I took no pleasure from leaking this report. However, given that Scottish Government officials and third party Neo-Gypsylorist members of the scrutiny panel have spent the last several months instructing the report writers to edit/redact important detail such as Wolfgang Abel’s [Nazi eugenicist] racial studies on Gypsy Travellers in the North of Scotland in 1938 and their refusal to meet with myself and others directly impacted to discuss the content and context of the report, I had no choice. And, for the avoidance of doubt, if no official response/admission that the original report has been sanitised is forthcoming I will, again, have no choice but to release the edited/redacted versions. I realise that I have taken a considerable risk in leaking the report. Nonetheless, I feel that the laying bare of the heinous legislation and practice [including the trafficking of children to the colonies and forced assimilation] directed towards Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland is more important that whatever ‘punishment’ awaits me. As for the Scottish Government? Now those inconvenient truths, which their officials and third party Neo-Gypsylorists have attempted to suppress, have been revealed, it is time for them to do the right thing by way of an official apology and redress.
