Up yours, Trump!
I'm a bit late in posting this, but on 9 October we took part in an anti-Trump march in Balmedie. I wish it weren't necessary, but it was very gratifying to take part.
It was called the March of Menie, organised by families in Menie who are threatened by Trump's efforts to have the Scottish government force them to give up their homes. So he can build a golf course there. On land which is designated as an area of scientific interest. These families face a land clearance which harkens back to English persecution of the Scots, and the development of a golf course there could have a disastrous impact on the local fauna and flora. We're talking about a completely ridiculous notion in the 21st century but one that is nevertheless being considered by the government which is supposed to be protecting its citizens and land. It's frankly unbelievable.
Yet it's a very real threat. Trump's bulldozers have already razed sand dunes and relocated the sand to places nature didn't see fit to have it already. They're literally wrecking the environment which should have been protected, and the only thing standing in the way of the complete transformation of this still mostly lovely area into a golf course is a collection of famlies who don't want to leave their homes in that area.
These people live there; it's their community. They're not being asked to move for the sake of improvements to the infrastructure or suchlike, nothing to benefit them or Scotland at large. Instead, they're being pressured to move -- some of them to quite an unbelievable extent (see http://www.trippinguptrump.com/ for information) -- because one rich man fancies a golf course in a location quite possibly unfit for golf given the local weather and within a country which already offers world-famous golf courses. It all reads like a work of fiction.
Yet, again, it's all too real. Pardon my soap box, but this just shouldn't happen. These families in Menie have said no, and that should be the end of the discussions. The whole thing makes my blood boil. Trump should definitely be sent homeward...tae think again.
It was called the March of Menie, organised by families in Menie who are threatened by Trump's efforts to have the Scottish government force them to give up their homes. So he can build a golf course there. On land which is designated as an area of scientific interest. These families face a land clearance which harkens back to English persecution of the Scots, and the development of a golf course there could have a disastrous impact on the local fauna and flora. We're talking about a completely ridiculous notion in the 21st century but one that is nevertheless being considered by the government which is supposed to be protecting its citizens and land. It's frankly unbelievable.
Yet it's a very real threat. Trump's bulldozers have already razed sand dunes and relocated the sand to places nature didn't see fit to have it already. They're literally wrecking the environment which should have been protected, and the only thing standing in the way of the complete transformation of this still mostly lovely area into a golf course is a collection of famlies who don't want to leave their homes in that area.
These people live there; it's their community. They're not being asked to move for the sake of improvements to the infrastructure or suchlike, nothing to benefit them or Scotland at large. Instead, they're being pressured to move -- some of them to quite an unbelievable extent (see http://www.trippinguptrump.com/ for information) -- because one rich man fancies a golf course in a location quite possibly unfit for golf given the local weather and within a country which already offers world-famous golf courses. It all reads like a work of fiction.
Yet, again, it's all too real. Pardon my soap box, but this just shouldn't happen. These families in Menie have said no, and that should be the end of the discussions. The whole thing makes my blood boil. Trump should definitely be sent homeward...tae think again.
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