Appologies in advance, for what has turned into a bit of a rant...
The more you bang on about " It's our right to go out and Cain drugs and listen to loud music and dance " the more people are going to be jealous at the "freedoms" that WE allow ourselves. You say that other groups have more freedoms. Do they ? OK the fox hunters Cain off on their horses and do what they want, but we are talking about rich landowners here, I don't expect to have to explain the difference in political influence ( nor am I in any way conceding that this should be the case, but in this life we have to take *some* things as read ) . For all the good that influence is doing them now !
What other groups of people, who's actions exhibit the most outwardly display of self expression and freedom, but has the *potential* to cause so much damage / upset of local communities, but are still sanctioned to do so by local authority / local people ?
I'd like to join them, whoever they are .
If your talking about free parties ( and I'm beginning to think from your posts that you are not ) then what we know as a free party
can never be truly sanctioned by " The man " . For that to happen, we would have to make unacceptable concessions to them in order to even vaguely comply with what is expected of everyone else. Which is only fair on everyone else..... ( within the confines that we find ourselves ).
Maybe I'm getting too cynical. The French managed to get an "arrangement", but it was at a cost. They can have ( I think ) six parties a year, in exchange for ONLY having raves where and when the authorities tell them, they don't get tear-gassed every weekend.
IMHO, for our country, our party scene things maybe need to go back underground a bit.
Parties have MUCH bigger exposure these days. It is SOOOO much easier to arrive on the "scene " and quickly find parties compared to way back. ( Before the forums took off - although I don't hold the opinion that the forums have / are killing the scene - least, not on their own !).
Anyone can do it now !, and so many more people are finding parties, many more people are throwing parties, and so many more parties are being shutdown.
I wasn't in on the Manchester thing this time round, but from what I gather the problem was because the party venue was common knowledge even the night before the party. Which is fcuking ridiculous. This happens far too often, and a LOT more often than someone having privileged party info, and deliberately tipping off the OB.
This is what can happen when even the most "Trance" of you, the most well meaning party person has more information than they need. Charging someone a fiver for that info would not have saved you from the chavs, or the pigs ! - Ensuring that only the person to know the site is the person driving the rig van, probably would have.
NO ONE needs to know where the party is, until the crew are ready to receive party people. End of.
When you arrive to a site with a rig only to find it full of party peeps ( or not even full - just already ocupied ) waiting for a party, and your heart sinks coz you know the site has already been compromised and it's a matter of time....
You want less parties to get shutdown ?
You need :
Better security, No-one get's to the site before the rig is ready !!!
Better sites : If they don't see ya going in, and they can't hear you when your running, what have you to worry about ?
Less advertising : Word of mouth parties ensure that you attract the right kind of attitude. Yes, some times some people might get left out of the loop for a bit, but part of the speciality of free partying used to be knowing that the only people your gonna find there, the only people mad enough to go through all that bollox would be your safe, dedicated, ardant raver type. Not just some bored fuckheads, vaugly looking for a cheep night out / good laugh / get wankered / pinch motors....
We can find the answer ourselves, we don't need political "endorsement " for what we do, because what we do is beyond that, look to yourself and each other for the answers, not the fuckling government !!
Take only smiles, leave only tracks.
Look after yourselfs........ and each other...
:sad: :? 
) but it's the impact that has on others, that aren't into the same thing and have it forced on them, that is the problem
