[Stones] Thornborough Henges News

[Andy Burnham]

NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 17/08/2006 21:17:05 GMT Standard Time, 
> andy at megalithic.co.uk writes:
>
>     OK OK, let's not turn this into an argument about me, I just asked a
>     simple question of George and wait hopefully for an answer.
>
> Hardly just a simple question, more a question aimed at undermining, 
> surely? If George WAS a one man band it would be better not to ask it 
> since it sabotages his efforts. Fortunately, he's not a one man band, 
> far from it, there are loads of people supporting him. You might be 
> surprised to know that he runs more forums (all about Thornborough 
> campaigning) than there are forums on TMA and the Portal combined! Of 
> necessity they're private but they exist and have done for several years.
>  
>  
>
...so there are some questions that cannot be asked, that's rather 
Orwellian isn't it?
 
I know about some of the fora, I'm a member of Thornborough Talk, that 
predates Timewatch by several years. I know about Henge Warriors that 
George is associated with, that does indeed have a large following. I'm 
just not aware of any substance to 'Timewatch' other than a stream of 
press releases quoting Chairman George..

If the campaign can be harmed by the suspicion that 'Timewatch' = George 
then that's no one's fault but George for creating such paper thin 
structures.

While on the subject of George and his tactics, I also don't approve of 
personal humiliation and name calling*, even if the person in question 
is the quarry manager. At that point it all gets rather too 'animal 
rights' for me and again starts to backfire. It's this sort of 
intemperate ranting that gives campaigning and amateur blogs in general 
a bad name.

* http://www.heritageaction.org/?page=theheritagejournal&id=149
(This has all the hallmarks of George, my apologies to him if it's not)

To answer the rather purile p**ing contest about who's done the most for 
ancient sites (in case I'm accused in return of not answering 
questions). I was thought to be doing enough to be asked to write on the 
subject for 3rd Stone magazine, but had to stop when it ceased. By that 
time Heritage Action was on the scene and going strong and I was winding 
down most non Portal activity (including other things like the Stone 
Circle Webring that has been passed to Michael Fox) to concentate on 
that. However it is still a strong thread, and since 2001 we've 
published over 200 'Sites Under Threat' items on a huge variety of things.

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