[Stones] Thornborough Henges News

[Andy Burnham]

NIGELSWIFT at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 17/08/2006 23:46:52 GMT Standard Time, 
> andy at megalithic.co.uk writes:
>
>     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.
>
>     * (This has all the hallmarks of George, my apologies to him if
>     it's not)
>
> That had absolutely nothing to do with George.

OK, my apologies to him. Thinking about it a bit more, I did and do 
support strong personal criticisms of the public sector archaeologists 
when it was suspected that they were not being entirely even handed, I 
just don't get the indignant tone that the quarry manager and Tarmac 
don't suddenly give up and leave.

I don't support him or them but why would they? Surely you expect them 
to continue to the 'death', or until some sort of shady deal has been 
done, as has happened with Stancliffe Stone in Derbyshire. Of course 
corporate hypocrisy should be challenged and countered every step of the 
way but the writer is wasting all their energy being indignant that the 
other side is spinning the truth to suit their message. It's probably 
driven by some PR luvvies in London rather than the quarry manager.

Andy

>  
> It was written under the impact of Tarmac deciding to have another 
> bite at Thornborough. Personally, I think its a devastating indictment 
> of corporate hypocrisy and entirely justified. Evidently you don't but 
> a private message would have been better.
>  
>