept/region, not individual officers.
Battle of the bean field, we all got free entry to Glastonbury in 1986, and then the public order act, illegal gathering of 2 or more people, well done Maggie
I remember this I was there it was shocking they mashed buses with babies and children on board 😢
This was such a beautiful peaceful festival. The police were evil. Heartbreaking
How can a human being regardless of clothing or employment, do such things to another human being?
It is a total rush to meet out violence, knowing that you are immune from any consequences.
how can people can still be surprised about that? Hardwired for violence, humans have WAR in the brain, and will do it at any scale available. I can't relate with human race. so i am crazy
Thank you for this, very interesting to me, as a man living alone in his van travelling Britain's ancient sites... but I always give Stone Henge a miss because I went there many years ago and was so angered by English Heritage's huge ticket price, and the pure gaul of them to charge entry at all that I have never since been able to bring myself to return.
Now I know how those brigands of British history set up their ticket booth. So it seems to me, looking at this, that I roam a no-man's land left in the wake of a battle fought some 40 years ago.
Bravo English Heritage, bravo National Trust, what a sterling job you do of turning those sites lent you into little supermarkets built of ancient stone. A hex on them, from the bottom of my heart, they kill what they claim to conserve, very plainly, and replace it with a plastic noticeboard and selfie sticks... whilst only granting free access to academics, surely they have no right to any of it, or no more than any Briton born, yet they claim themselves protectors, brigands they are, nothing more.
🐉
If you volunteer for the national trust you can get into all their sites for free if that helps you.
You can 'legally' walk very close to the paying customer walkway of Stonehenge by walking across the fields apparently
the film that started the tidal wave of "new age travellers", along with the mirror and marrgret thatchers speech
Don't start me about that Thatcher! She couldn't cope with people not being tied to the system
But they were tied to the system. They signed on, used the public roads, used the national health service when it was needed and demanded all citizens rights despite contributing little, or nothing, to mainstream society.
They talk about being on the dole for years and refusing to look for work.
Sorry that’s not wanting to be left alone, that’s taking advantage of that system.
It’s stealing from everyone who works and can barely get by because they are forced to pay for your permanent travel vacation.
the 80s was extremly violent
Yeah.I enjoyed all those middle class twats getting a good kicking !
I will never forget the locals on there doorstep waving and cheering heading to westbury peace xxxx
Great 'Policing'! Govt. enforcers. And even if those in the convoy had largely resisted (I'd doubt many did). But if they had the petty vindictiveness of vandalising their only possessions is pure Yob behaviour by the Police Gang...
Yes Gang.
Typical Thatcher era policing, remember the miners strike?
Soldiers were dressed up in police overalls and took the brunt of the violence that they were trained for. I know of one miner who spotted his son. Shouting at him " Don't dare come home or I 'll bury you myself!"
It really is crazy that the summer solstice has been celebrated there for thousands of years but now the national trust owns it and they say “nope” 😂
For those who want more info, a Journo from the ITN (TV News) Kim Sabido who followed the convoy and filmed piece-to-camera shots, filmed the illegal police riot and later on back home, the footage that was the most gruesome "mysteriously" vanished along with the duplicates. In 1990, the duplicates where found and was added to the documentary called "Operation Solstice"
The officers involved did get into legal trouble but its bitter sweet TBH.
Many people left the country.
My dearly departed friend Lee Cobb was there. He nearly got strip searched as a minor 17 year old.
ACAB
Sorry for your loss
Great work. ✌️
Woh man, u was their I'm 53, and remember all the news @the time and my parents saying they need a wash and a job,... and I was 15 so first time I saw and started to think different from my parents
Welcome to hotel California 😂
There’s always a fucking juggler. Who finds it fascinating? Not me 😄
These were the same riot squad police who attacked striking miners, many were ex army with no identification.
"The police should not lose their reputation for their restraint, they should win by appearing to lose"
Very interesting viewpoint to policing
What restraint. And not if the boot was on the other foot with us so called lesser mortals smashing into their houses and beating up their wives and trashing their houses and traumatizing their kids.
Why isn't Lord Cardigan wearing a Cardigan?
+MrFramemichael Idiot
+david davids takes one to know one ;-)
He left it at a certain Bay ;)
Idiot! Because it left it at a certain Bay and it wasn't called sweatshirt!
He left it in the Bikini atol
I love all these people. God bless them all.
Who?
The Iron lady and her regime. I left the UK the day that monster Thatcher got into Nr. 10.
Good. Don't come back.
@@teddiemack8071 Best move I made to that sinking ship. I became successful and a millionaire. So suck on that!
@@vogel431
Sounds like you and Thatcher would have got on great.
Nice to see a freak brothers T shirt
Great to see peeps here in 2021 ( still in lockdown) .
This was disgusting behaviour from the police , I remember when it happened , I had friends that were there , their children were terrified, their homes destroyed . It was all so wrong .
With house prices at crazy prices, no matter how many green fields houses are built on, houses to many will never be ‘affordable’. Zero hours contracts and even more so in the last year 20/21 with ‘reported’ unemployment figures heading to 3 million, with real figures you can add a million onto that more people are losing their homes, living in cars and stealth vans...it’s 2021 have social standards been improved? No the same old, same old except the rich are even richer, the poor even poorer and you mock my words you could be the next one signing on, as we aren’t out the covid woods yet, as more people are going to become homeless and the banks win again.
What are your solutions to the problems? I'm not mocking your words by the way just curious as to what you think can be done.
Heseltine was a nasty bit of work
i was there and still fight in for justis
lmao what a sad n poor excuse for a human being you are, if u take into consideration that not all of us were drunk assholes, we had to get drinking water wood for fuel to keep warm and make money during the summer to live then far from being lazy we were very productive, we had to be, unlike u dust brained idiots who without their water on tap n washing machines n central heating screwing up the environment, our days were filled with activity and standing up for our rights while you lot just idly watched as our freedoms were slowly eroded by thatcher and her bastard henchmen, the future you get you surely will deserve ya idiotic no-brainer
Douglas Holland I have just put a book together about how bad the working class had it during the Victorian era, called The Empty Hand-A poor life. You should read it.
Lord Nelson Have you ever considered what you yourself have evolved into? Certainly something the planet would be better off without.
mingmongmang lol Great reply, i bet you believe in "god" and "jesus" too hehe! go and get a wash you mucky little prat!
***** yes
That poor lad at 4.19 I saw footage of him on You Tube on the same topic. Often wondered how he got on after that.
I camped with what was leftvof them at Glastonbury afterwards. Absolutely appalling behaviour from the police.
@2:48 the owners of the stones what bullshit
Why are they so threatened by these people that are living peacefully, not hurting anyone. I could understand if they were a violent or subversive group but they literally hurt no one. It baffles me. Again good ole Maggie waged war on her own people
People are easier to corrupt if they aren’t free thinkers.
Governments want full control.
God shave the queen
And her facist regime
Love the Peace Convoy🌀Bless Up ☮️ They'll never tame the Free Spirit 💜☯️💚
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS
Don't tell me what to do.
No need to shout.
The police were totally out of control, and they were enjoying it
The 80s, the best of times !!!
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Bloody amazing, its a peace convoy, the way the police acted was a disgrace, smashing vans up , beating people , what the actual fuck , at this point im raging at such injustice
16 quid for a Glastonbury ticket, how could anyone afford that bloody liberty takers
think the first one was 50 pence
The problem I have among others is they never even checked for children these where people's homes so it's not a stretch to assume there might be kids and the police where no more then hired thugs no justification their actions I mean they don't treat murderers that way
They were told not to camp there. They leave that part out.
great upload wally hope!
We need a new peace convoy.bigger and stronger.
Starring Hugh Grant as the Earl of Cardigan........
They look like a real dangerous group of people.
"Protect and serve"
Yes. But they don't protect and serve the common man.