| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Devonshire Road Bric-à-brac | |
| Posted by: | Ed Saper | |
| Date/Time: | 28/07/21 00:30:00 |
| "Ed, Paul, you really should hope that the majority of the middle ground don’t read your comments. It seems you suggest that people that don’t agree with aspects of the schemes are, was it ‘haters’." We have a Chiswick resident whose garden was vandalised - she was in The Telegraph for setting up the Flower Market and has an MBE - awful abuse, nasty article in the Daily Mail and false accusations that she'd done it herself in order to defraud people - the people who did that are below the pale in my opinion and my definition of a "hater". I believe she was "outed" and named on this forum by members of the One Chiswick group so as to encourage others to abuse her. That feels quite hateful to me. Why? Oh, because the group felt they were the real victims as people pointed the finger at their supporters on the basis that their "hateful" rhetoric inspired it. What sort of a person would be so incensed by the idea that a traffic counter would undermine their campaign against low traffic neighbourhoods that they would take a list of all the locations (helpfully published the day before in the One Chiswick Facebook group) and systematically vandalise them? Perhaps someone who really hates low traffic neighbourhoods? I didn't use the term "haters" in my earlier post - but, yes, I believe that vandalism, faking data, manipulating surveys and abusing people for holding different opinions or just their mode of transport and clothing - all in the cause of removing a bike lane (seriously?!) justifies your moniker of "haters". If you feel that my calling this out makes me as bad or worse and I've alienated you to the point where you would throw in your lot with those I've described above on a point of principle, then I'm disappointed with that outcome obviously. |