Racist ?. pt 3

I see from todays Express and Echo that besides Bryan Lee, a number of others of the 40 or so objectors to the once proposed travellers site at Oak Meadow who made submissions to Mid Devon District Council regarding the proposed site, received letters threatening them with action because of the alleged racist content of their submissions. I have not seen all the submissions and cannot comment on all of their contents but would only comment that someone at MDDC was being over zealous at best in regard to what I did see. The only document I saw that came near to being what could be construed as being racist was the anonymous letter that was widely circulated within the village and was condemned for its contents by most who saw it.

While it may well be that the accusations of racism were lodged by an over zealous official who has now had his/her knuckles wrapped, I wonder if I am alone in thinking that there perhaps were those within MDDC planning who thought that by using threats of action against opponents on the grounds of racism they could silence opponents of the site to the extent that it would be passed thus enabling the Council to get nearer to its statutary obligation for providing travellers sites ?. Perhaps thats overly conspiritorial but inn the current climate you naturally expect the worst of some of our public institutions.