I thought we were discussing whether or not Paul was right to allege that the Rollright Trust has embezzled funds, which it hasn't or set out to exterminate wildlife which so far as I know it didn't. This trust does care about the sites it looks after and is spending most of its income on their upkeep.

This issue does have a bearing on the spate of vandalism at the site because it seems to me and others that this is being carried out by people who have some sort of grudge against the Rollright Trust.

One way of helping to minimise future vandalism might be to counter some of the untrue statements which have been made.

Hi Jane -

The thing about the Rollright Trust poisoning indigenous wildlife which has lived there for centuries, is simply true. Andy knows this - and if not, his fellow RT members are lying to him. That's a simple truth. Tom Wilson and I were there the day they turned up to kill them. We were quite appalled (the fella said he'd be back again in a couple of weeks). And if Andrew wants to defend this, he is showing himself to be little more than one of the many 'plastic pagans' we find all over the place, lost in the consensus trance of his own spiritual materialism. Andrew doesn't need reminding that such actions - deliberately murdering wildlife there - contravenes his own ASLaN Charter, as he himself wrote:

"Please take care when visiting sacred sites to leave them as the next
visitor would like to find them. Respect the land and all its inhabitants -
spirits, people, animals, plants and stones.

Digging holes for any purpose will damage plants and probably insects and
archaeological remains. Damaging any aspect of nature will not please the
Spirit of Place."

The Rollright Trust, who also signed up for this (I believe) have also contravened this. And yet the have the audacity to moan when the hut gets damaged. Seems like Andy Norfolk and RT are more concerned with the material-side of things than any spirituality and ecology of the site. On the one hand, it's OK for them to moan about people attacking the hut; but then when someone comes out to ask what about them killing the wildlife, we see where the priorities actually lie. One needs to ask: aint the hut properly insured? Where does all their money go? And how many times have they poisoned the wildlife there?

I apologise if this is heavy to read about - but would you rather know truths or lies? Or izzit is better to keep your head buried in the sand? I think it is dutiful to tell people the things as they've been done. And considering me and many other people gave our own money to RT for the sake of the place, only for such cash to be used in ways which certainly contravene any moral or spiritual ideas I have about reality, I was very pissed-off about them indeed. I think I have every right to be. If they wanna come out and discuss it, things might change...