[Stones] Fathers 4 Justice

[Andy Burnham]

Cerri,
Fair enough, I didn't know you are now on the Managemant Committee, well 
done you, but I still don't think you should have been commenting in 
such a personal way. I thought the "Drag the family courts out of the 
Stone Age" was a very poignant point and I would encourage everyone to 
read about some of the awful things that the family courts get up to 
with no redress by the people invoved possible, but not on this list...

I wasn't having a go at you about '3 people cracking the stones', I 
thought it was a very stupid question from the journalist, and an answer 
like 'don't be silly, it's stood for 4500 years and is not about to be 
cracked by 3 idiots' would have been better.

Personally I find publicity seekers like the idiotic 'New 7 wonders' 
person to be far more annoying. I don't know, fly round in an airship 
for a couple of days and you're suddenly god's gift to ancient 
monuments? Why do the media fall for it? Now we see English Heritage out 
canvassing for people to vote for Stonehenge to be a 'new 7 wonder'. 
Words fail me.

Thanks for the reply

Cerridwen Connelly wrote:

>Andy,
>
>I was interviewed as a member of the EH Stonehenge management committee. I
>assume Peter was too busy negotiating with the protestors to do it himself.
>
>I said that I had empathy with FFJ up until the moment the reporter told me
>they had broken into Stonehenge and were walking on a lintel. The "parenting
>skills" remark referred to the issue of teaching children to respect our
>ancient heritage, and that NO ONE is permitted to climb the stones, even on
>Open Access events, for their own safety as well as respect for the site.
>
>I said that if they wanted international media attention, all they had to do
>was block the entry turnstiles which would have brought out the police and
>media without need for leaning a big ladder against the trilithon and
>stomping back and forth in heavy boots for nine hours on a World Heritage
>irreplaceable monument. If it's Stonehenge the media come. There are ways to
>publicise a cause without disregarding our heritage.
>
>The "three" remark was not in the interview, just a tag line on my email.
>
>Hwyl,
>
>Cerri Connelly
>http://www.technopagans.co.uk
>"for those who honour the past but love living in the present"
>
>Andy B wrote:
>
>  
>
>>While I don't approve of climbing the stones I have to sympathise with
>>John's strong views and wonder what experience of the pressures of
>>fatherhood gives Cerri the right to pontificate so publicly? In fact who
>>set you up as a spokesperson regarding Stonehenge? I think I know the
>>answer to that.
>>
>>I have a DVD cover here showing 6 people on the lintels in the 1980s
>>during a solstice party. That was the image they chose for the cover.
>>Like it or not the image of people standing on Stonehenge is one of
>>those iconic things that gets to the public consciousness. Which is why
>>they did it.
>>Ooh - 3 people might break it - give US a break...
>>
>>    
>>
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