Planning daily reports:
"Amnesty International has written to the Scottish Housing Regulator expressing concern over its record of accommodation and services to Gypsy and Travellers."
John Watson, Scottish programme director for Amnesty International, said: "The situation for Scottish Gypsy/Travellers raises fundamental human rights concerns – particularly the rights to health, education, housing and cultural life and freedom from discrimination.
"And research in England suggests that decent site provision can actually save money, through reduced legal and staff costs, while reducing conflict between communities."
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Can someone help me understand the "rights" of "travellers"? I understand that I pay my taxes such that national and local government can provide services to society at those national and local levels. These services include educating my children, providing healthcare, etc. By choosing to live outside of the social system that other folk are part of, is it not axiomatic that "travellers" also choose not to receive the benefits of the society they have rejected? Or is it acceptable for them to reject that society and its expectations of them until they require its benefits? Benefits that they then essentially receive free of charge having contributed nothing to that society?
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